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Randy Bachman was having severe back pain. His doctor told him that the solution was to stop playing guitar. The main offender was the 1959 Les Paul Standard he’d used to write and record “American Woman” with the Guess Who. “That’s not going to happen,” he immediately shot back. In the decades that followed, the Guess Who guitarist went on to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive and eventually, he also enjoyed a solo career. In that time, he amassed hundreds of additional guitars. The pandemic and the return of his fabled orange 1957 Gretsch guitar in 2022, which had been missing for nearly 50 years...
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Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer joins the Wild Things in the video for their new song “Breaking Madonna.” The guitarist performs alongside the up-and-coming UK band on top of a tour bus driving down through West Hollywood. You can see the video below. “It was a thrill to rock ‘Breaking Madonna’ with the Wild Things on top of a bus,” Thayer declared. “It doesn’t get any crazier than that! From the first minute I hard them play on the Kiss Kruise, I knew they were the real deal.” The song comes from the Wild Things’ new Friends With Benefits EP. The record is well named. In addition to Thayer’s appe...
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George Thorogood makes a bold proclamation midway through our interview: “I’m the Indiana Jones of rock ‘n’ roll.” He qualifies it further, adding, “I’m the rock ‘n’ roll archaeologist. I’m digging up these archives that nobody even knows they exist.” In his eyes, “There’s a difference.” While others simply do cover songs in Thorogood’s view, he and his longtime band, the Destroyers, have a different aim. From their earliest days, they wanted to put their own stamp and identity on the songs they were recording. The result is a career spanning more than 50 years, powered by Thorogood’s versions...
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Recently there have been some rumors swirling around the internet after some pictures surfaced of Jelly Roll hanging out with MGK and Travis Barker. When Loudwire’s sister site, Taste of Country, had Jelly Roll stop by for a visit, we couldn’t resist a chance to have them ask the country superstar flat out: What were you up to with MGK and Travis Barker? While Jelly Roll expertly danced around the question, we did learn some new things. Is Jelly Roll Working on Music With MGK + Travis Barker?In a recent interview with Taste of Country Nights, Jelly Roll was asked by host Evan Paul about a post...
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“We’re all on the same page, all looking in the same direction. One unified voice and mindset — we’re all working together.” Bud Gaugh, founding drummer for Sublime, caught up with Chuck Armstrong on Friday’s Loudwire Nights (May 24) as he celebrated the current state of the band. “I wasn’t planning on this,” Gaugh admitted as he reflected on Sublime’s history, the loss of frontman Bradley Nowell and the recent release “Feel Like That,” a song from 1996 that features original vocals from Nowell and fresh vocals from his son, Jakob. “[Jakob] really has some of his dad’s mannerisms…watching him ...
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On Thursday’s Loudwire Nights (May 23), Mike’s Dead joined Chuck Armstrong to dive deep into the wild new music video for his equally wild song, “Bestrafe Mich (Punish Me).” “I put a bunch of different references in when we came up with this one,” Mike’s Dead explained to Chuck. “I helped write the treatments, I helped come up with the concept…I’m incredibly neurotic and have a lot of ideas.” Some of the references fans may notice in the video include a nod to Mad Max: Fury Road and GHOSTEMANE as well as the influence of a couple of Rammstein music videos. “We kept slowly getting weirder and w...
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On Friday, May 24, Bones Owens kicks off his Goin’ Back Where I Came From tour. Much like the tour name might suggest, the run of live shows will take Owens back to the area of the country where he grew up. “I’m born and raised in the Midwest, in Missouri,” Owens told Chuck Armstrong on Wednesday’s Loudwire Nights (May 22). “I’ve lived in Nashville since 2005 and, you know, I’ve worn several hats and played with different folks over the years…for the last seven years or so, I’ve been focused on this project, on myself — I guess I should say on Bones Owens.” Not only will the tour find Owens vi...
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Nita Strauss recently married her manager and drummer Josh Villalta, and they threw the perfect metal wedding. Loudwire had the privilege of speaking with the newlyweds less than a week after the wedding. They gave us the details behind the proposal, the planning, the guest list, wrestling legend Mick Foley’s role as their officiant, Alice Cooper‘s reading with his wife Sheryl and more. When + Where Was the Wedding?Strauss and Villalta married at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 4. Their wedding planner carried out their vision, “modern day Dracula,” perfectly, alt...
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When the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, Mike Love delivered a speech that was one for the ages. Even now, he realizes that it’s a moment that will be part of their history forever. During his infamous speech, he called out Paul McCartney for being absent that night – the Beatles were also being inducted. Mick Jagger and Billy Joel were also mong Love’s additional verbal targets. Later in the evening, Bob Dylan thanked Love for not mentioning his name during the speech. Love left his bandmates visibly steamed that night. But you won’t find that moment in The...
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On June 28, the Warning celebrate the release of their latest album, Keep Me Fed. Ahead of that day, the three sisters who make up the band — guitarist Daniela Villarreal Vélez, drummer Paulina Villarreal Vélez and bassist Alejandra Villarreal Vélez — dove into what fans can expect on Loudwire Nights. “I feel like this album varies in between the songs,” Paulina said on Tuesday night’s show (May 21). “We have very fun, kind of poppy-ish songs — I’ll even throw that out there — but then we have really heavy songs, I feel like the heaviest songs we’ve ever written. There’s a little bit of everyt...
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