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Steve Perry has enjoyed revisiting songs from his time with Journey in recent years, updating “Only the Young” and “Separate Ways” in an innovative fashion. Sometimes, the opportunities present themselves in unusual ways. That was the case when he found out that his longtime friend Trev Lukather had plans to record an updated version of “It Could Have Been You” — originally a deep track from 1986’s Raised on Radio — with his band, The Effect. The California band has a finished album in the can and they’ve already released several singles, including “Toxic Envy” earlier this year. Still, Lukath...
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Legendary drummer Carmine Appice is back with a new Cactus album, Temple of Blues – Influences & Friends, which will be released on June 7. The all-star affair includes guest appearances from a variety of musicians who were influenced by the Long Island band. You can watch a video below for “Evil,’ the first single, which features Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider and King’s X singer / bassist Dug Pinnick alongside Appice’s original co-founding Cactus bandmate, Jim McCarty on guitar. “To get a call from Carmine Appice, asking me to sing this song on a Cactus album is one of the highlights of my care...
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Def Leppard came to realize that they were into something different. [The] New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a lot of it wasn’t very professional and a lot of it wasn’t very deep, guitarist Phil Collen told UCR recently. When producer Mutt Lange started working with Def Leppard, he pushed them hard. “How come you take so long doing these songs,” Collen recalled someone asking Lange, in the Hysteria period. “So you’ll be talking about it in 30 years,” came the reply. Now more than 40 years on, Lange has been proven correct, time and time again, when it comes to 1983’s Pyromania, his second colla...
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Alex Lifeson recently discovered a brilliant new practice regimen to keep his chops up: playing Rush songs with former bandmate Geddy Lee. It’s something they hadn’t done regularly in nearly a decade, as Rush played their final show in 2015 and called it quits after the death of drummer Neil Peart in January 2020. But lately, the guitarist has been getting a kick out of casually revisiting the band’s catalog with Lee. “We decided that we would play some Rush songs. Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years,” Lifeson tells UCR. “We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get t...
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Alex Lifeson recently discovered a brilliant new practice regimen to keep his chops up: playing Rush songs with former bandmate Geddy Lee. It’s something they hadn’t done regularly in nearly a decade, as Rush played their final show in 2015 and called it quits after the death of drummer Neil Peart in January 2020. But lately, the guitarist has been getting a kick out of casually revisiting the band’s catalog with Lee. “We decided that we would play some Rush songs. Because, you know, we haven’t played these songs in 10 years,” Lifeson tells UCR. “We started that a couple of weeks ago. We get t...
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Deep Purple’sMachine Head was plagued with problems from the beginning. “It’s a project that almost got destroyed before it even got started,” bassist Roger Glover says in a very matter-of-fact manner during an interview with UCR. Frank Zappa was playing a casino gig in Montreux, Switzerland when a fan in the audience fired a flare gun at the ceiling, setting the venue on fire. The casino burned to the ground. Here’s the problem: Deep Purple had booked that same room to record their sixth studio album — and in an instant, they found themselves in need of a new plan. By the time they settled in...
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It took Joe Satriani and Steve Vai only five decades to hit the studio together, but the guitar virtuosos are making up for lost time. They recently released “The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1” and are prepping a full collaborative album. Although fans may have to wait a bit before that record materializes, there’s been plenty happening in the meantime. The pair first reunited earlier this year with fellow six-string wizard Eric Johnson to revisit the initial G3 outing that saw the trio team up in 1996. The ongoing Satch / Vai tour quickly followed. During a recent conversation with Ultimate Classic R...
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Coady Willis has toured alongside High on Fire as a member of both Big Business and the Melvins, so when the modern metal legends needed a new drummer in 2021 they knew exactly who to call. This month, Willis made his recorded debut with High on Fire on their impressive new album Cometh the Storm. We spoke to him about the recording of the record, his recent surprise return to the Melvins, and the future of Big Business. You’ve known and shared stages with High on Fire for years now, but were you still nervous about joining the band? Yeah, I knew those guys. And I’m familiar with the band, and...
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Things didn’t explode for Lynyrd Skynyrd right out of the gate. But when they released their second album, 1974’s Second Helping, it would be a different story — one which was overwhelming to the members of the group. Though they were not in the band at the time, current vocalist Johnny Van Zant and guitarist Rickey Medlocke both have vivid memories of what was happening for the Southern Rock legends in that period. For Medlocke in particular, he remembers one key moment where guitarist Allen Collins came walking up and expressed with a sense of wonder, that it seemed like they were going to h...
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Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has a simple declaration for the critics who have tried to write them off for decades: “You can’t kill us!” Neil and bassist Nikki Sixx recently spoke to UCR’s Matt Wardlaw about Motley Crue’s new single, “Dogs of War,” out today. You can listen to part of the conversation below. The defiant track marks the first Motley Crue song since 2019 and their first with guitarist John 5, who replaced founding guitarist Mick Mars in 2022. The song switches between grinding alt-metal riffs and eerie, melodic verses, and in the chorus Neil sings, “Don’t let them take the cr...
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