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David Lee Roth‘s brief, contentious and unproductive 1996 reunion with Van Halen left the singer wondering if the band had ever really shared the same vision. The following year, in his book Crazy From the Heat, Roth told his side of the original Van Halen lineup’s short-lived second and final era. He says that it all began he offered an olive branch to Eddie Van Halen right around the time the group broke up with his replacement, Sammy Hagar. To his surprise, the guitar legend invited Roth to record two new songs for a career-spanning greatest hits album. Van Halen’s 1996 Reunion With David L...
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Nancy Wilson has looked back on the early days of Heart, admitting her band was “so jealous” of Fleetwood Mac. During an appearance on the Broken Record podcast, Wilson recalled watching Fleetwood Mac’s monumental success in the ‘70s. “They were happening right before us, kind of as Heart was just starting to tiptoe into the scene, and they already had Rumours out there,” the guitarist remembered. “We were just trying so hard to make an album and get out there and get a tour or whatever, and they were all over the radio.” As Wilson explained, her envy wasn’t just about commercial success. She ...
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A three-year hunt to identify a lost ‘80s song ended when one of the tens of thousands of people involved in the search found it in an adult movie soundtrack. The “lostwave” hobby involves trying to locate details of music created before the internet era. In 2021, an extremely low-quality 17-second clip was uploaded to the WatZatSong community by a user who said they couldn’t remember where they’d got it from, guessing it was an early attempt to digitize music from an analog medium. The clip became known as “Everyone Knows That” and also “Ulterior Motives,” based on the lyrics people thought t...
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Beset by drug and alcohol problems for years, Ron Wood says he’s found a new of getting high. He’s out on the road again now that the Rolling Stones have kicked off their latest tour, following over a month of rehearsals in Los Angeles. They’ll play more than 20 shows across the U.S. through July 17 in support of last year’s Hackney Diamonds. “We really had our noses to the grindstone in Los Angeles and we rehearsed for five weeks,” Wood tells The Sun newspaper. “We have been getting back into the mode of playing stadiums.” READ MORE: Ron Wood’s Best Pre-Rolling Stones Songs Things look a litt...
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John Wetton‘s widow has fired back at fans with complaints about Asia‘s newly rebuilt lineup. Co-founder Geoff Downes introduced the new members in advance of a multi-act summer tour. Wetton died in 2017, while original guitarist Steve Howe and drummer Carl Palmer are busy with other projects. “It would be easy for me to dismiss Asia without its other band members, proclaiming that it’s not really the band so there’s no point in them going on,” Lisa Wetton says in an official statement. “There’s a problem with this statement: John Wetton himself would have endorsed this tour as he wanted the m...
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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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Jon Bon Jovi understands now that he was told a white lie about the recovery time needed following his potentially career-ending vocal surgery. He sought out advice from Shania Twain before going under the knife, since the country star had the same procedure with the same medical team. She wasn’t completely forthcoming about how long it would take to return to the concert trail. “Not only did she reassure me that it would be OK, but I think she also pulled my leg a little bit because she told me I’d be out there a lot sooner than I have been,” Bon Jovi says in his new documentary Thank You, Go...
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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 appears to be teasing another “secret” club show under a different name — this time at New York’s Bowery Ballroom under the pseudonym “1981.” The band shared a flyer on social media for the gig, which is scheduled to take place on May 6. There’s a corresponding concert listing for 1981 on the Bowery’s website. Tickets go on sale May 3. The show is set to take place two days after Motley Crue completes their two-night stand in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to mark the beginning of their 2024 tour dates. This isn’t Motley Crue’s first small-scale secret show. Last June, the band played ...
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The Rolling Stones kicked off their ’24 Hackney Diamonds tour at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Sunday with such age-defying splendor that one shudders to consider the details of their Faustian bargain. Led by octogenarians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the Stones delivered an 18-song, two-hour set full of stadium-sized singalongs, along with a sprinkling of relative deep cuts and new tracks off last year’s Hackney Diamonds. You can see the set list below. The band wasted no time whipping the 72,000-capacity stadium into a frenzy with set opener “Start Me Up.” Jagger leapt, spun and sauntered acro...
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