“Never Learn Not to Love,” from 1969’s ’20/20,’ grew out of an original song by Manson.

Hagar takes pride in the musical legacy he’s recreating with Michael Anthony.

He says they walk a fine line between celebrating their past and moving forward.

The Yardbirds stalwart drummer blames this one on their “crazy manager.”

This is not how I want to remember a band that was so important in my life.

“We were so full of ourselves,” he says, “that we forgot why we started making music.”

More often than not, this amounts to prog for the easy-listening set.

Despite the Grateful Dead’s success, there have been a few musical blunders along the way.

The surviving members of the Byrds haven’t appeared together since 2000.

Today, it’s easy to connect this free-form tune with the first flowerings of punk.