Post Tagged with: "Classic Rock"

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‘Let it go, and something will happen’: Jason Bonham takes long view on possible Led Zeppelin reunion

Jason Bonham, who has turned the buzz surrounding his participation in Led Zeppelin’s recent Celebation Day release into a well-received tour with Heart, has his own thoughts about another reunion with Robert Plant. You May Also Like: Why ‘Celebration Day’ Provided the Perfect Farewell for Led Zeppelin

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‘I would have given anything not to have joined’: Kenney Jones remembers his time with the Who

Though he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year as a member of the Small Faces and Faces, for a time beginning in the late 1970s Kenney Jones was best known as drummer for the Who. You May Also Like: The Who’s disjointed, disappointing It’sRead More

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‘We’d try little notes that you wouldn’t normally’: Tony Banks on Genesis’ early classic “The Musical Box”

Tony Banks goes in-depth on “The Musical Box” from 1971’s Nursery Cryme. Credited to each of Genesis’ five members, it remains one of the band’s most layered and satisfying early compositions. You May Also Like: Here’s how Genesis’ ‘The Musical Box’ gave rise to Eddie Van Halen Genesis, “No SonRead More

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The Rolling Stones – Crossfire Hurricane (2013)

“We became a kind of institution,” Mick Jagger says here, talking about the Rolling Stones’ 1981 tour — then one of the biggest of its kind. There would be more, many more. And the Stones would go from institution to commodity. You May Also Like: Keith Richards on the ’80sRead More

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Foghat’s only instrumental “495 Boogie” transformed by fan into “The World of Rock ‘n’ Roll”

Foghat fan Phil Dessinger has won a contest to add lyrics to “495 Boogie,” the classic rock band’s first-ever instrumental. The new track, steaming here, is called “The World of Rock n’ Roll.” You May Also Like: JUNO Fever (or Not): The Modern World Meets the Boogie Woogie Flu ExploringRead More

Partial Journey Reunions With Steve Perry, Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Steve Smith + Jonathan Cain: Gimme Five

Partial Journey Reunions With Steve Perry, Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Steve Smith + Jonathan Cain: Gimme Five

Fans of Journey’s best-known lineups — Gregg Rolie’s free-form 1970s version, and Steve Perry’s arena-ballad 1980s edition — have little hope of seeing any meaningful reunion of these wildly divergent camps. After all, Rolie split back in 1980, and the similarly departed Perry hasn’t even put out a solo albumRead More

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Mickey Thomas, on Jefferson Starship’s transformation into Starship: Something Else! Interview

For Mickey Thomas, a summer stop as part of the Raiding the Rock Vault series hosted by Asia’s John Payne is a kind of homecoming. The two singers know each other well, and share a bond having carried forward with established bands You May Also Like: Remembering Paul Kantner’s Flight,Read More

Almost Hits: Chicago, "Questions 67 and 68" (1969)

Almost Hits: Chicago, “Questions 67 and 68” (1969)

Back when the famous, classic, horn-rock band was known as Chicago Transit Authority, they released a top-notch single called “Questions 67 and 68,” off of a 1969 eponymously titled debut album. It didn’t do much on the charts You May Also Like: Chicago, “Questions 67 & 68” from Chicago TransitRead More

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‘We like a big sound’: Decades later, Neil Young and Crazy Horse still play ear-melting shows

You might think, considering the scorching volume of their shows and the way they huddle together so closely in the middle of the stage, that Neil Young and Crazy Horse are all but deaf. Bassist Billy Talbot clarifies things. You May Also Like: Neil Young’s Landing on Water highlights anRead More

Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Endless Enigma," "Take a Pebble" + Others: Deep Cuts

Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “Endless Enigma,” “Take a Pebble” + Others: Deep Cuts

For a trio whose biggest single barely scratched the Top 40, Emerson Lake and Palmer still came to be associated with several key moments. Let’s go deeper.