Gimme Five: Overlooked Yes Albums (And Why Some of Them Should Be)
For every ‘Fragile,’ Yes has several other projects that are routinely ignored.
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Jim McCarty chuckles over the Yardbirds’ fashion experiments: ‘We looked like ice cream men’
The Yardbirds stalwart drummer blames this one on their “crazy manager.”
Quiet Riot – 10 (2014)
This is not how I want to remember a band that was so important in my life.
Paul Stanley on the Kiss album he still can’t stand: ‘We were clueless; it had no teeth’
“We were so full of ourselves,” Kiss’ Paul Stanley admits, “that we forgot why we started making music.”
Yes – Heaven and Earth (2014)
More often than not, Yes’ ‘Heaven and Earth’ amounts to prog for the easy-listening set.
Grateful Dead Songs That, Well, Suck: Gimme Five
Despite the Grateful Dead’s success, there have been a few musical blunders along the way.
David Crosby appeals to Roger McGuinn for long-awaited Byrds reunion
The surviving members of the Byrds haven’t appeared together since 2000.
‘It was inappropriately titled’: Did ‘History of the Eagles’ focus too much on Glenn Frey and Don Henley?
“It should have been titled,” Don Felder says, “‘The History of Don Henley and Glenn Frey.'”
‘You won’t abuse my song’: Steve Cropper on the Stax hit that caused a tussle between Wilson Pickett and Eddie Floyd
“Here are these two guys,” Cropper marvels, “wrestling in the control room.”
With apologies to Don Henley: Here’s Okkervil River’s outlaw cover of ‘End of the Innocence’
The grumpy Eagles drummer tried to stop them from releasing this song.
