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On the eve of the September 20, 2022 release of the book The Byrds 1964-67, band co-founder Roger McGuinn shared his thoughts on their career on Steve Hyden’s UPROXX indie mixtape series. The book is a collectable art book about the band with input from McGuinn and the other surviving members of the band, […]
In 1999, the Wachowskis siblings launched a little multi-part film franchise called The Matrix. Although I have yet to see the fourth installment, the whole series revolves around the original film’s basic tenets. According to Wiki, “The Matrix depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality called The Matrix. […]
At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2017, members of Journey had a weird family reunion of sorts. First there was the Gregg Rolle thing. The HOF wasn’t keen to invite the band’s original keyboard player and vocalist, so just two days before the big night, guitarist and band leader Neal Schon […]
A while back, we chronicled the life of Jimi Hendrix from his childhood in Seattle, Washington to the first meeting with his future manager and producer, Chas Chandler in New York City in 1966 (FTV: Johnny Allen Hendrix 5-25-22 and Johnny Allen Hendrix – Part 2 6-1-22). While musicians in the United States were just […]
The name might not be familiar, but I will lay odds that if you have seen any number of videos made by bands like Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, and Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz in the 1980s, you have seen his face. Having seen many of the aforementioned videos, I knew who Rudy Sarzo was […]
Our friend and mentor at the Ontonagon Herald graciously provided us with the following account of Al Jacquez’s recent show at the Ontonagon Theater of Performing Arts. Thank you to HSR for his kind words about WOAS being involved in bring musical talent of Al’s caliber to the people (and especially the kids!) in Ontonagon. […]
There is no doubt that guitarist Eric Clapton is a complex soul. As a long time admirer of the band Cream, my mental image of that band was colored by what they did on record and on stage. I was a 14 year-old drummer in training when Sunshine of Your Love (from their second album […]
When my issue of Classic Rock Magazine arrives, I always approach it like I do reading a newspaper. Dating back to the days when the Marquette Mining Journal ran their cartoons on the back page, I began a life-long habit of always starting on the back page of newspapers and magazines. The late Tom […]
Some weeks ago we concluded a two part series about bands doing cover versions of songs. A good number of bands continued the practice even after they became famous for their own compositions. The article was inspired by an issue of Classic Rock Magazine (Issue #298, March 2022) that devoted forty pages to the topic. […]
In Cover Me – Part 1, we expanded on some of the cover songs discussed in the forty pages Classic Rock Magazine devoted to the topic in March 2022 (Issue #298). Some covers are better than others, some became more famous than the originals, and just about all have interesting stories behind them. Take […]