ANN WILSON INTERVIEW. ALL QUOTES BY ANN WILSON. When we were putting the band together in the early ’70’s, everybody wanted to hear Led Zeppelin songs. When we were playing the bars up in Canada, that’s what everybody who was coming out to see us wanted to hear anything by Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and …
The third wave of punk rock music here in the states, is currently fueling the success of Rancid, a band that is an interesting study in successful marketing of pop merchandise. Never really the MTV darlings that their more successful peers,Green Day have turned out to be, Rancid’s eclectic blend of punk, ska and Clash-like …
The song, “I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP” on the RAMONES latest album,”ADIOS AMIGOS,is a wonderful power pop anthem concerning the reluctance of an individual to succumb to the effects of growing older. Penned by Tom Waits and Kathleen Breenan,”I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP”,is a beautiful pop ode to the virtues of prolonged adolescence. …
Noel Gallagher (33) and his brother Liam (29), are the principal members of the Britpop rock group Oasis. During the 90’s, Oasis achieved phenomenal global success. Yet, along with that success, came a high degree of notoriety, primarily due to the Gallaghers constant quarreling and lives of excess with drugs and alcohol. While they’ve watched …
Out of all the surviving members of the San Francisco based psychedelic rock group The Grateful Dead, bassist Phil Lesh has proven that there is certainly life after the 1995 death of Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. After surviving the rigors of an almost unending cycle of recording and then touring for thirty years, Lesh initially …
(Q)-Why is Peter Frampton still involved in rock music and being a guitarist? Peter Frampton- The whole reason I started was I looked on TV and heard on the radio in 1957 to 1958, this great rock and roll music which was coming out of America at the time. I saw Eddie Cochran and then …
These days, David Crosby has a great deal to be thankful for. He’s clean and sober after years of drug addiction which at times,nearly cost him his life. At one point in his career,when his drug addiction was controlling him, Crosby started reading in magazines that his death was imminent. “Back then,”he said,”most of the …
Paul Rodgers is a legendary British rock vocalist. A man who left his mark during the most influential era in British rock, from the late Sixties into the mid Seventies. Rodgers has proven himself as deserving the respect of not only the critics from around the world, but the fans of classic British rock as …
(Q)-Your songs with the Monkees are constantly played on radio stations around the world. How do you feel about that? (A)-I went somewhere yesterday and someone said to me, ‘Do you have a share in this local radio station?’ I said ,’No. Why?’ And they said,’ Because they play the Monkees songs all the time.’ …
This August INXS, the Australian rock group, celebrates 20 years together without any personnel changes. Once pub rockers who played the pubs and clubs along with the rough places out in the Australian outback, INXS today are recognized as bone fide international rock stars. They garnered numerous hit singles, earned both crtical acclaim as well …
(Q)- Your name, where your were born and age please. (A)- Ok. A. Jay Popoff I’m from Orange County California and I age twenty-eight years old (Born September 19, 1973 in Palm Springs, CA.). (Q)- How long has LIT been together as a band? (A)- Over twelve years. (Q)- What do you expect from your …
What do country superstar Garth Brooks and the hard rock group from the Seventies KISS, have in common? According to KISS founding member and lead vocalist / guitarist Paul Stanley, plenty. “Nobody should ever think that just because Garth Brooks is a good OLE boy,” Stanley said,” that he doesn’t know what’s going on. He’s …