Posted April 27, 2011 at 8:33 am | No comments
Vocalist and keyboardist Neal Morse is a busy guy, and he likes it that way. Not only did he recently finish a tour with Mike Portnoy’s Yellow Matter Custard Beatle’s cover band, he is currently in the studio finishing up two new album, Testimony 2, the follow up to highly received 2003 album and the first album with a new project featuring Portnoy, Steve Morse, Casey McPherson and Dave LaRue. Most artist would be happy working on one of these projects in any given year, but for a workhorse like Morse, it’s business as usual.
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Posted April 13, 2011 at 9:47 am | No comments
The name Adrian Belew is always linked to Robert Fripp and King Crimson, the legendary progressive band that he’s been playing in for 30 years as composer, singer and of course guitarist. However, a quick look at his short, home-made video “Life in A Nutshell” on YouTube reveals countless collaborations with very diverse artists such as Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Joan Armatrading, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Mike Oldfield, Cyndi Lauper, Crash Test Dummies, Jean-Michel Jarre, Robert Palmer, Artie Traum, Joe Cocker, Sara Hickman, Garland Jeffreys, Jerry Harrison and The Bears.
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Posted March 30, 2011 at 7:57 am | No comments
After finding international success in the 1970s, Progressive-Psychedelic rock band Nektar found themselves going their separate ways, and not releasing an album after 1980s Man in the Moon. The next two decades found Nektar’s band members doing solo project and pursuing other endeavors as the band moved further away from their heydays of the ‘70s. While many other bands would have simply moved on and called it quits after such a long time apart, in 2002 Nektar reunited and have been recording and touring together ever since.
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Posted January 17, 2011 at 5:28 pm | 2 comments
Saturday at this year’s NAMM show was a big day for major artists making appearances at booths for performances and to sign autographs for long lines of fans. After checking out Steve Vai at Ibanez, Steve Morse at Ernie Ball and Alex Skolnick at Heritage Guitars, I was walking from one side of the room to the other when I happened to pass the Orange amp exhibit, and standing in front of a giant amp, happily signing autographs for his fans, was Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-López.
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Posted December 24, 2010 at 10:00 am | One comment
Kerry Livgren was a founding member, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist for ’70s classic rockers Kansas. Though the band is easily put into the “classic” category today, primarily because of the adored hits they turned out back in the day, like “Carry On Wayward Son,” “Dust In The Wind,”
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Posted November 18, 2010 at 1:00 pm | One comment
The career of guitar visionary Adrian Belew has been an inventive musical odyssey. He has mastered the ability to journey into the avant garde while anchoring his compositions to the fundamental driving forces of pop and rock, often playing along the outer edges of contemporary music in ways that have been punky, new wave, comedic, bizarre, and twisted.
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Posted October 26, 2010 at 3:00 pm | 6 comments
Guitarist John Petrucci calls it fate that he and bassist John Myung happened to run into drummer Mike Portnoy at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid ’80s. Though the convergence led to the formation of Majesty, the name was eventually changed to Dream Theater because of legal issues.
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Posted August 20, 2010 at 12:15 am | 11 comments
Since the beginning of time there was Frank Zappa. It is impossible to recall any period in modern rock that has not included Zappa’s mustachioed face, droll baritone voice, or his skewed and shrewd musical opinions on issues ranging from TV and censorship to the sexual preferences of Catholic school girls.
Posted in: Classic Rock, Guitar Hero Interviews, Interviews, Prog-Rock Interviews
Posted August 20, 2010 at 12:00 am | 8 comments
“When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.” – Robert Fripp
Posted in: Classic Rock, Guitar Hero Interviews, Interviews, Prog-Rock Interviews
Posted August 5, 2010 at 12:19 pm | No comments
“White Punks on Dope” was the Tubes anthem, their sonic trademark, well before the era of Punk. The group hailed from San Francisco, a town that over a decade earlier helped launch the music of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape. The Tubes cut the edge for the new music, or at least gave it a banner for Punk ravers to wave.
Posted in: Indie Rock-Pop, Interviews, Prog-Rock Interviews
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