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“Make My Day: The Rock ‘N’ Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke” celebrates the late Motörhead guitarist with a four-CD career retrospective and book written by Kris Needs with Clarke’s widow Mariko Fujiwara. The book and CDs, scheduled to arrive September 6th chart the guitarist’s life and career including his time with Motörhead (’76 – ’82) and Fastway, which Clarke formed with UFO bassist Pete…
On this day… Jimmy Eat World delivered “Bleed American.” The platinum set was re-released as “Jimmy Eat World“ following the 9/11 attacks; that name remained until ’08. As a result of the commercial failure and lack of recognition for ’99’s “Clarify” Jimmy Eat World was dropped by Capitol Records. Aside from working odd jobs, the band…
On this day… Guitarist Saul Hudson was born in London. He moved to L.A. with his father when six years old. His parents were both active in the entertainment industry, Because he “was always in a hurry, zipping around from one thing to another” a child actor/friend nicknamed him ‘Slash’. Slash joined the Glam Metal…
On this day… Woodstock ’99 began in Rome, NY. The festival site was the former Griffiss Air Force Base approximately 100 miles from the original ’69 Woodstock location in Bethel, NY. Approximately 220,000 people attended the festival over four days enduring difficult environmental conditions (extreme heat), overpriced food and water, poor sanitation, sexual harassment/rapes, rioting, looting,…
Please pass the syrup. On this day… Kid Rock entered a no-contest plea to assault charges stemming from an ’07 incident at an Atlanta-area Waffle House. Rock was arrested after he and some associates scuffled with Harlen Akins, a fellow Waffle House customer. Rock was slapped with a $1,000 fine and put on a year’s…
Deep Purple’s “=1,” containing the tracks “Portable Door” and “Pictures Of You” has dropped. It’s Deep Purple’s first album featuring guitarist Simon McBride, who joined two years ago following Steve Morse’s departure. “Many of the songs… were written in the first sessions and literally came together in 5 or 10 minutes. It all was so easy and natural,” noted…
On this day… Red Hot Chili Peppers played the first of three shows at London’s Hyde Park. This concert plus the two that followed on June 20th and 25th earned more than $17 million setting a record for being the highest-grossing concerts at a single venue. Tracks were recorded for the group’s first official concert…
“Recording it was really fun, full of lots of dancing in the studio,” guitarist/vocalist Lucia de la Garza said in a statement regarding the band’s upcoming LP, “No Obligation,” due October 11th. The lead single is “All In My Head.” “I wrote ‘All In My Head,’ from the perspective of a book character, which kinda…
On this day… The Pretenders Chrissie Hynde was detained by police following a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest outside a Paris KFC. Hynde, one of a dozen protesters in all, shut down traffic by blocking the street. They also smeared the KFC windows with red paint which symbolized the blood of dead…
On this day… Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” makes its U.K. Top 40 debut, at #22, thirty-six years after the song’s original release. The resurgence is due to the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” a science fiction horror drama, which featured the song in its season four finale. The series was set in the ’80s and centers…