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Joe Elliott has spent more than 40 years as the frontman of Def Leppard, but the singer believes he was only handed the job because his bandmates felt sorry for him. During an appearance on The Rockonteurs podcast, Elliott detailed how the fledgling Def Leppard came together. “It was (guitarist) Pete Willis, (bassist) Rick Savage and Tony Kenning was the original drummer,” Elliott recalled, noting that the band’s priority at the time was finding a rehearsal space. The group eventually set up shop in a closed factory that had previously manufactured silverware. “This was a real Victorian dump h...
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Ann Wilson has looked back on the demise of Heart’s original lineup, noting the group was doomed by “emotional hardship.” “It’s hard to describe what it was like when that lineup disbanded,” Wilson explained during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast. “We couldn’t get along anymore and things got really difficult between us.” Though the band had cycled through several musicians in its early years, they settled on a lineup in 1973 around the same time they adopted the name Heart. In addition to Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, the band featured guitarist Roger Fisher, bassist Steve Foss...
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Ann Wilson has looked back on the demise of Heart’s original lineup, noting the group was doomed by “emotional hardship.” “It’s hard to describe what it was like when that lineup disbanded,” Wilson explained during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast. “We couldn’t get along anymore and things got really difficult between us.” Though the band had cycled through several musicians in its early years, they settled on a lineup in 1973 around the same time they adopted the name Heart. In addition to Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, the band featured guitarist Roger Fisher, bassist Steve Foss...
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Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. This is the Knobs’ third album, but according to Campbell, many of its songs have been sitting in his archive for years. “Back in the day, I would write songs and then give them to my partner Tom, and that’s all I ever did with them,” he toldRolling Stone. “I gave him so much he couldn’t possibly ever deal with it all. I stuck a lot up on the ...
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Mike Campbell and the Dirty Knobs will release a new album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, on June 14. The LP features guests Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton and Campbell’s own former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bandmate, Benmont Tench. “It was spiritual,” Campbell toldRolling Stone of his experience making the album in his Los Angeles home studio earlier this year. “I got a little wistful about Tom because we had been there together, and I stood where we had set up with Mudcrutch originally in that room. I got a lot of flashbacks of sweet memories.” This is the Knobs’ third ...
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KK’s Priest and Accept are teaming up for the Full Metal Assault North American tour. The headbanger’s journey begins on Aug. 31 in Los Angeles and concludes on Oct. 7 in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday. You can see the full list of dates below. The Full Metal Assault Tour marks a full-circle moment for both acts, as Accept supported Judas Priest more than 40 years ago on the latter’s World Wide Blitz Tour. “There is no doubt that we warriors of metal will give every ounce of our energy and our power in order to deliver up our very finest performance,” KK’s ...
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KK’s Priest and Accept are teaming up for the Full Metal Assault North American tour. The headbanger’s journey begins on Aug. 31 in Los Angeles and concludes on Oct. 7 in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday. You can see the full list of dates below. The Full Metal Assault Tour marks a full-circle moment for both acts, as Accept supported Judas Priest more than 40 years ago on the latter’s World Wide Blitz Tour. “There is no doubt that we warriors of metal will give every ounce of our energy and our power in order to deliver up our very finest performance,” KK’s ...
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Graham Nash has announced tour dates for 2024. The veteran singer-songwriter will play more than three dozen shows starting this summer. Judy Collins will perform at several of the concerts. The North American tour will start on Aug. 3 in Boulder and wrap up on Oct. 26 in Vienna, Virginia. Nash released his first album in seven years, his seventh solo LP, in 2023. Now included songs that addressed his occasionally fractious relationship with his late Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby. READ MORE: Graham Nash, ‘Now': Album Review The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee – for bot...
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Graham Nash has announced tour dates for 2024. The veteran singer-songwriter will play more than three dozen shows starting this summer. Judy Collins will perform at several of the concerts. The North American tour will start on Aug. 3 in Boulder and wrap up on Oct. 26 in Vienna, Virginia. Nash released his first album in seven years, his seventh solo LP, in 2023. Now included songs that addressed his occasionally fractious relationship with his late Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby. READ MORE: Graham Nash, ‘Now': Album Review The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee – for bot...
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Steve Perry appears on an update of “It Could Have Been You” from Journey‘s Raised on Radio by a new band called the Effect. Listen below. The Effect features a pair of sons of famous rock stars: producer/guitarist Trev Lukather’s father is Steve Lukather of Toto, and drummer Nic Collins’ dad is Phil Collins of Genesis. (The younger Lukather is also Perry’s former bandmate Jonathan Cain‘s son-in-law.) “Steve and I go way back,” Lukather said on Instagram. “Other than my Pop, Steve Perry has been a mentor to me. When he heard the Effect, he called me and expressed how much he really loved what ...
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