Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich gets right to the point when inducting his heroes Deep Purple into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”Every hard rock band in the last 40 years, including mine, traces its lineage directly back to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple,” he says. The drummer covered the band’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Lars […]
Deep Purple’s road to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been rocky ever since they were first eligible for induction in the early Nineties. On Friday night, the hard-rock trailblazers – whose hits include “Smoke on the Water,” “Highway Star,” “Hush” and many others – were finally inducted,… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Deep […]
Steve Miller was the second artist to be inducted at tonight’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Brooklyn, and doing the honors were longtime fans the Black Keys. Rolling Stone caught up with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney to get their thoughts on Miller’s Midwestern appeal and their own… Source: RollingStone Link: Black Keys […]
Steven “Little Stevie” Van Zandt has never been one to hold his tongue. The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band guitarist was on-hand at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony to posthumously induct Bert Berns, the influential and prolific songwriter-producer whose hits include “Twist and Shout,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Little Steven: […]
Steve Miller has accepted his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction on behalf of the Steve Miller Band, a group that has seen 25 members during the last five decades. Known best for “The Joker,” “Take the Money and Run” and “Fly Like an Eagle,” the group became a… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Black […]
Lars Ulrich fell in love with Deep Purple when he was nine years old, when his dad’s friends took him to see the pioneering hard rockers live in Copenhagen. “They have probably been the primary musical backbone in my body ever since I first heard them,” he recently said. The drummer,… Source: RollingStone Link: Read […]
The Deep Purple lineup that frontman Ian Gillan calls the “living, breathing Deep Purple” played a hit-filled set Friday night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The band, most of them dressed in suits, kicked things off with a searing rendition of “Highway… Source: RollingStone Link: Deep Purple […]
Axl Rose shared a message from his doctor about a recent foot fracture, just in time for Guns N’ Roses’ reunion show in Las Vegas tonight. “This is what can happen when you do something you haven’t done in nearly over 23 years,” Rose tweeted with an angry emoji and a… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have canceled their Sunday night concert in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest the state’s passing of the controversial Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as the “bathroom bill.” In a note on the rocker’s official website, Springsteen condemned lawmakers for passing legislature that… Source: RollingStone Link: Bruce Springsteen […]
“I really wanted to go back and use the basics, with what was going on in the Sixties with Jimi,” says Jeff Beck, who is seated in small room of Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in New York City, of some of the funkier tracks on his upcoming new album. “There’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Jeff Beck […]