How does someone spend five years playing with the world’s most famous rock band and still make it onto a list of guitar players “under the mainstream radar?” Because Mick Taylor never got the credit he deserves. (courtesy of Fred the B-slinger/jimsatten.com) Taylor’s jazz/blues guitar playing revitalized the Rolling Stones… Read More →
Corey J. Feldman, founder of the NYC-based band Mercury Landing, is in the process of creating a rock opera. Kindly, he has agreed to share a new piece of it each week with us here in the Listening Room. “The Green Emerald,” as the opera has been named, is almost three… Read More →
They weren’t the first band to rise out of the L.A. club scene, but they probably rose the highest. And that’s no surprise, because hit rockers Guns N Roses grew out of two of the best known and most successful West Coast glam bands of their day.L.A. Guns took its… Read More →
Sad news out of England today with word that Lucy Vodden passed away this weekend. You might not recognize the name, but Vodden is the “Lucy” in the Beatles’ classic “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” off their legendary Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. She had been battling… Read More →
Some of you have already heard that Bob Dylan has a new Christmas album this year—something we hear Iggy Pop was planning earlier this year. Well, you can indeed now hear the legendary folk singer/songwriter take a stab at the Holiday season. I’m not exactly a Dylan-head, but I have… Read More →
The following is from contributing writer Jared Zeide. A year ago this week music lost one of its great talents, Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright. Like George Harrison, John Paul Jones, and Phil Lesh, Rick Wright is the unsung hero of his band. Because of this, one of rock’s greatest keyboardists,... Read More →
Loud. That was kind of the thing with The Dickies. And, back then, loud was how I listened to all my music, so it was a perfect marriage. The L.A. punk band first came to my attention with their first album, The Incredible Shrinking Dickies, in 1979. Since, as I… Read More →
Grammy winning guitar great Larry Carlton is hitting the road, his management company announced this week. Carlton, best known for his work with Steely Dan, has established himself as one of the most sought-after guitar players on the planet, with credits that include everybody from Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones… Read More →
Chris Duarte was just 15 when he auditioned for the talent contest at Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. But the young, burgeoning guitar players was turned down flat. Boy, did he show them. Duarte has since earned top honors from Guitar Player magazine, being named its “Best New… Read More →
Sometimes YouTube can pull something out of obscurity for you. Here’s an example: Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when punk was turning into New Wave, there was tons of experimentation going on with music. Adam and the Ants were doing Antmusic, Ten Pole Tudor finished his brief… Read More →
It’s not exactly surprising news, but it sure is a damned good thing they’re doing it again. Gov’t Mule will be playing the New Year’s Eve show at the Beacon Theater, marking their return for the gig that they’ve headlined since 2002 — missing only last year since then because… Read More →
Years before he was a ‘70s rock icon, before his larger-than-life poster adorned thousands of suburban teenagers’ bedroom walls, Peter Frampton was part of one of classic rock’s most underrated — and overlooked — bands. Frampton was just 18 when he teamed up with rock screecher Steve Marriott to form… Read More →
The on-again, off-again reunion of The Faces is back on again — but Hall of Fame rocker Rod Stewart remains determined not to join his former bandmates for the event. The word from contactmusic.com is that guitarist Ronnie Wood, keyboard wiz Ian McLagan and drummer Kenney Jones will nonetheless reunite… Read More →
Corey J. Feldman, founder of the NYC-based band Mercury Landing, is in the process of creating a rock opera. Kindly, he has agreed to share a new piece of it each week with us here in the Listening Room. “The Green Emerald,” as the opera has been named, is almost three… Read More →
“I go where the guitar takes me,” Angus Young once said. In that vein, since Feb. 25 the Listening Room has gone where the guitar players have taken us. That was when we started doing our weekly series, “Guitar Players You Should Know.” Hopefully you’ve enjoyed it, and hopefully you’ve… Read More →