Tag "best classic bands"
Roky Erickson Celebrates 70th Birthday With Dates
The psych rocker and founding member/singer of the 13th Floor Elevators singer is celebrating a big birthday with a round of dates
Read MoreSkynyrd Guitarist Rossington Has Heart Attack
The last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd was hit with a heart attack last week. He has had ongoing heart problems but has still played on.
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Fogerty Sets January Vegas Residency
John Fogerty will play The Venetian in Las Vegas in January, billed as Peace, Love, and Creedence, in a multimedia show that will focus on 1969.
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REO Speedwagon’s Gary Richrath Dead at 65
The band’s longtime guitarist, songwriter and singer died on September 13, 2015. He authored their biggest hit, “Take it on the Run”
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Janis Joplin Doc Coming To Theaters, PBS (Update)
Director Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary will have a limited theatrical run before it shows on the PBS American Masters series in the near future
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U2 Soars to the Rafters in Boston
Jim Sullivan observes how U2 can still summon up greatness & emotional wallop throughout an arena on their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour of America.
Read MoreWilko Johnson Film Explores Life and Death
He is likely best-known in America not for his music with the band Dr. Feelgood – who achieved even-less-than-cult-status in the US though well known in his native England – but for his role as the mute executioner, in Game of Thrones
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‘Wrecking Crew’ Doc Honors LA Studio Musicians
The ace musicians performed on literally hundreds of recordings by the Beach Boys, Mamas and the Papas, Sonny & Cher, the Righteous Brothers and more
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Mick Fleetwood’s ‘Play On’ Book: All About the Love
The Mac leader’s bio a very touching love story about his deep and abiding affection for music, drumming, his band and its current and past players
Read MoreJorma Kaukonen Offers Old School Acoustic
50 years since he blazed a psychedelic trail with the Airplane + decades since he + Jack Cassidy formed Hot Tuna, he’s happy to kick back and pick + sing
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