Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
With songs like 'For What It's Worth,' 'Suite Judy Blue Eyes,' 'Teach Your Children' and 'Love the One You're With,' Stephen Stills is a fixture on lists naming the greatest rock songs. Despite that praise, he isn't a fan of the countdowns. "I don't pay any attention to those lists," he tells Spinner. "I think those lists are purposeless." Case in point -- Stills says he couldn't...
Guitar Gear News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Fender Custom Shop Custom Artist Series Jeff Beck Signature Stratocaster Electric Guitar Olympic White Rosewood Fretboard The axe that made Jeff Beck famous. Jeff Beck's Stratocaster has been an integral part of his signature sound from his early days with the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group through his amazingly varied solo career. Made by the Fender Custom Shop for the Custom Artist Series, the...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Playing live - sending out emails ... "Forget nostalgia, The Yardbirds have stayed true to their ethic of live experimentation and vicious energy. The Yardbirds paved the way for the Electric Prunes, Doors, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and Public Enemy. And they still know how to have a rave-up.” Joy Division and Public Enemy? Who knew?
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The legendary Keith Relf's last album, remastered.
Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
December 3 - The Yardbirds - Grimsby, England 4 - Hard Rock Hell III Festival - Prestatyn, Wales 5 - The Nightowl - Cheltenham, England [The Nightowl in Cheltenham on Saturday 5th December. Entry to show is £5.00 on the door only. For further details contact : enquiries@nightowlclub.net] 6 - Moho Live - Manchester, England *** 7 - The Corporation - Sheffield, England *** 8 - JB's - Dudley,...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The new rock-saturated "Pirate Radio" proves life really is better when it's set to a '60s soundtrack.
Guitar Gear News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Gibson Custom Jeff Beck 1954 Les Paul Oxblood Aged Signed Electric Guitar Many great off-the-shelf electric guitars have had their reputations elevated by the legendary artists who have played them. Once in a while, however, a heavily modified Gibson guitar is used to make such groundbreaking music that the erstwhile "one-off" becomes iconic in and of itself. The best known and most revered...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
LONDON - After weeks of speculation Simon Cowell, president of 19th Hole Productions, and manager of Susan Boyle has stated that he has signed the all-girl South Korean group, The Wonder Rice Girls to be Susan Boyle's opening act. The Susan Boyle...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
If you take a train to Twickenham, to the west of London, and then walk down to the edge of the Thames, you will discover a magical place that feels as though it's from another era. People like to say that the Isle of Wight feels like Britain did in the Fifties, but Eel Pie Island feels like I imagine London did back in the early Sixties, when jazz and R&B were still the pulse beat of the city....
MTV News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Fellow headliners Aretha Franklin and Jeff Beck, along with guests like Mick Jagger and Ozzy Ozbourne, celebrate night two of Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary. By Saimon Kos U2's Bono and Black Eyed Peas' Fergie Photo: Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images NEW YORK — For the second night in a row, Tom Hanks walked onstage at Madison Square Garden to do the introduction for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
U2, Metallica, Aretha Franklin and Jeff Beck headlined the second night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert in New York, where Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Eyed Peas, Mick Jagger participated in some once-in-a-lifetime collaborations.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Photo: Kane/WireImage As the second night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary came to its climax, after nearly four hours of jaw-dropping musical collaborations, almost anything seemed possible. By this point Metallica had played with Ozzy Osbourne, Ray Davies and Lou Reed; Jeff Beck had jammed with Sting and Billy Gibbons; and [...]
The Decibel Tolls (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Strangers Family Band offers a fine pastiche of the various splinter genres of flower power much like The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s finer catalog (czech “Wooden Hands” and hear how the vocal interplay is almost dead-on Anton Newcombe and Mara Kegal via Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request). However, also like the BJM, Strangers Family Band do [...]
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
64-year-old musician Eric Clapton is recuperating after having an operation to remove gallstones, according to his publicist. The guitarist has had to pull out of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York on Friday. Jeff Beck replaced Clapton in 1965 in The Yardbirds will replace him again 44 years later at [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Musician Eric Clapton is recuperating after having an operation to remove gallstones, his publicist has said.
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