Fripp avant tout, Gibson en courbes onctueuses, angles et fractales, station debout interdite, lunettes de prof vissées, les bassistes-chanteurs, fluidité véloce de Lake, grâce oubliée de Haskell, débrouillardise un peu pataude de Boz et soudain...
L'ex-Richard Monsour bostonien libano-polonais, vrai roi du vrai surf avant les Garçons de la plage, le rock instrumental déshadowisé surtout, staccato démoniaque, riffs rouleaux et soli lames de fond, tapis roulant de gammes orientales, violence aussi, les...
Les débuts encore undead dans un petit club londonien, le retour à la maison woodstockien sous déluge de gratte mitraillette va-t-en-guerre en réponse aux cordes pacifiques hendrixiennes, la basse chimiquement agile de Leo Lyons, le procès en sorcellerie...
Les twin guitars post-stoniennes d'Andy Powell et Ted Turner bien sûr, oubliées de longue date, la voie pavée pour Thin Lizzy et Iron Maiden, basse rocailleuse, entre Chris Squire et Mike Rutherford, de Martin Turner comprise, la frappe jazzy de Steve Upton,...
Geddy Lee maestro binoclard de la basse en quatre-cordes - surtout pas plus - aux commandes d'un improbable combo prog-rock from Ontario, Neil Peart, drummer littéraire virtuose à la précision plus palmeresque que paicienne, nourri de sci-fi philosophante sans...
Le Caballo Diablo et ses long-haired country boys dispensateurs de jams sudistes de rigueur, entre "Freebird" lynyrdien, "Whippin' Post" allmanien et "Highway Song" blackfootien, Don Murray en gratteux impérial, hillbilly rock, blues, funky junky, bluegrass,...
ZZ Top en 1980 : le punk ? On s'en fout. Le post-punk, peut-être ? Connaît pas. La new wave ? C'est-à-dire que. Le British Heavy Metal nouvelle manière, alors, quand même ? Nan. Mythologie solipsiste texane, rompin' & stompin', CadZZilla, Lone Wolf Horns,...
Terry Reid, pressenti par Page pour embarquer à bord du Zep, décline pour une tournée faussement prometteuse en première partie des Stones et, époque encore fraternelle, recommande le jeunot Plant, passe aussi à côté de Deep Purple pour faire bonne mesure......
"We didn't start off trying to be a band. We were just looking for a guitar player and a drummer. We were just playing like someone playing basketball. The analogy is like when someone is 4 years old and 5 foot tall playing basketball. Someone might say,...
"I don't believe you have to be completely dogmatic in your language to think reasonably. Certainly none of us are sexist in the traditional sexist notions, or have sexist leanings, right? But because that's understood, we don't have to keep haranguing on it,...
"We were small-town boys: Steve and Ian came from Macclesfield; Hooky and I were from Salford. We'd spent two years playing dives and dumps, and we were finally on the cusp of becoming really big with a tour of America. Nowadays, people fly to New York every...
"[The early '70s], yeah, that was a fortunate time. We were doing things that were new, and it was a good era in which to showcase it. Now when you get guys that have something new to say, it's a much more difficult era. Because what is popular now is the...
"I think [Satriani or any of the newer players]'ve perfected their style and that's pretty much it in a nutshell. I just wonder where they're going to go musically. Not just technique-wise because they've done that. A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible,...
"[Speed metal bands] have just got the wrong bit. They think that being fast and loud is the whole thing and it isn't. The guitar solos are not really difficult for a guitar player, it's just playing scales. To feel a solo and bend into it & I mean Hendrix...
"Sandy, Russell and Boss Goodman said, 'Larry, you're gonna do the singing and you better write some songs." I was so scared I couldn't believe it. Not only was I in a recording studio for a fortnight with a real band, but it was, "OK Larry, what are we...
"Dr. Feelgood have got to the stage now where we've got ourselves into a quite unique position - nobody else really does what we do, we're specialists, but I don't think we're going to get very much bigger unless there's some sort of serious accident like a...
"I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, "Born To Be Wild", then Black Sabbath. I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. Then, when I was 15, I...
"When I was at [Anger's] apartment he outlined this idea for a film that became Lucifer Rising, that he had already started shooting in Egypt. It was then he asked me if I would like to take on the commission and do the music and I agreed to that. [...] I said...
"I was the chief cook and bottle-washer. I was the leader of the band, I started the band, I got everyone together. We rehearsed in my mother's basement. (laughs) At the risk of breaking my arm to pat myself on the back, I really pushed the MC5. I really...
"[Spence] was a little bit too crazy, even then. When we first met him, he looked a little bit crazed. He was one of the first guys I'd seen with ratted hair. And he'd laugh hysterically when he'd get the feeling. But he played excellent rhythm guitar. He did...
"I can remember touring America and one guy called us the Beach Boys of Heavy Metal. It made me laugh. We've always had that harmony thing. That stood us out apart from all the other bands that were around at the time when we came out you see. Deep Purple, Led...
"I like playing in trio form and I like working with keyboards and I like working with huge horn sections. I just, I like all different phases of it. Chris [Layton, drummer) and I used to play gigs, just he and I every once in a while. I'd just plug the...
"I've always liked to produce records that have a great number of moods and the musical palette is very wide. I was saying the same sorts of things when Real Life came out. To me it was a very panoramic album. Some bands seem to like to produce albums where...
"Originally it started out as family. We were so poor. Like Bill Cosby said, we weren't just poor, we were broke. (laughs) My influence came from by Uncles, brother, my mom. All that bunch, all the different parts of the family. And when we started listening...
"When Uli was in the band, we had two different styles, the Uli/Jimi Hendrix direction and the Klaus/Rudolph direction... Ulrich was more of a solo artist and after he left the band it was up to me to compose all the songs, so everything became the same...
"We do a very special thing, it's like we do something different. We're not death metal or commercial metal -- we're something in between -- so it's hard for us to be commercially accepted right away. [And] it's so great being a trio that I don't see any...
"Pete Townshend really identified with what we were doing. Pete's a very melodic player and so am I. He told me that he appreciated my playing. I was flattered beyond belief because I didn't think I was that good. Pete and I really hit it off. We had the same...
"Stormcock was born in 1969 as I began to stretch my wings. I'd been there a few times before, but this time I gave myself the space to go deep... and stay there. [...] Pete Jenner and I turned out a great record. Seems like a thousand years ago now. Though I...
"The highs of Thin Lizzy? Getting "The Boys Are Back In Town" in the American chart. It wasn't destined to be a single, but it was picked up by the radio there. Then coming back to London and selling out the Hammersmith Odeon. Feeling of being accepted. Of...
"I was one of those typical children who loved to sing at a really early age. Anything that I did musically was with my voice - whistling, or working out harmonies, or singing along. I'm the youngest of seven children, and I had an Irish father who was really...
"The drums are a terrible sounding instrument: I've got great snare drums and I've played three thousands drum kits, but if you do a mistake it sounds terrible. You somehow have to make this work, you have to make magic from this terrible collection of rubbish...
"I had the first line-up of good rock'n'roll musicians. Mick Jagger and Brian Jones were trying to form a band and they kept borrowing all my guys. They borrowed all of them except the guitarist. They had Carlo Little on drums, they borrowed Nicky Hopkins on...
"I worked with ZZ Top as a guitar tech off and on for that time, searching for compatible musicians. It turned out I ended up with guys I had already worked with periodically over the years. First I hired John O'Daniel (vocals) and Buzzy Gruen (drums) then...
"Michael always had some kind of problem that he carried around with him; it's like a cross he enjoyed bearing (part of his American-Jewish suffering heritage). This time around he arrived with an ingrown toenail, which he kept insisting was gangrene. As soon...
"In 1966, Whitten, Molina and I we had electric violin, three electric guitars, bass and drums. Everyone could sing. We were playing long jams in the middle of songs, with the violins and guitars going at it. We were influenced by a lot of the same things that...
"I'm not out to negotiate with political correctness. I'm out to burn it, I'm out to chop it down, I'm going to melt it. I like to think that political correctness and denial is like the emperor of Japan thinking he's going to take over America. I would...
"I mean, c'mon, Grand Funk sold out Shea Stadium quicker than The Beatles. Gimme a break. That was early, in '71. They're not even hardly mentioned, it's terrible. They're not in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Vanilla Fudge or Cactus, we're not even on the...
"In two aspects there is a difference between Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock. We still worked with arranged improvisation but treated the musicians as isolated cells living in separate time zones as if they were revolving in space and communicating from...
"William Neal was an art student and he actually popped by Advision Studios when we were recording Tarkus and before we had a name for the music that I'd written. He came by with a set of artwork and I arrived there, took one look at it and thought it was...
"My father was a professional musician, he was a Hawaiian guitarist. He introduced the Hawaiian guitar to Great Britain almost. Which was the precursor to the modern day electric guitar. There were electric Hawaiian guitars before there were six-string, stand...
"I don't see any groups making it the way bands of the past made it. I don't see the big careers being created. I don't see huge followings behind a particular artist. Not for very long. It comes and goes pretty quick. It's like a piece of candy. The public...
"There were personal conflicts between Ritchie Blackmore and me, as you can see all the lineups that they've been through, during all this years, I didn't want to continue with them after two years. [...] There were an ego in Ritchie who liked the heavy rock...
"Yes, I love the word entertainment, because that's what we do. When you're in a band and you go on stage you're entertaining people - you're putting on a great show with visuals and sound, so I think that's the right word [...] That's what we're all about -...
"Musically, my background was that I was taught piano, so I learned harmony structure there and I used to listen to Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly and The Cricket and work out all those harmonies they were doing à the harmonies of the Jordanaires were doing...
"Other than playing guitar, I love to play slide. A lot of my early recollections of when I wanted to learn to play slide like my dad had a lot of blues records that I listened to by Mississippi John Hurt, Huddy Ledbetter who was Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, of...
"At about five years old, I started playing harmonica. Taking lessons and learning all the notes. A teacher taught me how to read music, and all the time I was faking it... playing by ear. He'd say, "Hold that note." And I'd go humm. And he'd go, "No, that's...
"The first time we got into Detroit, it just clicked. Just did. We walked into the Grande and there was the MC5, and "What the FUCK is that? I wanna do THAT!" It really turned us around quite a bit... It radically changed our sound. We got HEAVIER after the...
"I read Guitar World and Guitar Player and all these magazines, and I see where a lot of these heavy-metal players mention me as an important influence for them. At first I couldn't understand the connection between my music and their music. But then when I go...
"I thought I was going to die when I was 22. I had to cram everything in. That was like my last ... You know when you're young, man, you think of foolish things like death and stuff like that. All of a sudden you're not at home with anymore, you're out on your...
"Some of the albums were played in different tunings in the early days. We never went by the rules and just tuned the way that sounded right for that track or that album. We've always tuned a half-step down, but on the Paranoid and Black Sabbath albums we...
"Those early Genesis albums are just a reflection of where the band was at, along with the music we were individually listening to. When we recorded Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, and Nursery Cryme, the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Billy Cobham were very...
"Certain people go past being a person and go into being an American object or an American piece of pop culture. Even Alice Cooper sometimes is not a person anymore. I think Alice Cooper is a piece of the Americana itself. Elvis went to a point of being not...
"I was in Corpus Christi, Texas. I was playing in a club down there, and had really just gotten back from France. I'd been over there for about eight weeks. I'd had that song that hit, "Soul Francisco".[...] Yeah, out of the blue. And then all of a sudden I...
"Fleetwood Mac were sort of secretive. Mick Fleetwood for instance, I had a vision that he was a stilts man in a circus, a carnival, a Mardi Gras. I had a vision that he was one of the blokes who walked around on stilts and that that was his main thing. And...
"People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all. [...] Everybody came in to see Suicide to be entertained, and all we...
"Eric must carry 15-20 Sci-Fi books with him at all times, but Sandy especially is into lot of mythology books - he did philosophy in college and was top of his class. So what do you do if you're a philosophy major? You become a rock'n'roll' manager!!..." (Joe...
"My arrangements have changed considerably over the years, even on my own pieces! A funny thing happened recently while I was at the Columbus Airport. I'm listening to the Muzac and it sounds like "Water Song" (An early Hot Tuna acoustic instrumental in Open G...
"It's just that we play fairly intense, fairly aggressive music and when I sing and spit out my lyrics, so to speak, it tends to come out in a sort of intense, and to some people somewhat intimidating or frightening, kind of way. That's something that wasn't...
"There was an identifiable Iron Butterfly sound and yet during that 1967-1970 period, we had been called underground, acid rock, psychedelic and then heavy. So much for handles. It's whatever the market would bear at the time, whatever handle they assigned to...
"The interesting thing about that was that it took about a year to record it, because we were only allowed to go into the studio when there weren't any paying customers. You'd get a weekend, and it takes a whole day to set the drums up anyway, So you'd spend a...
"I'm a fairly obnoxious bass player - I'm very intrusive. I don't think my playing style is very typical. But we are all our own worst critics, right? I was born into the Jack Bruce, Chris Squire, Jack Casady world - those guys all pushed the melodic side of...
"...Upstairs in the studio we did the Clockwork Orange look-a-likes that became the inner sleeve. The idea was to hit a look somewhere between the Malcolm McDowell thing with the one mascaraed eyelash and insects. It was the era of Wild Boys by William S....
"We'd been producing ourselves and fucking up, really. Glyn brought us all together and got the best out of us. God bless him, he was very well aware of Rod's solo albums and he wanted to get the Faces on a similar footing. [But] we got a cover you can't...
"I had wanted to make a true solo album some time before Cream split up. I wanted the feel of the record to be very different to Cream as I had so much more instrumentation to play with. Part of my frustration with Cream was that it was such a limited band in...
"I like Clear Spot. It's my favourite album of all I've done. Because the group's getting together. The album was written in two hours in a station wagon going to a job. It was the way I felt at that time..." (Captain Beefheart)Where: Recorded at Warner...
"I remember trying to get these amazing sounds out of my head during a Maths lesson at Elmwood School, but the window cleaner was outside whistling the second guitar solo from 'Be-Bop-A-Lula'. This was all I need to leave normality behind..." (Jeff Beck)Where:...
"I don't want you to think that we thought and planned all the good stuff out, because we didn't. I didn't. I planned some of it, but mostly we followed our instinct and improvised as a matter of course. We had to. We were convinced it would be the last record...
"I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for their musical ability - particularly Edward's. When I heard him on the guitar, it immediately brought me back to myself. I wanted to do the same thing with my voice and feet. Basically what I had to offer at...
"The album Among The Living is my favorite... It was a good period of this entire band. The mindset was that we were all on the same plane. We all had the same desires, clawing and biting..." (Dan Spitz)Where: Recorded in Island StudiosWhen: 22 mars 1987Who:...
"[The stereo mix] didn't sound like the band did onstage. The two guys that mentioned that to me were Frank Zappa and Paul Simon. They both said: 'You sure got a lot of echo on that record.' I said, 'Man, that's not our doing. We played it, they took it away...
"Look at Spinal Tap, look at the media industry. There's this huge attempt to make pop-culture valid and take it self seriously. Pop-culture is just shit, y'know. Basically. We're in pop-culture, it's hard to take ourselves seriously. What we're doing is,...
"Jim, on the other hand, didn't have a house. He would live in a motel or wherever he happened to be that night. He would end up sleeping there. He was always thinking about songs. When he would be alone, he would have a notebook and that's what he would do....
"Well I'm a little adverse to using the actual word punk, but as regards to the movement, well movements' the wrong word, we was in the foundations of it, we was in at the beginning, I don't care what anyone says. We were the first band, if you want to call it...
"George Martin's a very rare geezer, and such a great leader. He listened to my scrappy demos for Blow By Blow, understood everything, made it sound posh and really opened doors for me in America" (Jeff Beck)Where: AIR Studios, LondonWhen: mars 1975Who: Jeff...
"I was inspired to write Lazy by Eric Clapton's Stepping Out. That's a weird solo because I did a particular part one day and I did another part another day, you can hear the difference. I still criticize that solo. I think the song was great, the composition...
"The first time I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me..." (Elvis Presley)Where: Sun Records StudiosWhen: Juillet 1954-1955Who:...
"'She Said, She Said'? That's mine. It's an interesting track. The guitars are great on it. That was written after an acid trip in L.A. during a break in the Beatles tour [...]. Peter Fonda came in when we were on acid and he kept coming up to me and sitting...
"What I'd like is when you think of American guitar, you think of me" (Michael Bloomfield)Where: New York, Chicago et Los AngelesWhen: été 1966Who: Paul Butterfield (harmonica, vocals), Michael Bloomfield (guitar), Elvin Bishop (guitar), Jerome Arnold (bass),...
"I used to drink [...] all the time and [...] I was still carrying a bottle of Jack around with me the whole time. There was one time when Steven (Tyler) came into the room I used to use for tuning my guitar. I'd stepped out of the room for a minute and when...
"I had a very, very strong intuition and feeling before we made The Queen Is Dead. And I felt a lot of pressure. I knew we had to deliver something that was great. I felt we were great, and we'd been called great, but I didn't want to get away with just...
"Coming from a heavily industrial town where there was ship building and steel works and chemicals, music was my ticket to freedom. I heard all this music coming out from America. All these blues guys were talking about jumping on trains and freedom and moving...
"Coming up with new material is always the most stressful thing and the biggest worry. You have standards both yours and others that you want to meet and yet you don't want to repeat yourself because what's the point of that. I think some bands do try and...
"If our records sound distorted, it's because they are. My Brother (Larry, guitar) was always fooling around with the amps. They were always overdriven. Or he was disconnecting the speakers and poking a hole in them with an ice pick. That's how we ended up...
"I think my favorite album is probably Sticky Fingers. Also followed closely by Exile on Main Street. It seems to be everyone else's favorite." (Mick Taylor)Where: Muscle Shoals Studio, Alabama, Olympic Studios, LondonWhen: 23 avril 1971Who: Mick Jagger...
"The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus." (Frank Zappa)Where: Paramount Studio, Bolic Sound,...
"In 73 I was good friends with Robin Trower. He played me the blues, made me tapes... He educated me in the blues vocabulary, that I adore. Clapton, Mayall with the Bluesbreakers... But that's not my path." (Robert Fripp)Where: Olympic Sound Studios...
"We broke up with "Time of the Season," which was from the album Odessey & Oracle. [That album] sort of charted but it wasn't really a big hit, and then about 15 years later, it started to sell, along with the [Zombies compilations]. We'd learned about a...
"I wanted a bit of everything to get some kind of thickness that would be a compilation of all the guitarists I'd heard, plus the sustain of a slide guitar. I just stumbled on the Marshall, but it was the only amp that worked. I mean, the sound of an amplified...
"Well, musically, Sting's opinion is that I'm too fast and Andy forgets the chords. Andy's a bungler à this is Sting's opinion. Which is so far from the truth in the case of Andy. Andy's a fucking genius. He blows away any of the other guitarists' Sting's...
"It was a joke to call it a "solo record." There were no rules. Because we had just completely grabbed the brass ring with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, I could afford to go down to Wally Heider's studio every night just for laughs. Anybody that showed up,...
"My make-up is the same both on and off stage to a greater or lesser degree. It consists of a large selection of things including Quant, Revlon, Schwarzkops and Yardley. I just choose whatever colours appeal to me at the time. On my eyes I use six different...
"Rubin really cleaned up our sound on that record, which drastically changed what we sounded like and how people perceived us. It was like, «Wow%u2014you can hear everything, and those guys aren't just playing fast; those notes are on time.» It was what we...
"I must say, however, that the percussion work is of very high standard and I would vote Jim McCarty one of the best drummers ever allowed to play..." (Jim McCarty)Where: Advision, LondonWhen: 15 juillet 1966Who: Keith Relf (harmonica, vocals), Jeff Beck...
"The Stooges are unrecordable. [...] It's an interesting act but I don't think you can get this feeling on tape"(Don Gallucci)Where: Elektra Sound Recorders, Los AngelesWhen: 1970Who: Iggy Pop (vocals), Ron Asheton (guitar), Dave Alexander (bass), Scott...
"That's the easiest parts, the solos. There's no great thing in being a soloist. I think the hardest thing is to play together with a lot of people, and do it right. I mean, when four guys hit the one note all at once-very few people can do that" (Angus...
"I didn't think we had "I Shot the Sheriff" as good as Bob's version. I thought we'd prettied it up a lot, and just not done it justice. And that disturbed me to the point where I wasn't keen on having it on the album. I was overruled, and thank God I was...
"Le scénar de Melody Nelson ? Je pourrais dire que c'est La Vénus au miroir du Titien. Il a mis en scène La Vénus au miroir, on lui voit son cul mais on ne voit pas sa gueule. Et, on lui voit sa gueule parce qu'elle tient un miroir. Ça c'est un grand chef...
"I went to England in 1976 and there was all this punk crap in the papers and I was walking with this girl and I said, «What is this punk crap?" (Tom Verlaine)Where: A&R Studios, New York CityWhen: 1977Who: Tom Verlaine (guitar, lead vocals), Richard Lloyd...
"Everyone laughed when I said there is not time, but now I know that it's right - I've got to give everything now, while I can. Hendrix wasted the last two years of his life; just think what he could have done in that time. There is no time, I may not be here...
"Are these all psychedelic? I don't even know what that word means, really." (Jimi Hendrix)Where: Olympic Studios, LondonWhen: Décembre 1967Who: Jimi Hendrix (guitar, vocals), Noel Redding (bass, vocals), Mitch Mitchell (drums, vocals) and guests...What: 1....
"Kids called it Surf music - I didn't call it that. [...] When historians, so called historians, say the reverb's the Surf sound... they don't know what they're talking about. It's the heavy machine gun, staccato sound. The waves." (Dick Dale)Where: Capitol...
"Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people. Then I go home alone." (Janis Joplin)Where: Live : Grande Ballroom (Detroit) & Fillmore West (San Francisco) / Studio : Los Angeles & New YorkWhen: Août 1968Who: Janis Joplin (vocals), Peter Albin (bass, guitar),...
"Well, I used to work at the Times delivering the papers in the morning, so I used to get up at 2 in the morning and it was like you had to do something to keep your sanity, so I'd get these weird ideas in my head..." (Mike Muir)Where: Cherokee Studios,...
"I dunno, Argus is the one that everyone slates as the definitive Ash album and I cannot deny this. It has all the elements in there and there's magic to it. It's a classic - timeless..." (Andy Powell)Where: England (sic).When: 8 mai 1972.Who: Andy Powell...
"We weren't too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet." (Steven Tyler)Where: Wherehouse Waltham, Massachussetts & Record Plant, NYC.When: Mai 1976Who: Steven Tyler (vocals, bass, harmonica,...
"I realized that the others were getting money for writing songs, and I figured, Jesus, I'd better write some songs if I want to get any money. It's not easy to write when you're competing with Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, but when I came up with the lyrics to...
"There's a solo on "Dogs" that I thought was pretty good and unusual. It hasn't entered the pantheon of the ones people seem to like because it's a slightly different style for me, I suppose. I tracked it with an old Tele, and I was really thrilled with it "...
"When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing." (David Crosby)Where: Columbia StudiosWhen: Juillet 1966Who: Roger McGuinn (guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, vocals), David Crosby (guitar,...
"It was a compromise album. I felt it was making the best of what we had at the time - the whole theater project, the film idea - all those new numbers were part of a bigger scheme. And all you got in the end was the excitement and newness of the scheme...
"I was listening to Bowie's Low, Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, Hendrix's Live Isle of Wight, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Khachaturian's Gayaneh Ballet Suite... I wanted The Cure to create a weird kind of hybrid music to somehow connect these five!"...
"Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar" (Rory Gallagher)Where: Wessex Studios, LondresWhen: 1975Who: Rory Gallagher (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Gerry McAvoy (bass), Lou Martin (keyboards), Rod de'Ath (drums, percussion)What: 1....
"I think Pete (Townshend) downed a bottle of wine, he put it away in those days, and he did the full windmill with the arm. It was great. I was looking through the window going, `Look, it's Pete Townshend'. It was rather fab..." (David Bowie)Where: Power...
"You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there." (Eric Clapton)Where: Atlantic Studios, New York.When: Novembre 1967Who: Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals), Jack Bruce (bass,...
"You see the one thing we realised between making 'Kill 'em All' and 'Ride The Lightning' was that you don't have to depend on speed to be powerful and heavy" (Lars Ulrich)Where: Sweet Silence Studios, CopenhagenWhen: 16 novembre 1984Who: James Hetfield...
"I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James..." (John Fogerty)Where: Cosmo's Factory Studios, Wally Heider's Studio, San...
"If you draw a line, really, The Who came first, we came second, and The Pistols after that. It's easy to see the evolution. Mott wasn't really compartmentalized all that easily. We had one foot in glam, one foot in metal. And I grew up with the original rock...
"I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself." (Johnny Winter )Where: CBS Studios, Nashville.When: Octobre 1969Who: Johnny...
"Antiquity, as such, doesn't terribly interest me. I'm not terribly interested in playing you a bluegrass tune that's perfectly reconstructed or presented. If you want that, then there are plenty of people you can go to. Maybe I would try to get into the...
"For months it seemed I had been trying to find a new guitarist for Megadeth [...] Marty had a unique and beautiful style that was a breath of fresh air" (Dave Mustaine)Where: Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California.When: 24 septembre 1990Who: Dave Mustaine...
"A studio, you go down the hall and see other people playing. You feel like you're in some kind of complex, like you're a soup. You're cream of mushroom and they're tomato." (Neil Young)Where: Sunset Sound, Los Angeles & Broken Arrow Studios, San...
"We are rock musicians who borrow ideas from the classics--we sometimes emulate the structural form, just as [other] rock groups emulate jazz, soul, and rhythm and blues in their music . . . We try to create music that is around us today in an orchestral...
"Southern Rock's a dead label, a hype thing for the magazines to blow out of proportion. We don't play like the Allmans did, or like Wet Willie. Southern groups are different." (Ronnie Van Zant)Where: Studio One, Doraville, GeorgiaWhen: septembre 1973Who:...
"No one ever compared us to Black Sabbath after this record" (John Paul Jones)Where: Headley Grange, Hampshire, with The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio ; Island Studios, London.When: 8 novembre 1971Who: Robert Plant (vocals), Jimmy Page (guitar), John Paul Jones...
"Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then." (Jerry Lee Lewis)Where: Star Club de Hambourg.When: 5 avril 1964Who: Jerry Lee Lewis (piano, vocals), Johnny Allen (guitar), Pete Shannon (guitar), Ray Phillips (bass), John Hanken...
