Archive for October 13th, 2009

Rewind: Styx Members James “JY” Young, Lawrence Gowan, and ME!? on Rock Talk

Most of you who read We Will Rock You routinely probably already know that I am the author of a book from 2007 entitled The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx. That book changed my life and career in a number of ways. I went from “little-known freelance writer” to “kinda-familiar-guy-who-wrote-that-book-you-read-something-about-somewhere”. My name [...]

What To Expect From Ian Anderson’s Solo Tour

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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson is currently trekking across America on a solo tour.  So what can fans expect to hear at his shows?  The singer filled us in.
“A mixture of Jethro Tull acoustic music but also a mixture that includes some of the [...]

Kiss’ Open Letter To Peter Criss

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There might be a little awkwardness and perhaps even some bad blood between Kiss and the band’s former members, but they all still care about each other.  Recently, former drummer Peter Criss revealed he battled breast cancer last year though he has since [...]

Rob Halford In ‘Brutal Legend’

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Tomorrow, Brutal Legend comes out.  The third-person video game centers around “Eddie,” a roadie who gets hit on the head and wakes up in a world where every heavy metal album cover and lyric he knows has come to life.  Judas Priest singer Rob [...]

Anvil Vies For Academy Award

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Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences received the first screener of a movie they should consider for an Academy Award, and that film is Anvil! The Story of Anvil.  According to the L-A Times, the documentary was 2009’s first [...]

Lynyrd Skynyrd Video Feature at Billboard.com

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It’s a warm, sunny Monday afternoon in August and Lynyrd Skynyrd is at DR&A Television and Film Production Studios in downtown Nashville filming a video for the single “Simple Life.” Standing on the bare set, guitars blazing and hair blowing, Johnny Van Zant, Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington look like three rock legends who [...]

Joe Perry Video Q&A With Billboard

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“I do like being on the road,” says Joe Perry, Aerosmith’s legendary lead guitarist, and he isn’t letting the band’s accident-plagued and ultimately cancelled summer tour slow him down. As he told Billboard.com doing a recent interview as he preps the release of his fifth solo album, “Have Guitar, Will Travel,” he bought a [...]