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Jeff Healey’s estate announced the release of the lost Road House soundtrack from the 1989 film.
It will include 8 previously unreleased songs plus 7 bonus tracks! Can’t Wait!
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The Quote By Gene Simmons Which Proves Why KISS Just Sold Their Publishing For $300 Million :

“There’s not gonna be another Beatles, Hendrix, or KISS because there’s no longer a record industry. There’s only chaos.”

“ The next 15 year old kid who plugs into his Marshall amplifier won’t be able to make a living because record companies don’t pay advances, royalties or promotion anymore.”

“ It’s the freckle face kid who feels he or she is entitled to steal music without paying for it. Because in their logic you don’t need money because you’re rich being a musician. That’s the problem with downloading and the internet. Now everything is for free.”

“From 1958 - 1988 you can name at least 100 bands or artists that became iconic. Everyone from The Beatles, to Elvis Presley, to The Rolling Stones, and many more.”

“From 1988 until today you won’t be able to name one iconic band. And don’t tell me Nirvana. They had two albums and were done.”

“The nail has been put into the coffin of Rock And Roll.”

Gene Simmons
Dan Rather AXS TV Interview (2021)

“It’s everything, all the time”

🔴 "LIFE IN THE FAST LANE": THE EAGLES SONG ABOUT CO***NE

Listening to the Eagles feels like spending every day in California. In the wake of hard rock bands arriving around the same time as Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, the songwriting of Don Henley and Glenn Frey was always about laid-back tunes about everyday life. The Eagles did have a nasty side when they wanted to, and ‘Life in the Fast Lane’ was a peek into their misbehaviour. Around the time they were making Hotel California, both Henley and Frey knew they had something that could fit within the concept of the Hollywood lifestyle. When coming up with potential ideas for songs, the guitar riff that turned their heads was an improvisation by Joe Walsh, who played the iconic riff of ‘Fast Lane’ as a warm-up exercise. Though the band knew the potential behind the song, the title didn’t fall into place until Frey went on a ride of a lifetime with a drug dealer friend, remembering as part of The History of the Eagles, “I was riding shotgun in a Corvette with a drug dealer on the way to a poker game. The next thing I know, we’re doing 90. Holding! [co***ne] Big time! I say, ‘Hey man!’ He grins and goes, ‘Life in the fast lane!’ I thought, ‘Now there’s a song title’”. From there, the song became a glorification of the rock and roll lifestyle taking place in Los Angeles every day. Across every verse of the song, Henley describes some of the seediest characters that he’s seen throughout his time in the City of Angels, from a pair of misfits whose only common traits is being good in bed to being on the verge of crashing at the end of the song.

March 20, 2024
Former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry has reacted to the news that the band's timeless rock anthem "Don't Stop Believin'" has officially been declared the "Biggest Song Of All Time" by Forbes. According to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America),the hit rock song likely heard by everyone around the world is now an 18-times-platinum-certified single.

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Born 100 years ago, Cordell Jackson was an American guitarist thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
Jackson founded the Moon Records label in Memphis in 1956. Unable to break into the Sun label's stable of male artists, she received the advice and assistance of RCA Records' Chet Atkins in forming this new label to release her music. She began releasing and promoting on the label singles she recorded in her home studio, serving as engineer, producer and arranger. The artists recorded included her and a small family of early rock and roll, rockabilly, and country music performers she recruited from several Southern states.
Her Moon Records label was the oldest continuously operating label in Memphis at the time of her death in 2004. The 50s Rock on the Moon of Memphis, Tennessee + an Oddity, a compilation album of the label's 1950s singles, was released on vinyl in the early 1980s and was later sold on compact disc until her death in 2004.
She died in Memphis in 2004, aged 81.

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Behind The Music
Lita Ford Was Asked By Robert Plant To Replace John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin - Strange but true!

Lita Ford: "Robert Plant says to me, ‘You’re really good on guitar. Would you like to play bass for Led Zeppelin?’”

Writer Nick Wells for www.guitarplayer has the story!
Led Zeppelin without John Paul Jones might sound unthinkable, but by 1975, after five albums and constant touring, Jones wanted a break to spend more time with his family. “We were all very tired and under pressure and it just came to a head,” he told Mojo back in 2007. “I didn’t want to harm the group, but I didn’t want my family to fall apart, either.”

It was around this time that Robert Plant considered replacing Jones with The Runaways’ lead guitarist Lita Ford. In a 2013 interview with BraveWords, Ford said: “They came to the Starwood Nightclub. They shook everyone’s hands, and a huge crowd gathered around us, and we took photographs. We gave them a Runaways t-shirt, and they put it on. And Robert Plant says to me, ‘You’re really good on guitar. Would you like to play bass for Led Zeppelin?’

Ford also revealed Robert Plant’s offer in her 2016 memoir, Living Like a Runaway. “He asked me if I could play bass guitar. ’For who?’ I asked. ‘Led Zep.’ He might have been drinking or pulling my leg, but he seemed to be dead serious in the ­moment.”

Despite accepting Plant’s offer, Ford was reluctant to pursue the invitation. “I didn’t even try,” she said. “I love John Paul Jones. He’s one of my favorite bass players. I couldn’t imagine myself replacing him, but the fact that they thought about a female in their band, I thought was pretty cool.”

Ultimately, Jones opted to stay with Led Zeppelin, despite rumours he had taken up a new position as the choirmaster of Wi******er Cathedral. “It was a joke,” he later explained. “Somebody said, ‘Do you like being on the road?’ I said, ‘No … I saw this advert for a job for the organist out by the cathedral, I’m gonna apply for that.’ It was one of those things.”

At the time, Jones also spoke to Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. “It was the pressure,” Grant told author Dave Lewis in his book From A Whisper to a Scream. “He was a family man, was Jonesy. By that time, the security thing in the U.S. was getting ridiculous. We started getting death threats.”

Jones was told to take a few weeks off while Grant pushed out a story about him being ill. That seemed to work, and Jones eventually returned when work commenced on Physical Graffiti.

The band’s 1973 tour had ended with the filming of three sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, which later became the Song Remains the Same film. Looking back, guitarist Jimmy Page said he didn’t sleep at all for most of that week in New York.

Robert Moog, an American pioneer of electronic music. His invention of the Moog synthesizer in 1964 (in collaboration with Herb Deutsch) revolutionized almost every genre of music.

Love these kids

C**t Clark and the Quarantine Kids play "Lay Down Sally" Hey guys! Happy Friday! We’ve received a lot of requests for this one, and we’re big Clapton fans so we thought we’d give it a whirl. The guitar is extra sw...

"Hi, we're The Dillards and we're all hillbillies. I thought I'd better tell you that, because I expect you thought we were the Budapest String Quartet. Actually, we all come from a little town in the Ozarks where moss grows on the north side of people."

-Mitch Jayne

Turntable back in use. Haven’t listened to this album in a long while. It’s like I’m hearing some songs for the first time. Love this album. Mylon LeFevre RIP thanks for the music and ministry.

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Actor played drums in Bard college for a band called The Leather Canary. He left the band after a couple of months because he didn't think anything would come of it. Two band members and classmates went on to evolve into . Those two men are none other than Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.

”Don sort of looked like a crow most of the time,” says Chevy Chase. ”He’d walk around with this beak of a nose and he always wore black clothing and looked down with his hands in his pockets. People thought he was kind of weird and quiet. They didn’t realize that he was really intelligent, a very funny, bright guy.”

A 19-year-old Jimi Hendrix during his time in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, 1961. In November 1961, fellow serviceman Billy Cox walked past an army club and heard Hendrix playing. Impressed by Hendrix's technique, which Cox described as a combination of "John Lee Ho**er and Beethoven", Cox borrowed a bass guitar and the two jammed. Within weeks, they began performing at base clubs on the weekends with other musicians in a loosely organized band, the Casuals. Billy Cox, later was a member of Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys and appeared with him at Woodstock.

Some of the biggest hits are …

20 One Hit Wonders Every '70s Kid Remembers, Ranked In Order

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The Unbelievable Story of the Legendary Eddie Van Halen One of the greatest guitarists to ever live was Eddie Van Halen, the legendary member of the Southern California band Van Halen. He rocked our worlds with incredibly impressive and innovative ways of playing the guitar, which seemed less like an instrument and more like an extension of Van Halen him...

Happy 71st birthday to DONNIE VAN ZANT (born June 11, 1952), co-founder of the rock band .38 SPECIAL, who are best known for their early 1980s hits "Hold On Loosely" and "Caught Up in You". The group earned five Gold and Platinum albums and sold over 5 million records.

The Jacksonville, Florida, native
is one of three brothers who were all musicians — his older brother, Ronnie, was the original lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and was one of the fatalities in the band’s infamous plane crash in 1977.

Donnie’s younger brother, Johnny, is the current frontman for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Donnie and Johnny also performed together for several years with their country band Van Zant.

In a magazine article in 2007, Donnie told about the two brother’s faith.

“We (Donnie and Johnny) both wear crosses, and I can promise you it’s not for fashion reasons. We both believe that Jesus Christ died on that cross and shed his precious blood for us,” he said in the interview.

“This world we live in is a very scary world,” Donnie added. “And I think the older I get, the more I realize that I need to get on my knees and pray, and put all my problems in His hands.”

Donnie Van Zant left .38 Special in early 2013 due to health issues related to inner-ear nerve damage. He officially retired from the band later that year. - Chuck Halley



Pictured: Donnie Van Zant and .38 Special at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2014; Donnie in 2019.

Boston and More Than A Feeling are my all time favorites.

Brad Delp would have been 72 today. Sadly he passed at the age of 55.

The first Boston album was the first album I ever purchased on my own. I was 13 years old. It was the first album that blew my mind as a young singer/guitarist. It was very influential for me personally and life changing.

Fast forward to 2007 and Brad was gone. Unexpectedly, leaving everyone in shock.

I was asked to be a part of what was supposed to be the last Boston show. It was a benefit show for Brad and was going to be the last.

I was asked to perform a song called “Higher Power” and then after a few singers dropped out, Tom Scholz called me while I was mowing the lawn and said he was listening to a few Stryper albums and was blown away! He then invited me to perform “More Than a Feeling”, “Long Time”, “Rock & Roll Band” and “Peace of Mind”. I re-started the mower after our conversation and thought to myself - I just committed to singing Boston songs in Boston with Boston🤯

I went to work and learned every word vocally and every note musically. I worked for days and I did my best to make Brad proud and honor him with everything that I did.

I walked in and plugged into a rig that said “Brad” on it. I was literally playing through Brads guitar rig! Talk about surreal. We went through guitars the first time we rehearsed and it sounded amazing with 3 guitars (Tom, Gary and myself).

We rehearsed again and I was then asked to step up to the mic to sing “More Than a Feeling”. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so nervous in my life! Singing the hardest song in rock in front of Tom Scholz. I sang in my style and thankfully, he loved it🙏

As show day approached and I stepped out on that stage, my goal and my thoughts were to honor Brad, with every fan there. We did just that. It was a night I will never forget as we celebrated Brad’s life and legacy with every song. It was electrifying and we all felt Brads spirit there that night.

After the show, Tom decided to continue on and he asked me to be a part of it. We toured throughout 2008 (56 shows) and I did my best to honor Brad every night.

God bless you Brad. You will never be forgotten. Thank you for inspiring this 13 year old kid🙏

Sweet!

57 Belair.
David Gartland Guitar.

I was 9 years old 😳😅

"TURN'n 50 IN 2023"

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29 Years Ago: The Eagles Reunite for Hell Freezes Over Tour On May 27, 1994, the Eagles began their Hell Freezes Over Tour, after a 14-year break.

Nutbush City Limits
1973

A church house, gin house
A school house, outhouse
On Highway Number Nineteen
The people keep the city clean
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
Call it Nutbush city limits
Twenty-five was the speed limit
Motorcycle not allowed in it
You go t'the store on Fridays
You go to church on Sundays
They call it Nutbush, little old town
Oh, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
You go t'the field on week days
And have a picnic on Labor Day
You go to town on Saturdays
But go to church ev'ry Sunday
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
No whiskey for sale
You get caught, no bail
Saltpork and molasses
Is all you get in jail
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
Yeah, they call it Nutbush city
Nutbush city limits
Little old town in Tennessee
It's called a quiet, little old community
A one-horse town
You have to watch
What you're puttin' down in old Nutbush
They call it Nutbush
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Songwriters: Tina Turner 1939-2023

Pray for Jimmy

Jimmy Buffett hospitalized: Here’s what we know Legendary performer Jimmy Buffet is in the hospital and has suddenly canceled a weekend concert.

A rare photo of Fred Flinstone's drum 😁

One and Done

The One-Hit Wonder File: "Smoke From A Distant Fire" "Smoke From A Distant Fire" was their only big hit -- but this blue-eyed-soul earworm burned hot in the 70s.

Keeping it real

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