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When an article about Jim ‘Kimo’ West appeared in Guitar World magazine’s April 2023 issue, parts of his story sounded real familiar. It occurred to me that I just might have talked about him some in a previous From the Vaults, so I started backtracking through my index of titles. I was just beginning […]
Ever since I heard Rare Earth’s extended version of Get Ready, I have been a big fan of drummer/vocalist Peter Rivera (nee: Peter Hoorelbeke). Performing the drumming and lead singer duties in my band, The Twig, it was always my quest to find material performed by other singing drummers. Dave Clark (of the Dave […]
Are Huey Lewis and the News a thing of the past? It depends on which source one looks at. One site proclaims “Huey Lewis and the News are on tour in 2023-2024,” while another states, “There are no concert dates for Huey Lewis scheduled in 2023.” In a November 2022 interview with U.K.’s Express, […]
When one thinks of bands from the United Kingdom, there are many that succeeded in conquering the American market. The Who, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd, and a host of other bands became household names on this side of the pond. As an avid reader of Classic Rock magazine, I am always fascinated […]
You probably recognize the last name in the title and are thinking, “Hey bud, you got the wrong first name. Don’t you mean ‘Micky Dolenz’?” You are half right – I am talking about the former lead singer and drummer of The Monkees, but we will get to the ‘Michael’ part in a bit. […]
It was interesting to read how the guitar / amplifier company EVH founded by the late Eddie Van Halen has evolved since its inception. The roots of the venture go all the way back to 1990-1992 when the Peavey company began working with Eddie on a signature model amp (the EVH 5150). The company […]
Canadian guitarist Randy Bachman is probably best known as a founding member of both The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive. While most music fans are not as familiar with the band he formed between those two mega album selling groups, Brave Belt was a bridge between them. Bachman’s roots ran deep in all three […]
There was an 18 month stretch beginning in 1976 when Peter Frampton could do no wrong. He released the iconic Frampton Comes Alive album and was sky rocketed to heights his career had never known. Frampton credits the emotional chemistry he had with Bob Mayo (keyboards and guitar), Stanly Sheldon (bass), and John Siomos […]
Surfing music sites as I do on occasion, I ran into a series of interviews done by ‘The Professor of Rock’. PoR’s site (real name Adam Reader) has quite a back catalog and judging by the five and six digit number of views accumulated by many of his clips, he has been at it […]
One of the dirtiest tricks in the music business evolved when record label owners and publishers began routinely adding their names to the credit line on songs. Most artists went along with it because they were anxious to get a record out, not that they were exactly given a choice. Many times they were […]