Woodstock 50

The Beatles legend Paul McCartney runs GQ through his 60-year career, including I Lost My Little Girl, Yesterday, I Saw Her Standing There, And I Love Her, Eleanor Rigby, A Day in the Life, Hey Jude, Helter Skelter, Blackbird, Let It Be, Hi Hi Hi, Here Today, Jet and I Don't Know.

Ozzy Osbourne  says that he doesn't particularly enjoy collaborating with  Tony Iommi  even though he appreciates the  BLACK SABBATH  guitarist on a personal level. "Do I like working with him? Not really. Do I like him as a person? Yeah, I love him as a person,"  Osbourne  told The Times in a new intervew. "But if people was to say to me, 'Was there a leader of  BLACK SABBATH ?' I'd have to say it was  Tony Iommi , because without his guitar riffs, we'd be still sitting in fucking rehearsal with our thumbs up our arses going, 'What do we do now?'" Read More

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Combining bluesy improvs over traditional 12-bar blues, blues rock bands are some of the most important bands in music history. The best blues rock bands are oftentimes - and rightfully so - considered some of the  greatest rock bands  of all time. Blues rock became popular in the UK and U.S. in the 1960s at the onset of the rock explosion and these bands took elements from traditional blues music and amplified it through the use of electric guitars, explosive bass lines and heavy drum beats. Over time, blues rock evolved to include heavy riffs that came to include elements of hard rock as well. That said, blues rock bands are some of the most beloved and the  best blues bands  have a legacy that goes far beyond their best songs. Read More

Pink Floyd  drummer Nick Mason has always occupied a unique space within the band. He has far fewer songwriting credits than any other member of the group, but he’s the only person to play on every single album and the only one that never thought breaking up was a good idea. If he were in charge, they’d still be out there headlining stadiums all over the world like the Rolling Stones. But since he’s not in charge, he’s taking his new project  Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets  on their first American tour next year for an evening of pre-1973 Floyd music. Read More

Happy Xmas  is the first Christmas album by  Eric Clapton , his 22nd   studio album, released on 12 October 2018.  It includes 13  covers  of Christmas-themed songs, both well-known and relatively obscure ones, arranged in a predominantly  blues  style, and one new composition by Clapton and producer  Simon Climie . Read More

The arrival of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 50th anniversary brings an unprecedented celebration of everything the band contributed in their short but startlingly epochal time together (1968 – 1972). To commemorate this milestone, Craft Recordings is releasing a deluxe box set comprising the band’s complete seven-album studio output:  Creedence Clearwater Revival ,  Bayou Country ,  Green River ,  Willy and the Poor Boy s,  Cosmo’s Factory ,  Pendulum  and  Mardi Gras . Each album in this collection has been mastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios, an exacting process that produces an exceptional level of sonic clarity and punch, bringing these classic recordings a new vibrancy. The 180-gram LPs come housed in handsome tip-on jackets replicating the packaging of the original pressings. Along with the complete studio album collection comes an 80-page book featuring new liner notes from music journalist Roy Trakin, archival photos and reprodu...

Since he strapped on a guitar at age 14,  Doyle Bramhall II  recognizes that he's led a charmed life in the music world. His  drummer father  grew up and performed in bands with  Stevie Ray  and  Jimmie Vaughan , and by the time the younger Bramhall's talents began to show, he began playing with the best. He toured with the  Fabulous Thuderbirds  at 18 and released a handful of solo albums, before transitioning into a role as a producer, sideman and songwriter for much of the 2000s, playing alongside  Roger Waters  (handling the  David Gilmour  parts),  Eric Clapton  and  Sheryl Crow , among many others. Read More

Born in Ballyshannon and raised in Cork, Rory was a self-taught guitarist. His parents didn't own a record player. Like many future musicians growing up in the bland land of the BBC, he received his early blues-rock education by listening to R&B greats on that premiere music school of the airways, Radio Luxembourg. He started touring as a young teen with a cheap guitar, hitting the clubs of Ireland and England - even Hamburg, Germany, where The Beatles cut their teeth. He used the money he made from gigging to make payments on a 1961 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster. He worked that guitar so hard during his marathon performances that the alkaline from his sweat stripped the instrument of its paint. That guitar became his trademark. Read More

Jethro Tull, which toured in celebration of their 50th anniversary in 2018, will continue to celebrate the half-century landmark by extending that trek into 2019. Frontman Ian Anderson explained in a statement “We continue to present the 50th Anniversary concerts in many countries and regions not visited in 2018, and also many Tull repertoire shows in Europe. There will be, of course, my usual charitable cathedral and church concerts in December. In the USA – many would argue – 2019 is really the 50th Anniversary for US fans since we first visited in early 1969.” Read More

Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced their final ever UK live dates. The long-running band, who first formed in Jacksonville in 1964, are set to bow out next year after completing a farewell tour across the globe. They’re currently saying their goodbyes on the North American leg of the ‘Last Of The Street Survivors Farewell Tour’. Lynyrd Skynyrd will head to Europe next June for a final set of gigs on this side of the pond, with the tour including four live dates in the UK. They’ll be supported by  Status Quo   for those UK gigs, which will kick off at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro Arena on June 26. Read More

It’s no secret that Jimmy Page has long had a thing about dragons. He was well known for wearing flashy black and white dragon suits and the ZOSO symbol he used to represent himself on Led Zeppelin  Four  comes straight from the 1972 occult text  Grimoires et Rituels Magiques by Francois Ribadeau Dumas  and, in specific, a chapter titled, “Dragon Rouge – The Secrets of the Scientist Artephius." But perhaps the most interesting tale about Page slaying a dragon is the one about his "Dragon Telecaster," In its most recognizable form, the Dragon was a 1959 Telecaster with a stripped Ash body that Page partially painted over with darts and curls of green, orange, yellow, blue and red in a pattern that formed something of a swirling, psychedelic dragon done in a vaguely Japanese style. The beast’s flaming red horns and green head rest inside the blunt upper horn, green scales run down its neck as it breaks into a colorful abstraction that could include a cracked ...

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th centu ry. Read More

In early 1984, director Walter Hill contacted Arlen Roth—guitarist, columnist and co-creator of the  Hot Licks  instructional video series—about a new film he was about to make starring Ralph Macchio. It was to be centered on the blues and present a modern twist on the mythology and legend tied to the late Robert Johnson. Read More

ZZ Top announce 50th anniversary show Read More

ZZ Top with John Fogerty play Creedence best Hits!

Walter Trout: 'If anybody should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame it's John Mayall' Read More