GETTING CRAZY WITH DERF SCRATCH OF FEAR
The party never stopped for the legendary LA punk rocker, and drug companion of John Belushi. Though warned...
Musicians
NO WAY OUT FOR THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND!
Psychedelic Sixties’ Bay Area survivors the Chocolate Watchband cut their teeth on bills with the Jefferson Airplane and...
SONNY CURTIS: HE FOUGHT THE LAW AND HE WON
Sonny Curtis grew up with Buddy Holly, played in the Crickets and shaped the future of rock &...
WOODY WOODMANSEY: THE LAST SPIDER FROM MARS
David Bowie’s drummer recalls his time with ‘Ziggy Stardust’, Mick Ronson and Trevor Bolder and now pays tribute,...
WHEN PARTYING GOES TOO FAR: ROCK STARS’ WILD BEHAVIOR!
The road to success is paved with excess, and these ten tales are ones the participants will never...
A LOVE SUPREME: HOW JOHN COLTRANE CHANGED THE WORLD
With a single night’s recording session and a 1965 album, “Trane” pointed the way toward a new consciousness...
DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM: THE RADIO BIRDMAN STORY
Australia’s proto-punk pioneers formed in 1974, were signed by Seymour Stein in 1977, and influenced a generation of...
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL AT 50: THE FILM & ERA-DEFINING SONG BY THE ROLLING STONES
French film director Jean-Luc Godard believed that art was never finished. On the eve of his controversial film’s...
DAVID BOX: THE OTHER ROCK & ROLL GENIUS FROM LUBBOCK
He joined the Crickets after Buddy Holly died in a plane crash, befriended Roy Orbison, toured with Dusty...
The Day Lemmy Taught Me About Speed
Motörhead’s leader holds forth on the joys of the powder, the dangers of heroin, the need for a...
LIFE IN FRANK ZAPPA’S PAD, 1968
For a bright and shining moment, the Laurel Canyon ‘log cabin,’ once belonging to Tom Mix, was home...
Glenn Mercer and The Feelies still ride those crazy rhythms
The Feelies singer/guitarist Glenn Mercer ruminates on the 30th anniversary of Only Life, his band’s classic album, which...
ELVIS IN THREE PICTURES
It will be 50 years this December since Elvis Presley made his famous “comeback” on TV, and it...
ALICE COOPER: POULTRY IN MOTION
The press cried “fowl” when an innocent chicken was ravaged by a Canadian festival audience driven into a...