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“If Jesus Christ walked into a room, everyone would pull out their phone.” Chrissie Hynde rips fans who film concerts
The Pretenders frontwoman says audiences are no longer fully present at concerts and compares constant filming to compulsive behavior.
“I have the dubious distinction.” Steve Farris sang “Honky Tonk Women” with Kiss — and was fired almost immediately
The future Mr. Mister guitarist impressed Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley with a single solo, but one unexpected audition requirement ended his tenure almost as soon as it began
How a tossed-out Jimi Hendrix album inspired Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar journey
His brother Jimmie found the album behind a Dallas blues club. The discovery would shape his tone and technique, and create a blues giant for a new generation
How John Lennon created one of the Beatles’ strangest sounds in just five minutes
Eddie Kramer recalls watching Lennon discover a forgotten electronic instrument and turn it into the signature sound of “Baby You’re a Rich Man.”
Roger Daltrey says the Who invented metal before Black Sabbath
The singer says the Who's pioneering use of volume, feedback and Marshall amps laid the foundations for metal years before Black Sabbath arrived.
Rita Coolidge says Eric Clapton owes her a writing credit for one of the most celebrated songs in rock
The Grammy-winning singer helped pen the piano coda that closes "Layla," but was never credited despite her pleas to the guitarist
How Lita Ford rediscovered her stolen B.C. Rich Mockingbird — and then let it go again
The guitar joins the ranks of star-owned axes that have mysteriously disappeared, only to return again
The “accidental” 1976 smash hit created by a virtuoso rock group and the most recorded guitarist in history
Louie Shelton and the founding members of Toto didn’t think the song had “a chance in hell” of succeeding. A DJ proved them wrong
