Keyboardist Ian McLagan
says of Ronnie Lane, his late friend and bandmate in the Small
Faces and the Faces, "It's time people woke up to him,
absolutely, but it's way...
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So how's Jeff Beck doing on his next
album? "I wish you hadn't asked that," the British guitar
legend told Billboard.com with a laugh, before revealing that
he plans to be...
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Rascal Flatts, a group some
initially branded as a country "boy band," has achieved in six
short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a
career.
In...
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The most avid Jeff Beck
fans will tell you they go to his concerts to hear him play
rather than to watch. That makes sense, because he mostly
shrugs at being a commanding...
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Electric guitar innovator Les Paul
won two Grammy Awards on Wednesday for an all-star album
marking his 90th birthday, but he was unable to pick them up in
person because he...
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Take it from Peter Frampton. Or from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Townsend or Jimmy Page — they all owe a debt to Les Paul, father of the electric guitar.
"They all...
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Talk about celebrating a birthday
in style.
Les Paul, the inventor of multitrack recording and the
solid-body electric guitar that bears his name, turned 90 this
year amid...
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Had Les Paul "only" invented the
solid-body electric guitar, he would be hailed as one of the
great pioneers of the music industry -- the guy who built the
engine that drove...
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Jimi Hendrix might have stayed in the Army. He might have been sent to Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he was gay. And with that, he was discharged from the 101st Airborne in...
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Buddy Guy made blues
history with harmonica man Junior Wells, but always reached out
to younger partners like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
His choice for Wednesday's...
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Apparently selling millions of records, winning multiple Grammys
and being adored by throngs of young girls is enough to give you the
blues.
At least that's the case...
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Through his agile fingers, still soft despite decades of making love to the taut strings of his guitar, B.B. King becomes immersed in his music.
The high-pitched wail of...
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Guitar legend Les Paul will
celebrate his 90th birthday with his first new studio album
since 1978's "Guitar Monsters," a collaboration with the late
Chet Atkins. Les Paul &...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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The Rock and Roll Hall of fame has found what it's looking
for...and then some.
U2 leads the list of rock royalty
set for enshrinement next spring. Joining the Irish...
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Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson will
be the honoree at music charity group MusiCares' annual
pre-Grammys bash in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, organizers said
Wednesday.
The...
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Aerosmith 's recent A&E concert
special "You Gotta Move" will be released Nov. 23 on DVD with
five songs that did not appear on the original broadcast.
The 162-minute...
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Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert
Plant will deliver the keynote address at the South by
Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin on March 17.
He will also...
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It was just like old days -- except
for the absence of booze and cigarettes -- as former Faces
members Rod Stewart , Ron Wood and Ian McLagan reunited in a
rare on-stage...
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"It's the sound of the instrument
and the way the neck feels. It's unlike any other instrument."
So says Bryan Adams of the Fender Stratocaster. "My pride
and joy is a...
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Eric Clapton will host a three-day festival this weekend featuring 60 guitarists, including B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck , Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Joe Walsh , J.J....
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The last time Eric Clapton hosted an all-star benefit concert for his addiction recovery center in the Caribbean it was 1999 at Madison Square Garden with about six...
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The Faces, a band known as much for
its excess as for its music, will return for one more round
with the four-disc box set "Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a
Bar..."
Due May 25...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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Tenor Luciano Pavarotti has been a
superstar for decades. He is a household name around the world
-- whether his fans first encountered him on the stage of
Milan's La...
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U2's Bono, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, and Jeff Beck are among the guests appearing on British bandleader Jools Holland's next album, Small World Big Band Volume Two:...
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The White Stripes play a special set of gigs this week in England, backing guitar legend Jeff Beck on some of his music from the '60s.
Stripes leader Jack White tells...
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Jeff Beck is in the midst of a North American tour in support of his latest album, You Had It Coming. Released last month, it's the follow-up to 1999's Who Else!, which...
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Jeff Beck has a busy couple of months planned. On February 6, his new album You Had It Coming, will be released, and the guitar legend will hit the road for a string of...
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Santana
leads the list of classic-rock artists nominated for Grammys this year -- after all, those 10 nominations lead the list of all nominees (LAUNCH, 1/4/00) -- but...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Ziggy Marley is the musical guest. (To read a Ziggy Marley feature, click here.)
Late Night...
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When his tour starts next week, Jeff Beck will dig deep into his history by playing songs that a lot of fans haven't heard in a while.
"There were a couple of Yardbirds...
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The Pretenders' new album, Viva El Amor!, features a cameo by Jeff Beck, who plays a solo on the track "Legalise Me." Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde has been a...
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Apparently Jeff Beck and Woodstock aren't meant for each other. The guitar god announced today that he will once again be unable to perform at the famed U.S. rock...
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Over the past few years in the rock music realm, there's only been one fellow named Beck who's regularly made headlines: Beck Hansen. The artist had to postpone a date at...
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