Travel to Hong Kong with Blur Comic Book When Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz dropped onto the world in 1998 music loving comic geeks peed themselves with joy. Admit it, your drawers got a little wet when your eyeballs caught sight of the world’s first virtual band. …
Epiphone Les Paul Tribute Plus Today would’ve been Les Paul’s 100th birthday so let’s talk the famous solid-body six string. Now the most sought after, and expensive, Les Paul’s come from Gibson, while more affordable models can be found under the Epiphone banner. Epiphone is …
Les Paul creating Sound on Sound recordings
Les Paul would have been 100 years old on Tuesday, June 9. Part of the B-day bash is a revamped lespaul.com where you can take a deep dive into the man.
While his solid-body electric overshadows almost everything else, Les Paul’s achievements are long and impressive. He was an inventor whose firsts helped define popular music recording which became to be known as Sound on Sound. You think The Beatles and George Martin were doing some trippy things in the 60s, well Les was overdubbing as early as 1945. Add to this being the first to use tape delay, phasing effects, overdubbing and multi-track recording. Continue reading Lessons in Les Paul
Limited Edition American Standard Stratocaster Oiled Ash Over the years, more than a few rock and roll musicians have taken to performing in the nude. Some with more success than others. 46 years ago, the Door’s Jim Morrison had 6 arrest warrants and one felony …
Yesterday we pimped Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip at the Skirball. Today we’re taking a look at the main draw at the LA cultural center. The Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution Exhibition is as much a look at the …
Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Exhibition
This David Bowie billboard announcing a string of gigs in support of Diamond Dogs is part of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Exhibit.
A while back we featured photographer Martin Landau’s book Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. It’s a look at rock’s first foray in to Don Draper’s madison avenue. Now, to help sell more books for Martin, make old guys reminisce about the 70s and impart a short lived r ‘n’ r phenomenon onto any hipsters who happen to wander in, the Rock And Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Exhibition is live through August 16 at the Skirball Cultural Centre in LA.
The show, a compliment to the Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution Exhibit, features 20 photographs of hand painted billboards creating an experience that’s more 70s than a double live album.
Get your eyeballs full at skirball.org
Gretsch Taylor Hawkins Signature Snare To take the gig as the drummer in a band led by Dave Grohl, one of rock most respected and recognized drummers, takes balls the size of floor toms. Proof of Grohl’s drumming talents can be heard in an instance …
Let’s take a moment and wonder if a tweet announcing a show will ever be worth money in a few years. Not to be hating on technology, but while the functionality of the gig poster has been diminished recently, the art form can not be …
Signed Custom SG Special Who Hits 50
For years, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have championed the Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK. The idea is to give teenagers special wards where they can hang with people their age as they go through treatment and battle the disease. Though Who Cares the duo have helped create awareness and raised over four and a half million dollars.
In 2012 Daltrey and Townshend broaden their efforts establishing Teen Cancer America Funds. One dollar for every ticket sold on the current tour will go towards these efforts. You can feel Daltrey’s passion for the project here.
The feature Custom Epiphone SG, pimped out in Who Hits 50 colors and signed by Daltrey and Townshend is being auctioned off on charitybuzz.com. Proceeds will be going to Who Cares charity Teen Cancer America and The Double O Charity.
We can now put to rest the question of whether ‘I hope I die before I get old’ was ever meant to be taken literally.
Find out more and help a teen with cancer by bidding on the Custom SG Special Who Hits 50 on charitybuzz.com
Queen: Play the Game App In 1980 Queen released their 8th studio album The Game. It was the only album of the British band to reach number 1 in the US. The number one status owes thanks to two hits, the rockabilly vibe of Crazy …
The Mick Jones Rock ‘n’ Roll Public Library In discussing his Rock ‘n’ Roll Public Library Mick Jones points out, ‘I’m interested in everything.’ Not surprising when you look at the work of The Clash. Their first self-titled album is a punk rock blueprint. But it …
Dee Dee Ramone Precision Bass
We wrote about Dee Dee Ramone and the launch of his signature Precision Bass before this axe was released. Now that it has drop, it deserves more digital ink.
The Ramones were not a band lead by one creative individual or even a creative duo. They where a four member band, who didn’t particularly like each other, that created one of the freshest, rawest and most imitated sounds rock ‘n’ roll has ever known. Now true the original four didn’t stick together for the long run. The drummers came and went at a Spinal Rap rate, but it was the chemistry of the original four that created that sound.
Dee Dee was both singer, songwriter and bass player. But he couldn’t play bass and sing at the same time so he gave vocals up to original drummer Joey. On the bass Dee Dee was insanely courageous. A freight train of rhythm that slowed down for no drummer. Continue reading Punk Rock Pounder
The Rolling Stones LA Event Bundle Through a monster back library, ticket sales and buckets of merchandise, the Rolling Stones are masters at bringing in the dollar bills. But this hasn’t always been the case. The band’s first decade together left them famous, but broke. …
Signed Ron and Pete Print from Ron Wood’s How Can It Be? Diary How Can It Be? is a diary kept by Ron Wood in 1965, 10 years before he became a Rolling Stone. Wood has been with the Stones since 1975. Although his contributions …
Alabama Shakes Chicago Theatre
The Alabama Shakes recently dropped their second album Sound and Color which debuted at number 1 in the U.S. and Canada. In today’s no one pays market, that means the album sold 111 copies. (The last statement is more sarcasm than substantiated.) But it’s all relative right and #1 is a huge achievement.
Brittany Howard and the boys took the songs out for a spin in March when they launched a mini tour of the US. The third show of the tour brought their Voodoo magic to Chicago commemorated by the featured Alabama Shakes gig poster.
The piece was created for the A Shakes by Catharsis, a three person studio which produces nice eye-candy for a righteous roster of bands including Tame Impala and the Tune Yards. Continue reading Shakes Snake