The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
I like me a good remake from time to time. Both Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin successfully covered Muddy Waters’ “You Shook Me,” for example. And then there’s that great Aretha Franklin remake of Otis Redding’s “Respect.” And who can argue with Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN’s “Hurt”? But generally, I tend to prefer the [...]
IckMusic (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
I just wrapped up Ronnie Wood’s autobiography, Ronnie. Now, I consider myself a pretty big Stones fan. Of course, I missed them in their prime (which I consider their career through 1981’s Tattoo You). I didn’t really learn to appreciate them until I was a senior in high school in ‘87-’88, when I came of [...]
The Weight (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
I'm enjoying this song too much right now not to want to share it. It's the Small Faces' "All Or Nothing." To go along with the video, I'll throw in some facts about Small Faces. Small Faces were founded in East London in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston. By 1966, they were offered a deal with the newly established Immediate label, formed by
Music thing (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I just wrote a tweet describing a Jeff Beck 'replica' tele as a photocopy. Then I found ebay item 140257976042 , which is a real-life guitar photocopier. It's a big welded steel jig, a bit like a pantograph . Drag one arm over the first guitar body, and a router carves it's shape into the second wooden blank. No idea if the system is really detailed enough to carve crucial bits like the back of the...
Ben Witherington (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Let's start with the big three who ALL played in the Yardbirds in the 60s (though not all at the same time) 1) Eric Clapton 2) Jimmy Page and 3) Jeff Beck To these we must of course add quite a few others who could 'bring it' on any given night. 1) Pete Townsend 2) Jimi Hendrix 3) Eddie Van Halen 4) George Harrison (well, sometimes) 5) Stephen Stills 6) Neil Young 7) Carlos Santana 8) Mr. Lukather...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Touareg desert rockers Tinariwen look set to consolidate their position as the UK's favourite African band with the release of their first Live DVD, 'Live In London' ...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
When Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the second time in 1993, many predicted the end of the group who put the classic in rock. Now the guitarist and his madrigals have fallen so far off the radar he only registers the odd play on Radio 2, while his former bandmates have been wowing audiences all over Europe this summer.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
TROUBLED Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood is to display his art in Liverpool, next to a Beatles’ exhibition.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
TROUBLED Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood is to display his art in Liverpool, next to a Beatles’ exhibition.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Beginning in 1969 and lasting through the mid-70s, the Schaeffer Music Festival at the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park far outshone what went on in Brooklyn. For never more than $3 — and starting at $1 — fans listened to the likes of Zappa, Monk, Jeff Beck, a reunited Blues Project and Miles Davis.
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
They're pretty damn popular, at least in Lollapalooza-land, where some stages receive several hundred intent listeners, others several thousand. Yet they haven't managed to bring anything innovative to their particular genre, nor are they catchy, nor can one dance to their music. Hell with the Black Lips and the Black Kids, they don't even have a catchy name
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
As we've told you before, the Sunset Marquis just completed an overhaul of their sexy hideaway villas in the Hollywood Hills and an addition of 40 new suites, so to celebrate, they are throwing a party tonight which will feature a performance by Stevie Wonder and guitarist Jeff Beck . Everyone knows who Stevie Wonder is so he needs no explanation but as for Beck, he was a guitarist for the Yardbirds...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
“It could only happen in New York. Where else in the world would people queue around the block for a seedy-looking jazz club, to hear the performance of a man best remembered for having invented the musical broomstick, whose fingers are so arthritic they can hardly move, and who is still pumping it out every [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Rise from a cotton plantation to the Hall of Fame
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The stars came out for this year's event - and put on a show that proved to be a celebration of the artform, rather than a backslapping showcase
