You’ve blasted them on album, cassette and CD. However, did you really hear what those classic rock anthems were saying? Beneath the guitar solos, leather pants and smoke machines, a deeper game was being played. Now, 40+ years on, the truth is crawling out from under the Marshall stacks. Let’s start with the big one; Led Zeppelin. Yeah, Stairway […]
Led Zeppelin in my mind is indisputably one of the greatest rock bands of all time. They changed the way rock could sound, giving it a much harder edge that blew people away, paving the road for hundreds of bands to adopt heavier tunes. While they infused their hard-rock sound perfectly with American blues music, […]
In early 1971, Led Zeppelin was deep into the recording sessions for what would become their iconic fourth album, often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV. While holed up at Headley Grange, a remote country house in Hampshire, England, the band had been working through some new material. The atmosphere was casual—Jimmy Page often described […]
1943 Scottish musician Jack Bruce, lead vocalist and bassist of Cream, was born in Bishopbriggs, Scotland. He died of liver cancer at the age of 71 on Oct. 25, 2014, in Sudbury, England. 1944 Canadian-American musician Gene Cornish, original member of the Young Rascals, was born in Ottawa, ON. He moved to Rochester, NY as […]