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“I was infatuated with slide guitar. I’d use a comparable motion on my fretless by sliding up to the note”: Manning the world’s first production fretless bass, Rick Danko had to be laser-sharp in the Band

Along with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones and Boz Burrell of Bad Company, Rick Danko was one of the earliest players to take fretless bass guitar into the mainstream

Guitar World

"It’s weird when you hear stuff from so long ago." Tony Iommi says that Black Sabbath's earliest recordings, dating back to when they were known as Earth, will be released "at some point"

Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes was originally set for release in July 2025 until Sharon Osbourne intervened on behalf of the band

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Hollywood Vampires: Alice Cooper and Joe Perry lift the lid on life inside rock's superstar garage band

As Hollywood Vampires gear up for a run of European shows, we talk to Joe Perry and Alice Cooper about Johnny Depp, compiling setlists, and what's going on with Aerosmith

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“Back then, he didn't know anything about electric guitar… It was like, ‘Don't worry Bob, I'll adjust the amp for you, it sounds great, don't worry’”: Robbie Robertson on Bob Dylan's rocky electric transition

Though he was playing to some of the biggest crowds of his career, Dylan hadn’t consistently performed electric band shows since his teens – and those gigs certainly weren’t to cheering (and jeering) masses

Guitar World

“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined with Jaco Pastorius to create her sophisticated jazz-infused masterpiece Coyote

The song emerged from the hedonism and chaos of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour

MusicRadar

An elite fighting unit of gay lovers – the Theban Sacred Band in ancient Greece

In 1880, in the village of Chaironeia in central Greece, Greek archaeologists made a remarkable find: a largely undisturbed mass grave of 254 ancient soldiers, some of whom are buried arm in arm.

The Conversation

Nashville Couple Started With $5,000 and a Garage — Now Their Side Hustle Earns up to $20,000 a Month

Anne McGraw and her husband turn a Nashville garage into a lucrative luxury slumber-party business, earning up to $20,000 per month while balancing corporate careers.

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Up Nearly 400% in the Past Year, Bandwidth Stock Is an Undiscovered Winner

Bandwidth (BAND) shares are up nearly 390% over the past 52 weeks. BAND has demonstrated exceptional technical momentum, maintaining a 100% “Buy” technical opinion from Barchart. Analysts forecast robust revenue and earnings growth, with earnings projected to rise 25.87% this year and 24.33% next year. Wall Street sentiment is strongly...

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"We've been a rock band, we've been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic story of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

Louder

Bandwidth Touts Voice AI and Salesforce Agentforce Upside at Needham Conference

Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) executives used an appearance at the Needham Technology and Media Conference to emphasize the company’s positioning in voice AI, its Salesforce Agentforce partnership and improving financial targets tied to software services and enterprise voice growth. Chairman and CEO Davi

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“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write a song with just one chord?’ And in the restriction of writing with one chord I found a freedom that I’d never found before”: When Neil Diamond broke new ground with The Band’s Robbie Robertson

“That song had to stay on that one chord to maintain the tension of the whole thing”

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The Cardigans’ Nina Persson: ‘Ozzy said our Black Sabbath cover was the creepiest thing he’d ever heard’

The Swedish band’s frontwoman answers your questions on ‘sweet and curious’ Tom Jones, being changed by cancer and whether the Cardigans will ever make new music

The Guardian - UK

“James Brown told me, ‘Son, you can’t come on my stage with that funny-looking thing!’” When a young Bootsy Collins joined James Brown’s band, the Godfather of Funk bought him a Fender Jazz Bass. Now it’s up for auction

Following Bootsy’s departure from the JBs in 1972, the bass continued its life on stage with Fred Thomas, another of Brown’s longtime bassists

Guitar World

My Favorite Concert Film Of All Time Turned 48 This Year, And I'm Pumped For My Annual Thanksgiving Day Rewatch

A final farewell from a phenomenal band.

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Sharon Osbourne calls for release of early Black Sabbath recordings to be scrapped

Sharon Osbourne has urged Black Sabbath's first manager not to release an album of their first recordings from 1969.

The Independent UK

Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese’s cocaine-fuelled bromance is the basis of a bracing memoir

THE READING LIST: ‘Maybe the rock’n’roll lifestyle I had brought into Marty’s life was to blame for his plight,’ worries the late guitarist of The Band in this bracing account. Patrick Smith enjoys a window into their decades-long friendship

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Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bundle of rags with nothing to say’

As he tours the UK, the musician answers your questions on making Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, squabbles with XTC and the Band, and wiring his studio while high

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Guitar dealer to the stars Norman Harris on George Harrison, Marty McFly and his secret stash

A new documentary reveals the man behind the unassuming shopfront, who sells instruments to the likes of Slash, Dave Grohl – and Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

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Jane's Addiction bandmates sue each other over onstage fight that ended tour

The members of alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction have filed dueling lawsuits after an onstage scuffle last year prompted the cancellation of the band's tour

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“The band can no longer function as a result of the defendant’s conduct." Perry Farrell's Jane's Addiction bandmates are suing him for assault, battery, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, and more

"It is time for defendant to face the consequences of his actions"

Salon

The Band’s secret weapon gets his due

Stephen Lewis’ biography focuses on the creative life rather than the tragic end of The Band's unsung genius

The Independent UK

Drowned in drink and lost in legend: The forgotten genius of The Band’s Richard Manuel

INTERVIEW: It’s hard to overstate the influence that The Band had on music, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton to The Beatles and Elton John. Less talked about is the influence that singer-songwriter Richard Manuel had on The Band. Jim Farber speaks to the late musician’s contemporaries, and…

Guitar World

“When I saw Meat Loaf, I said, ‘This is a spoof of Bruce Springsteen, and that’s why I’m doing it’”: Todd Rundgren produced The Band, Grand Funk Railroad and The New York Dolls –but his most successful collaboration was born to poke fun

Despite his past guitar theatrics, he chose production over playing decades ago – and you won’t believe how minimal his touring rig has become

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The Pogues say that Shane MacGowan 'wasn't always drunk' and remember him as a 'hard worker'

The Pogues have insisted that their late bandmate Shane MacGowan "wasn't always drunk".

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"Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio

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