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With his enormous catalog of hit songs and even larger public persona, Elton John has kept audiences enthralled since he first emerged in the late…
“Why wouldn’t you stay in the Sphere and make a lot of money? Because it’s not as much fun. It doesn’t last forever. Look at how many musicians have passed away. What are you going to do with what you have?” Trey Anastasio explains Phish’s joyful rebirth
Most bands that survive for four decades enter into a nostalgic phase of their career. But Phish is on fire in year 41. The quartet,…
“Frank asked me to transcribe St Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast after I told him I’d learned Inca Roads by ear. Maybe it was a challenge to see if I was bluffing!” When bassist Arthur Barrow survived an audition for guitar genius Frank Zappa
On June 15, 1978, Arthur Barrow underwent the audition for which he’d spent his whole life preparing. The North Texas State graduate had been given…
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It was in Los Angeles almost 30 years ago that Lars Ulrich, a teenage tennis prodigy turned drummer, first jammed with James Hetfield, a guitarist…
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