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A look at the very best silky smooth yacht rock songs.

A look at the very best silky smooth yacht rock songs.

Yacht rock was one of the most commercially successful genres to emerge from the '70s, and, yet, has managed to evade concise definition since its

The rock icons longest-serving lead guitarist on their massive End of the Road Tour, what the future holds, and his recent guest appearance on Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary Box Set

In a recent interview with Spain's Mariskal Rock, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked who wore the "leather biker look" first — him or late Q...

On October 20, 1986, "Heavy Metal Parking Lot", a 16-minute documentary filmed earlier that year that has become a grassroots cult classic, premier...

Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson Sat, May 22, 2021 Fri, May 14, 2021@11:04AM | comments The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced yesterday that 15-time JUNO Award-winning band and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees The Tragically Hip will perform with singer-songwriter Feist during The 50th Annual JUNO Awards next month. The Hip will be without their iconic front-man Gord Downie, who passed away back in 2017. The Hip will also be receiving the 2021 Humanitar...

Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson Sun, May 16, 2021 Rush - A Visual Time Capsule now available Mon, May 10, 2021@3:30PM | comments A new book titled Rush - A Visual Time Capsule from photographer Bill OLeary has been released and is now available to purchase via Amazon and other retailers. The 53-page, paperback book contains OLearys photos of Rush in concert - many previously unseen - from their peak artistic period of 1979-1981, covering the Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictu...

"Iron Man" guitar riff. He said: "I was in a rehearsal room, and Bill [ Ward, drums] started playing this boom, boom, boom. He started doing it, and I just went [sings bending string bit before the songs riff] and came up with this thing and thought, Thats cool. Bill kept playing it, and I just went to this riff. "Most of the riffs Ive done Ive come up with on the spot, and that was one of them — it just came up. It went with the drum, what Bill was playing. I just saw this thing in my min...

Downing responded: "Definitely Rob. Actually, thats probably one of the best questions Ive ever been asked. Because both of the guys, obviously being gay and both obviously having donned the leathers — which is par for the course — I think the difference was it became Robs ultimate and permanent image. Whereas Freddie did it for a bit of fun, I think. But [it is] a fun question — I like that a lot. Definitely Rob looked like the epitome — as I hope we all did, together, when we all ...