Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, and played two songs as a five-piece, with two bassists: Jason Newsted and Robert Trujillo. Below is the video of “Master of Puppets”; they also played “Enter Sandman”.
My observations:
It was cool that they played one pre-black song.
Flea inducted the band, and [...]
Here’s a neat one - Queensryche and Dream Theater playing together in 2003, jamming on the ‘Floyd song “Comfortably Numb”. This is like the dude with the peanut butter jar and the dude with the chocolate bar running into each other in the pre-Reeses days. It’s pretty much note-for-note from the Pink Floyd [...]
Here’s an interesting interview with Robert Trukillo, bassist for Metallica (and previously Suicidal Tendencies.) What’s interesting about it, to me anyway, is that it was conducted on 103.9 in South Bend, Indiana, which was one of the only radio stations in my area as a child. (Or at least the only one that [...]
Queensryche has started producing a video “podcast” about their new album American Soldier. As of now, it contains three videos discussing the recording of this album.
(I say “podcast” in quotes, because there isn’t actually a way to put them on your iPod, hence the word “pod”.)
Anyway, go here to view: queensryche.com :: american soldier [...]
A documentary about Rush’s massive road show for Snakes and Arrows and the crew that kept it running has showed up on YouTube. It’s a five-hour documentary, and the first hour is posted in ten-minute chunks. If you’ve ever wondered the amount of work it takes to get a band like Rush into [...]
Here’s a great interview with Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy. They talk about basics: playing along to old Keith Moon records, how to persevere in the business, the four-starbucks-a-day workout regimen, Zappa (of course) and much more. There’s also a bit with Todd Sucherman of Styx.
I really dig the player at the Drum [...]
Here’s a great little interview with Geddy Lee circa the Signals era, talking about how rough it was back in the early days.
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Here’s a quick interview with Billy Sheenan conducted by Momo from TheMomoZone. He’s talking about his latest solo album “Holy Cow”, which is coming out in March in the US, although it’s already out in Japan. It’s got guest spots by Paul Gilbert, Tony Macalpine, and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Sounds [...]
Oh wait, that’s not Detective John Munch - it’s Steve Vai! My bad.
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There’s a flood of Youtube video of various musicians at the National Association of Music Merchants show, which went down over the weekend. Here’s one of Jordan Rudess, at the Roland booth, playing a bit of Liquid Tension Experiment from their first self-titled album.
Jordan’s a pretty kick-ass musician, but on second thought, I guess [...]
