"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

- Charlie "YardBird" Parker

Posts Tagged ‘ Classic Rock News ’

The more we hear from Joe Perry, the more I like the guy. The Aerosmith guitarist strikes me as a good old-fashioned stand-up guy. He seems to be the voice within the ranks of the group that stands alone as the one that simply tells it like it is. That’s not to say the other [...]


I’ll admit right off the bat that I was slow to hop on the bandwagon where Twitter is concerned. When I first heard about it I thought it was a silly idea. I’ve heard many other people that reacted the same way, and I still run into some who haven’t quite gotten their head around [...]


This time it’s pretty clear that Steven Tyler had a little “help” with his latest dive off the catwalk. During what appeared to be a little playful hip-bumping during the band’s show at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Tyler appeared to have lost his balance and fallen forward into the crowd. He was quickly [...]


Perhaps the headline might be more accurate if it started with “Clash of the Ego,” since it appears that one oversized ego seems to be at the heart of the matter. As reported by numerous media sources, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler started a heated argument with J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf over the use of [...]


The enduring rocker widely known as “The Motor City Madman” hasn’t been talked about too much in this space. I attribute that to the fact that I’ve not paid a whole lot of attention to him through the years, and I am probably more informed about his lifestyle and political views than I am about [...]