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For nearly the entirety of his career as a performing and touring musician, Bruce Springsteen had had an issue with taking his show to bigger venues. His reluctance was well known, and he had historically been slow to make such moves, even as the number of people who wanted to see him grew. “When we were in clubs,” he told biographer Dave Marsh for Marsh’s 1987 book Glory Days. “… we’d play five or six nights in a club before we’d go into a theater. … [W]e played five or six nights in a theater before we’d go into an arena. In the arena, we’d play five or six nights in the arena.” When plottin...
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If you want to make a career in the music business, you have to cut your teeth somehow. For Elton John, known in his early days as simply “Reggie,” that meant doing quite a lot of work as a staff songwriter and sometimes a session pianist. One of those gigs was with the Hollies, who got together with John in June 1969 in what was then EMI Studios in London (it would later become Abbey Road Studios) to record a song written by Bob Russell and Bobby Scott called “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” originally recorded by the American singer-songwriter Kelly Gordon. According to Hollies guitarist T...
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When Aerosmith launched their Back in the Saddle Tour on June 22, 1984, they had to prove a lot of things to a lot of people. They needed to show fans and critics that after five years apart, their classic lineup — Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer — could still rock with the same dominating fury of their heyday as a new crop of bands vied for their crown. They also had to prove to the industry bigwigs who determined their future that they were a worthwhile investment capable of turning their career around, and not just a washed-up liability. Most importantly...
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On this day in rock history, Motley Crue released their third studio album, Guns N’ Roses joined forces with the Terminator and Kiss found a way to kiss their own asses. Here’s a rundown of rock history’s biggest June 21 anniversaries: June 21, 1948: Birth of the 12″ Vinyl Album On June 21, 1948 Columbia Records introduced the 12 inch vinyl album at a press conference in New York City. According toWhatHiFi, the company had spent much of the previous decade developing a storage format that could hold 20 minutes of music per side. June 21, 1966: Jimmy Page Joins the Yardbirds After turning down ...
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Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, and the Eagles all received the all-star tribute album treatment in the early ’90s. Why not Kiss? It’s a question that might have seemed a little ridiculous in the ’80s, when they had to struggle a bit to remain relevant during a stretch of middling albums and lineup changes, but as a new decade dawned, the members of the band realized a funny thing: they were being name-checked as influences by a surprising number of up-and-coming young bands. “I was stunned that, all of a sudden, after years of being the black sheep of rock and roll, people were coming out,” recalle...
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The Van Halen that Sammy Hagar left in 1996 wasn’t the same as the one he returned to in 2004. On June 11, 2004 Hagar and his former bandmates reunited onstage for the first time in nearly nine years. Since the singer fired or was quit – depending on who you believe – on Father’s Day 1996, Van Halen had endured some difficult times. First they attempted a studio reunion with their original frontman David Lee Roth, which flamed out spectacularly and in full view of the public at the MTV Music Awards. Then they recruited Extreme‘s Gary Cherone as their third lead singer, which resulted in 1998’s...
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When Van Halen finished playing a free concert to an estimated 80,000 fans at Dallas’ West End Marketplace on Dec. 4, 1991, all four band members likely breathed a collective sigh of relief, as they had finally fulfilled a promise that frontman Sammy Hagar had made to the city three years earlier. But at what cost? “It almost broke the band up,” Hagar reflected in 2023. “It cost us about $200,000 to come back and do a free show.” Van Halen’s Dallas bargain originated in 1988, when they barreled through the Lone Star State in support of OU812 on the Monsters of Rock Tour, a mammoth road trip fe...
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David Lee Roth‘s brief, contentious and unproductive 1996 reunion with Van Halen left the singer wondering if the band had ever really shared the same vision. The following year, in his book Crazy From the Heat, Roth told his side of the original Van Halen lineup’s short-lived second and final era. He says that it all began he offered an olive branch to Eddie Van Halen right around the time the group broke up with his replacement, Sammy Hagar. To his surprise, the guitar legend invited Roth to record two new songs for a career-spanning greatest hits album. Van Halen’s 1996 Reunion With David L...
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Not long after wrapping the tour in support of their debut, R.E.M. returned to the North Carolina studio where they made Murmur. With Don Dixon and Mitch Easter once again producing, the sessions for Reckoning went quickly and smoothly. No surprise, since the band had worked out most of the new songs on the road throughout 1983. All that was needed was a dose of the moody atmospherics that made Murmur a hit with college-rock radio. But Reckoning isn’t exactly a sequel. The chiming guitar riffs are sharper, the melodies are tighter. And Michael Stipe’s lyrics, still mumbled and indecipherable, ...
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