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Since the beginning of film, there have been disaster movies. Early silent movies were filled with floods, fires, and assorted cinematic calamities. In the 1970s, the remarkable success of Airport kicked off a decade of disasters; earthquakes, towering infernos, additional airports, Poseidon adventures, oh my. After a fallow period, they came roaring back in the ’90s, with aliens blowing up the White House, competing killer asteroid and volcano films, plus loads of twisters — or technically just one Twister. (Twisterswouldn’t arrive in theaters for another 30 years or so.) Most genres go throu...
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For the past several decades, fans have been speculating on just how long the Rolling Stones will continue, well, being the Rolling Stones. More specifically: How long will they continue to tour? “The band still sounds very good, and it doesn’t sound much different from before, and you all liked me before, so you’re going to like this, probably,” Mick Jagger told Rolling Stonein 1995, evidently unfazed by the idea that some people thought the band too old to keep playing live. That same year, the Stones wrapped up the Voodoo Lounge Tour, the third highest-grossing outing of their entire career...
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The ’90s were a turbulent time for Van Halen. After soaring through the previous decade as quite possibly the most universally beloved rock band on the planet, the group hit bumpier terrain in the ’90s. Although they released two multi-platinum albums in the first half of the decade, they also endured nasty public feuding, two more lineup changes, the genre-resetting revolution of grunge and their first flat-out commercial failure. Apart from an extremely brief 1996 reunion that yielded two new songs, a very awkward joint public appearance and a nasty war of words in the press, the band’s form...
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Sammy Hagar kicked off his Best of All Worlds tour on Saturday with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Rai Thistlethwayte in tow, focusing on his Van Halen tenure while sprinkling in a handful of other hits from his five-decade career. Van Halen fans have eagerly awaited this trek since Hagar announced it, and unsurprisingly, Saturday’s 21-song performance sparked plenty of online chatter, both positive and negative. Now that Hagar and Co. have two shows under their belts and a whole lot more on the horizon, UCR’s resident Van Halen fanatics are answering five burning questions ab...
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Beatles live albums didn’t really used to be a thing. They came off the road in August 1966 and the group’s first official concert recording, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, wasn’t released until 11 years later. Three Beatles had issued live LPs in the meantime: John Lennon with 1969’s Live Peace in Toronto, George Harrison with 1971’s The Concert for Bangladesh and Paul McCartney with 1976’s Wings Over America. The knockoff Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany 1962 had only arrived a few months before the Hollywood Bowl recordings. Not much. Then the next decade would see exactly one...
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With more than six decades of making music, and more than 100 albums released during that time, it’s not easy paring down to Willie Nelson’s most essential tracks. And no discussion of the country legend’s career is complete without a survey of his best, and often genre-bending albums, including 1975’s career-boosting Red Headed Stranger and the 1978 American Songbook milestone Stardust. But as you’ll see in the below list of the Top 10 Willie Nelson Songs, while his first genre of choice was country music, the Texas-born singer-songwriter has taken a restless path since his debut recording ap...
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A movie is never finished until it is released — and even then, if the movie was made by some directors (not naming names, but one of them rhymes with Schmeorge Schmucas), it could remain in a state of flux forever. Minor tweaks happen to almost every single film over the course of production. Then there are films like the 25 on the list below, movies that were changed drastically — maybe even completely — during production. The reasons for the changes vary. In some cases, the original director or writers quit or were fired. In other cases they stayed, but studio executives demanded cuts. Occa...
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If you didn’t like Aerosmith‘s ’80s catalog, there’s a good chance you hated their ’90s output. After achieving a miraculous comeback with 1987’s Permanent Vacation, the newly sober rockers were eager to keep the good times rolling. They continued riding high with 1989’s Pump and 1993’s Get a Grip, the latter becoming their first No. 1 album in the United States. They returned after another four-year gap with Nine Lives, which underperformed its predecessors but still sold a respectable 2 million copies. In hindsight, it was just a warmup for their first and only chart-topping single, the divi...
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When I read the news that Oak Ridge Boys singer Joe Bonsall had died on Thursday (July 9), my first thought was sadness at the loss of someone everyone in country music will remember as one of the genuinely bright lights in the business. My second thought was, ‘Wow … what a truly irreplaceable loss for that group.’ When I say “irreplaceable,” I don’t necessarily mean musically. Bonsall retired from the Oak Ridge Boys as a touring member in January and was, in fact, replaced by a young singer named Ben James, who’s been singing his old parts quite capably during the group’s farewell tour. Any s...
Taste of Country
Unlike harder-leaning Southern rock, melody-based country rock isn’t afraid to occasionally go the peaceful, easy-feeling route. Think Southern rock’s jam-based songs rooted in the blues, gospel and R&B vs. the acoustic guitars, banjos and song-oriented tunes of country rock. No doubt it’s a fine line – there aren’t tracks by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the below list of the Top 35 Country Rock Songs, but the Allman Brothers Band and the Marshall Tucker Band appear. What makes a song country rock but not Southern rock? To appropriate a colloquialism: You know it when you hear it. The below songs, as vot...
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