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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...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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...
ScreenCrush
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...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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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Who was the better ’90s alt-rock hero – Beck or 311? That’s the debate at the center of this week’s Chuck’s Fight Club on Loudwire Nights as we look at the careers of two consistently great and long-lasting acts from the alt-rock genre. Both acts found a way of working a funkier sound into their brand of rock, finding great success across the latter portion of the decade in the process. Beck broke on the scene in 1994 with “Loser” off his Mellow Gold album, then saw a giant step forward in airplay with 1996’s Odelay that featured “Where It’s At,” “Devil’s Haircut,” “The New Pollution” and more...
Loudwire
After 18 years on the Las Vegas strip, the Beatles’ Love Cirque du Soleil show gave its final performance on July 7. “Some people may feel this is a bittersweet moment tonight,” Stephane Lefebvre, Cirque’s CEO, said prior to the final show, “but those who work on creating this masterpiece are celebrating peace, joy, happiness and love.” Love had been a mainstay at the Mirage resort and casino for nearly two decades, but even success couldn’t stop it from becoming a casualty of Las Vegas’ constant changes. The Mirage was sold to Hard Rock International in 2022 and when the company announced pla...
Ultimate Classic Rock
He’s synonymous with country, but you’d have to be high to say Willie Nelson doesn’t know a thing or two about rock ‘n’ roll. The Texas icon, older than the genre itself, built a career off the back of his own legendary country songbook as well as a knack for turning songs of all genres into something fitting his unique vocal phrasing and guitar picking. With a body of work as long and prolific as his, it’s no surprise he’s taken on his share of classic rock favorites, and even rubbed elbows with some of the most enduring artists in the genre. Here are 10 of our favorites. The Beatles Between ...
Taste of Country
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