It was announced today that legendary Grammy Award-winning guitarist and two-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jeff Beck, has passed away at the age of 78. Known primarily for his work with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, Beck was named the fifth best guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. To call Beck an influential musician would be a ridiculous understatement but there are few artists who have inspired quite like him. His music has been included in countless films, but only a handful have been bold enough to pop the British songster into cameo roles.
It makes sense for Beck to have appeared in a film like the rock mockumentary "A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out," but many would be surprised to learn that his first appearance in a narrative feature was in the Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy "Twins.
It makes sense for Beck to have appeared in a film like the rock mockumentary "A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out," but many would be surprised to learn that his first appearance in a narrative feature was in the Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy "Twins.
- 1/12/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
When Nicolette Larson was growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, she’d ask her friends to drive over bumpy roads so she could show off her Neil Young impression. As the truck moved up and down, she’d break out into a shaky vibrato.
Just a few years later, the singer found herself in a pickup again, this time with the very man she once emulated. Young — who first worked with Larson on his 1977 LP American Stars ‘n Bars, and briefly dated her afterward — was driving her around his Northern...
Just a few years later, the singer found herself in a pickup again, this time with the very man she once emulated. Young — who first worked with Larson on his 1977 LP American Stars ‘n Bars, and briefly dated her afterward — was driving her around his Northern...
- 6/21/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Between vintage concert albums and recent ones excavated from archival tapes, it’s become easier than ever to track the onstage history of Neil Young and Crazy Horse. We can now hear Young and the band in its early, funky, Danny Whitten days (Live at the Fillmore East), breaking in Whitten replacement Frank “Poncho” Sampedro (the often breathtaking Japanese 1976 show included on last year’s Archives Volume II), thundering in arenas not long after that (Live Rust), flexing their newly revitalized muscles in the early Nineties (Weld), and showing the...
- 2/25/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
On August 26th, 1973, Joni Mitchell arrived at Studio Instrument Rentals in Los Angeles, where Neil Young and his band the Santa Monica Flyers were recording the boozy Tonight’s the Night. Joined by guitarists Ben Keith and Nils Lofgren, drummer Ralph Molina, and bassist Billy Talbot, Mitchell and Young tore through “Raised on Robbery,” soon to be released on her album Court and Spark.
If the Tonight’s the Night sessions were indeed a “drunken Irish wake,” as Talbot later recalled, this take on “Raised on Robbery” was the eulogy.
If the Tonight’s the Night sessions were indeed a “drunken Irish wake,” as Talbot later recalled, this take on “Raised on Robbery” was the eulogy.
- 11/18/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been 10 years since Linda Ronstadt wrapped up her career as a performer with a show at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, but she still vividly remembers how she felt that night. “I saw every concert I ever sang,” she says on the phone from San Francisco, where the singer been living a quiet life since becoming diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012. “They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die. But it does when you retire from singing, too.”
Ronstadt has maintained a...
Ronstadt has maintained a...
- 9/4/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
We’re still processing that shocking news that Pegi Young died on January 1st after a short battle with cancer. Not only was she married to Neil Young for 36 years, but she was a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right and as the founder of the Bridge School she was a tireless advocate for children with severe physical and speech impairments. Much of her life was devoted to helping other people, making her sudden loss all the more devastating.
Pegi married Neil in 1977 and was often with him on the road,...
Pegi married Neil in 1977 and was often with him on the road,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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