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Joey Ramone – May 15, 1951 – April 15, 2001 – R.I.P.

ROCK SCENE FLASHBACK Buy a Piece of Rock & Roll History! Get 50% off all Mark Weiss BUY NOW photographs. Use coupon code: RSMFLASHBACK50 at checkout  (Two per customer, excludes auction listings. )  https://youtu.be/ha9fBLn9OaA This photo of Joey was shot in this video. Find Joey Ramone as he appears in the remake of the Ramones song" Psycho Therapy" from the 1992 Skid Row album "B Side Ourselves" 

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Tracii Guns – L.A. GUNS

In this exclusive interview with Rock Scene, Tracii Guns looks back on his early experiences with music. He remembers being a young boy and sitting in the back of his mother’s boyfriend’s car in 1971 and hearing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” for the first time. “It was overwhelming audio fear,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, I have to recreate that noise right now!” On the way to the airport, they stopped by a newsstand. Tracii saw Jimmy Page, decked…

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Happy Birthday to Pat Travers Born on April 12, 1954

  https://youtu.be/WTf377Ot0OY Canadian rock guitarist Pat Travers started playing guitar in his early teenage years. He grew up in Ottawa, and started playing in local clubs, covering popular rock music by the Beatles & Jimi Hendrix. He would often play five sets a night, and jam with local musicians. He moved to England in 1975 and the scene was very different over there. He would show up at pubs and ask to jam, but would get rejected. “They were all…

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Billy Idol and Steve Stevens at the Count Bassie Theatre – April 4, 2019

   Photography By "Mark"WEISSGUY" Weiss Billy Idol and Steve Stevens strolled onto the stage with confidence at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank for their Turned On, Tuned In and Unplugged show. The legendary duo began the evening with Idol’s classic "Dancing with Myself,” before going right into the Rebel Yell hit, "Catch My Fall." Despite the fact that both of these songs are more than 30 years old, Idol and Stevens' prolific musical collaboration continues to this day.…

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Steve Vai

https://youtu.be/wK4xVGj_0KY Upon discovering his aunt’s piano at the age of four, Steve Vai had what he describes as two epiphanies. The first one being that when he played notes to the right, he noticed they got higher. When he went to the left, they got lower. “Right at that moment, music just became very clear to me. That’s how music is created.” The second epiphany was realizing the infinite nature of the creation of music. “I was immediately flooded with…

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Nalani & Sarina

https://youtu.be/Mvv21KugKRc Nalani and Sarina talk about there Rock Scene growing up. Twin sisters Nalani and Sarina got their musical start playing classical piano. Later on, their mom taught them a song on ukulele, which sparked their interest in the guitar. They were inspired to start playing as a duo while watching a battle of the bands at their high school, and eventually met up with local musicians and started writing original songs and learning covers. They played their first gig…

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