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 playing original…
Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday talks about his musical beginnings and the difficulties he faced working in the music industry. In the mid 2000's, Scott started working with drummer Mike Miley, and while looking for a singer, Scott discovered vocalist Jay Buchanan online. Scott thought Jay would be the perfect fit for the band, and told Miley about him. Miley coincidentally was already good friends with Jay. Scott met up with Jay to talk about his mission; to create genuine rock &…
Growing up in Staten Island New York, Kasim and his family would often gather around and sing songs together while his dad played acoustic guitar. That was his first introduction to being involved in and playing and listening to music. Like many others, he really felt that being a musician was his calling when he saw the Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan show on TV. He started taking guitar lessons, and over the next few years, really started connecting…
A “scholar of metal and all that rocks!”, Eddie Trunk got his first taste of “heavy music” around the age of ten. A band called the Raspberries was playing on A.M. radio. Eddie was immediately hooked and had his parents buy him all four of their records. It was all Raspberries all the time for him until a year later. Eddie was walking home from Junior high school with a friend. As they passed the local record store, ‘Scotty’s Records’, his friend…
https://youtu.be/SKv4zc0kBL4 It has been 10 years since Ozzy released an album and what better way to connect with his fans but to greet 1500 of them after his listening party the night before at the Rainbow Bar & Grill. Photographs by Mark “WEISSGUY” Weiss