Nita Strauss of Alice Cooper Band
Nita Strauss takes her name from composer Johann Strauss. She grew up listening to classic rock with her father and picked up the guitar at age 13. After going to the movies to see “Crossroads” she knew she wanted to be a musician. The scene with Steve Vai just blew her away. Only two years later, she started playing in clubs. Since the age limit was 18, she would wait outside until it was time for the band to play.…
Michael Wilton of Queensryche
Michael Wilton of Queensryche talks to Rock Scene about his very young years in San Francisco, moving to Seattle Washington and playing bass in garage bands while growing up. Eventually switching instruments with a guitar player, Michael began learning all that he could about the guitar. After high school, he attended the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts for a year and a half until running out of money, forcing him to take a job. In doing so, he met Eddie…
Michael Sweet of Stryper
Music has always been a big part of Michael Sweet’s life. At a very early age, his parents took him, his brother Rob and sister to their first concert at the L.A. Forum to see the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. If that wasn’t enough, it was also the night that Led Zeppelin was in attendance. The show was legendary. It was then that Michael decided that music would be his career. His father (a country/rock-a-billy singer) would…
Steven Adler of Guns N Roses
Check out Steven Adler talking about his ROCK SCENE growing up, getting his first drum set, and the first record he bought, KISS ALIVE 1. He reminisces about how he met Slash in history class when he was 12 and seeing Axl & Izzy’s band 'Hollywood Rose' at Gazzarri's on the Sunset Strip.
Jason Flom – CEO of Lava Records
https://youtu.be/PcmiHf35vpU Record executive Jason Flom started his amazing career in A&R at Atlantic Records in New York in the early 80’s. His first signing was a band from Long Island called Zebra, they played a show with Twisted Sister Jason reflects on seeing Twisted Sister in front of 3000 kids at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. After singer Dee Snider riled up the audience, everyone in the audience had Twisted Sister t-shirts on and were chanting “TWISTED…
Marky Ramone
Marky Ramone remembers seeing the Beatles on TV when he was a young child and how it changed his world. His early influences were Ringo Starr and other drummers of the British Invasion. As time went on he started putting a drum set together and beating on things, driving his parents crazy. He was recording professionally at the age of 16 with his first band, Dust. They stayed together for two years before he started hanging around clubs in the…