HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GENE SIMMONS BORN ON AUGUST 25, 1949
https://youtu.be/uy9B3vRlGr0 Gene Simmons talks about coming to America when he just turned nine years old. Although he didn’t speak any English, hearing Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Sam Cook, Otis Redding and James Brown on the radio made perfect sense to him. The music moved him and he moved to it! At that young age, he couldn’t quite figure out what it was that excited him so. One thing he knew for certain, he was smitten by the music. Gene reflects on the first time he saw the…
Meat Loaf presents “BAT” – Stone Pony – August 28, 2019
The Music of MEAT LOAF performed by his official band THE NEVERLAND EXPRESS featuring American Idol winner Caleb Johnson 20014 American Idol winner Caleb Johnson is fronting BAT the music of MEAT LOAF fronting The Neverland Express Producer of the show and musical director Paul Crook has been by Meat Loaf's side since 2003. https://youtu.be/lYjRnKrUsGo For more on BAT and The Neverland Express go to their website FROM THE ROCK SCENE ARCHIVES https://youtu.be/GGHcquM71zg Meat…
BON JOVI SLIPPERY WHEN WET released on August 18, 1986 – The story behind the album cover’s
On August 18, 1986 BON JOVI released their third album would be the album that made them a household name selling over 28 million records worldwide. That January, Bon Jovi went to Little Mountain Studios in Vancouver to start work on their third record. Photographer Mark "WEISSGUY" Weiss was asked to brainstorm ideas for the album cover. The name they gave me to work with was Wanted Dead or Alive. Weiss eplains "I loved Westerns. I came up with what…