Scott Holiday of Rival Sons

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 &…

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Kasim Sulton of UTOPIA

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…

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Eddie Trunk

  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…

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Jason Hook of 5 Finger Death Punch

Jason Hook was born and grew up in Canada. His mother enrolled him in piano lessons at 6 years old. It didn’t take long until he knew the piano wasn’t for him. So he asked his mother if he could take guitar lessons instead. His father bought him an imitation Les Paul from Sears and Jason started playing guitar. A neighbor was forced to part with a few Kiss records and gifted them to Jason. He would listen to them…

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Lita Ford

As a young child, Lita was more drawn to the guitar rather than her Barbie dolls, which she soon rejected after receiving her first guitar. It was an acoustic guitar and she couldn’t get the sounds she wanted out of the acoustic that was right for playing Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath Songs. She started taking lessons and was taught the chords to Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, but really wanted to learn riffs that were meant for the electric guitar.…

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Rick Nielson of Cheap Trick

Rick Nielson guitar player from Cheap Trick talks about his early days as a toddler. Rick tells Rock Scene " My father was an opera singer, he would sing at churches, both my grandfathers were ministers. When I was 3 years old I walked onstage during the Barber of Seville and people started laughing and clapping 'thats what I like'. My occupation, my hobby and my love -- laughter and clapping.... Not the clap (ha!)

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Geezer Butler

Before becoming a bass player, Geezer Butler started on a two-string-guitar. He played it for two years before he realized that if you put your finger on the fret of the string you're playing, it makes a different sound. He eventually graduated to a six string guitar and started learning Beatles, Kinks and Rolling Stones songs. He formed a band and started playing out. Everywhere they played, they only played once because they were so terrible. Disillusioned, the singer left…

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