Joe Perry talks about Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp in the Holywood Vampires
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry talks about his current rock & roll supergroup The Hollywood Vampires, which features shock rock singer Alice Cooper and actor Johnny Depp on guitar. They take their name from the Hollywood Vampires, which was a celebrity drinking club formed by Alice Cooper in the 1970's, that included stars like John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, Mickey Dolenz and Ringo Starr. "It's kind of a tribute band to a lot of the people who have died," says Perry. "It's a real…
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Tommy Henriksen
For Tommy, listening to ‘The Who’ was his first introduction to music. At 14, he got his first guitar. At the time, Tommy was known as a ‘Rink Rat’. He was on a speed-skating team. The rink had live bands that played. Tommy would help the bands load their equipment, and it’s there where one of them first told to Tommy that he should loss the guitar, learn how to play bass and sing, because there are ‘guitar players on…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Cynthia “Plaster Caster”
Today, May 24, 1947, Cynthia Albritton aka Cynthia "Plaster Caster" was born. Cynthia began her career in 1968 by casting penises of rock musicians. She talks about getting the Rock & Roll groupie bug when she met the Rolling Stones in the 60’s. Cynthia remembers, "This exciting life, was the life for me. I was a shy, fledgling, virginal, goofy girl that wanted to get laid by cute British boys with long hair and tight pants. But, I wasn't experienced…
Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez
played on Springsteen’s first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Lopez started out in a drum & bugle corps. as a bugel player until the 8th grade. He attended a show at the U.S.O. club in Asbury Park NJ. Walking up to the club, he heard some great music coming from inside. He turned to his friend and said, “there’s a good band in here tonight.” His friend told him…
Keith Roth
Sirius XM host Keith Roth of Ozzy’s Boneyard & Hair Nation talks about his first musical memories and entering the rock scene. Keith has been with Sirius since 2002 and has been playing guitar in his band Frankenstein 3000 for over twenty years. He recently starred as Jack Ainsely in the award winning film “Let Me Down Hard,” which won both the Asbury Park Music In Film Festival and the Garden State Film Festival in 2016. Frankenstein 3000's new record…
Rod Stewart Interview – 1973
In this 1973 interview, Rod Stewart chats about everything from his first love, football (soccer) to odd jobs including three weeks as a gravedigger before being discovered at the age of 18 in a London train station by Long John Baldry. Rod reveals, “I’ve never wanted to be a leader of a band. I’ve never wanted to be a dictator. I just want to be the singer in the group.” Inevitably, Stewart is asked about the extraordinary number of women…
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
New York Dolls perform Personality Crisis on The Midnight Special - 1973 (YouTube) Go to (page 60) and see the photo and read the story FASHIONS Making The Man - in ROCK SCENE Magazine. The New York Dolls are setting fashion trends in the big city. Way up in back is drummer Bill Murcia, next to him with the sunglasses is Sil Mizrahi, and leftto right in front are David Johansen, Johnny Thunder and Arthur Kane.
Sly and the Family Stone – “STAND”
Sly and the Family Stone perform Stand on The Midnight Special on October 26, 1973. (YouTube) TURNING HIMSELF ON "so I don’t get stoned when I get on stage - it’s all natural to me.…if I make it big, really big, I’ll just be so crazed....When I pay money to see somebody, I want to see a show…My grandmother gave me the idea of dressing up…and being very outrageous." Read the full interview on (page 70) with writer Harriette Vidal exclusively in…