I think it is safe to say that Eddie van Halen changed the concept of a guitar solo forever, when he first played “Eruption”. Not only guitar solos, rock guitar in general.
Eruption” solo popularized the tapping style of guitar playing, and in doing so revolutionized the sound of rock. Not bad for a tune that wasn’t even meant to be released
Initially, “Eruption” was not considered as a track for the Van Halen debut album as it was just a guitar solo Eddie performed live in the clubs. But Ted Templeman overheard it in the studio as Eddie was rehearsing it for a club date at the Whisky a Go Go and decided to include it on the album. Eddie recalled, “I didn’t even play it right. There’s a mistake at the top end of it. To this day, whenever I hear it, I always think, ‘Man, I could’ve played it better.'”
In just one minute and 42 seconds, Van Halen changed what a guitar solo could do. His revolutionary two-handed tapping technique produced sounds unlike what fans had ever heard before.
“Over the Hills and Far Away” is a song by Northern Irish musician Gary Moore, released in December 1986 by 10 Records as the first single from his sixth solo album Wild Frontier. The song peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart,[but was most successful in the Nordic countries, topping the charts in Finland and Norway.
The song features The Chieftains, who also appear in the video.Moore performed the song with the group at the TV show celebrating their 25th anniversary in 1988.
If anyone thinks the Chieftains are rigid in their attitudes, a look at the list of people with whom they have recorded (Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Art Garfunkel, Dan Fogelberg, Mike Oldfield) or jammed (Jerry Garcia, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne) should put that notion to rest.
They have recently finished a single with Canada’s rising rock group Glass Tiger, and Moloney chuckles when he talks about another collaboration, with Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore, a platinum seller in Europe. “ ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ was the single, the video for which, incidentally, they dressed me up in black leather. I looked like Napoleon gone wrong.” Paddy Moloney said.
For a brief period Kiss wore no make up. In my humble opinion that is also the time when they produced their best music.
“Unholy” was written by Gene Simmons and Vinnie Vincent. Featured on their 1992 album Revenge, the song is one of the three Vincent co-writes to appear on the album despite the fact that he had been fired from the band 8 years earlier. The release of “Unholy” signaled the return to a heavier sound for Kiss.
Gene Simmons sings lead on this track, where he takes the voice of evil incarnate, explaining that he was created by man.
This was the first single from the Revenge album, the last one before Kiss put their makeup back on, and their last produced by Bob Ezrin.
Rainbow is without a doubt one of Heavy Metal’s superbands, Founded by Deep Purple’s Richie Blackmore. In this line up the band had Ronnie James Dio as the leader singer. “Catch the Rainbow” is by far their best song.
Yet another highlight from Rainbow’s debut album, the song is about a small, but weird, love story.
As explained by Ronnie James Dio in a 1975 radio special:
“Catch the rainbow is lyrically medieval in that it’s concerning a stable boy who makes it with a lady of the court. She sneaks off to sleep on his bed of straw every night and they think it’s all going to work but as we rudely find out, it never does and they kind of go their own way, but it’s a track that I think Ritchie and I are very proud of.”
[Verse] When evening falls She’ll run to me Like whispered dreams Your eyes can’t see Soft and warm She’ll touch my face A bed of straw Against the lace
[Chorus] We believed we’d catch the rainbow Ride the wind to the sun Sail away on ships of wonder But life’s not a wheel With chains made of steel So bless me Come the dawn Come the dawn Come the dawn Come the dawn
[Chorus] We believed we’d catch the rainbow Ride the wind to the sun And sail away on ships of wonder But life’s not a wheel With chains made of steel So bless me, oh bless me, bless me Come the dawn Come the dawn Come the dawn Come the dawn
“Open Arms” is a song by American rock band Journey. It was released as a single from the Heavy Metal soundtrack and their 1981 album, Escape. Co-written by band members Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain, the song is a power ballad whose lyrics attempt to renew a drifting relationship. It is one of the band’s most recognizable radio hits and their biggest US Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching number two in February 1982.
When Jonathan Cain first presented “Open Arms” to the Babys, it was not received with, well, open arms. So he shelved it for another time.
“My understanding is that he had most of it sketched,” former Journey frontman Steve Perry later told Jeb Wright. The two had been discussing song ideas one day at Perry’s house, not long after Cain left the Babys for Journey.
As Cain recalls, Perry was interested in writing a different kind of material. “He was talking to me about his solo album and wanting to do ballads, wanting to do soaring melodies with ballads,” Cain said in 2019. “I said, ‘Steve, there’s no reason for you to go do a solo album. You know, you could do it here in Journey.'”
Cain went out to his car to retrieve his Wurlitzer piano, which had had brought along “just in case” and showed Perry the half-conceived song he originally offered to the Babys. It needed work: Cain had the melody down, but no lyrics. Perry, however, immediately recognized the song’s potential.
The rest is Rock N Roll history.
“Lying beside you Here in the dark Feeling your heartbeat with mine Softly you whisper You’re so sincere How could our love be so blind?
We sailed on together We drifted apart And here you are By my side So now I come to you With open arms Nothing to hide Believe what I say
So here I am With open arms Hoping you’ll see What your love means to me Open arms
Living without you Living alone This empty house seems so cold Wanting to hold you Wanting you near How much I want to bring you home But now that you’ve come back Turned night into day I need you to stay
So now I come to you With open arms Nothing to hide Believe what I say So here I am With open arms Hoping you’ll see What your love means to me Open arms” Songwriters: Stephen Ray Perry / Jonathan Cain
“Still of the Night” is a song by the Rock band Whitesnake. It was released as the first single from their self titled 1987 album.
“Still Of The Night”
In the Still of the Night I hear the wolf howl, honey Sniffing around your door In the Still of the Night I feel my heart beating heavy Telling me I gotta have more
In the shadow of night I see the full moon rise Telling me what’s in store, My heart start aching My body start a shaking And I can’t take no more, no, no
Now I just wanna get close to you An’ taste your love so sweet And I just wanna make love to you Feel your body heat…
In the Still of the Night… In the Still of the Night… Over here baby…
In the heat of the day I hang my head down low And hide my face from the sun Through the light of the day Until the evening time I’m waiting for the night to come
In the Still of the Night, In the cool moonlight, I feel my heart is aching In the Still of the Night…
Tell me here baby
In the Still of the Night I hear the wolf howl, honey Sniffing around your door… In the Still of the Night I feel my heart beating heavy Telling me I gotta have more…
Now I just wanna get close to you An’ taste your love so sweet And I just wanna make love to you Feel your body heat.
In the Still of the Night…
Still of the Night, Still of the Night, Still of the Night…
Writer(s): David Coverdale, John Sykes AZLyrics W Whitesnake Lyrics
Ian Robins Dury was born in Harrow, West London on 12th May, 1942. His mother, Margaret “Peggy” Walker, was a health visitor and his father, William “Bill” Dury, was a bus driver and chauffeur. Married in 1939, his parents separated after the end of the Second World War and Ian and his mother relocated to Cranham in Essex to live with Peggy’s two sisters Elisabeth and Mary, and Ian’s cousins Martin and Lucy.
At the age of seven, he contracted polio during the 1949 polio epidemic. In 1964 he studied art at the Royal College of Art under British artist Peter Blake, and from 1967 he taught art at various colleges in the south of UK.
He rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads.
Dury was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1996 and underwent surgery, but tumours were later found in his liver, and he was told that his condition was terminal. Upon learning of his illness.
In 1998, his death was incorrectly announced on XFM radio by Bob Geldof, possibly due to hoax information from a listener. He did eventually die of metastatic colorectal cancer on 27 March 2000, aged 57.
Happy Birthday Ian, I hope you are having a great party in Rock Heaven.
In 1984 he also appeared in the video of Roger Daltrey’s ‘Walking in my sleep’
There is no tow ways about it, Ritchie Blackmore is one of the all time greatest guitarists. Today is his 77th birthday.
This is just a compilation of some of his music. Starting off with a little known gem by an artist called Heinz, the song is ‘Just like Eddie’ Ritchie Blackmore played guitar on the tracj
It is not often that all versions of a song are great. However, Whitesnake’s -Here I go again certainly has 3 great versions of the song.
“Hang on” I here you say” Are there not only 2 versions of that song> The 1987 album version and the radio edit version?”
No, the original version was actually released 40 years ago in 1982, it was on the album Saints and Sinners. The lyrics are even slightly different, In the 1982 version they use the word hobo instead of drifter.
“Here I Go Again”
I don’t know where I’m going But I sure know where I’ve been Hanging on the promises In songs of yesterday
And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Here I go again Here I go again
Though I keep searching for an answer I never seem to find what I’m looking for Oh, Lord, I pray You give me strength to carry on
‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
But I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Just another heart in need of rescue Waiting on love’s sweet charity I am gonna hold on For the rest of my days
‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Here I go
And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone ‘Cause I know what it means To walk along the lonely street of dreams
Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a hobo I was born to walk alone I have made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time
But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Here I go Here I go again.
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