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Teenage Girl Killing It With Van Halen "Eruption" Guitar Solo [VIDEO]

Dalton Castle — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:26:10 +0000

I’m completely bias on this video but I will give credit where credit is do. This 14 year old chick can play her some guitar. I say I’m bias for two reason, one, I’m not the biggest fan of Van Halen and two, I hate teenage girls. Both I find to be very annoying. [...]

Former Queensryche Vocalist Geoff Tate Signs Solo Record Deal

Chad Bowar — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:40:59 +0000

Less than a week after being replaced by Todd La Torre, longtime Queensryche singer Geoff Tate has signed a worldwide record deal with InsideOut Music. Even before parting ways with Queensryche, Tate had a summer acoustic solo tour planned as he continued to work on a solo effort.

Slash Wraps Sessions for Upcoming Solo Album

Jeff Giles — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:10:29 +0000

While you were focusing on the Super Bowl over the weekend, Slash was hard at work — and all that dedication paid off with a brand new video and completed tracks for his next studio album. Slash took to Twitter to let fans know about his “busy fn’ weekend” which included finishing the recordings for [...]

Slash Has 13 Songs Ready To Go For Solo Album

BJ Ragone — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:52:21 +0000

Fans of Slash will be in for a treat in 2012 as he is putting out a second solo record, this time with singer Myles Kennedy on the whole album. According to Slash he has 13 songs ready to record on top of the 3 that he has already recorded. Slash has been hard at [...]

The Making of Avalon – Sully Erna Solo Project [VIDEO]

WQBK — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:24:45 +0000

Godsmack front man Sully Erna will be at the Egg for a solo show on May 22nd. The tour is in support of his first solo album 'Avalon". A project that Sully is very proud of and he's excited to have people here in the Capital Region be able to see it live. In my opinion, The Egg is the perfect and probably the best venue in the United States to see a show like this. Avalon is very unique.

Metallica-Rare Cliff Burton Live Solo Posted [Audio]

BJ Ragone — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:45:05 +0000

There isn’t much live audio of Cliff Burton performing with Metallica but over the weekend some awesome new Cliff audio surfaced online. It is absolutely one of my favorite things when I get to hear some rare audio from a band I love. I remember when I was in high school and my Uncle gave [...]

Steven Tyler Going Solo

BJ Ragone — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:00:52 +0000

Looks like the Aerosmith front man is doing his own thing for a little while. So there have been all kinds of reports going back and forth now for months about how some of the guys in Aersosmith aren’t happy about Steven Tyler taking the gig as an American Idol judge. There were also reports [...]

Greatest Action Heroes [Videos]

BJ Ragone — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:15:44 +0000

They kick ass and always bring us some of those great one liners. That is why they are the timeless heroes that we can’t help but cheer for. The other night I caught a special on ABC called Best in Film: The Greatest Movies Of Our Time. Being a huge movie junkie I was immediately [...]

SOAD's Serj To Perform On Leno

BJ Ragone — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:00:01 +0000

System of a Down front man Serj Tankian will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Thursday night. System of a Down as been seemingly absent from the rock music scene for a few years now, but front man Serj has been hard at work doing his own thing in the mean time. [...]

Chris Cornell–Balancing Soundgarden & Solo Career

BJ Ragone — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:43:26 +0000

The Pulse of Radio recently caught up with the Soundgarden front man and talked about recording the new album and how his solo career is being impacted. Soundgarden is currently in the studio working on their first album in over 15 years. Drummer Matt cameron reported last week that they already have 14 songs ready [...]

Slash Joined By Aerosmith Guitarist

BJ Ragone — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:19:25 +0000

No it wasn't Joe Perry but Brad Whitford, the other axeman from the influential rock band. Whitford joined Slash on stage to perfrom the Aerosmith classic Walkin' The Dog. One of the best things about this is Alter Bridge front man Myles Kennedy on the vocals. Pretty sweet jam session. Lucky for us, one fan caught the whole thing on tape.

Alter Bridge Front Man Dishes On Slash

BJ Ragone — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:31:47 +0000

Myles Kennedy has been very busy with Alter Bridge these days but he has not forgotten about his good buddy Slash and working with him on a new solo record. Those of you who have the new Alter Bridge album know that Myles Kennedy is truly on of the best front men out there right now. [...]

Worst Guitar Solo Ever

BJ Ragone — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:26:29 +0000

Now it looks like these guys are playing to a high school prom, but the whole band agrees that this guy sucks.So this is obviously a home movie, or maybe the band was filming a documentary for when they finally make it big. Whatever the case may be this guitar player seems like he got [...]