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Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders: Taylor Hawkins (2010)

Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages Audio, 5 April 2010

The Foo Fighters drummer talks about his solo project, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders, and their new album Red Light Fever: working with guitarist Gannin Arnold; having members of Queen contribute; the album song-by-song; working with guitarists; his favourite British producers; singing on Slash's album; Chris Chaney's bass playing; using Gretsch drums; the family that is the Foo Fighters, and having his own band.

File format: mp3; file size: 26.1mb, interview length: 27' 12" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Steve Beresford, David Gray, Courtney Pine, Guillemots: London's musical instrument shops

Guide by John Lewis, Time Out, June 2008

J Reid & Sons "WE DON'T GET many high-class customers up here in the badlands," laughs proprietor John Gregory. It's probably because they wouldn't expect to ...

Robert Fripp Revisited

Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, February 1989

A Plectral Purist Answers the Dumb Questions ...

Melissa Manchester, Tower of Power: Tower Of Power: Pro Blowing Section

Interview by Michael Goldberg, Downbeat, February 1980

THE BASIC tracks were cut in Atlanta, Georgia. The strings were arranged and overdubbed by Gene Page, and Melissa Manchester put down the lead vocal ...

Flaming Lips: Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips

Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 14 June 2006

STEVEN DROZD, guitarist for The Flaming Lips, plays guitar, keyboards, drums, sings, writes, entertains and philosophizes. He does a lot of different things. And that's ...

R.E.M., Neil Young: The Men on the Harvest Moon: Young-Buck!

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, April 1993

OUTSIDE THE sky was dark and the rain was falling hard. But the pre-concert scene congealing toward the rear of Universal Studios stage 12 was ...

Jeff Beck: Beck Looks Back (part 1)

Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 28 October 1972

Page and Zeppelin, Stewart, the old band and the new... ...

Larry Carlton

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, February 1977

LARRY CARLTON, guitarist with the famed progressive jazz-funk Crusaders, is at 28, one of the most in-demand session guitarists in Los Angeles. ...

How to Buy a Fender Stratocaster, Part One

Guide by Tom Watson, Strat Collector, 23 February 2004

THE ARTICLE BELOW is not about collectible Stratocasters, vintage or otherwise. The information is provided in response to a frequently asked question: How in the ...

Chic: Back to Bass: Bernard Edwards

Interview by Don Snowden, Bass Player, 29 April 1991

"I THINK 'GOOD TIMES' is the song we're remembered most for," said Bernard Edwards of the reunited Chic. "We were a commercial band and a ...

Bill Bruford, Genesis: Bill Bruford: Have Drum Will Travel

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 April 1976

IT WAS IN the unlikely setting of the Una Billings School of Dancing's basement that the partnership which will be titillating the timpani of drum ...

Dennis Chambers' Pillow Talk

Interview by Tony Scherman, Musician, May 1992

The bedroom secrets of a drummer's hands ...

Duane Eddy: "All Pilots Are Musicians"

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, July 2011

Downhome philosopher, barrier-busting King Of Twang noise-bringer — Duane Eddy strums the semi-acoustic soundbox of sagacity. ...

John Entwistle, Who, The: John Entwistle, 1944-2002

Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Bass Guitar, July 2002

IT IS A CLICHÉ THAT CELEBRITIES tend to be shorter in real life than they appear on stage. John Entwistle, who often wore brightly-coloured Cuban-heeled ...

Genesis: Three For The Road

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1992

VISITING REHEARSALS FOR A STADIUM TOUR ...

Jeff Healey Band: Jeff Healey: Have Guitar, Will Sit

Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, March 1989

JEFF HEALEY is the most unorthodox guitarist since Stanley Jordan. He plays seated, most of the time, with his guitar flat on his lap. As ...

Pink: Inside Pink's Funhouse

Interview by Greg Phillips, Australian Musician, September 2009

Greg Phillips speaks with the Pink band ...

Charles & Eddie, En Vogue: Harmony Singing: You Have A Lovely Singing Voice

Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, July 1993

Three years ago it had all but disappeared beneath the deluge of hard rap and technological beats. Now, from the choreographed trouser arousal of En ...

Juan Atkins, Afrika Bambaataa, Derrick May, Josh Wink, DJ Shadow, Richie Hawtin: Six Machines That Changed The Music World

Guide by Pat Blashill, Wired, 5 January 2002

EVER SINCE Sam Phillips stuffed some wads of paper into an amplifier, inadvertently creating the fuzzed-up, overdriven electric guitar sound on Ike Turner's 1951 rave-up ...

Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars: "I’ve Always Been About Melody And Tone"

Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 6 September 2008

MICK MARS CAME into this world as Robert Alan Deal. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on May 4, 1951. His family relocated to ...