Even after all these years, it's hard not to think about Guitar Hero when hearing songs like Living Colour's "Cult of Personality," Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon," or Heart's "Barracuda." Though the early editions featured covers of these popular songs rather than the originals, they honored the spirit of playing a real rock gig while giving us a selection of songs new and old to obsess over.
By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.
In the beginning, it was 1981 and bassist Nikki Sixx left London, the glam metal band he'd formed in Hollywood three years earlier, to start a new project with drummer Tommy Lee. Then, they pulled in guitarist Mick Mars, who responded to the duo's classified ad for a "loud, rude, and aggressive guitar player," and eventually persuaded singer Vince Neil, a former classmate of Lee's, to leave his band Rock Candy for Mötley Crüe.
Members Gunil, Jungsu, Gaon, O.de, Jun Han, and Jooyeon experienced overwhelming energy from a sold-out crowd at the Brooklyn Paramount, marking a significant improvement from last year's performance.
I'm not going to confirm anything, because there's nothing to confirm. But I'm not going to deny it, because we're all such fans of this venue. It's something that we're considering, [but] nothing is etched in stone or green-lit.
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Mastodon opened the concert with two originals, "Black Tongue" and "Blood and Thunder," before performing a cover of Sabbath's "Supernaut." Brann Dailor took the lead vocals.
Creedence Clearwater Revival was quite possibly the finest singles band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, forming an instantly identifiable sound by blending blues, rock, psychedelia, and R&B.
