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Honoring the People Who Died Listening to Great White and the People Who Didn't

By Brian Bardwell
Mar 24, 2011

It's been eight years since 100 people died in the Great White nightclub fire in Rhode Island. Not even through the first song of its set at The Station in West Warwick, the band was interrupted when pyrotechnics sparked a fire that caused a grisly stampede in which scores of...
How Motorhead Became Relevant Again Without Changing Anything

By Brian Bardwell
Mar 10, 2011

What can we make of Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister these days? The 65-year-old frontman of semi-legendary punk/metal outfit Motörhead is still the same bird-flipping rock 'n' roller who changed the lives of innumerable angry suburban children with guitars. But he's also turned into a bit of a grandpa. Yes, he's still...
Celebrating George Jones' Big Comeback

By Brian Bardwell
Feb 24, 2011

George "No Show" Jones is coming to town, so you're probably expecting all the cliché jokes ("Well, he's scheduled to play on Thursday . . ."). But that would be lazy, and, honestly, you can make only so many jokes about a concert not happening. Since the rest of the...
Ted Nugent Helped Me See the Need For Civil Political Dialogue

By Brian Bardwell
Aug 5, 2010

You might not think that a guy who writes songs called "Yank Me, Crank Me" and "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" would lead you to soul-searching, but when Ted Nugent called me a prick, that's exactly what happened. Now, the Nuge wasn't ripping on people like me or on a group...
Cheap Trick's "Hello There" and Other Songs Perfect for Rock Band and Guitar Hero

By Brian Bardwell
Jul 1, 2010

Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero appeal to that part of us that not-so-secretly wishes we hadn't quit practicing music in fourth grade so we could be selling out arenas instead of selling out our souls to make a little more money for our boss. Of course, we know...

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