Ronnie Montrose SE: Did you grow up in the Bay Area?RM: I was born in San Francisco, but my folks moved to Denver Colorado when I was a couple of years old, and I didn’t come back until the late 60s when I became a hippie. SE: What brought you back to the Bay Area?RM: …
Mick Taylor Being a lifelong purist I remember listening to the Rolling Stones since I was a little kid and finding it tough at first to adjust to the replacement of my favorite Stone, Brian Jones, the creator and a onetime guiding light for the Stones. After losing control of the band to Don Knott’s …
Brian Wilson When I pulled my mail from the box and opened the package containing Brian Wilson’s new CD… hey, I admit that I’m as much a skeptic as the next guy, but the first thing I did was put that disc in a player before I even put down the envelope. And I must …
Brian Wilson There’s nothing one could write about Brian Wilson that hasn’t been written a million times before so, to encapsulate: brilliant songwriter, soulful arranger, emotional producer, outstanding performer. It must be true that all great artists must suffer for their art. Here’s a guy raised and later managed by a controlling and abusive father — one day sixteen …
Hal Blaine – Part 2 SE: (laughs) I wanted to ask you about some of the drummers that came out of the British invasion like Ringo. What did you think of his playing? HB: Ringo did his job with The Beatles. His job was to be Ringo. Ringo hired me to do his …