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2010 – Guns N’ Roses rocker Axl Rose was left red-faced during a recent concert in Bogota Read more

2010 – Guns N’ Roses rocker Axl Rose was left red-faced during a recent concert in Bogota

2010 – Guns N’ Roses rocker Axl Rose was left red-faced during a recent concert in Bogota, Colombia – after he slipped and fell onstage during the band’s show. The group was performing Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door at the city’s Parque Jaime Duque venue on March 30 when the frontman lost his footing and took […]

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2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report Read more

2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report

2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report Coroner said toxicology results, which were released Monday, show that musician died of accidental drug overdose. Two weeks after news of his death first made headlines, the autopsy results on late Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow — who was found in his Las […]

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2006 – Lead singer Justin Hawkins announces he is leaving mock rockers The Read more

2006 – Lead singer Justin Hawkins announces he is leaving mock rockers The

2006 – Lead singer Justin Hawkins announces he is leaving mock rockers The Darkness (“I Believe in a Thing Called Love”). He blames his addictions to drugs and alcohol for the decision.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 11:30 pm
2006 – Up-their-own-topographic-ocean prog rockers The Mars Volta are Read more

2006 – Up-their-own-topographic-ocean prog rockers The Mars Volta are

2006 – Up-their-own-topographic-ocean prog rockers The Mars Volta are bottled offstage at the U.S. Endfest festival.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:41 am
2006 – Drummer Jon Theodore leaves egghead rockers The Mars Volta shortly Read more

2006 – Drummer Jon Theodore leaves egghead rockers The Mars Volta shortly

2006 – Drummer Jon Theodore leaves egghead rockers The Mars Volta shortly before the release of their third album Amputechture. He is replaced by Blake Fleming.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:52 am
2006 – Sandi Thom, a Scottish songwriter who attracted record… Read more

2006 – Sandi Thom, a Scottish songwriter who attracted record…

2006 – Sandi Thom, a Scottish songwriter who attracted record company attention when she began webcasting gigs from her basement, tops the U.K. chart with her debut single, “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker.”

Stu Sweatman No Comments 11:55 pm
2006 – Immortal hair rockers Motley Crue… Read more

2006 – Immortal hair rockers Motley Crue…

2006 – Immortal hair rockers Motley Crue receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. To honor Vince Neil’s appearance in The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine perhaps?

Stu Sweatman No Comments 9:57 am
2005 – Not-very-shocking-anymore shock rocker Marilyn Manson causes a mild Read more

2005 – Not-very-shocking-anymore shock rocker Marilyn Manson causes a mild

2005 – Not-very-shocking-anymore shock rocker Marilyn Manson causes a mild ripple of outrage when he marries longtime squeeze Dita Von Teese at Castle Gurteen in Ireland.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 8:06 pm
2005 – Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge announces she is cancer Read more

2005 – Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge announces she is cancer

2005 – Lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge announces she is cancer free nine months after being diagnosed with the disease.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 11:27 pm
2005 – Long-running Goth rockers The Cure drop keyboardist Roger… Read more

2005 – Long-running Goth rockers The Cure drop keyboardist Roger…

2005 – Long-running Goth rockers The Cure drop keyboardist Roger O’Donnell and guitarist Perry Bamonte from their line-up.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 2:03 pm
2005 – Dave Matthews Band top the album charts with Stand… Read more

2005 – Dave Matthews Band top the album charts with Stand…

2005 – Dave Matthews Band top the album charts with Stand Up, while Weezer’s Make Believe debuts beneath the jam rockers at No. 2.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:09 am
2005 – Casey Chaos, lead singer with Los Angeles scum rockers Amen… Read more

2005 – Casey Chaos, lead singer with Los Angeles scum rockers Amen…

2005 – Casey Chaos, lead singer with Los Angeles scum rockers Amen, is hospitalized with internal bleeding after suffering several ruptured hernias.

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  • Boston
  • Def Leppard

Happy Bday Eddie Van Halen

Cool Articles

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  • What Happened to Rock N’ Roll?

Cool Rock links

  • Audio Eclecticism in the 60s
  • Camp Chaos
  • Guitar Hero Community site!
  • Pandora
  • Piero Scaruffi
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll Timeline
  • Rock Band, The game
  • Rock Music Time line
  • SchoolHouse Rock Lyrics
  • This Day In Rock Merchandise

Everything Music

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  • Dream Door
  • Nutsie
  • PlayGrind
  • Rock n’ Roll Hall of fame Museum
  • Rock Star Gallery
  • This Day In Rock Merchandise

Historic Bands/Artists that Rock!

  • AC/DC
  • Aerosmith
  • Black Sabbath
  • Boston
  • Def Leppard
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Heart
  • Journey
  • Judas Priest
  • KISS, and their personal army!

Music Downloads

  • Amazon.com
  • Artist direct
  • CD Baby
  • music.aol.com
  • Napster
  • Pay Play
  • Rhapsody

Music Industry links

  • ASCAP – The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
  • Audio Eclecticism in the 60s
  • Audio Engineering Society
  • BMI – Broadcast Music, Inc.
  • Bradley's School of Music
  • Fender Guitars
  • Grammy Awards
  • Guitar Books
  • Krank
  • Legends Masterclass

Rock Bassists of note

  • Ariane Cap
  • Billy Sheehan
  • Flea(Red Hot Chile Peppers)
  • Geddy Lee
  • John Paul Jones
  • Paul McCartney
  • Ross Valory

Rock Drummers of note

  • Carl Palmer
  • Clive Bunker(Jethro Tull)
  • John Bonham
  • Neil Peart
  • Ringo Starr
  • Steve Smith
  • Tommy Aldridge
  • Tommy Lee

Rock Guitarists of Note!

  • Angus Young
  • Blues Saraceno
  • Brian May
  • Carlos Santana
  • Doug Doppler
  • Eric Clapton
  • George Harrison
  • Jeff Beck
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Jimmy Page

Rock Keyboardists of note

  • Billy Joel
  • Elton John
  • Gregg Rolie
  • Jon Lord
  • Jonathan Cain
  • Keith Emerson
  • Nicky Hopkins
  • Ray Manzarek
  • Rick Wakeman

Rock Singers of Note

  • Ann Wilson
  • Chris Cornell
  • David Bowie
  • David Lee Roth
  • Elvis Presley (The King)
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Grace Slick
  • Jim Morrison
  • Mick Jagger
  • Ozzy

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