John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted Thursday on charges of mishandling classified material. The indictment, filed in federal court in Greenbelt, MD, charges Bolton with eight counts of transmitting national defense information (NDI) and ten counts of unlawfully retaining NDI. Prosecutors allege that between 2018 and 2022, Bolton used personal email and messaging applications to send NDI—including top-secret documents—to individuals not authorized to receive them. The indictment also says he kept classified materials at his Maryland home. The FBI searched Bolton’s home and Washington, DC office in August, seizing dozens of unauthorized documents and electronic devices, according to prosecutors. Bolton’s legal team denied wrongdoing, saying the materials had been approved as part of a pre-publication review for Bolton’s book. The Justice Department said the seized files “revealed intelligence about future attacks, foreign adversaries, and foreign-policy relations,” including “information revealing sources and methods used to obtain statements on a foreign adversary.” FBI Director Kash Patel praised investigators’ “meticulous work” and said the case shows that “weaponization of justice will not be tolerated.” If convicted, Bolton faces up to 10 years in prison for each count. The post John Bolton Indicted Over Classified Material Handling appeared first on The American Conservative.

Bram Stoker’s creative process behind his iconic Gothic novel was shrouded in mystery for nearly a century.

The original Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley passed away on October 16 at the age of 74, the news was shared by his family as reported by Variety. A week ago, his social media announced that "due to some ongoing medical issues", he had to cancel the remaining dates of his current tour. TMZ reported that he had suffered a fall in his studio at the time and suffered a brain bleed. He was on life support and placed on a ventilator after the accident but according to their sources he hadn't gotten better and his family was considering turning off support. Read Ace Frehley's family statement about his death “We are completely devastated and heartbroken. In his last moments, we were fortunate enough to have been able to surround him with loving, caring, peaceful words, thoughts, prayers and intentions as he left this earth. We cherish all of his finest memories, his laughter, and celebrate his strengths and kindness that he bestowed upon others. The magnitude of his passing is of epic proportions, and beyond comprehension. Reflecting on all of his incredible life achievements, Ace’s memory will continue to live on forever!” Ace was one of the most influential guitar players of all time, a crucial part of the success of Kiss in the early days of the band. He helped to form Kiss alongside Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss in New Yor City back in 1973. He was part of the band until 1982 when he decided to leave and returned from 1996 to 2002. His first solo album, released in 1978 in the same day the other members of the band also released theirs, was the most succesful one from the four. It had songs like "New York Groove" and "Rip It Out". After Kiss he formed Frehley's Comet, releasing two albums and then focused on his solo career. His final album was "10,000 Volts", released in 2024 but he was currently working on his third covers album "Origins Vol. 3", which will be probably released in the future. How Ace got his nickname https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DU51bx2GCk Well, like almost all the rest of the world, his nickname “Ace” was created by his friends in school, because of his incredible ability to get dates with girls for his friends. He attended the DeWitt Clinton High School, which was located on Mosholu Parkway and the Theodore Roosevelt High School on Fordham Road. The nickname was eventually useful in Kiss since there was already another Paul in the band, so Frehley adopted “Ace” as his first name. The guitarist told the story of his nickname in an interview with Paul Guy in 1997. “I got nicknamed Ace in high school. (It was from the) drummer in my band when I was about 16, cause he was shy, you know. We used to play gigs on the weekends, and I always used to set him up with girls. And one day he just came up to me, I’d set him up with a beautiful girl. I was with her friend, and they were both really cute.” “He said to me, wow, you’re such a fucking ace, I really appreciate it, you know? And it kind of stuck and eventually everybody started calling me Ace. Then when I went to audition for Kiss, and I joined the group,. My real name is Paul, and every time Peter and Gene would say Paul, both me and Paul would turn around. So I said, this isn’t going to work. Call me by my nickname,” he said.The post Original Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley dies at 74 appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The American artist Drew Struzan passed away at the age of 78 in October 2025. Although his name might not be familiar to many Rock and movie fans, chances are you’ve had a poster illustrated by him on your wall at some point in your life. Struzan was known for his airbrushed one-sheets technique when designing movie posters. He was responsible for more than 150 iconic film posters, including The Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, E.T., Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and Star Wars. But he also created many covers for famous Rock and Roll albums. To pay tribute to the legendary artist, Rock and Roll Garage selected some of the album covers he made. Rock and Roll album covers created by Drew Struzan Poco "Pickin' Up the Pieces" (1969) Grand Funk Railroad "Phoenix" (1972) Roy Orbison "Memphis" (1972) Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973) Canned Heat "One More River to Cross" (1973) Alice Cooper "Greatest Hits" (1974) Alice Cooper "Welcome To My Nightmare" (1975) Iron Butterfly "Scorching Beauty" (1975) Other movie posters he illustrated were: John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982), "First Blood (Rambo)" (1982), "Risky Business" (1983), "Police Academy" (1984) "The Goonies" (1985), "Better Off Dead" (1985), "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986), "The Name of The Rose" (1986), "Hook" (1991), "Hocus Pocus" (1994), "Mallrats" (1995), "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001). During his career he won the awards: "Saturn Award" (2002), "Inkpot Award" (2010), "Saul Bass Award" (2014), "Sergio Award" (2016) and "Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame" (2020).The post Rock and Roll album covers created by Drew Struzan appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The guitarist Dennis Stratton was a member of Iron Maiden from December 1979 to October 1980, less than a year. But alongside Dave Murray he was one of the guitar players on the band's first album. With classics like "Iron Maiden", "Running Free", "Prowler", "Phantom of The Opera", "Charlotte the Harlot" and "Transylvannia", that record is celebrated by the fans of the band to this day. Although he was fired due creative differences by the band after their tour supporting Kiss in Europe, he is a good friend of Steve Harris and talked in an interview with Rock Talk about their friendship. Dennis Stratton talks about his friendship with Steve Harris "I speak to Steve all the time, mostly about shit West Ham football. He has been a West Ham supporter with a life full of misery. But yeah, I was with Steve in Finland a couple of weeks ago, and Simon [Dawson, new Iron Maiden drummer], who's doing a fantastic job. Love Simon. I saw the show with the crazy Finns. And then we came back. I had a week at home. I was playing in the UK in London, and then we went to the London stadium, met up with them again, and had something to eat and drink." "But the show at the London stadium, I was blown away. The sound was just unbelievable. I've been to many Donningtons, many Reading festivals and concerts at the O2, but for a metal band, every rock band [that played] at the London stadium, [they] never had a sound like it. The separation of the guitars was perfect. The power chords, the way they run on the guitars, they were singing, and Bruce's voice was sounding great." "We went back afterwards to see Steve, and he came out and we had a cuddle, when I said to him, 'Well, Steve, that's the best sound I've ever heard.' And I spoke to him the next day on the phone, and I said, 'Honestly, I'm still buzzing.' I've heard 'em so many times... but the sound at that London [show] was the best I've ever heard," Dennis Stratton said (Transcribed by Ultimate Guitar). After Maiden, Stratton recorded albums with Lionheart, Praying Mantis (Also as occasional vocalist) and also with Paul Di'Anno. At the age of 73 he continues to tour performing especially that first Iron Maiden album he was part of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2Q_8CPLno&list=RDiM2Q_8CPLno&start_radio=1&pp=ygUbaXJvbiBtYWlkZW4gZGVubmlzIHN0cmF0dG9uoAcBThe post Dennis Stratton talks about his friendship with Steve Harris appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Although bassist, singer, and keyboardist Geddy Lee is a huge fan of Progressive Rock music and Rush is known as a Progressive Hard Rock band, he has always been interested in many other types of music. Whenever there is an interesting bass guitarist, he listens to their bands' music. Over the decades, he has talked about many bands with remarkable bass players, sharing his opinions about them. One of those bands was the American group Red Hot Chili Peppers, which features Flea as their bassist. What is Geddy Lee's opinion on the Red Hot Chili Peppers Geddy Lee is a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, especially because of the band’s acclaimed bassist, Flea. The Rush frontman has always admired his bass playing and even tried to incorporate some of his style into his own."Flea blows my mind. I mean, when you talk about a generation of bass players that started slapping. There’s so many. I guess it grew a little bit out of jazz, a little bit out of R&B. I remember for a time, that’s all you heard." "Every bass player was slapping and popping, slapping and popping. And then there was Flea, who could slap, pop, and play everything in between, to such incredible, dextrous degree, that I just felt he used that in such a brilliant way. He brought that sensibility of … I guess, what you would call in that period, sort of a contemporary R&B style of play into a rock genre. (He) always kept it rock. Always does rock." "And I love the fact that he has all those tools in his toolbox. More tools than most other bass players have, in my view. And he always experimented with different instruments, and got a bit of a different tone. And again, here’s a guy that did a lot of pop music, and yet that pop music had very aggressive, very creative, very melodic bass lines. So I just love that about his playing, and I’ve come to appreciate it over the years, more and more. He’s very identifiable, and he has a singular style of playing," Geddy Lee told Rolling Stone in 2020 listing Flea as one of his favorite bass players. Geddy Lee compared the bass in "Give It Away" with the one from The Beatles' "Come Together" In Rock and Roll music, the guitar has most often been the instrument that captures the listeners’ attention. However, there are a few tracks, like The Beatles’ “Come Together,” where the bass takes the spotlight and becomes the driving force of the song. For Geddy Lee, the Red Hot Chili Peppers classic “Give It Away,” from their 1991 album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", relates to that, as the bass is also the central element of the track. “(Flea) He is a monster player. Flea is one of the great, you know, contemporary bass players. His influences are so Funk driven, yet, he can do anything. On ‘Give It Away’ he is just like the bass in ‘Come Together’. Like the bass in so many great pop songs. He is providing an alternate rhythm for the drums and an alternate melody and he is working at the bottom of the neck and the top of the neck. He is going back and forth between. Which I always love as a bass player, that’s a perfect example of that,” Geddy Lee told Amazon Music in 2019 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). "Give It Away" was one of the songs he told the streaming service that inspired his playing the most. He tried to learn how to play a bit like Flea Although the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rush did a very different kind of music, Geddy was inspired by Flea. He even tried to incorporate some of that inspiration in the 1990s. However, that didn't work so well because he really couldn't play like the musician as he recalled in his book "My Effin' Life" (2023). "At the time, incidentally, I wanted to bring a more percussive, rhythmic approach to the way I hit the strings, and developed a kind of flamenco approach to playing. It was partly inspired by watching Les Claypool of Primus on stage and listening to players like Flea, who switched seamlessly from a slap style to traditional yet still adventuresome Rock." "What accidentally made my style unique was that I was pretty much a failed slap player. When I attempted my strings sounded too clicky and lost 'oomph'. So I developed my own finger technique to produce an aggressive rhythmic approach that retained my signature twang. What at first sounded weak and weird in the context of Rush provided a different but still powerful backbone," Geddy Lee said. Geddy Lee is a fan of the RHCP drummer Chad Smith https://youtu.be/Y7PtYnltIKA?si=i3f5F5lEDtj9MTiI&t=274 Besides Flea, Geddy Lee already praised Chad Smith, RHCP's drummer, who is also a fan of Rush and the late drummer Neil Peart. Curiously, when mentioning Smith as a drummer he liked, in an interview with The Guardian in 2023 answering questions from fans. Geddy also mentioned Anika Nilles, who was announced in 2025 as the touring drummer for Rush's return to the road. Smith performed "Working Man" with Alex Lifeson and Geddy in 2022 at the Taylor Hawkins tribute show in Los Angeles. "There are so many. We’re living in a time rich with great drummers. I love (Tool’s drummer) Danny Carey’s playing. I love (Red Hot Chili Peppers’) Chad Smith. Very different to Neil, but the man has so much power. I heard this drummer the other day, I think her name is Anika (Nilles). She played on the last Jeff Beck tour and I thought she was terrific," he said. After Smith played with them in 2022, he talked about the band in an interview with Power Hour. "For me to be able to play with them... I mean, when I was 15, the record for me, was "2112". I would put the f*cking 8-track in, smoke some weed in the parking lot before going to school like every day and I was like in! (Then) I changed my f*cking drum set, set up the cowbells, the whole thing. I have my Neil phase, which I think any drummer had," he said. When Red Hot Chili Peppers was formed in 1982, Rush already was a known band for almost a decade. But the band would really become commercially successful in the 1990s. Especially because of albums like "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (1991) and "Californication" (1999). The post Geddy Lee’s opinion on the Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.