George Harrison and Eric Clapton are certainly two of the greatest guitarists of all time and besides that they were also great friends. Their friendship continued even after Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd left him and married Clapton. Their connection was also in music, since they performed and recorded together many times over the decades. But how did that friendship start? Clapton recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine back in 1991. When Eric Clapton talked about his friendship with George Harrison: "We jostle a lot. It’s a very jostling relationship. He’s about a year or two older than me, and because he was there first, there’s a bit of swagger that never goes away. I love him very dearly, and I know he loves me, but it’s like we’re always testing each other. At the same time, there’s this total support. He’s like my older brother, really. When I’m around him, I always feel like I’ve got to do a bit better than I normally would." "(The first time we met) I was in the Yardbirds, and we were playing a thing called the Beatles Christmas Show at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London. The Yardbirds were on the bottom of the bill, but all of the acts in between the Yardbirds and the Beatles were sort of music-hall, English rock & roll groups. And the Yardbirds were an R&B band, or even a blues band. And so there was a bit of, like, What’s this all about? He was checking me out, and I was checking him out to see if he was a real guitar player." He continued: "And I realized that he was. But we come from different sides of the tracks. I grew up loving black music, and he grew up with the Chet Atkins-Carl Perkins side of things – blues versus rockabilly. That rockabilly style always attracted me, but I never wanted to take it up. And I think it’s the same for him. The blues scene attracts him, but it evades him somehow. He’s much more comfortable with the finger-picking style of guitar," Eric Clapton said. Eric Clapton was the only guitarist who was not a member of The Beatles to play in a track released by the band. He played the guitar solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", which was a George Harrison song. They worked with each other extensively in the following decades and even toured together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1m4s1rbK4&pp=ygUdZXJpYyBjbGFwdG9uIGdlb3JnZSBoYXJyaXNvbiA%3DThe post The story of how Eric Clapton and George Harrison first met each other appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The Black Crowes are currently promoting their new studio album "Happiness Bastards" and they will continue for the rest of 2024 and also during the first months of 2025. The band announced new tour dates across the United States next September, October, November, December, January and February. The only two original members of the group nowadays are the brothers Chris Robinson (Vocals) and Rich Robinson (Guitar). Are also part of the band Sven Pipien (Bass – Since 1997), Erik Deustch (Keyboards), Nico Bereciartua (Guitar), Cully Symington (Drums), Mackenzie Adams (Backing vocals) and Lesley Grant (Backing vocals). “Happiness Bastards” was their first album in 15 years. Their 10th studio record was released last March 15. New Black Crowes 2024 and 2025 tour dates September 28 - Cincinnati, OH - Hard Rock Cincinnati Outdoor Arena October 3 - Simpsonville, SC - CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park 9 - Wilmington, NC - Live Oak Bank Pavilion 12 - Macon, GA - Atrium Health Amphitheater 15 - Southaven, MS - BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove 18 - Gary, IN - Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana November 1 - Tucson, AZ - AVA Amphitheatre at Casino Del Sol 14 - Durant, OK - Choctaw Grand Theater 17 - Albuquerque, NM - Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino Hotel 22 - Wenatchee, WA - Town Toyota Center 29 - Wheatland, CA - Hard Rock Live Sacramento December 3 - Stateline, NV - Tahoe Blue Event Center 6 - Indio, CA - Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Special Events Center January 2025 2 - Verona, NY - Turning Stone Resort Casino 11 - Rama, ON - Casino Rama Resort 18 - Rockford, IL - Hard Rock Live Rockford 21 - Milwaukee, WI - Miller High Life Theatre 24 - Waukee, IA - Vibrant Music Hall February 12 - St Petersburg, FL - Duke Energy Center for the Arts - Mahaffey Theater 15 - St Augustine, FL - The St. Augustine Amphitheatre 22 - Oxon Hill, MD - The Theater at MGM National Harbor 28 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHBu97e--xA&pp=ygURYmxhY2sgY3Jvd2VzIDIwMjQ%3DThe post The Black Crowes announce 2024 and 2025 tour dates appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Born in San Francisco, California back in 1947, the guitarist and singer Bob Weir helped to form The Grateful Dead back in 1965 and even though the band officially came to an end (with that name) after Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, Bob continued to play with his bandmates in other spin-off groups like "Dead & Company", besides also focusing on his solo career. Since The Grateful Dead has always been known as a live band, more than a studio group, Bob is often praised by his playing and the ability to improvise, something that is part of the band's style. In an interview with Alan Paul back in 2015, the musician recalled who his primary guitar influences are. He explained that everything started when he was 17 and tried to imitate the piano on the guitar. Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and his primary guitar influences: "Initially country and acoustic blues players. But my dirty little secret is that I learned by trying to imitate a piano. Specifically the work of McCoy Tyner in the John Coltrane Quartet. That caught my ear and lit my flame when I was 17." "I just loved what he did underneath Coltrane. So I sat with it for a long time and really tried to absorb it. Of course, Jerry was very influenced by horn players, including Coltrane. But I never really explicitly thought about that relationship. Because I didn’t really ever decide to pattern myself after McCoy Tyner’s piano. It just grabbed me." He continued: "I’ve never had much of an idea of what I’m up to and I’m not sure that I do even now. But I have always been there to serve the music and believed that if you sincerely do so then your appropriate role will present itself. Then it’s just a matter of finding the perfect place to play that role and I’m very fortunate that this happened to me at a very young age," Bob Weir said. During the same conversation he agreed that he usually doesn't play repetitive patterns and noted that is something that he was able to develop since he focused on being a rhythm guitar player. He also said that there is also an influence of Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, since both of them usually didn't "repeat anything". During the three decades they were active, the band released 13 studio albums that sold according to the Guinness World Records, an estimated amount of more than 35 million copies worldwide. However, bands with that amount of sales usually don’t get the chance to play to a completely sold out stadium, for example. They usually perform in smaller venues, but that’s not what happened with the Dead. The only song by the group that entered the Top 40 or the Hot 100 charts during their entire career was the 1987 track “Touch of Grey” from their album “In the Dark”. So there was always a big difference between their record sales and their tours. Because for most part of their career, the group played to completely sold out stadiums in the United States and Canada, especially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMjY6tXaEoThe post Who are Bob Weir’s primary guitar influences appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

Back in 2004, Van Halen reunited with Sammy Hagar and the band toured across the United States. One of their opening acts during those shows was the band Shinedown, formed in Jacksonville, Florida three years before. At the time they only had one record out and were promoting that material. In an interview with Paltrocast (Transcribed by Ultimate Classic Rock), the band's drummer Barry Kerch recalled that he saw Eddie Van Halen kicking Sammy Hagar "square in the nuts" on stage. He said that it was really incredible to have toured with one of his favorite bands but that it was a strange experience as well. Because at the time he said that was a clear division in the band, since Alex Van Halen would show up for the gig and then go away right after, Eddie would be in his own world with the guitar but would eventually show up in their dressing room and talk about guitars. But on the other side, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony would always be together and they had the chance to hang out with the singer and bassist. Van Halen opening act recalls fight between Eddie and Hagar “Eddie (had a) cigarette in his mouth, bottle of wine in one hand, guitar on, 24-7 – that’s how he lived. He’d kick open our dressing room door, (start talking), teach how (he did something) on guitar. Wolfie was still riding a scooter up and down the hallways – he was like 10 – and Valerie was there, taking care and everything. So I got to meet all that. She’s the sweetest, Wolfie was a good kid.” “You never saw Alex; Alex would just show up, do the gig, get out – he didn’t want part of the drama, I’m sure. But I did get to sit behind his drum set, which was awesome!” “(...) There was one night Sammy was singing, and I don’t know why Eddie was pissed at him, but he was. Eddie comes over and just kicks him as hard as he can, square in the nuts, while he’s singing. Yeah, they really don’t like each other! But I had a dream come true, and they sounded great every night,” Barry Kerch said. Although there was a lot of tension between Sammy and the brothers Van Halen, the singer said after Eddie's passing in 2020 that he had the chance to say goodbye and be on good terms with the guitarist before he died. However he noted that the same thing didn't happen with Alex, who doesn't return his calls and doesn't talk to him for more than 20 years already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGUAZM-qb8&pp=ygUOcG91bmRjYWtlIGxpdmU%3DThe post Van Halen opening act recalls fight between Eddie and Hagar appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

The friendship between George Harrison and Eric Clapton started back in the 60s when they first met each other when The Yardbirds opened for The Beatles. In the following years they played and recorded together, Clapton even played the solo in the famous Beatles track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". But besides being great friends and fellow musicians, there is another interesting thing about the two, they were both married with the model and photographer Pattie Boyd. She was first married to George Harrison, from 1966 to 1977 when they divorced. But Clapton never hid his intentions even when she was married to the Beatle and by the time she divorced they were already together. They ended up getting married in 1979 and divorced 10 years later, in 1989. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine back in 1991, Clapton talked about that relationship and how George reacted to that. What Eric Clapton once said about marrying harrison's ex-wife "Unbelievable (what happened). And it’s still there (their friendship). It has something to do with the way we wind each other up. I mean, there’s always a little barbed comment somewhere in any conversation. I mean, that devastated all three of us. It was fun at the time. It really was like one of those movies where you see wife swapping – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. And everyone was saying: “Oh, it doesn’t matter. We can write our own story on this.” Because those were the times." "But it took years, and it’ll never go away, the way it affected our lives. We’re still very much the same in the way we think about and feel about each other. Pattie is still there in the picture for all of us." He was then asked if there was a period where they didn't talk to each other because of Pattie. But as Clapton revealed, he said that George would even go visit the couple in their house from time to time. "No, not really. We always talked. Some of it was very LSD-type conversation and very esoteric, sort of cosmo-speak, especially from George. And he would show up from time to time, when Pattie and I were living together. He came around once, and it was all very trippy. It got quite hostile at times, but we always cared for one another." "I’ll probably get my knuckles rapped for talking about all this. I’ll go home, and I’ll see George, and he’ll go, “Oh, running off at the mouth again.” But I find it very hard not to talk about it, because it’s a part of my life," Eric Clapton said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprwkbzUX6g&pp=ygUed29uZGVyZnVsIHRvbmlnaHQgZXJpYyBjbGFwdG9uThe post What Eric Clapton once said about marrying Harrison’s ex-wife appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

“We are thrilled to bring to you ‘The Origins Tour,” said singer Todd La Torre in a statement. “We will once again be performing (the self-titled) EP and (the band’s full-length debut effort) ‘The Warning,’ in their entirety!” Over the years, and there have been many of them, fans have developed a love for the group’s early releases, especially the ’83 EP and ’84’s “The Warning.“  Queensryche formed in ’82 and has released 16 studio albums and one EP. Tour Dates: Ticket Information: Oct. 09 – The Hall – Spartanburg, SCOct. 10 – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TNOct. 12 – The National – Richmond, VAOct. 13 – The NorVa – Norfolk, VAOct. 16 – The Queen – Wilmington, DEOct. 17 – Pasquerilla Convention Center – Johnstown, PAOct. 19 – Event Center at Hollywood Casino – Charles Town, WV*Oct. 20 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OHOct. 22 – Grewal Hall – Lansing, MIOct. 23 – The Forge – Joliet, ILOct. 25 – Myth Live – Maplewood, MNOct. 26 – Military Heritage Alliance – Sioux Falls, SDOct. 28 – Pub Station – Billings, MTOct. 29 – The Wilma – Missoula, MTOct. 31 – Tulalip Resort Casino – Tulalip, WA*Nov. 01 – Little Creek Casino – Shleton, WA*Nov. 02 – Clearwater Casino – Lewiston, ID*Nov. 03 – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UTNov. 06 – Celebrity Theatre – Phoenix, AZNov. 08 – Tannahill’s – Fort Worth, TXNov. 09 – Jakes Backroom – Lubbock, TXNov. 10 – Aztec Theatre – San Antonio, TXNov. 12 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LANov. 13 – The Hall – Little Rock, ARNov. 15 – Soul Kitchen – Mobile, ALNov. 16 – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL ### The post Queensryche: “The Origins Tour” This Fall appeared first on RockinTown.