tim gueguen

As far as the Who goes I think a lot of the slagging Kenney Jones gets is retrospective, and he's used as the scapegoat for other...

Given what actually happened with Page over the next few years they probably wouldn't have done anything. Page tried to put together a...

That's 88Kasyo Junrei. Their name is a reference to the 88 Buddhist temples pilgrimage on the Japanese island of Shikoku.

There's a long Japanese rock thread in the Lounge, but the last post was 6 months ago...

The Wikipedia entry says Knopfler went into a near empty bar and saw a jazz band called the Sultans of Swing playing. He was amused by...

The Japanese heavy metal group Unlucky Morpheus did that literally. They took the sheet music for their song "Cadaver" and reversed it...

Reading this thread makes me think of the video group Team A'Thrash. They film club performances by Japanese hard rock and metal acts...

"A female Japanese version of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer" is a lazy way to describe Arsnova, but the ELP influence is obvious...

As I've said before Triumph is what Rush probably would have sounded like if they hadn't found Peart and Alex had more folk influences...

Given that "Sultans of Swing" is about a pub band playing jazz standards the "old guitar" might be something like a Hofner archtop, or...

The Kinks probably made more money in the US than in England between 1977 and 1985. None of their albums apparently charted in the UK...

Except for the hits he had the late '70s and early '80s. "Devil Woman," "We Don't Talk Anymore," and "Dreamin'" were all top 10 or...

The term is a stupid one. This stuff was already know as soft rock.