Ben Fong-Torres

Jan 7, 2025 | flipboard.com | Ben Fong-Torres

“I had a long vamp out and I played an extra few notes. David smiled and said, ‘Tony, in Pink Floyd you don’t do that extra couple notes until far later’”: Tony Levin on playing for Pink Floyd in the post-Roger Waters eraSaying that Tony Levin has had just an illustrious career would be an understatement. The esteemed bassist has played with everyone, from John Lennon …

Feb 8, 2024 | rollingstone.com | Ben Fong-Torres

Holy Krishna! What kind of an opening night for George Harrison is this? Ravi Shankar asks for silence and no smoking during his music. Silence is very important, he says, because music is eternal, and out of the silence comes the music. Something like that. But, instead, out of the audience comes this piercing death cry, followed by a rain of war whoops.

Jul 16, 2023 | acousticguitar.com | Ben Fong-Torres |Adam Perlmutter |Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers |Christopher Paul Stelling

Not many bands can claim to have played together for well over 30 years—while its members are in their 40s. Nickel Creek, formed back when Chris Thile and Sara Watkins were seven and Sean Watkins was 12, is a special case. Chris and Sara were still teenagers when the band released the seminal 2000 album Nickel Creek, produced by Alison Krauss, which merged the sounds of bluegrass and Celtic music with contemporary song craft and went platinum.