Bryan Rolli

1 week ago | ultimateclassicrock.com | Bryan Rolli

Jasper Dailey, Michael Ochs Archives, Getty ImagesSHARETWEETVeteran session bassist and 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Carol Kaye said she won't be attending this year's ceremony, claiming that it doesn't reflect "the work that studio musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s."Kaye was inducted into the Hall this year via the Musical Excellence category.

1 week ago | drgnews.com | Bryan Rolli

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1 week ago | ultimateclassicrock.com | Bryan Rolli

Jim Steinfeldt, Getty ImagesSHARETWEETKiss' Paul Stanley admitted that Gene Simmons left him feeling "resentful and hurt" when his bandmate began pursuing extracurricular projects in the '80s, leaving Stanley to pick up the musical slack. The singer and guitarist reflected on the schism in a new episode of The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan, which you can watch below. "I felt betrayed. No secret," Stanley said of Kiss' mid-'80s period, when Simmons delved into film and television.

1 week ago | squatchrocks.com | Bryan Rolli

Despite the fact that Whitesnake seem to be known for David Coverdale’s bleach-blonde locks, sensual power ballads and Tawny Kitaen dancing across your television screen on the hood of a Jaguar, things certainly didn’t start that way. The English rock band Whitesnake (based off of Coverdale’s solo album of the same name), came to fruition in 1978 after Coverdale’s departure from Deep Purple.

1 week ago | loudwire.com | Bryan Rolli

Ross Marino / Bill Tompkins / Fin Costello / Jim Shea / Gia Knaeps, Getty ImagesSHARETWEETOur list of nine great '80s hard rock bands that weren't hair metal is a reminder that the decade had plenty of movers and shakers outside of the glammed-up Sunset Strip scene. As bands such as Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Poison were moving albums by the truckload and blazing a new trail with their pop-savvy spin on "heavy metal," tons of other acts ran parallel to them on every rung of the fame ladder.