Jim Clash

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6 days agoThe story of the last time Van Halen, David Coverdale and Jimmy Page saw each otherDavid Coverdale (Whitesnake and Deep Purple) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds) are really good friends and even recorded together when they had the Coverdale/Page project. So they see each other from time to time and there is an interesting story, that you will discover in this video, that the last time they saw Eddie Van Halen was during one of those meetings.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Jim Clash |James Clash

Any time you get a chance to see The Yardbirds, it's a treat. The seminal band from the 1960s, although it has only one original member, drummer Jim McCarty, has support musicians so good you'll think it’s the original lineup. Their renditions of “Heart Full Of Soul,” “Shapes Of Things,” “I’m A Man,” and their other hits are top-notch. Over the years, I've seen The Yardbirds in various iterations.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Jim Clash |James Clash

Next month, Indy car bad boy Paul Tracy will launch his new podcast, "RACERS Unchained." Seems like podcasts are all the rage these days, so what makes Tracy's any different? The outspoken former racer that he is - both on-track and in the broadcast booth - says: "Journalists on many podcasts have not been on the inside. I've got a lot of personal experience on the track, plus a ton of friends in the business. People nowadays are very careful what they say. Me?

1 week ago | forbes.com | Jim Clash |James Clash

Dyess AFB in Abilene, Texas, is a sprawling community of thousands of Airmen and civilians. Managing operations there is critical to the overall U.S. Air Force mission. Col. Seth Spanier, 7th Bomb Wing Commander, shoulders much of that responsibility. As part of my visit to Dyess last month, I had a few minutes to chat with him. Following are edited excerpts from a longer conversation. Jim Clash: Can you broadly articulate the mission at Dyess within the context of U.S. Air Force operations? Col.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Jim Clash |James Clash

In the fifth part of this series about Dyess AFB in Abilene, Texas (links to other four parts below), I participated in a simple Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion training (SERE) exercise. The idea was we had successfully ejected from a crippled aircraft over enemy territory and needed to find a safe place for helicopter extraction by our own forces. The setting was an open field near woods with thick underbrush. All we had was what was in our packs in the ejection seat package.