Max Bell

2 weeks ago | loudersound.com | Max Bell

Midnight is approaching in LA, and outside the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, the members of Canned Heat and their entourage are kicking back in the yard. It’s April 4, 1981. The band have just finished their first set of the night, and are passing joints around before they return to the stage for round two. The Heat’s glory days are long behind them.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Max Bell

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Canned Heat in 1969: Harvey Mandel, Alan Wilson, Bob Hite, Larry Taylor and Fito De La Parra. | Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesMidnight is approaching in LA, and outside the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, the members of Canned Heat and their entourage are kicking back in the yard. It’s April 4, 1981.

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Max Bell

Dennis Wilson made his name as a member of the Beach Boys. But in 1977, he broke away to record a lone solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue. In 2008, Classic Rock looked back on the making of a cult classic – and Wilson’s tragic death six years later. Dennis Wilson, second born of the famous Wilson brotherhood, was the soul of the Beach Boys. Sure, Brian was the genius, the mastermind without whom they’d never have got out of their Hawthorne garage. Pudgy Carl was the organiser.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Max Bell

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Michael Putland/Getty ImagesDennis Wilson made his name as a member of the Beach Boys. But in 1977, he broke away to record a lone solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue. In 2008, Classic Rock looked back on the making of a cult classic – and Wilson’s tragic death six years later. Dennis Wilson, second born of the famous Wilson brotherhood, was the soul of the Beach Boys.

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Max Bell

Surly, cantankerous and occasionally violent, the late Ginger Baker was nonetheless one of rock’s greatest drummers. In 2011, as the former Cream man prepared to release his autobiography, Classic Rock stepped into the lion’s den for an audience with a genuine one-off. The World’s Greatest Drummer is lying flat out on a bed in a West London hotel room when the man from Classic Rock is ushered into his presence.