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Ultimate Guitar interviewed Def Leppard Guitarist Phil Collen. Here he talks about various things from touring, the record industry and the elements of a good song.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: What do you think are the elements that make up a great song?
Phil Collen: It could be many different things. But lyrically if you create an image of some sort of… like for example Hotel California, that song actually puts you in a place every time you hear it, even from the very first time you hear it. You have an image of what it is going to be …read more

No, I’m not dead. I’ve been on vacation. I wanted to do some updates but was busy with a lot of other activities with the family and Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest in VA Beach on Friday. Here’ is what happened in rock news over the weekend and I’ll be updating through out the day.
Lallapalooza turned in to Rage-apallooza when all hell broke loose during Rage Against The Machine’s set. A bunch of people were taken to the hospital and there was word that some people were intentionally hurting other people and stopping them from exiting.

What the hell is ‘The Gravel Report’? Over at MetalMartyr.com I do The Scrap Metal Report. It’s basically one post with a round up of various news pieces from the day or past days, sometimes with a link to the original story. This is a rock blog so this is The Gravel Report. This will be an every other day or every now and then thing. Welcome…
The Butthole Surfers Brawlers? Gibby Haynes was carted off stage last night by security in an NYC show for pelting the soundman with a beer bottle. I’ve seen this before with The Misfitsin D.C. …read more

MSN music recently published an editorial entitled 10 Artists Who Should Stop Making Records. While there is ten of them, I’m going to weed out the Rock relevant ones and a snip of their article with my views on it at the end.
The Black Crowes
MSN Said:
”Remember the recent controversy in which Maxim magazine reviewed the new Black Crowes album before the writer had even heard it? Well, that is obviously inexcusable, but here’s the thing no one seems willing to say: He was right. (They must not have read my post at Metalmartyr)
You don’t really need to hear a Crowes …read more