"Life is Beautiful" is a hard rock single by Los Angeles-based rock band Sixx:A.M.. It was written by Nikki Sixx, who formed Sixx:A.M., and of the legendary glam metal band Mötley Crüe.   more...The song is the first single and reached #2 on U.S. Mainstream Hot 100.  less

"Breath" is the second single and the third track off of post-grunge band Breaking Benjamin's third album, Phobia. It is the band's highest charted song ever. It hit #1 on the US Mainstream   more...Rock Tracks chart, making it Breaking Benjamin's first number-one hit. The song stayed at number one for seven weeks.  less

"Lips of an Angel" is their pro-adultery power ballad off of the band’s first album sold more than 3 million copies. Hinder is an American band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that was formed in   more...2001. The lyrics deal with a singer describing his feelings when his assumed ex-girlfriend calls him late at night, both in relationships at the time. Austin Winkler from Hinder said that the song is not about cheating. It is based on a past experience of the lead singers.  less

"Fake It" is the first single from Seether's album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. "Fake It" was released and quickly rose to number one on both the modern and mainstream rock charts.   more...Seether is a post-grunge band from South Africa. Originally called Saron Gas, they changed their name in 2002  less

"Pain" is the second single from rock band Three Days Grace's second album, One-X. Three Days Grace is a post-grunge band based in Canada and was formed in 1997. According to the band, the song   more...is based on the pain and loneliness encountered on the road during their tours. The band describes this as when people are inches away from you, but you feel miles apart. They allow themselves to be immersed in pain and depression, while they try to listen to a voice that tries to help them break free of this pain.  less

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing was influential on rock music. After initial success in Europe, he achieved fame in the USA following his   more...1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix helped develop the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers. Here is a vintage look back at Jimi in Belgium in 1967.  less

Aerosmith covered the song on their 1974 album Get Your Wings. This performance was from August 16th 1974 on the Midnight Special. It was released as the second single from the album. The song has long   more...been played on album-oriented rock and classic rock radio stations. Additionally, the song has long been an important staple in the band's live shows, often closing their shows. Additionally, the band is known to play two different versions of the song, the regular version of the song, as well as a slowed-down version often called "Slow Train" in the setlists.  less

Cowboy is Kid Rock's self described "Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Run-D.M.C." 1999 smash hit off the album Devil Without a Cause. The song is a genre all to its self fusing elements of rap, Heavy metal,   more...folk and southern rock. The song contains samples of The Allman Brothers "Midnight Rider" and the piano break of the Doors "L.A. Woman" in which during the video Joe C and Gary Coleman duel it out while porn star Ron Jeremy rocks the piano.  less

"'Bad Motor Scooter" performed here in 1974 was the second track from the album Montrose by the band of the same name. It, along with "Rock Candy" was arguably the best known song   more...by the band, Montrose, with lyrics penned by frontman Sammy Hagar. It comes in with a phase-shifting guitar that sounds like a motorcycle. It had been that guitar sound that became the defining component of the song. When the song was conceived before this guitar sound, the band and Ted Templeman were not impressed because they thought it was missing something to make it stand out. Ronnie Montrose stumbled upon it while messing with a slide and fuzz box one day in the studio. Ronnie played his guitar in open D tuning, Montrose improvised what became the motorcycle sound while Templeman and engineer Donn Landee kept him going while they failed to get the tape rolling. The sound became the most recognizable feature of the song.  less

This is a cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which also featured on the recording George Harrison and Jeff Lynne on backing vocals and acoustic guitar. He began playing guitar   more...when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. In the mid eighties while playing in famed blues club Albert's Hall Jeff was discovered by guitar virtuosos Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins.
In his Memory: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Jeff Healey lost his sight when he was eight months old to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given artificial replacements. After living cancer-free for 38 years, he subsequently developed sarcoma in his legs; despite surgery for this, the sarcoma spread to his lungs and ultimately was the cause of his death on March 2, 2008, he was 41. His death came a month before the release of his new album, Mess of Blues, which was his first rock album in 8 years.  less

Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday July 25, 1965. This was the night when Dylan "went electric". "Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by American songwriter Bob Dylan. One   more...of his best-known and most influential works, it had its origin as a short story Dylan had written before developing it as a song and recording it in 1965.
The basis of "Like a Rolling Stone" was a twenty-page story written by Dylan. It was, according to him, "just a rhythm thing on paper all about my steady hatred, directed at some point that was honest." From the story, Dylan wrote four verses and one chorus in Woodstock, New York. The song was written on an upright piano in the key of G sharp; it was changed to C on the guitar while recording. The song was originally written in 3/4 (waltz) time, and with a length of 1:36, was much shorter than the released 4/4 version.  less

Last Goodbye was the fourth track on Live On which is the third studio album by blues solo artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, released in 1999. Live On was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2000. Kenny is Self-taught,   more...he began playing at age 7, learning Muddy Waters licks from his father's record collection. At the age of 13, he was invited onstage by the New Orleans bluesman Bryan Lee. After proving his abilities, he decided on music as a career.  less

This is a single by the Beastie Boys from their album Hello Nasty. It was released on July 14, 1998. The song received a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1999. The video won   more...the award for "Best Hip Hop Video" at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.
The song samples the theme music for the 1985 film The Toxic Avenger, Prelude in C# Minor as composed by Rachmaninoff. The "Intergalactic" video featured a giant robot causing destruction by fighting a giant octopus-headed creature in a city while popping, a parody of Japanese Kaiju films. Various scenes are filmed in the Shibuya and Shinjuku train stations in Tokyo, Japan in which the band wears the bright uniforms of (Koji) Japanese street construction workers.  less

It was a single released by Australian rock group INXS in August 1988. It was also included on the band's sixth studio album, Kick. "Never Tear Us Apart" is a sensuous ballad, layered with synthesizers   more...and containing dramatic pauses before the instrumental breaks. Kirk Pengilly lends a cathartic saxophone solo near the end. the song was originally composed on piano as a bluesy number in the style of Fats Domino. Producer Chris Thomas suggested a synth-based arrangement instead.  less

This single was released on Cocky which was Kid Rock's third album released with Atlantic Records, released in 2001. The album marked his transformation from rap rocker to full fledge southern rocker   more...and country singer on later releases.  less

Born with a Broken Heart is the first track on Ledbetter Heights which is the debut album by the blues solo artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd. He released it in October 1995 when he was 18 years old. This show   more...was from Austin City Limits 1996  less

Deja Voodoo is off of the album Ledbetter Heights which was the debut album by the blues solo artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd. He released it in October 1995 when he was 18 years old. Its name refers to a   more...neighborhood in Shepherd's home town of Shreveport, Louisiana. Deja Voodoo is the 2nd track on the album.  less

"Face Down" is the first single from the album, Don't You Fake It by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The song was written about lead singer Ronnie's mother who was abused by his father (as stated   more...in an Alternative Press article). It is notable for being one of the few songs in recent times to include screaming and reach the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100  less

Wylde started playing the guitar at the age of 15 and has stated that he would practice playing the guitar as much as 12 hours per day and often would play the guitar almost non-stop between coming home   more...from school and leaving for school the next morning, then sleeping through the school day. Well it sure looks like the practice has payed off. Here Zack is playing the National Anthem at a hockey game with a hell of a lot of feeling. You have to love a guy who loves his country. Thanks Zack, I love it.  less

"Hell Yeah" is the official theme song for WWE One Night Stand 2008. WWE Diva Ashley Massaro appears in the music video for "Hell Yeah." The song has also become known for being the   more...intro song for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. Rev Theory (formerly known as Revelation Theory) is an American post-grunge band from North Andover, Massachusetts. Formed in 1997.  less

Check out this short film about Harley-Davidson. It's from www.livingbyit.com. It's an inside look at living outside on the edge. Come over to my side said the spider to the fly.

"Nothing Else Matters" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica. It was first released in 1991 on the self-titled Black Album. Singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield initially wrote it to   more...a former girlfriend, but he cannot remember why. It is one of the few Metallica songs in which Hetfield, rather than Hammett, plays the guitar solo. Because of this, and the fact that Hetfield recorded all rhythm and most harmony tracks on the band's first five albums, it is also the only Metallica song that does not feature Hammett's playing.  less

"Smooth" is a duet by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas. The song was written by Rob Thomas The song won three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration   more...with Vocals. It spent a record-breaking ten consecutive weeks at the top of the VSpot Top 20 Countdown.  less

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