The artist who turned Monterey Pop Festival into a living room: “That’s what you want to do”
“I had never seen anything like it…”
From The Vault Archives: 11/2025
Linda Ronstadt and Philip K Dick: A sci-fi writer’s deathly obsession with soul’s “dark haired twin”
Two twisted, crossed paths.
Why ‘The Downward Spiral’ led to Trent Reznor wanting to quit music
“Do I really want to keep doing this?”
How Blue Öyster Cult laid out the archetype for band-groupie relations with ‘Goin’ Through the Motions’
“We do get more than, say, Bachman Turner Overdrive”.
The artist Ray Manzarek called “the secret weapon” of The Doors
“Everything you could have possibly hoped for.”
“The purest” song Pink Floyd ever made, according to David Gilmour
The crystalised version of prog rock perfection.
The guitarist George Harrison wanted for the Traveling Wilburys: “Don’t tell anybody”
The missing guitar link.
The one guitarist Jeff Beck admitted put “the final nail” in his coffin
Jeff Beck remembers the first time he saw Jimi Hendrix perform on stage.
The strange story of the pop song that saved Joni Mitchell: “I changed my mind about quitting”
Mitchell’s saving grace.