Steely Dan’s Walter Becker on his favourite musicians: “Bob Dylan was such a great singer”
“I got a lot of inflections and stuff from various blues singers.”
From The Vault Archives: 02/2024
The song Tom Waits wrote as an ode to his childhood best friend
“There’s more to deal with than just your fundamental street wisdom.”
The two Rolling Stones albums praised by Hunter S. Thompson
The Gonzo pioneer was a man of great taste.
Kirk Hammett recalls the moment Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose came to blows
“Axl’s like, “I’ll beat your ass. Come on. Let’s go!”
The Radiohead album Dave Grohl calls “a pivotal moment in the history of music”
The Foo Fighters frontman was blown away by the Oxford band.
The Rolling Stones song Mick Jagger thinks no one understands: “They get it all wrong”
Not exactly what he was trying to say.