‘Sabre Dance’: The song that inspired Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker
“It wasn’t normal guitar playing.”
From The Vault Archives: 03/2024
The musician who made Vashti Bunyan give up music
“I shouldn’t have compared myself to other people.”
The only Talking Heads song not to feature a David Byrne lyric
The frontman was usually involved in lyrical direction to some degree.
‘Shattered Image’: The Dolly Parton song that came from a place of hate
“You don’t hardly even recognise it.”
The song that made Frank Zappa want to stick a “flower in somebody’s gun”
A song by a band he supposedly hated.
‘The Tide Is High’: The only Blondie song Chris Stein knew was “going to be a hit”
“If we did a successful version of this thing, it would be successful.”
‘Paranoid’: The Black Sabbath guitar solo Tony Iommi called “horrible”
The guitarist picks holes in one of his finest contributions.
The two greatest songs Lou Reed ever heard
“I fell down laughing. You can listen to that, you can listen to the words going on and it’s tremendous.”