“I learned”: The three guitarists Steve Cropper wanted to avoid sounding like
“So I became Steve Cropper”.
From The Vault Archives: 03/2026
“Everyone’s got a theory”: how Nine Inch Nails got their name
“It’s a curse trying to come up with band names…”
“Everybody wanted out”: The classic song The Mamas and the Papas could never surpass
Flew too close to the sun.
“So real and so true”: The American singer Steven Tyler said won his heart forever
Touching him in the most profound way.
The American icons that united James Hetfield and Axl Rose: “Wearing make-up and dressing cool”
The most valuable rock and roll licks.
Lilith Fair: When an all-female music festival went to Washington State
The highest-grossing tour of the 1990s.
“So beautiful”: The musician behind one of the best notes Joni Mitchell ever heard
The best sequence of music.
“We made most of it up”: Nirvana’s mischievous record of lying about their own history
“Our record-company bio is nothing but a huge lie”.
“Very simple”: The lyric Paul Simon said shouldn’t have lasted 100 years
Not the most original line in the world.