Tag: Backstage Bar and Billiards
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Maragold – Las Vegas, NV – Backstage Bar & Billiards – September 19, 2014
I was very excited to see the invite for Maragold’s first Las Vegas show. Their guitarist, Greg Howe, was prominently featured in ads in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine, from which I mostly taught myself to play guitar in the late ’80’s. His first solo album, as well as his next two “band […]
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Inside Metal: Pioneers of L.A. Hard Rock and Metal Open a Fundraiser To Get The Fans Involved!
The early ’80s metal scene in Los Angeles has become legendary, as it spawned such worldwide headliners as Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Dokken, W.A.S.P. and countless others. Many of those very artists now live in and perform in our neon and glittery Sin City ( have you never been to Vamp’d? Vinyl? LVCS? Dive? […]
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20 Years Later: A Tribute to Kurt Cobain
April 5, 1994. I was just a few months shy of turning 4 when Kurt Loder broke the news over MTV to the world. “Today, Kurt Cobain, the leader of one of rock’s most gifted and promising bands, Nirvana, is dead.” I sat glued to my television when that news broke. A man who spoke […]