Leslie Michele Derrough, Author at Glide Magazine

Gigantour: Megadeth/Volbeat/Lacuna Coil: Verizon Wireless Theater, Houston, TX, 3/02/12

Leslie Michele Derrough March 23, 2012 No Comments

And what exactly did Megadeth give to the loud and excited crowd? One hell of a show. Getting all riled up over some fan’s stupidity only invigorated the band to play a balls-to-the-wall locomotive set, culminating in a masterful fire-breathing dragon of an instrumental orgy of “Holy Wars/Silent Scorn”. Proper credit has never been given to this band, much less for their guitar onslaughts, grown ever more vigorous with the addition of Broderick in 2010. There is definitely a new fire in their soul, which is apparent on old Megadeth standards “Peace Sells”, “Symphony Of Destruction” and “A Tout Le Monde”, which saw Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia joining the gravel-voiced one for a duet.

Intellectual Surfing With Howlin Rain

Leslie Michele Derrough March 20, 2012 No Comments

Sometimes we all love a good no-brainer rock song to get us through our day. But then there always comes a time when too much rhythm partying starts to fray the stem cells and you find yourself craving Bob Dylan or Neil Young or Peter Gabriel; music that injects a few bars of powerade Einstein into those cavities in the brain. Since about 2006, the San Francisco band Howlin Rain has been feeding the hungry with an alternative intelligentsia to the souls weakened by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.

Lawrence Gowan of Styx (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough March 19, 2012 No Comments

is not easy being the musician who takes over for a popular member of a superstar band; to come in and try to fill those shoes all while attempting to put your own personal spin on the music that millions know word for word and note for note. But this was the situation that Lawrence Gowan found himself in when he replaced Dennis DeYoung in the vastly popular Styx in 1999. Since then, he has put his stamp on the Styx catalog, adding a bit of Scottish-Canadian wizardry to their American classics such as “Renegade”, “Crystal Ball” and “Blue Collar Man”. But what some fans may still not know is that Gowan was pretty popular on his own in Canada, nabbing awards and hit records and successful tours. He just never had the chance to see what he could do in the United States until he joined forces with Styx.

Dj Ashba of Guns N’ Roses / Sixx:AM (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough March 13, 2012 No Comments

“They had me looking at things differently than I usually would. Ideas started to untangle and we got into areas of writing that seemed fresh and exciting,” Nikki Sixx wrote in his photography book This Is Gonna Hurt, referring to his collaboration with Sixx:AM bandmates Dj Ashba and James Michael. “Their talent inspired me like nothing else had in years."

Jaimoe – Legendary Allman Brothers Band Drummer Talks Past & Present

Leslie Michele Derrough March 7, 2012 No Comments

Jaimoe is quite proud of his band and has been traveling the country playing in small jazz clubs and opening for the Gregg Allman Band during their spring tour. But more new music is in the offering. “We’ve got five more songs in the can that didn’t make the album so we’ve got a good place to start from”.

Mike Portnoy of Adrenaline Mob/Dream Theater (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough March 5, 2012 No Comments

Mike Portnoy is laid back, cool, and relatively calm despite all the hysteria going on around him. When he called to talk with Glide last month, he was holed up in a recording studio in Nashville doing a new album with Neal Morse. That's in addition to his new album called Omerta with his band Adrenaline Mob and another new album with his other band Flying Colors.

Metal Journalist Lonn Friend (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough February 27, 2012 No Comments

Lonn Friend did not set out to be a journalist. It was not embalmed in his membrane when he first heard The Beatles or Genesis or Madman Across The Water. Music was just something that infiltrated his pores and ran screaming & shouting in gleeful playfulness through his veins and imploded in his soul like that first taste of a minty ice cream. He did not take courses in college or pray to the altar of Lester Bangs’ Creem rantings in hopes of one day becoming the superior voice of rock & roll adjectives and verbs. He did not plan on talking to rock stars about their creative process. He did not foresee hanging out with Axl Rose. It just one day happened.

Nils Lofgren of The E Street Band (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough February 20, 2012 No Comments

Nils Lofgren has his hands full. Not only has he recently released a new solo CD called Old School but he is preparing to hit the highway with his E Street band-mates on a highly anticipated tour. “We’re starting rehearsals,” Lofgren said before our interview last month while he was in New Jersey.

38 Special: Hard Rock Live, Biloxi, MS, 01/14/12

Leslie Michele Derrough February 15, 2012 No Comments

Chock full of rockers that got the heart pounding as well as the fists, 38 Special appeared to be having fun. Vocalist Donnie Van Zant roamed the stage with a noticeable hitch in his giddy-up, playing around with Chauncey and flashing a million watt smile. Barnes was more the calm-cool-and-collected guy, unlike his 1980’s persona, but his playing was not cold by any means. For his spotlight solo that kicked into “Trooper With An Attitude”, he led the audience on a finger-tapping scatfest. “Oh man, I love this job”, he said midway through.

Hank Williams III (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough February 13, 2012 No Comments

Don’t let the name fool you: Hank3 is not your average country music singer. The grandson of the country legend has many facets to his musical rhythm, from twangy country laced with metal to his speed-bullet punk-influenced Attention Deficit Domination. He is not who you think he would be

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