Leslie Michele Derrough, Author at Glide Magazine

Phil Collen of Def Leppard (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough February 6, 2012 No Comments

“I’m sitting on the beach and it’s fantastic,” says Phil Collen feeling like a kid again via a new album he has out with his trio Manraze, featuring Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook and Collen’s former Girl bandmate Simon Laffy. Called FunkPunkRootsRock, the CD features such rocking songs as the first single “Over My Dead Body”, “All I Want To Do”, “Bittersweet” and “Closer To Me”.

The Sheepdogs – Living Proof

Leslie Michele Derrough February 3, 2012 No Comments

There is a certain excitement that comes when you accomplish something that you have been striving for. It’s part relief, part genuine euphoria, and definitely part panic. Because now that you have reached this well-fought-for goal, what do you do next? The Sheepdogs are a Saskatoon band that have been playing around for approximately seven years. It has been a long hard haul, but the light at the end of the sweaty, small, dark music clubs through the Canadian heartland came quite unexpectedly via Rolling Stone and a whole gaggle of music fans that voted for the band to be on the cover. And it wasn’t only Canadians that boosted them above their competition.

Kenny Aronoff – Drummer For Everyone (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough January 30, 2012 No Comments

You may not know his name but I can bet that you have heard the man play drums. Remember that drum beat in John Mellencamp’s “Jack & Diane”? That’s Kenny Aronoff. In fact, he played with the Indiana rocker for over fifteen years. He has played behind Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Bob Dylan, Melissa Etheridge, Stevie Nicks, Elton John, Santana, Ray Charles, Jon Bon Jovi; the list is endless. How in the world does one man accomplish so much?

In The Studio With Slash & Todd Kerns

Leslie Michele Derrough January 27, 2012 No Comments

The bad ass in the top hat is busy. He is hunkered down in the Barefoot Recordings Studio playing guitar, as his crackerjack band-mates – Todd Kerns on bass, Brent Fitz on drums and Myles Kennedy on vocals – surround him as they record the old-fashioned way: on two-inch analog tape, a wet dream to those who love the pristine sound that comes from using this method over pro-tools modernity.

Alt Rock Vocalist Livan (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough January 23, 2012 No Comments

He is on his way to Pittsburgh to play a show. He is smoking cigarettes and telling me exactly how he feels about the music business. He does not hold back. If you haven’t heard of Livan yet, you need to check him out. He spent some time recently opening for Alice Cooper yet he is not metal nor alternative nor straight-ahead punk.

Gregg Allman Band/Jaimoe

Leslie Michele Derrough January 18, 2012 No Comments

What a difference a year makes. When Gregg Allman brought his band to Biloxi last year he was fully recovered from a 2010 liver transplant and with a brand new rip-roaring blues album hot off the presses. And his guitar player Scott Sharrard was his secret weapon. One year later, Gregg and his band are smoking hot, playing with a youthful vitality that was just a wee-bit lacking before, and Sharrard is no longer a secret.

Shaun Morgan of Seether (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough January 16, 2012 No Comments

As children, we all rode bicycles and climbed trees and had a jolly good time just being a kid. Seether’s frontman Shaun Morgan wasn’t that different from you and me … except he grew up in a turbulent South Africa. Calling in before a show in northern Mississippi, Morgan talked at length about his childhood, his influences, his band’s latest CD Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray, and how it was actually a song in a movie that showed him the power of music.

Staind/Chevelle/Halestorm/Adelitas Way/Black Tide: Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS, 12/16/11

Leslie Michele Derrough January 11, 2012 No Comments

Five bands, one ticket price: Now that is the way to enjoy a Friday night; especially in today’s messed-up economy. And on this night a quinary of bands from the harder-rocking sector of music came out to play for a house full of fans, young and old. It is always good to see music not having an age limit and I’d like to think when I am 60, bands will still lure me into the bowels of a mosh pit. As Todd Kerns told me last year, "we are just now experiencing our rock & roll idols growing older, and as they age so does the majority of their long-time fans. And those fans are the ones bringing not only their children but their grandchildren to concerts now. With this kind of die-hard loyalty, rock & roll will never die."

JD DeServio of Black Label Society/Cycle of Pain (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough January 9, 2012 No Comments

JD DeServio is a fun guy. He loves to talk and he loves to laugh and when he gets a big ole nasty looking blister on his finger from playing his bass, he just has to show it to you. Black Label Society had just played a sweaty kick ass show in New Orleans when DeServio comes up to me outside the venue to show me his war wound with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

Tyler Connolly of Theory Of A Deadman (INTERVIEW)

Leslie Michele Derrough January 2, 2012 No Comments

Formed in 2001 by Connolly and his neighborhood buddies in British Columbia, Canada, Theory Of A Deadman is one of those bands that can rock & sock you one moment and then touch a raw nerve the next. Where does all this mixture of Tabasco rock come from? Try the early days of Connolly, an admitted bad boy from day one.

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