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...product of Turner's collaborative side. The song explored the major sonic themes that Presley would revisit years later on That's All Right and then some - Rocket 88 was brash and it was sexy; it took elements of the blues, hammered them with rhythm and attitude and electric guitar, and reimagined black music into something new. If the blues seemed to give voice to old wisdom, this new music seemed full of youthful notions. If the blues was about squeezing cathartic joy out of the bad times, this new music was about letting the good times roll...
SOLD. "BLACKIE," Eric Clapton's favorite guitar; to an undisclosed buyer; for a record $959,500; in New York. The legendary rocker auctioned the Fender Stratocaster, his sole studio and stage guitar from 1970 to 1985, along with 56 others, at a charity auction to raise money for the Crossroads Center Antigua, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the West Indies...
...other." After checking himself into rehab for a month, Tweedy went back to listen to the new album. "It turns out that a lot of what I was going through played out on the record before I could even identify it in myself," he says. "Like the first guitar break on the record--it totally feels like a panic attack...
...include indie-rock hipsters and the electronica avant-garde. A Ghost Is Born will probably do even better than its predecessor, though on first listen they have little in common. This time the songs are more loosely constructed, with Tweedy's delicate dirges giving way to roaring, rambling guitar solos. There are no hit singles here--"You can't hear it on the radio," Tweedy acknowledges on the final track, The Late Greats--but the album may still be the year's most addictive rock release. "One of the underlying principles of the band is the idea that there...
DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a button-down law-school graduate, he lent an intellectual image, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s...