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"Geddy didn't understand what a blues scale was." Gene Simmons recalls the time he gave Rush's Geddy Lee a bass lesson on tour
By Liz Scarlett published
Kiss' Gene Simmons reflects on helping Rush's Geddy Lee with his bass knowledge while the two bands were on tour together

John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"
By Jerry Ewing published
Moody Blues bassist John Lodge will release Days Of Future Passed – My Sojourn to accompany July US tour

Corey Taylor announces UK/Europe tour dates, shares intense new single Post Traumatic Blues
By Paul Brannigan published
Hear the second single from Corey Taylor's upcoming CMF2 album, as Slipknot's frontman reveals tour dates for late 2023

“Led Zeppelin’s fee went from £500 to £20,000 in a year!” Collapsing stages and no toilets: The 1969 Bath Blues Festival that inspired Glastonbury
By Mick Wall published
They sold 7000 tickets – and 30,000 people turned up. How The Bath Blues Festivals became the inspiration to a young Michael Eavis and Glastonbury.

So Bill Murray just randomly turned up to a London rock bar, drank tequila and danced to blues music - and there's video to prove it
By Niall Doherty published
The East London venue stayed open late for Bill Murray, as you would

The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children box set to be released
By Jerry Ewing published
Remastered five disc deluxe box set of The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children to be released in May

Connor Selby might be blues music's next big star, and he's off to a flying start
By Polly Glass published
Meet Connor Selby, the latest young blueser with a big future. He's already opened for The Who and Pearl Jam... and he still lives with his parents

Bernie Marsden: a fair case for career reappraisal?
By John Aizlewood published
Four-CD set Big Boy Blues And Green examines the solo career of former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden
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