The long goodbye is a real economic strategy and it has a limit. Extended farewell tours are easy to mock...
Gordon Pyle
Gordon Pyle covers classic rock, hard rock and metal for RockRevival.News. Writes about riffs, records that have lasted, and the bands still doing it decades in - without pretending nothing good was made after 1979.
The wider vinyl revival was a return. Here it was continuity. The vinyl revival is usually told as a comeback...
Down-tuned guitars occupy the bass register, and something has to move. In heavy music the bass guitar is competing for...
The claim is made about once a decade and rests on measuring the wrong thing. Rock is declared dead at...
A committed audience that travels changes what a promoter can charge and what a band can earn. Heavy music sustains...
Mostly arrangement decisions and tone selection. Very little of it is knob-twiddling. The production credit on a heavy record covers...
The pentatonic vocabulary that built hard rock came from somewhere specific, and it is still there. Almost every hard rock...
Backline stacks became staging long before they stopped being necessary. The towering wall of speaker cabinets behind a hard rock...
The size in a classic rock drum sound is usually the room, not the kit. Ask what makes a heavy...
Dropping the pitch is not just darker. It changes string tension, playing technique and what the riff can be. Tuning...
