By Steve Newton Steve Vai is one of those guitarists where you watch him play and you’re like: “How the hell does he do that!?” This is the first interview I did with him, when he was only 29, touring with Whitesnake, and had just released his solo album Passion and Warfare. During the first … Continue reading 10 minutes on the phone with 29-year-old Steve Vai in 1990
I did my third interview with Zakk Wylde when his band Black Label Society was touring behind its sixth studio album, Mafia.a
I did my second interview with James Hetfield on March 11, 2004, when Metallica was touring behind its much-maligned St. Anger album.
Back in 1997 I interviewed Joe Satriani while he was touring with Steve Vai, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Robert Fripp in the second G3 Tour.
Back in August of 1989 I did my third interview with Kim Mitchell, who was touring behind his third solo album, Rockland.
Toronto’s Blue Rodeo has often been called one of Canada’s best groups. But after seeing the band on the weekend, I’m not so sure.
Steve Dawson plays the Van Folk Fest By Steve Newton FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Philip Kaufman’s 1978 horror remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring the late Canadian acting great Donald Sutherland. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: Canadian improvisor Colin Mochrie of TV’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? performs two Arts Club … Continue reading Newt’s top 10 (or 15) things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 19 to 21
“Guitar was the easiest thing, because you can travel with it, you can play on the street corner with it, and you can do auditions with it…”
I did my third interview with Joe Satriani in August of 1997, when he had just finished up recording his seventh studio album, Crystal Planet.
Being mainly a rock and blues fan, the mainstream Canadian pop acts normally celebrated by the Junos don’t really turn my crank.
I interviewed Joe Satriani back in August of 1997, one year after he’d launched the very first G-3 Tour, with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson.
By Steve Newton I did the third of my six interviews with Steve Earle, one of my favourite all-time singer-songwriters, back in July of 1996. That was three months after the release of his sixth album, I Feel Alright–the one with “Hardcore Troubadour”. A week earlier he’d performed in Dallas as part of the Lollapalooza … Continue reading That time Steve Earle told me: “I been locked up. A buncha kids throwing plastic bottles doesn’t really scare me very much.”
Just heard the sad news, that Joey Molland of Badfinger–one of the greatest power-pop bands of all time–passed away today at the age of 77.
