Gene Simmons talks about coming to America when he just turned nine years old. Although he didn't speak any English, hearing Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Sam Cook, Otis Reding and James Brown on the radio made perfect sense to him. The music moved him and he moved to it! At that young age, he couldn’t quite figure out what it was that excited him so. One thing he knew for certain, he was smitten by the music. Gene reflects on the first time he saw the Beatles…
Stephen Pearcy of RATT talks about his early days before RATT. Getting run over by a car, his first band Crystal Pystal, Mickey Ratt hanging out with Eddie Van Halen, smoking a joint with David Lee Roth in the late 70s, getting signed and recording Round and Round with Beau Hill.
Michael Wilton of Queensryche talks to Rock Scene about his very young years in San Francisco, moving to Seattle Washington and playing bass in garage bands while growing up. Eventually switching instruments with a guitar player, Michael began learning all that he could about the guitar. After high school, he attended the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts for a year and a half until running out of money, forcing him to take a job. In doing so, he met Eddie…
Steven Adler the original drummer from Guns n Roses talking abou t his Rock Scene growing up, getting his first drum set, and the first record he bought, KISS ALIVE 1. Steven reminisces about how he met Slash in history class when he was 12 and seeing Ax l & Izzy’s band“Hollywood Rose” at Gazzarri’s on the Sunset Strip.