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Long Live Rock

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Long Live Rock is an interview show featuring in-depth exclusives with some of rock music's greatest artists. Host Sterling Whitaker is a Nashville-based music journalist, and the author of two books: 'Unsung Heroes of Rock Guitar' in 2003, and 2007's 'The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx'. Whitaker has appeared as a guest on VH1, BBC Radio, and radio stations all over North America and has interviewed an impressive list of classic rock and progressive rock personalities for Examiner.com

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Tom Sharpe is taking the road less traveled with his new album. The veteran musician is well-known to audiences worldwide for his annual tours as the drummer in Mannheim Steamroller, as well as playing with former Styx maestro Dennis DeYoung. But he's much more than that. Sharpe is also a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer in his own right. Sharpe's latest album is Lifting the World, which sees him turning his attention to a full-blown symphony. The album features Sharpe on multiple instruments, blending percussion elements, piano, strings, a choir and more for an ambitious, challenging piece of work that is an amalgam of classical and world music. Sharpe draws on a very broad palette, but has also created a work that is accessible to the average listener by focusing on structure and strong, clean melodies. Tom Sharpe talks to Long Live Rock about his stint in Mannheim, his recent departure from DeYoung's group, the process behind Lifting the World and more!
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You've heard Ricky Byrd's iconic guitar intro to the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts hit "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" a million times. You've also heard his work with artists like Ian Hunter, Roger Daltrey and Southside Johnny. And you've... more
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Perhaps it was inevitable that Dave Fields would become involved in music. The son of famed Broadway and film composer/arranger/producer Sammy Fields, he started playing piano at an early age before taking up guitar at 13. It wasn't long... more
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Fred Turner is best known as the singer and bass player from Bachman-Turner Overdrive. In 2009 he reunited with his former band mate Randy Bachman for a new album titled Bachman & Turner, followed by a world tour. The pair is... more
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Ned Evett has been hailed by USA Today as "the master of the fretless glass-necked guitar," and is widely acknowledged as the foremost fretless guitarist in the world today. In January 2012 Evett released his sixth studio album... more
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Ian Anderson is undoubtedly best known to most rock music fans as the singer, acoustic guitarist and flautist in the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull. Anderson is the group's principal composer, and so widely identified with Jethro... more
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Guitarist Andy Timmons has had an extremely diverse career. He has worked as a musician and arranger for artists as diverse as Olivia Newton-John, Paul Stanley and Paula Abdul, and sold more than a million records as a member of... more
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Tracii Guns is best-known for his role as guitarist and founding member of the Hollywood-based rock group L.A. Guns, which became one of the leading lights of the Sunset Strip scene in the 1980s with its self-titled debut album. Guns... more
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Doug Marks is the Mel Bay of Metal. Through his instructional series of Metal Method tapes, CDs and DVDs he has probably taught more people to play guitar than any other person on Earth today. In the mid-80s I first learned to play... more
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Alan Morse is the guitarist and founding member of the progressive rock band Spock's Beard. He founded the band in 1992 with his brother Neal, and the group released its first album, The Light in 1995. Neal departed in 2002, but the band... more
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