"He's doing fantastic. He's living up here in Woodstock full time. We've been playing a lot of music. He's enjoying his retirement. He's playing piano and singing the occasional rock-and-roll cover with our family band at the Midnight Ramble, and we're having a great time."
Bach sounds like an absolute natural performing this material. While he lacks the New York brassiness of Dee Snider, the group's iconic original frontman, his own manic energy transfers well to the performance.
In the 50s, Chuck Berry wrote things that were so good they could've been part of the Harlem Renaissance, and he taught my whole generation. They're all influenced by Chuck Berry—Bob and the Beatles and everybody—cause he made stories in words that flowed effortlessly. And his stories were great.
Geoff Rickly began Thursday's set in the balcony, giving the first public performance of No Devolución track 'Empty Glass', which had previously been performed during a 2021 livestream set.
Grohl, come out with it and just say we're cool. Be man enough to man up, because you're the Übermensch that has all the straight males, and we're cool, but you won't say it because you're afraid you'll lose your audience.
Rogers gave 'Alaska' the acoustic treatment, surrounded by a string quartet and slowing the song's tempo to folk-tinged crawl, providing a luxurious, introspective rendition.
The Sound It Made opens Two Wheels Move the Soul like the blaze is roaring to life before your eyes. Zack James' shifty drumming hammers out a drum 'n' bass redux like a panicked heartbeat while Carney Hemler's bass lurches in slow motion, replicating the gut drop of a horrible realization.