By Bev Stanton,

For my first 10 years of playing music, I was in a succession of bands that went nowhere. Armed with the foolhardy belief that we were destined to succeed just by playing out and releasing product, we played gig after gig to dismal audiences and sent out hundreds of CDs to radio and media, yet received little notice. After years of frustration, I channelled my energies into a solo techno project. I hit pay dirt and was signed to a record company after sending out only 20 cassettes.

The long awaited first ever Sebastian Bach DVD 'Forever Wild' is exceeding my wildest expectations in every way! Wait till you freaks get your hands on this, it rips! It consists of a killer live concert recorded at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood, California & includes the requisite extras as well. There is song commentary explaining never-before-heard details behind the songs '18 & Life', 'I Remember You', 'Youth Gone Wild' & more, the 'Sleep' video, & 'This is The Moment' (from Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical) LIVE from the Spring 2002 tour!

By Dick Stewart (The Lance Monthly),

[Interviewer's note: John Beecher, who will be 60 June 3, has played a principal life-time roll in keeping the Buddy Holly era alive, and his list of credits are impressive: head of UK's Buddy Holly Fan Club in the '60s; co-author of the Remembering Buddy bio; chief advisor and inspirer to Paul McCarney's The Real Buddy Holly Story documentary; and present day head honcho of Rollercoaster Records - one of the world's largest reissue labels of U.S. '50s rockabilly legends.

Edwin McCain's new album, Scream and Whisper, catches him on a second honeymoon. It's a group of songs that arrived while he was falling in love with music all over again, and thus finds him renewing his vows with his life's passion.

By David Fagin,

Over the last few years, as my band faded from the press and as we tried to find a label crazy enough to release another one of our records, I watched radio become exactly what Pete Townsend said it would become in his never-realized sequel to "Tommy" - "Lifehouse." In his story, Pete says that "Tommy" is no longer physically deaf, dumb and blind, but emotionally deaf, dumb and blind. His senses are overrun and subsequently deadened by advertisers, the media, and the like. In Lifehouse, the government has assumed control of the radio, and the citizens are not allowed to listen to anything but mundane, boring, safe, Muzak. Betcha didn't know you'd be so right so soon, huh, Pete? Leave it to Janet and Justin to be the downfall of freedom of speech - or the necessary wake up call.