The Rocket Dolls debut album

The next generation of Rock and Roll. Thats what they say about rock bands that have a son of a famous rock and roll star in their band. "Fiction Plane" has Sting´s son playing bass and singing, Kofi Baker is Ginger Baker´s, the legendary drummer of Cream playing drums for many artists, including duets with his father and a tribute band to his father´s band, "Cream Experience".

The Rocket Dolls is a band from Brighton that have another rock star son in the band, Benji Knopfler, son of Mark Knopfler, from Dire Straits, but the big surprise here is that Benji didn´t followed his father steps on guitar, Benji is a drummer, and a very good one, and the band where he plays has nothing to do with his father´s career, something of a great value.

The Rocket Dolls is more than a band with a famous name on it. Its a great band that sound really great. They play a mixture of hard rock, grunge and metal with a very good voice that fits perfectly well every single song, powerful guitar riffs, great bass lines and a very energetic and precise drums, always doing what its meant to be done, always doing whats best for the song.

Nikki Smash is on vocals and guitar, and also writes the lyrics, Tommy K plays bass and Benji Knopfler plays drums. They released their first record "Eyes" which totally deserves to be heard.

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And buy his record here

The Rock and Roll Tree. What´s that?

Nice name for a blog, isn´t it?

But, what does it means? What does it have to do with Rock and Roll, or trees?

As a Rock and Roll fan, it´s sometimes very surprising to find out that this or that singer, guitar player, or drummer played in the same band once, or that after playing in that band, they started their own bands with sometimes even bigger success. Thats what Rock and Roll Tree means, a way to look at the rock band and their musicians as a tree, and their branches.

In this blog, we will talk about that Rock and Roll Trees and their branches, but also about other stuff related to Rock and Roll, news, releases etc etc.

And sometimes we will talk about trees.

Did you know?... The story of "Behind the mask"

"Behind the mask" was one of the unreleased songs on the last Michael Jackson´s record, and that´s the reason many people thinks it´s written by him, big mistake.

This song was originally written in 1978 by  Ryuichi Sakamoto for his techno pop band "Yellow Magic Orchestra" almost instrumental, with no lyrics at all except some at the chorus.

How this track got his way to Michael Jackson? Thanks to Greg Phillinganes, keyboardist than during the 80's was playing with many artists like Eric Clapton or Michael Jackson. He released his own version with some lyrics that sounded like this:

When touring with Eric Clapton, Greg Phillinganes used to sing that song, and Eric Clapton decided to record his own version, that you can listen in this video with Mark Knopfler and Elton John:

Michael Jackson also recorded his version when working with Greg Phillinganes, but never got to release it. After his death, as usual with the music industry, many unreleased material sees the light of day, like his own version of "Behind the mask"