Ultimate Classic Rock Weekends with Matt Wardlaw

Fans talk about why the band's "brutal beat" still matters in exclusive book excerpt.

"I've heard it, and it's very raw," guitarist Andy Summers says. "We're just pounding away."

Guitarist Rick Richards tells UCR, "There’s so much Izzy material that’s never seen the light of day that needs to."

Bassist Mike Levine was known to quip, "Yeah, I'm Geddy. I’m just having a bad day."

Singer-songwriter says he found a "new lease on life" thanks to collaboration with the Boss.

"It became sort of a political football. I didn’t really want to kick it around too much."

Being in the studio with friends was the only place where he'd "not be so sad that I wanted to die."

Band members "wrote a bunch of songs" for a planned supergroup that didn't happen.

Guitarist looks back at legendary predecessor.

Shock-rocker points out he was theatrical and having hit records "before anybody else."

"You're f---in' crazy," Sammy Hagar told the Seattle group.

Learn how Eddie Van Halen, Kurt Cobain, the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and others were memorialized by the media.