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• Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dies-L.A. Woman Interview

   In this classic rock interview with Doors co-founder/ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, we find that the dream of the 1967 Summer of Love, embodied by The Doors’ “Light My Fire”, had by 1971 run headlong into Continue Reading

• Doors 45th Anniversary with Ray Manzarek, Dead at 74

  The top 10 list of rock game-changing debut albums is short but breathtaking. Among them : Are You Experienced? , Led Zeppelin 1 , Music from Big Pink , Ramones , Please Please Me , Never Mind the Bollocks …(more)

• When the Music’s Over-Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead at 74

  With a very sad heart, I must notify you that Doors co-founder, keyboard player, and keeper of the Doors legacy, Ray Manzarek, has passed away at age 74. The second Doors  album Strange Days came Continue Reading

• Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead-Strange Days 45th anniversary-pt2

  The Doors‘ debut only nine months earlier remains more often written about, mostly because it was so startlingly fully formed and sounding unlike anything else. But Strange Days actually is an even stronger second effort, Continue Reading

• Rolling Stones-Some Girls 35th Anniversary w/Mick Jagger,Keith Richards,Ron Wood

  The first time I interviewed Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones it was January 1989. The band had been on hiatus for the last half of the decade, and seeing into the Stones’ future was Continue Reading

• ROLLING STONES: CLEARLY VERY COOL

  Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Hot Rocks 1964-1971, the most celebrated albums in ABKCO’s catalog of Rolling Stones releases, will debut later this month as 180-gram LPs, pressed on clear vinyl, in celebration of the band’s 50th Continue Reading

• Rod Stewart-Time

   Blame Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. Before them, Artist and Repertoire execs at a record company chose a songwriter’s tune, then matched it with a separate singer or vocal group in hopes of Continue Reading

• Redbeard Hosts Slacker’s 101 Greatest Classic Rock Songs

  Check out a very special ‘Signature Series’ playlist this month, ’101 Greatest CLASSIC ROCK Songs on SLACKER hosted by yours truly REDBEARD. Throughout the countdown you can hear InTheStudio artist interview clips I’ve curated  for Continue Reading

• Cars-The Cars 35th anniversary-Ric Ocasek

  “We made that first record in twelve days,” says The Cars‘ driving force Ric Ocasek in this In the Studio classic rock interview. What is even more remarkable is that The Cars would accelerate from Continue Reading

• Rolling Stones Warm Up at LA Club

  As it turns out, the Rolling Stones were spot on almost fifty years ago when they  sang“Time Is On My Side”. The paradox is that they were equally accurate when, in 1974, an only slightly Continue Reading