REDBEARD'S BLOG

• Big Mac at 71- Happy Birthday Paul McCartney!

  Here is an encore interview which we did a few years ago to mark Sir Paul‘s 64th birthday, immortalized in 1967 by his “When I’m 64″ from the Beatles‘ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Continue Reading

• Lynyrd Skynyrd-Pronounced 40th Anniversary-Gary Rossington,Ed King

  As I gaze on the cover of Jacksonville FL young bucks Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Pronounced   album released four decades ago, lots of little things come to mind which, taken individually, might appear insignificant. The digitally Continue Reading

• Ringo Starr Gives You a Tour of His New Grammy Museum Collection

  The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles just opened a new installation featuring Ringo Starr, and the lovable little guy with the big beat gives you a personal tour, thanks to Rock Cellar online magazine.

• ZZ Top-Complete Albums 1970-1990 w/Billy Gibbons,Dusty Hill,Frank Beard

  Get a load of ZZ Top’s Complete Albums 1970-1990 box set, complete with the correct original mixes, including: the funky ZZ Top’s First Album in 1970; the vastly improved and highly underrated follow-up Rio Grande Continue Reading

• Joe Walsh-The Smoker You Drink-But Seriously Folks

  Having lived during my teenage years about a hundred miles away from the Cleveland/Akron-Canton, Ohio club scene which launched the James Gang, I was not just  casually familiar with songwriter/singer/lead guitarist Joe Walsh‘s career. In Continue Reading

• Eagles 40th Anniversary Tour Extended-Glenn Frey-Randy Meisner

  By 1972 America’s musical continental drift had shifted dramatically westward, in part a reaction to the psychedelic sounds of the Summer of Love five years earlier. Bob Dylan had put Upstate New York’s Woodstock into Continue Reading

• Police-Synchronicity 30th Anniversary with Sting,Stewart Copeland

  On their first U.S.tour in early 1979, the three members of The Police arrived for their first interview at my Memphis ROCK 103 radio studio in a station wagon. Barely 15 months later they returned Continue Reading

• 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

• 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