In The Studio Archives: Live

I spent part of my Christmas holiday 1991 in an A-frame cabin with a wood burning stove in the still, snow-covered woods among the hills and “hollers” of Central Indiana’s Brown County. But we weren’t there for skiing or even simply to chill out. Instead, I was there to record the private band...

In conjunction with the release of Tommy Deluxe/ Super Deluxe editions, The Who’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have announced that their final tour will commence in 2015 to mark their fiftieth anniversary. These seemingly cicadian periodic announcements by Townshend and Daltrey never fail to bring a smile to my face, as by my...

Clearly, young Jeffrey Gaines was already reinterpreting Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” and mesmerizing audiences with it as early as Fall 1992, which this live acoustic performance on my Dallas/ Ft.Worth radio show reveals, but it would be nine more years before artist-oriented manager/ music executive Danny Goldberg would get it into the...

This may have been one of the MTV Unplugged series highlights, a live loose acoustic performance by the former Beatle and Wings leader in early 1991 with a crack band of veterans including Robbie McIntosh on lead guitar (ex-Pretenders) and Hamish Stewart (together with McIntosh they led the Average White Band to the...

Believed by Pete Townshend to have been destroyed by his explicit orders as recently as in his 2012 autobiography Who I Am , the forthcoming Tommy deluxe and super deluxe editions will contain The Who performing Tommy in concert at London’s Wembley Arena in July 1969. Here is “Amazing Journey” from the new...

All this week Sammy Hagar is celebrating his birthday with a series of performances at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Here is a smoking medley of “Marching to Mars/ There’s Only One Way to Rock” from  there in May 1997. -Redbeard   Backstage  in Las Vegas with Sammy Hagar‘s...

Melissa Etheridge, visiting Dallas radio station Q102 as a rookie in 1988, stepped up to the plate live, took a swing at “Chrome Plated Heart” from her debut released twenty-five years ago, and knocked it out of the park, performing on the guitar pictured here which had just been given to her by...

As you'll hear during the In The Studio show this month marking the 40th anniversary of Déjà Vu, rock myth collides head-on with fact regarding this legendary album. Neil Young was two years and two albums into a budding solo career when, after leaving Stephen Stills and Buffalo Springfield, Stills, ex-Byrd David Crosby,...