In The Studio Archives: Classic Rock Interview

“Traveling the world was now a constant thing…The whole thing was becoming a creative process”, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page said recently at a press conference marking the fortieth anniversary deluxe edition of Physical Graffiti . By the time of composing for this, their sixth studio album, Led Zeppelin’s international success was taking their...

In the delightful 2008 electric guitar documentary film It Might Get Loud starring Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page along with The Edge from U2 and Jack White, we finally get a glimpse inside the English country manor house known as Headley Grange,  immortalized as the site of recording Led Zeppelin‘s record-breaking fourth album....

As you hear during the In The Studio interview  marking the 45th anniversary of Déjà Vu , rock myth collides head-on with fact regarding Neil Young‘s initial integration into Crosby, Stills, & Nash.  Young was two years and two albums into a budding solo career  after leaving  Buffalo Springfield when  former bandmate Stephen Stills, ex-Byrd David...

“With Shake Your Money Maker we thought we would make our one album, you know, and then talk about it the rest of our lives!”, says Black Crowes singer/ songwriter Chris Robinson of the under-estimated January 1990 debut which, for fifty-four consecutive weeks, punched way above its weight class until peaking in the...

Don’t miss the Rush R40 North American Tour which went on sale today! This could be the final big one. For details, see associated story here. Four years before the dawn of MTV and almost two decades before the internet revolutionized the music industry, Rush sold more than a million copies of their...

It was late January 1985 and Atlantic Records had invited me to London (along with the late WNEW-FM legend Scott Muni and WBCN Boston’s Oedipus ) to interview Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers as The Firm, broadcasting back to millions listening in America live from the famed Abbey Road Studios. As I prepared...

Hundreds of miles north of Miami, Jacksonville Florida is light years away culturally from its more glamorous and glitzy counterpart downstate. Jacksonville does not show up on many listings of American music meccas alongside New York City, Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. But maybe it should. You see, the swamps...