In The Studio Archives: Classic Rock Interview

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These are the interviews from the most recent editions of the weekly national radio broadcast of In The Studio .

Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever 25th Anniversary

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Prior to this conversation, the last time I had interviewed Tom Petty had been in Dallas in the Fall 1987 when he and the Heartbreakers had toured supporting Bob Dylan. Petty had his first wife and daughters with him on the tour because they were quite literally homeless after an arsonist had set...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd-Second Helping 40th Anniversary-Gary Rossington,Ed King

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Sure, the Lynyrd Skynyrd legend inevitably circles back to their first album Pronounced and the epic “Free Bird”, but don’t let revisionist history fool you: this April 1974 follow-up, Second Helping, is the incredibly strong album which busted them wide open, & not just because of the rebel singalong “Sweet Home Alabama”. Just...
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KISS-Best Of-Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons

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There are a flurry of new developments in the now forty year saga of KISS, and regardless of whether you think the frottage foursome are rock gods or demons doesn’t change the fact that a complete catalog reissue series on vinyl is underway; a forty song double CD Best Of KISS is coming...
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Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 40th Anniversary pt 2 w/Elton,Bernie Taupin

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This is the conclusion of the interviews with Sir Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin on the fortieth anniversary of the blockbuster double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which includes a segment on the remake of “Candle in the Wind ’97″, the biggest-selling recording in history. Photo left of Elton John performing last...
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Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 40th Anniversary-Elton,Bernie Taupin

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With Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, this double album masterpiece is a virtual greatest hits package unto itself with “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”,”Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Bennie and the Jets”,”Saturday Night’s All Right for Fighting”,”Harmony”, and the original “Candle in the Wind”. Ranked at #91 on Rolling Stone magazines Top...
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Supertramp-Breakfast in America 35th Anniversary-Roger Hodgson

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On the eve of Supertramp‘s international blockbuster Breakfast in America 35 years ago, none of us outside the Brit ex-pat band’s tight inner circle living in suburban Los Angeles had any reason to see it coming. Sure, their U.S. label patiently had given them the time to cook up something popular over the...
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Pink Floyd-The Division Bell 20th Anniversary-David Gilmour,Nick Mason

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 Listening to this interview, one of the last ever with the late gentle and fragile original Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, you would have no indication of the circumstances under which we had this conversation. In mid-March 1994 I had been driven to a decommissioned Air Force base in the California desert at...
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Police-Outlandos d’Amour 35th Anniversary-Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland

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“Outlandos d’Amour has a certain grotesque, naive charm about it,” Sting confesses in this week’s 35th anniversary rockumentary about the Police debut,”but Regatta de Blanc was infinitely a much better record.” He was absolutely correct, of course, but it was due simply to his, Police drummer Stewart Copeland‘s, and guitarist Andy Summers‘ lack...
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Scorpions-Love at First Sting 30th Anniversary-Klaus Meine,Rudolph Schenker

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With the current Winter Olympics focusing the world’s attention on the post-Communist Era Russia, it is fascinating to be reminded by members of Germany’s  Scorpions just how much rock music  has changed the world. And they should know better than anyone: they were there, living it every day twenty-five years ago. “We were...
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