In The Studio Archives: Medium Rare

Rare musician interviews by Redbeard not part of the weekly radio series .

Free-Fire and Water-Best Of with Paul Rodgers

Posted May 5, 2013

In 1970 I was like most white American teenagers in that , with the exception of B.B.King's Top 40 hit "The Thrill Is Gone" , most of us had gotten our limited exposure to the blues second-hand via young English bands such as Led Zeppelin . And even though the members of London-based...

Byrds-Early Best-Roger McGuinn,David Crosby,Chris Hillman

Posted Apr 24, 2013

The members of the original Byrds – singer/songwriter/electric 12-string guitar player Roger (Jim) McGuinn, singer/songwriter David Crosby, the late singer/songwriter Gene Clark, bass player Chris Hillman, & the late drummer Michael Clarke – were always unabashed in their acknowledgment of their influences, equal parts American folk singers, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. Yet...

Spirit-Best with Jay Ferguson

Posted Apr 9, 2013

Spirit was an interesting amalgam of opposites and contrasts which reflected all of the various musical styles of late-1960s Southern California. Singer/songwriter Jay Ferguson, bass player Mark Andes, and keyboard player John Locke were talented teenagers influenced by the Beach Boys, Mamas and the Papas, and The Byrds; psychedelic blues guitarist Randy Wolfe...

Simple Minds-Celebrate:the Greatest Hits-Jim Kerr-part one

Posted Mar 30, 2013

Jim Kerr,March 1991- My Dallas/Ft.Worth radio station Q-102 promoted and hosted countless popular film premieres in the '80s and '90s which gave thousands of listeners the opportunity to see major motion pictures first and for free. I remember 25 years ago attending the one for the Brat Pack movie The Breakfast Club...

Simple Minds-Celebrate:the Greatest Hits-Jim Kerr-part two

Posted Mar 30, 2013

After forming in the Post-Punk late Seventies, then rising to heady international success in the MTV Eighties, there was a real question by 1995 whether Scottish band Simple Minds, lead by Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr, could remain relevant in a third decade. In the conclusion of my 2013 interview with Kerr, he...

Steppenwolf-Gold- with John Kay

Posted Mar 17, 2013

Iconic songs “Born to Be Wild”, “Magic Carpet Ride”,”The Pusher”,”Rock Me”,”Move Over”, Hoyt Axton‘s “Snowblind Friend” were all recorded in rapid succession from 1968 to 1971 by Steppenwolf ( named after the Hermann Hesse novel ), led by Communist East Germany-via-Canada exile John Kay (born Joachim Krauledat) whose real life story, as you...

Van Morrison-Born to Sing-pt 1

Posted Mar 13, 2013

Even though I doubt that it was St.Patrick who first coined the term “blue eyed soul”, it is a safe bet that the phrase was first used to describe the Belfast singer/songwriter Van Morrison. Practically it is impossible to explain the width and depth of this Northern Ireland native’s contribution without resorting to...

Van Morrison-Born to Sing-pt 2

Posted Mar 13, 2013

More of the rare, revealing, fascinating interview for St. Patrick’s day set against the backdrop of a career snapshot of some of Van Morrison‘s greatest hits from this most durable career ( fifty-two years a professional ), most prolific recording artist ( his latest Born to Sing: No Plan B is Morrison’s forty-first...

Van Morrison-Born to Sing-pt 3

Posted Mar 13, 2013

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day weekend, we cut the blarney in this intensely honest interview, where you will realize that there was no plan “B” for Van Morrison, who was clearly born to sing. Lucky us. Includes Van Morrison hits from the Eighties and Nineties including “Days Like This” and “Real Real Gone”,...

Ten Years After singer/guitarist Alvin Lee dead at 68-pt 1

Posted Mar 6, 2013

Entertainment & Arts 6 March 2013 Last updated at 12:58 ET Alvin Lee, rock guitarist in the band Ten Years After, dies at 68 British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a member of the band Ten Years After, has died aged 68.His family announced on his official website that he unexpectedly died on 6...

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