In The Studio Archives: Beard’s Blog

Big Mac at 71- Happy Birthday Paul McCartney!

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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. Celebrate the remarkable life which continues non-stop deep into the 21st century. And be sure to register now...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd-Pronounced 40th Anniversary-Gary Rossington,Ed King

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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 enhanced cover photo and graphics pictured here were not so richly hued on the original, which arrived in...
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ZZ Top-Complete Albums 1970-1990 w/Billy Gibbons,Dusty Hill,Frank Beard

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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 Mud; the 1973 national breakout Tres Hombres ; the half studio/half live Fandango in ’74; Tejas, inspiring the...
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Joe Walsh-The Smoker You Drink-But Seriously Folks

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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 addition to giving me several interviews for this In the Studio series about the James Gang as well...
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Eagles 40th Anniversary Tour Extended-Glenn Frey-Randy Meisner

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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 his rear view mirror headed for Nashville’s skyline, while The Band likewise bailed for Malibu California a continent...
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Police-Synchronicity 30th Anniversary with Sting,Stewart Copeland

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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 to take me to lunch, except this time they were in a limousine. It seems that stardom had...
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Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dies-L.A. Woman Interview

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 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 the reality of Richard Nixon‘s America. Lead singer Jim Morrisonhad been arrested for lewdness at a Miami concert;...
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When the Music’s Over-Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead at 74

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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 barely nine months after their ground-breaking debut in 1967, and was uncanny in capturing seismic changes already underway...
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Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead-Strange Days 45th anniversary-pt2

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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, with eight tracks of fuller arrangements instead of just four, and a wealth of A-list songs including “People...
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