In The Studio with Redbeard

Echoes In the Studio-Fallen Rockers pt 1

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:25 +0000

Here In the Studio this Memorial Day Weekend in the US, we choose to pay tribute those rock musicians who have dedicated their lives so that we could have a little more joy and meaning in ours. You will hear the echoes of the actual voices of George Harrison, Brad Delp of Boston, Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, and Ray Manzarek of The Doors with tributes by Roger Waters and Tom Petty in hour one of two.- Redbeard

Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dies-L.A. Woman Interview

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:41 +0000

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; the band had been black-listed by the notoriety and pending trial; and the band’s long-term producer had walked out on their recording session. Amidst these obstacles, The Doors made L.A.Woman forty-two years ago including “Love Her Madly”,”The WASP (Texas Radio & the Big Beat)”,”Riders on the Storm”, and the ultimate freeway song “L.A. Woman”, resulting in one of the timeless recordings from any American band. And now Ray Manzarek, too, belongs to the ages. – Redbeard

Doors 45th Anniversary with Ray Manzarek, Dead at 74

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:40:54 +0000

The top 10 list of rock game-changing debut albums is short but breathtaking. Among them : Are You Experienced? , Led Zeppelin 1 , Music from Big Pink , Ramones , Please Please Me , Never Mind the Bollocks . But ever since John Densmore‘s opening snare drum shot through the ether to my little transistor radio tuned to some distant big city Top 40 station, The Doors‘ January 1967 debut took up permanent residence in any such aggregate collection purporting to have transfigured rock’n'roll . Guitarist Robbie Krieger , keyboard/bass pedal player Ray Manzarek , and vocally gifted wildchild Jim Morrison did more to influence the next 45 years of popular music with less ( six studio albums in five years) than just about any band in rock history . With the passing of Ray Manzarek earlier this week at age 74, this is the final time In The Studio for this classic rock interview. Essential stuff .-Redbeard

Foreigner-Double Vision 35th anniversary-Mick Jones 6-10

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:40:31 +0000

Even I did not fully comprehend how massive, colossally popular, Foreigner‘s second album Double Vision was in June 1978. It actually outsold Atlantic Records label mates the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls ! “Hot Blooded” , “Blue Morning Blue Day”,”Love Has Taken Its Toll”,”Spellbinder“, and the explosive title song all still sound amazingly good to this day, and “The Duke”, guitarist/songwrite/bandleader Mick Jones returns In the Studio to recall a popularity that had them seeing double 35 years ago.- Redbeard

When the Music’s Over-Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead at 74

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:39:17 +0000

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 in America which would signal the end to the all-too-brief Summer of Love. Part 1 of 2. – Redbeard

Doors Co-Founder Ray Manzarek Dead-Strange Days 45th anniversary-pt2

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:35:46 +0000

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 Are Strange”,” You’re Lost Little Girl”,”Moonlight Drive”,”Love Me Two Times”, and the epic showstopper “When the Music’s Over”. Part two of two with the late Doors co-founder keyboard player Ray Manzarek, who passed away today 5-20. When the music’s over, turn out the lights. – Redbeard

Deep Purple-Now What?! with Roger Glover

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:12:51 +0000

Hands down, Deep Purple‘s Now What?! is the album to beat this year for “Comeback Album of the Year”. Not that the Fathers of Heavy Metal ever went away from touring the world these last years, but Now What?! is their first new studio album in seven long years. Even before we heard anything, the first indicator that something truly special was under wraps was the news that Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper veteran producer Bob Ezrin was on board. When I heard “Hush” pumping out of my little portable transistor radio in 1968; or when I played “Child in Time” over the high school PA system during home room announcements in 1970; or cued up “Strange Kind of Woman”,”Highway Star”,”Smoke on the Water”, and “Space Truckin’ “ on my first radio shows in 1972, could anyone of us have predicted that I would be raving about a new Deep Purple album in 2013? Sure, even as recently as 1984′s platinum comeback album Perfect Strangers, Deep Purple taught us to never underestimate the core pillars of this band: lead singer Ian Gillan, bulletproof drummer Ian Paice, and bass player Roger Glover, but with Now What?!, Deep Purple exceed all expectations. I am pleased that Roger Glover returns to In the Studio to show us how.- Redbeard

The Posies-Dream All Day -1993 Dallas

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:00:39 +0000

The main songwriters/singers/guitarists of Bellingham WA band The Posies, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, spent so much time in Memphis as neo-Big Star members that I think of them as honorary members of that incredibly rich music community. I was pleased when Auer and Stringfellow performed this live acoustic version of the song “Dream All Day” from their 1993 Posies album Frosting on the Beater on my Q102 Dallas/Ft. Worth radio show in an SMU campus-area bar. -Redbeard

Rolling Stones-Some Girls 35th Anniversary w/Mick Jagger,Keith Richards,Ron Wood

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:00:28 +0000

The first time I interviewed Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones it was January 1989. The band had been on hiatus for the last half of the decade, and seeing into the Stones’ future was at its murkiest. When asked at that time which were his personal favorite Rolling Stones albums, Keith replied, “The body of work from Beggars Banquet up through Exile on Main Street (which includes Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers ), and Some Girls .” With now twenty-five studio albums from which to choose, I wager that assessment of Summer 1978′s Some Girls would place it on any Stones fan’s Top Five list, as well. Just look at this tune stack and immediately you see why: flat-out rockers “When the Whip Comes Down”,”Respectable”,” Keith’s rehab rocker “Before They Make Me Run”, and “Shattered” ; the huge hits “Miss You” and the timeless “Beast of Burden”; and the impeccable cover of the Temptations‘ “Just My Imagination”. Keef is joined by Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, and former Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan who played on this #1 Billboard album and single (“Miss You”). -Redbeard

Enter to Win the Rolling Stones’ DVD “Crossfire Hurricane”-Really!

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:08:49 +0000

I messed up! What more can I say? You can register now, promise.

The Rolling Stones are on tour in America for their fiftieth anniversary, heading to some historic shows in the UK; Mick, Keith, and Ronnie Wood are my guests In the Studio for the 35th anniversary of Some Girls ; and now the authorized definitive Rolling Stones career rockumentary film Crossfire Hurricane comes out, and our friends at Eagle Rock Entertainment want you to win one absolutely free. It ain’t the Powerball Jackpot, but it IS the Rolling Stones…One entry per e-mail address please; US and Canadian residents only; contest ends midnight ET June 2.

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