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Pink Floyd- The Wall pt1- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Roger Waters admitted to me that in 1980 Pink Floyd had been guaranteed one million dollars per night to perform “The Wall” on a stadium tour. “And I refused to do it outdoors,” Waters tells me in this classic rock interview. “But how can you do a show, that’s about the alienation you feel about doing stadium shows, in a stadium?”

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Eric Clapton- Journeyman 30th Anniversary

Eric Clapton‘s mid-Eighties trifecta of studio albums, starting  in 1985 with Behind the Sun   followed by  August,   peaked in Fall 1989 with   Journeyman.  Thirty years on it has aged remarkably well, a combination of strong songs, superb players to support him, and a sympathetic yet discerning producer the likes of which we had […]

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Black Crowes- Jealous Again- Houston 2-93

the Black Crowes’ fraternal core of singer Chris Robinson and guitarist Rich Robinson have arrived at a “Wiser Time” in order to mount a major 30th anniversary tour playing “Shake Your Moneymaker”  in 2020

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Jethro Tull- War Child- Ian Anderson

In the years 1969-74 and “War Child”, there was no band in the world more exciting, more unconventional, and more successful than Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is my guest.

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R.E.M.- What’s the Frequency Kenneth- Milton Keynes UK 7-95

“We were touring for the first time in five years. We wanted something arena and festival ready”, says R.E.M. lead singer and lyricist Michael Stipe in Newsweek about the overall sound of the Fall 1994 release Monster.   The proof of the pudding was served up in a spectacular way the following July when R.E.M. […]

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Fleetwood Mac- Tusk- Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham

Imagine an entire season of the tv “reality series” show Survivor if it had been filmed in a locked down recording studio instead of a remote island, and with guitars instead of spears, and you have the story of Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 double opus “Tusk”.

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Cheap Trick- Dream Police- Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander

we find out from my guests Cheap Trick lead singer Robin Zander and guitarist/songwriter Rick Nielsen that the band had actually interrupted recording their fourth studio album, “Dream Police” , in order to do that first Japanese tour in 1978. Several hits would eventually come from “Dream Police”, including “Voices”,”It’s the Way of the World”, and the title song, but those would have to wait while Cheap Trick scuttled all plans while they learned to surf the tsunami of success from the unexpected live album.