Archive for category: Beard’s Blog

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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble- Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's first,"Texas Flood". Included here in these classic rock interviews is my second interview with Stevie in late Spring 1984; legendary bluesman Buddy Guy; Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, singer/songwriter Doyls Bramhall, and biographer Joe Nick Patoski; and the songs "Pride and Joy","Cold Shot", the spectacular Hendrix cover"Voodoo Child", "Look at Little Sister","Life Without You", and two "Big" Doyle Bramhall songs, "Change It" and "Life By the Drop".
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Dire Straits- Mark Knopfler

As Mark Knopfler continues to make new music such as 2023’s "Deep River", we are thrilled to have him as our guest here In the Studio to share the Dire Straits story of how it all started. 
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Van Halen- OU812- Alex & Eddie, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony

"OU812"  by Van Halen topped the US sales chart in Summer 1988, captured like a Polaroid snapshot in this time capsule of an interview featuring Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and Sammy Hagar.  A lot of tequila has run under the bridge since then, but even thirty-five year old mescal can't alter the fact that these guys were having too much fun then, fans were selling out football stadiums coast to coast and gobbling up more than 4,000,000 copies of "OU812"...
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Joe Walsh- The Smoker You Drink…/ But Seriously Folks

Joe Walsh busts out of Cleveland-based The James Gang and heads west, making rock history along the Rocky Mountain way. Joe Walsh and I are Buckeyes in exile here In the Studio for the dual anniversaries of "The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get" and "But Seriously Folks".
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Rolling Stones- Some Girls- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood

For a look at "Some Girls", Keith Richards is joined in my classic rock interview by Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, and former Faces keyboard player the late Ian McLagan who played on this Rolling Stones #1 Billboard album and single ("Miss You").
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The Cars- Greg Hawkes, the late Ric Ocasek

The Cars' co-founder singer/songwriter the late Ric Ocasek goes under the hood with keyboard player Greg Hawkes for the 45th anniversary of their 1978 debut.
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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band- Stranger in Town

Bob Seger followed up his breakthroughs "Live Bullet" and "Night Moves" with May 1978's  "Stranger in Town", which has sold over 7,000,000 copies because it contains seminal songs "Hollywood Nights","Old Time Rock and Roll","Still the Same","Feel Like a Number"," 'Til It Shines", and "Brave Strangers". Bob Seger is my guest In the Studio on "Stranger in Town".
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Aerosmith- Get a Grip- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry,Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer

 "Livin' on the Edge", "Cryin'","Eat the Rich", "Fever","Line Up","Amazing" ...any wonder that "Get a Grip" is Aerosmith's biggest-selling album worldwide at over twenty million copies? The entire band sat down with me In the Studio to get a handle on "Get a Grip" in a revealing classic rock interview with an American treasure.
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David Bowie- Let’s Dance

"Let's Dance"  was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1983, and if David could have moonwalked like Michael Jackson, Bowie probably would have won. it was no surprise that multi-media maven David Bowie, who seemed tailor-made then for the dawn of the MTV era in America when "Let's Dance"  was released, would later be among the first to embrace computer-generated gaming and virtual reality, which David discussed at length here, reprised on the album's fortieth anniversary.
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Queen Forever- Brian May, Roger Taylor

We celebrate "Queen Forever" and Freddie Mercury's memory with Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor.