These are the classic rock interviews and rock music interviews from the most recent weekly episodes of In The Studio with Redbeard.
Rock Hall Snubs: Joe Cocker
Rock Hall Snubs: Joe Cocker
Rock Hall Snubs: Ozzy Osbourne
Rock Hall Snubs: Ozzy Osbourne
Guess Who- American Woman- Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman
If you have not listened to the Guess Who's January 1970 classic "American Woman" album recently, I predict you will be amazed at how strong the songs were, such as "No Sugar Tonight"; how environmentally aware lyricist/ gifted singer Burton Cummings was on "New Mother Nature" and "Hand Me Down World"; and how rockin' Randy Bachman could complement Cummings' pop side on "American Woman" and before that, "No Time". So why did Bachman leave at the Guess Who's peak? Find out here from Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman In the Studio.
Queensryche- Promised Land- Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate
Former members Geoff Tate and Chris DeGarmo take you to “ Promised Land”, their best seller, In the Studio on the album’s 25th anniversary.
Queen- Sheer Heart Attack- Brian May, Roger Taylor
Queen headlining the Rainbow Theatre for the first time in late March 1974 were so impressive in concert that when they booked the same venue in November later that same year to premiere their third studio album, "Sheer Heart Attack" , the young foursome had to add a second night.
Don Henley- Building the Perfect Beast- Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar
Don Henley interview about making his Building the Perfect Beast
Pink Floyd- The Wall pt2- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason
Pink Floyd's monumental opus The Wall...the numbers that it has generated are starting to rival the Great Wall of China: #87 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time; worldwide sales of an estimated 30,000,000...
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?"
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,…
Bryan Adams- Reckless
Bryan Adams In the Studio for “Reckless”
Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed- Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman
Original Rolling Stones bassist Bill Woman joined by guitarist Mick Taylor for seminal “Let It Bleed” interview.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty archival interview for “Damn the Torpedoes ” In the Studio
Led Zeppelin II – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin II interview with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant In the Studio.
The Police- Reggatta de Blanc- Sting, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers
"Outlandos d'Amour' has a certain grotesque, naïve charm about it," Sting offers in this interview about the second album by The Police, "but 'Reggatta de Blanc' is infinitely a better record." Both the critics and the rock audience agreed, garnering two #1 hits in the UK with "Walking on the Moon" and "Message in a Bottle", plus topping the album sales chart there with "Reggatta de Blanc".
R.E.M.- Monster- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills
REM interview with Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills for “Monster”