These are the classic rock interviews and rock music interviews from the most recent weekly episodes of In The Studio with Redbeard.

Kansas @50: Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt
Over a half century of being America's leading Progressive Rock band, the Topeka-based progressive rock band Kansas sold about twelve million albums just off of back-to-back blockbusters Left Overture in 1976 and Point of Know Return barely…

Pink Floyd- The Wall- 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?"

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...

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.

Don Henley- Building the Perfect Beast- Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar
Don Henley interview about making his Building the Perfect Beast

ZZ Top- Deguello- Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard
Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard In the Studio for “Deguello”

Bryan Adams- Reckless
Bryan Adams In the Studio for “Reckless”

Pink Floyd- Endless River- David Gilmour, Nick Mason
Interviews with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason about "The Endless River" for the fascinating back story of a "final " musical statement, 1994's "The Division Bell", which was never intended to be the superstar progressive rock band's last word but which nevertheless became that when Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright died in 2008.

Led Zeppelin II – Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin II interview with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant In the Studio.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty archival interview for “Damn the Torpedoes ” In the Studio

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". Part 1.

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".

Foreigner- Best Of- Mick Jones, Lou Gramm
Foreingner’s founder Mick Jones and original singer/co-writer Lou Gramm get their green cards for permanent citizenship in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

R.E.M.- Monster- Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills
REM interview with Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills for “Monster”

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.
