Rare classic rock interviews by Redbeard from the vast In the Studio archive

Steely Dan- Katy Lied 50th- Donald Fagen, the late Walter Becker

Steely Dan's 1975 fourth album, "Katy Lied", is a perfect example of a "sleeper", but it's not simply the passage of time that obscures its many-faceted brilliance. Here are Donald Fagen & the late Walter Becker interviewed.

Eric Johnson- Ah Via Musicom 35th Anniversary

But in the transition years between the waning of pop-metal hair bands and the waxing of a wave of grunge groups, Eric Johnson's "Ah Via Musicom"  sounded refreshingly unlike anything else on the radio in February 1990...Eric Johnson joins me here In the Studio on its 35th anniversary.

Damn Yankees 35th- Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, Michael Cartellone

The Nineties' first supergroup Damn Yankees actually lived up to the hype in February 1990: containing Styx singer/songwriter/guitarist Tommy Shaw, Night Ranger's singer/songwriter Jack Blades, drummer Michael Cartellone, and whackmaster Ted Nugent, the Damn Yankees  debut sold a whopping two million copies. They're all with me In the Studio.

Black Sabbath 55th Anniversary- Ozzy Osbourne

In early 1970 the world into which the Birmingham England band Black Sabbath quickly rose to notoriety and popularity with their second album, "Paranoid", felt increasingly like a dangerous place. In this classic rock interview original Black Sabbath singer / lyricist Ozzy Osbourne has fond memories of those days when he and his  mates from the working-class neighborhood Aston decided to ditch their trendy blues music, cut the band down from a 6-piece to four, and started doing what Ozzy characterizes in this classic rock interview as "spooky music".

James Taylor- Sweet Baby James 55th Anniversary

James Taylor is still recording wonderfully satisfying albums like the " American Standard", and being chosen to open brand new live music venues, fifty-five years after the album "Sweet Baby James" captured the country's attention. Now that’s finding the keys to a real time machine. James Taylor joins me In the Studio.

Van Morrison- Moondance @55

This ultra-rare, fascinating Van Morrison interview with the reclusive "Howard Hughes of Rhythm 'n' Blues" is nothing short of a revelation...

David Lee Roth- Crazy from the Heat 40th Anniversary

The incomparable David Lee Roth interview about January 1985's "Crazy from the Heat" plus the platinum solo album, "Skyscraper" here In the Studio.

Chicago II @55- Robert Lamm

"Chicago II" climbed to #4 sales in America, #6  in the UK, a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and  sales of over a million, igniting a legacy of thirty-six releases in  fifty years together. Chicago co-founder Robert Lamm tells the insider tale on the 55th anniversary of Chicago "II".

Eddie Money- Sound of Money 35th Anniversary

Just before Christmas 1989 Eddie Money joined me In the Studio to discuss his roller-coaster career and first "best of" compilation, The Sound of Money. Alternately hysterically funny and harrowing, in my classic rock interview Eddie Money shares…

Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 50th- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford

For the sublime "Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis, I am joined by Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins In the Studio.

Eric Clapton- Journeyman 35th Anniversary

Eric Clapton's mid-Eighties trifecta of studio albums, starting  in 1985 with Behind the Sun  followed by  August, peaked in November 1989 with  Journeyman.  Thirty-five  years on it has aged remarkably well, a combination of some of Clapton's…

Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers @40- Ian Gillan, Roger Glover

Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers” with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover

Grateful Dead- Early Best

If you really want to have fun with a self-proclaimed Deadhead, first have him/ her set down their phone and then ask them to name the Grateful Dead's highest-charting Billboard   album up to the band's 1987 best-seller, "In the Dark" . You'll get a lot "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty" guesses, and after that I'd have picked "Terrapin Station". The correct answer turns out to be the tasty mid-decade effort by the Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah". Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, & Phil Lesh are In the Studio.

Supertramp- Crime of the Century- Roger Hodgson

Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson with a rare interview In the Studio for “Crime of the Century”

Peter Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton interview In the Studio for "Frampton Comes Alive".