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The World Premiere radio interview special in July 1980 for the Lynyrd Skynyrd survivors’ highly-anticipated ( and highly emotional ) return as the Rossington Collins Band on “Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere”.
Southern Rock giant Charlie Daniels has died at age 83.
Two of my all-time faves remain the cinderella story beginnings of Heart in 1976 with “Dreamboat Annie” and the “comeback” album almost a decade later, “Heart” . This hit machine in 1985 reinvented Heart for the MTV Eighties with “If Looks Could Kill”,”What About Love”,”Never”,”These Dreams”, and “Nothing at All”. Wow. Nancy Wilson and singing sistuh Ann Wilson join me here In the Studio on the thirty-fifth anniversary of “Heart” (’85).
Fleetwood Mac “Fleetwood Mac” in July 1975 sold over twenty times more than any previous Fleetwood Mac album. Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Mick Fleetwood are In the Studio.
Beginning in 1979 and continuing all the way until 1987 with “Crest of a Knave”, Jethro Tull’s fate and fortunes would be quite unlike their first decade of success when the unique amalgam of blues rock, Scottish Highlands folk, and hard rock, led by Ian Anderson and exemplified by “Aqualung” and the worldwide #1-seller “Thick As a Brick”, packed arenas.
“It’s like someone pulling at a thread, unraveling your sweater, except the sweater is you, ” former Dire Straits bandleader Mark Knopfler tries to explain the phenomenon of “Brothers in Arms” and modern super-celebrity here In the Studio in this classic rock interview. “I recommend success to anybody. I can’t think of anything good about fame. If you can, let me know.”
They were the changes in musical direction and key personnel made on Jethro Tull’s critical preceding third album, “Benefit”, in April 1970, that provided the oxygen in “Aqualung” ‘s tank a year later.
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.
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Against the Wind” was one of their seven Top 10 multi-platinum albums in a row.
James Taylor is still recording wonderfully satisfying albums like the new ” American Standard”, and being chosen to open brand new live music venues, fifty years after the album “Sweet Baby James” captured the country’s attention. Now that’s finding the keys to a real time machine.