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After a totally forgettable first album, the Doobie Brothers’ sophomore effort “Toulouse Street” may just be the strongest second act of the Seventies. In the Studio Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, & John Hartman joined me marking the golden anniversary of “Listen to the Music”,”Rockin’ Down the Highway”,”Disciple”, and the definitive cover of “Jesus is Just All Right”.
The real-life backstory inspiration for the Alan Parsons Project’s million-seller albums “Turn of a Friendly Card”, released in November 1980, and even more successful “Eye in the Sky” in June 1982, is pretty interesting. By the Summer 1982, exactly five years after ” I, Robot” , you could just spin the FM radio dial to any album rock or Adult Contemporary radio station in America and hear various songs from the Alan Parsons Project’s sixth album, such as the hit title song “Eye in the Sky” or “Psychobabble”. Alan Parsons is my guest In the Studio..
Preparing this thirtieth anniversary interview with Black Crowes co-founders singer Chris Robinson and his younger guitar-playing brother Rich Robinson to mark their second release, “The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion”, the deja vu was uncanny and not a little bit unsettling. Constantly I had to remind myself that the trends these Atlanta natives were seeing in the mid-1990s, and the predictions they made then, sound eerily like today’s headlines. Peering now into their spyglass in reverse, it is both remarkable in its accuracy but, I must admit, troubling in its sense of creeping inevitability.
Former singer/ songwriter co-founder Donnie Van Zant and original 38 Special lead guitarist Jeff Carlisi recall band headquarters in an abandoned auto parts garage in a swamp to work up songs, all paying dues that would result in their fifth album,”Special Forces”, selling multi-platinum in May 1982. Donnie Van Zant & Jeff Carlisi recall “Caught Up in You”,”You Keep Running Away”,”Back Door Stranger”, & “Chain Lightning” In the Studio.
It was the latter-Eighties, and rolling the streets of Dallas/Ft.Worth at night felt less like a big-block muscle car and just right in a fire-engine red BMW M3, moonroof open, with The Cult Love cassette alternatelyly jammed in the dash player blasting “She Sells Sanctuary”and “Rain” with the follow up in April 1987, Electric , slamming “Love Removal Machine”,”Wild Flower”, and “Lil Devil”. The Cult guitarist/songwriter Billy Duffy is my guest In the Studio.
Aimee Mann, almost unplugged, performs “Put Me on Top” from her solo debut “Whatever” atop (literally) Ft.Worth club Caravan of Dreams overlooking Sundance Square in April 1992 .-Redbeard
Jethro Tull’s March 1972 epic “Thick As a Brick” is the only album in music history to attain #1 sales on Billboard containing only one song…Ian Anderson joins me In the Studio on the golden anniversary of Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick” for one of the greatest progressive albums ever!
Original Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm (c), Foreigner founder/guitarist Mick Jones (l), and former bassist Bruce Turgon (r) having fun with that “Dirty White Boy” Redbeard while In the Studio on Q102 Dallas/Ft.Worth in February 1995. Both Mick Jones and Lou Gramm will be co-hosting the 45th anniversary of Foreigner’s blockbuster debut here In the […]
Meat Loaf has died at age 74. If you think the songs of composer Jim Steinman are populated by fantastic people and places right out of central casting, they ain’t got nothin’ on the real life sojourn of the 300 pound interior lineman dressed in a prom tuxedo named Marvin Lee Aday from Dallas Texas, aka Meat Loaf. Here is a rare colorful classic rock conversation with the man.
The story behind this free concert performance by Van Halen of “Poundcake” in the streets of downtown Dallas thirty years ago this week gets filed under Urban Legends that are actually true. That’s me introducing Van Halen from the stage. -Redbeard