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Alan Parsons Project- Tales of Mystery and Imagination @50

"Basically he signed a blank tape," Alan Parsons chuckles about 20th Century Records President Russ Regan greenlighting a concept album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", based on the books of Edgar Alan Poe, composed by the young Abbey Road studio hound and songwriter Eric Woolfson as The Alan Parsons Project.
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Van Halen- Fair Warning@45- Eddie & Alex Van Halen

Van Halen's April 1981 album "Fair Warning" is easily the band's most overlooked effort in the original David Lee Roth era; the most Eddie Van Halen-dominated album until the mega-hit "1984". 
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Aerosmith- Last Child- Brussels 10-31-93

Originally found on Aerosmith “Rocks”  fifty years ago, this little mid-tempo song was performed in concert on Halloween in Belgium in 1993. "Last Child" is proof that Aerosmith rocks in any language, on any continent, in any decade.

Steve Miller Band- Fly Like an Eagle 50th! 5-11

Steve Miller is my esteemed guest here In the Studio for the "Fly Like an Eagle" fiftieth anniversary beginning May 11.

Eric Johnson- Tones 40th Anniversary

Eric Johnson joins me here In the Studio to recall the Spring 1986 debut "Tones" forty years ago;...Eric Johnson joins me here In the Studio.

Van Halen- So This is Love- Oakland- June 1981

Here's Van Halen ripping through the rock rhetorical, "So This is Love?", while playing Oakland in June 1981 on the "Fair Warning" tour. Crank it up!

Aerosmith- Rocks 50th- Joe, Steven, Brad, Tom, Joey 5-4

Join Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer of Aerosmith, along with testimony from the permanently transformed Slash of Guns'N'Roses, for the golden anniversary of the timeless hard rock template Aerosmith "Rocks" the week of May 4.

Van Halen- Fair Warning 45th Anniversary 4-27

"For Fair Warning I watched Ed (Van Halen) being creatively frustrated," Alex Van Halen lamented about Van Halen's April 1981 fourth album. "Ed probably worked harder on the music for that record than anybody had ever seen...almost to the…
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Steve Earle- Guitar Town 40th Anniversary

"Guitar Town " Steve Earle shares here In the Studio for his #1-charting Country debut in March 1986: "I'm a straggler from what was going on in Austin and Nashville in the mid-70s. I had good teachers, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker, B.W. Stevenson...when I first got to Nashville on any given night, you could go to Guy's house. And he'd have everybody, from the street level where I was to Mickey Newbury and Neil Young, with the guitar going around. So it was a good place to learn. Then, basically cocaine sort of created a caste system  and killed that real fast!"
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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band- Like a Rock 40th Anniversary

No one Bob Seger song is more recalled by Americans of all ages than "Like a Rock", and for good reason: throughout the Nineties and into the new millennium, no song was more ubiquitous on US television than the album's title song, albeit thirty seconds at a time! Bob Seger is my guest here In the Studio on the fortieth anniversary of the #3-charting platinum album "Like a Rock".