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ZZ TOP- drummer Frank Beard dies, 77

The all-important breakthrough third ZZ Top album, "Tres Hombres", will focus on the all-around improvements in recording quality and songwriting reflected in such perennials as "Waitin’ for the Bus”, “Jesus Just Left Chicago”, and “Lagrange” plus the introduction of "the squank" to guitar vernacular. Squankmaster Billy Gibbons, deceased drummer Frank Beard, and the dearly missed Dusty Hill tell the colorful tales of the earliest days of ZZ Top here In the Studio for  the breakthrough 1973 third album, "Tres Hombres".
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Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet 40th- Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora

Bon Jovi's third album "Slippery When Wet" has a worldwide sales estimate since release forty years ago : 28,000,000 copies. It is impossible to overstate how massively popular Bon Jovi's third album, "Slippery When Wet", was...Jon Bon Jovi and original guitarist/co-writer Richie Sambora are my guests.
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Boston- Something About You- Worcester MA 8-16-87

Here is an amazing 1987 performance of "Something About You" by Boston with incredible twin harmony guitars from Tom Scholz and Gary Pihl, and Doug Huffman providing superb vocal harmony for the late Brad Delp.
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Julian Lennon- Help Yourself 35th Anniversary

...prior to "Help Yourself". A peculiar and confounding thing happened with the reception to that fourth Julian Lennon album and its brilliant eco-ballad "Saltwater". The song went to #6 in the UK and straight to #1 in Australia, but failed to even chart in America. Julian Lennon is my guest In the Studio.

Bob Seger- The Fire Inside 35th Anniversary 8-24

Bob Seger discusses with me, in revealing detail, his life and career driven by "The Fire Inside" here In the Studio on the platinum album's thirty-fifth anniversary the week of August 24.

Boston 50th Anniversary- Tom Scholz, the late Brad Delp 8-24

Rarely, certain musical efforts seem timeless, and the first eponymously-titled Boston album is certainly still in that elite category a full five decades after emerging from mastermind Tom Scholz's basement in August 1976. Tom Scholz is my…

Bon Jovi- Wanted Dead or Alive acoustic 3-18-87

Very rare acoustic duet of "Wanted Dead or Alive" recorded March 18, 1987 by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora , remastered by Redbeard .
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Ten Years After- A Space in Time 55th- the late Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons

"When things get put onto celluloid, they tend to get bigger than life," the late guitarist/ singer Alvin Lee told me by way of explanation as to how Ten Years After was catapulted from the second tier of English boogie and blues by their prime spot in the Woodstock Festival   movie documentary. The band utilized that momentum to deliver their most popular album ever in late Summer 1971, " A Space in Time",  which included "One of These Days", "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock'n'Roll You", and what turned out to be their biggest hit, "I'd Love to Change the World".
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Metallica- Black Album 35th Anniversary- James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett

"Metallica" (affectionately known as "The Black Album" in the same way The Beatles had been dubbed "The White Album"), Metallica's lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and lead throat James Hetfield show how the band sits atop the family tree of hard rock/heavy metal evolution.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- She’s the One/Angel Dream 30th anniversary

On the thirtieth anniversary of the original motion picture soundtrack by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers comes "Angel Dream", the film soundtrack recordings remixed and remastered, which are integrated here into my original North American radio broadcast classic rock interview, where the late Tom Petty explains unequivocally his reasons for doing them.