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Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet 55th- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and original Rolling Stones bass player and band historian  Bill Wyman are our dinner guests for "Beggars Banquet" in these classic rock interviews In the Studio.
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Doobie Brothers- Minute by Minute- Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, Michael McDonald

Even though my guest Tom Johnston sang and wrote their early hits "Listen to the Music" and "Long Train Runnin' ", and guest Michael McDonald did likewise on million-sellers "Takin' It to the Streets","It Keeps You Runnin'", & Grammy winners "What a Fool Believes" and"Minute by Minute", it is  guitarist/singer/songwriter Pat Simmons around whom the 25+ members have always rotated.

Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil- London Hyde Park 7-2013

We look back ten years to when the Rolling Stones were marking another anniversary by reprising their legendary London Hyde Park show of Summer 1969... with a remarkable concert performance of "Sympathy for the Devil" from the same locale in July 2013.
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Redbeard Rocks Christmas! Spotify Playlist

Redbeard Rocks Christmas! Spotify playlist
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Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery 50th- Carl Palmer

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer were HUGE arena fillers and sales monsters ( UK #2 sales, Top 10 US ) and quite innovative progressive rockers when "Brain Salad Surgery" came out in late 1973. And you must hear Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, and Carl Palmer tell the story of visiting Swiss cover artist the late H.R.Giger! 

Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet @55- Bill Wyman 12-5

"Beggars Banquet" was the last to have Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones included and the first great Stones album...with songs "Street Fighting Man","Stray Cat Blues", and the diabolical "Sympathy for the Devil". My ultra-rare classic rock interview with original Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, & Keith Richards as guests set the table for a "Beggars Banquet" fifty-fifth anniversary the week of December 5.

Doobie Brothers- Minute by Minute 45th Anniversary- Pat Simmons, Michael McDonald 11-27

As 1978 came to a close with their main songman and voice sidelined by illness and their record label losing faith in the band's bankability, the Doobie Brothers nevertheless released the Grammy-winning "What a Fool Believes","Open Your Eyes","Dependin' on You","Here to Love You", and the Top Ten "Minute by Minute", all the while eventually winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Pat Simmons, Tom Johnston, John Hartman, and Michael McDonald join me on the forty-fifth anniversary of the #1-seller "Minute by Minute" next week of 11/27.
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Beatles- White Album pt1- Paul McCartney, the late George Harrison

The Beatles "White Album" 55th Anniversary: How can an album accomplish so much by embedding itself indelibly in popular culture, continuing to influence generations a half century after release, while on the surface revealing so little about its contents and its creators?

Paul McCartney- Back in the USSR- Hollywood 2007

Paul McCartney's performance in Hollywood record store Amoeba Records in 2007 is the stuff of rock legend...We figured McCartney's performance of "Back in the USSR" that day would be an appropriate appetizer for the two-hour special we are featuring here In the Studio with Sir Paul to mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of the "White Album" on which the song originally appeared.

Paul McCartney- Blackbird January 1991

To get you primed for the upcoming Beatles “White Album” double-nickel anniversary interviews with the late George Harrison plus Paul McCartney, here is a live performance of “Blackbird” by Macca from 1991.