Redbeard’s Blog

Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter- Hyde Park London 7-6-13

the excellent rock documentary film "Twenty Feet from Stardom",  which features interviews with both Lisa Fisher and Mick Jagger who sing this, here is a stunning example of why that story needed to be told.

Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford

For the sublime "Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis, I am joined by Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins In the Studio.

ZZ Top- Cheap Sunglasses- Passaic NJ

ZZ Top really worked hard in the studio on capturing new Billy Gibbons guitar sounds on their November 1979 album Deguello. ZZ Top employed what they'd learned on the subsequent tour, which had this stop at the venerable Capital Theater in Passaic…
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ZZ Top- Deguello- Billy Gibbons, the late Dusty Hill & Frank Beard

Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard In the Studio for “Deguello”

Eric Clapton- Journeyman 35th Anniversary

Eric Clapton's mid-Eighties trifecta of studio albums, starting  in 1985 with Behind the Sun  followed by  August, peaked in November 1989 with  Journeyman.  Thirty-five  years on it has aged remarkably well, a combination of some of Clapton's…
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Bryan Adams- Reckless

Bryan Adams In the Studio for “Reckless”

Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers @40- Ian Gillan, Roger Glover

Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers” with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover
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Pink Floyd- Endless River- David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Interviews with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason about "The Endless River" for the fascinating back story of a "final " musical statement, 1994's "The Division Bell", which was never intended to be the superstar progressive rock band's last word but which nevertheless became that when Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright died in 2008.

Bruce Springsteen & the E St Band- Thunder Road- Apollo Theater 3-9-2012

Bruce Springsteen fans have held  October 27, 1975 as noteworthy ever since his third album, Born to Run, was released then with unprecedented mainstream magazine covers Time and Newsweek heralding, somewhat prematurely, the biggest thing since…