Neil Young and Crazy Horse- When You Dance- San Francisco 1986

Neil Young with Crazy Horse-San Francisco 1986, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original release on "After the Goldrush" in Fall 1970.

Three Dog Night- Naturally 55th- Danny Hutton, the late Cory Wells

It's the 55th anniversary of Three Dog Night "Naturally". Between their 1968 debut album and the mid-Seventies, it was virtually impossible to turn on an American radio without hearing Los Angeles-based legendary hitmakers Three Dog Night and one of their twenty-one hit singles...Here is my April 2005 interview with dearly departed Cory Wells and Danny Hutton "In the Studio".

Greg Lake- Affairs of the Heart- Dallas 1992

Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and the original King Crimson showed up In the Studio in Dallas on Q102 one afternoon in 1992 with a curvy blonde (guitar) on his lap and serenaded us with this spine-tingling rendition of "Affairs of the Heart".

Showco- Jim Bornhorst #6

Highest claps-per-dollar? A mirror ball; "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" the hottest show on television in the late Nineties, starring the late Regis Philbin and a giant ring of Vari-Lites; architectural lighting from the Empire State to the…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst #5

"There was blood on the floor of the arena..." for the first show in history using automated lighting September 23, 1981 in Barcelona; the lamb lies down with ptomaine; improving with the VL-2 and VL-3; London West End theatre and "Miss Saigon"…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst part 4

Jim calls out the companies big and small who were first offered the VariLite ...and passed (it's a big club, they should print up jackets ); Genesis manager Tony Smith catches the Hail Mary pass; wire-wrapping thousands of microprocessor card…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst part 3

Showco introduces the concept of the portable custom P.A., commissioned by and traveling with the bands; John Tedesco's pneumatic lighting towers; Kirby Wyatt, Randy Blair, Steve Jander, & Led Zeppelin play with lasers; the "gel-change project";…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst part 2

Young EE JimBo goes to Big D. In the first ninety days at Showco he designs a bullet-proof crossover which saves hundreds of dollars per system. People notice. Part two.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Tarkus

Listening now to the epic title song to "Tarkus", the second studio album in June1971 which followed quickly after their stunning 1970 debut, with Greg Lake's voice delicately yet nimbly bounding along to Keith Emerson's piano runs, it's clear that Emerson Lake and Palmer were much  less "Be Bop a Lula" in their melodic grandeur and much more "Andrew Lloyd Weber". Here In the Studio is the story in their own words of progressive rock's first supergroup.