Black Crowes- A Conspiracy- London 1994

One of the reasons I could forgive Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson his "always on" opinions on everyone and everything was because he had a great live band, and here is another example straight off the Air London studio floor, no overdubs,…
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Paul McCartney- Live

... from Paul McCartney to The Pope, we couldn't help but both comment on the remarkable similarities in response that millions of attendees display at those two seemingly disparate gatherings. Who dares try to convince the pilgrims filing in, ages eight to eighty with stars in their eyes and a song (okay, three hundred songs) in their hearts, that this isn't a religious experience? Paul McCartney is my guest from backstage In the Studio.

Graham Parker- You Can’t Be Too Strong- Dallas 10-88

Regardless of where you now stand on the issue of abortion rights, I think we all would agree that this touching, tender, yet confrontationally honest song from Graham Parker's 1979 masterpiece Squeezing Out Sparks (#331 on Rolling Stone's Top…

Peter Frampton- All I Want to Be is By Your Side- Dallas 2-94

Working without a net, unrehearsed and totally imprompt, surrounded by wall-to-wall fans crammed like sardines into a Dallas bar/restaurant in February 1994 for my Friday afternoon remote broadcast on Q-102 ,Peter Frampton obliged his loyal fans with the appropriate "All I Want to Be is By Your Side" which I first played back in 1972 on my first radio station in Findlay , Ohio . -Redbeard

Bad Company “Bad Company”- Dallas/ Ft. Worth 7-10-13

One of those odd quirks of rock trivia concerns the fact that the original Bad Company, a band synonymous with Seventies arena rock, never released a live album. The reformed band of Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke who toured in 2008…

Triumph- Just a Game- Rik Emmett, Gil Moore, Mike Levine

Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, and Gil Moore join Redbeard "In the Studio" for Triumph's 1979 breakthrough album "Just a Game".

Bad Company- Movin’ On- Dallas-Ft Worth 7/10/13

As we prepare to host the members of Bad Company next month to mark the band's forty-fifth anniversary, it takes only a cursory glance at their set list from their most recent reunion tour to be impressed by just how strong the songs on that…

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Free Fallin’- San Francisco 2-6-97

Elsewhere on this site we  share Redbeard's exclusive interviews from May 1988 when Tom Petty was holed up in Mike Campbell's garage making what would come to be known as Full Moon Fever. Enjoy this live romp with the Heartbreakers on "Free…

Delbert McClinton- Lone Star Legend

Take a musical blues cruise through just some of the half century of hits from Texas treasure Delbert McClinton with me here In the Studio from two conversations fifteen years apart, 1992 and 2007. For starters you'll hear Delbert recalling…
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Def Leppard- Story So Far pt2- Joe Elliott, Ric Savage

After World War II the worldwide success of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, and a bit later Led Zeppelin all had a profoundly positive effect on the British self-esteem. All of these predecessors of Def Leppard were almost…