Redbeard’s Blog

George Scott- Live 21st Century

Lead singer Kelly Hansen May 2018.  

George Scott- Unusual Heat

Mick Jones and Johnny Edwards May 1991. Mick gives some very candid opinions on why Lou Gramm left, & why Mick decided to carry on.  

George Scott- 4

Mick Jones 2-15-89, 5-14-91; Lou Gramm on a boombox at his house in Rochester when his home studio malfunctioned (!) May 1991.  

George Scott- Double Vision

Mick & Lou separately in New York 2-15-89 about the second album, Double Vision; Mick Jones separately 5-14-91 in NYC; and again together in Dallas February 6, 1995. Demonstration only.

George Scott- 1st

Mick and Lou Feb 15, 1989. Starting the band, making debut album. For demonstration ONLY, not for production.  
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Motley Crue- Theatre of Pain/GirlsGirlsGirls- Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil

In an alternate universe where being boring and predictable is the Original Sin, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue would be sanctified saints, because they have been waging  jihad against the tyranny of the mainstream for a full four decades. Peaking at #2 on Billboard Album Sales chart, "Girls, Girls, Girls"  would eventually equal their preceding mega-seller "Theatre of Pain" with another four million copies sold. The always eyebrow-raising Nikki Sixx and hilarious Vince Neil are my guests In the Studio.

Grand Funk- Closer to Home- Mark Farner, Don Brewer

Grand Funk "Closer to Home" interview with Mark Farner and Don Brewer In the Studio.
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Talking Heads- Little Creatures- David Byrne, Jerry Harrison

"I think that Talking Heads were one of the first groups who tried not to be about a fantasy that was bigger than life, but tried to be about being strong within a life that was ultimately real."- Jerry Harrison, In the Studio with Mr "American Utopia", David Byrne, for Talking Heads "Little Creatures". .

Live- Selling the Drama- New York City 3/97

When the string of passionate, dynamic songs on the 1994 Throwing Copper   album by Pennsylvania band Live opened up like the petals on a rose bud, I was really impressed. Not since the R.E.M. days  of Murmur  and Reckoning a decade earlier  …
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Eagles- One of These Nights- the late Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner

Driving halfway across America  not long after the June 1975 release of "One of These Nights"  by The Eagles is when I truly realized just how massively popular this band had become. Original Eagles singer/bass player Randy Meisner, now passed, and the late Eagles co-founder singer/guitarist Glenn Frey joined me here In the Studio in a classic rock interview,precious now with their passing, about the album which single-handedly took country and western music from the bunkhouse to Broadway.