Elton John- Take Me to the Pilot- Foxborough MA 9-6-93
Elton John live at Foxborough Stadium outside Boston on September 6, 1993 performing “Take Me to the Pilot”.
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Steve Miller- The Joker
Steve Miller Band’s first #1 song and five million seller, “The Joker”. Steve Miller is my guest In the Studio.
Styx- Pieces of Eight- Tommy Shaw, James”JY” Young
focusing on the 1978 release of “Pieces of Eight”, former Styx member and co-founder Dennis DeYoung confesses that, in spite of his major conceptual songwriting role on the band’s 1977 breakthrough three million seller “The Grand Illusion”, the highly-anticipated follow-up “Pieces of Eight” was not his finest hour. Styx guitarists/ songwriters/ singers Tommy Shaw and James Young stepped up creatively to fill the void on “Pieces of Eight”, again selling triple platinum with the muscular “Blue Collar Man”,”Renegade”,”The Great White Hope”,”Queen of Spades”, and “Sing for the Day”.
Cars- Just What I Needed- Cleveland 7-18-78
When The Cars played the Cleveland Agora club in early July 1978, they were just a Boston-based baby band with a just-released first album, trying to establish a toehold somewhere outside New England. Showing a tight well-rehearsed band from Day One, here’s The Cars embryonic version of “Just What I Needed”.
Elton John- Philadelphia Freedom- Foxborough Stadium 9-6-93
Elton John himself confirms here that indeed he and lyricist Bernie Taupin did compose “Philadelphia Freedom” not in 1975 for the US bicentennial the following year, as has been erroneously mythologized for decades, but in fact 1973, twenty years before this spectacular live performance outside Boston during the Walden Woods Benefit at Foxborough Stadium Labor […]
Steely Dan- Countdown to Ecstasy 50th Anniversary- Donald Fagen, Walter Becker
So was Steely Dan’s debut success in 1972 with “Can’t Buy a Thrill”, spinning off two Top 15 hits and impressive Top 20 sales, a blessing or a curse when it came time less than a year later to follow it up with “Countdown to Ecstasy”? My guests Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker were too smart to get trapped into a simple binary answer here In the Studio.
The Cars- Greg Hawkes, the late Ric Ocasek
The Cars’ co-founder singer/songwriter the late Ric Ocasek goes under the hood with keyboard player Greg Hawkes for the 45th anniversary of their 1978 debut.
Aerosmith- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton
This classic rock rock interview is such a treat because you hear Aerosmith founders Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, and Tom Hamilton In the Studio recalling days at Lake Sunapee NH fifty years ago before recording their 1973 debut.
Aerosmith- Dream On- Brussels 10-31-93
Aerosmith performed “Dream On” that Halloween night 1993 in Brussels.
Steely Dan- Can’t Buy a Thrill- Donald Fagen, the late Walter Becker
“Can’t Buy a Thrill” in November 1972 from Steely Dan this first varied assortment of smart pop from the songwriters Donald Fagen and Walter Becker sounds the least like any Steely Dan album which would follow, but my guests Donald Fagen & the late Walter Becker explain why that’s the case In the Studio.