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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 […]

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Ted Nugent- Free for All 50th Anniversary

Ted Nugent’s “Free for All” fifty years ago changed the national  radio reception and over-amped its way onto the Billboard album chart in 1976, becoming the second of his three consecutive multi-platinum sellers. Tyrannosaurus Ted is my guest In the Studio.

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J Geils Band- Freeze Frame- Peter Wolf

Prior to the Fall 1981 release Freeze Frame , Boston’s J Geils Band had released ten albums while touring relentlessly. Yet the hard-driving jump’n’jiving lead singer Peter Wolf admits that all they really had to show for the effort was half a million dollars in debt….(more)

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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 Fallin’ ” from the band’s residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco in […]

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Steve Winwood- Back in the High Life 40th Anniversary

“Higher Love”, the #1 seller and winner of both the “Record of the Year” and “Song of the Year” Grammys for 1986, isn’t about doing it in the top bunk. It’s about love on a spiritual plane, not an airplane. By his mid-twenties, Steve Winwood already may have  been on a hall of fame career pace, singing and playing hits as a mere teenager with the Spencer Davis Group (“Gimme Some Lovin’ “,” I’m a Man”), Traffic, and Blind Faith. Yet Winwood told me in this  classic rock interview about 1986’s “Back in the High Life”  that a 1972 bout with peritonitis almost killed him…

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Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Tarkus @55

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.

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Metallica- King Nothing- San Francisco 2-6-16

When the Super Bowl was played in San Francisco in February 2016, hometown Bay Area hard rock heroes Metallica were the obvious choice for the event’s high-profile midpoint entertainment slot…except the Load  they were bringing was deemed “too heavy for halftime” by the NFL. So Metallica staged their own free concert the night before in […]