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Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band’s “Nine Tonight” really does feel like a close approximation of seeing the tireless veteran Detroit singer/songwriter and his band when they were one of America’s top live acts. Bob Seger is my terrific guest here In the Studio.
“Bad Company” was one of the most successful debuts in rock history because of “Can’t Get Enough”,”Rock Steady”,”Movin’ On”,”Ready for Love”, “Seagull”, and the title song. Here is the real story from Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, and the late Mick Ralphs In the Studio with Redbeard.
It was Duane Allman who formed and led the Allman Brothers Band, and behind them an entire new Southern Rock movement. But at the end of October 1971 midway through the recording of what would become” Eat a Peach”, Duane died riding his beloved motorcycle. Gregg Allman (who died May 2017) and ex-guitarist Dickey Betts (d.4/18/24) reveal how the music sustained the brotherhood.
When we met in 1978, we were both in our mid-twenties, but I realized even then that Tom Petty had a very old soul, wise and true, and that sense only increased over the next four decades…The late Tom Petty is my guest In the Studio for the story of “Full Moon Fever”.
The late Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd “In the Studio” for a Southern-fried serving of “Second Helping”. My archival interviews with Ed King and Leon Wilkeson’s final radio interview, as well.
In the case of Def Leppard, now celebrating forty-five years since the Sheffield, England band’s introductory “On Through the Night” was released in March 1980, anyone wishing to understand where they come from musically would do well to listen here to my guests Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott and lead guitarist Phil Collen. The tunestack on “Yeah!” is a virtual look at the playlists of BBC Radio One and Radio Luxembourg circa 1973.
Bad Company ended the Seventies decade strongly on the wings of “Desolation Angels”, and Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke join Redbeard In the Studio to recall making “Rock and Roll Fantasy”,”Oh Atlanta”, and “Gone Gone Gone”.
Forty-five years ago, Cheap Trick was poised on the brink, but depending on what continent you were referencing, it could have been the brink of Beatlemania-type mass popularity (as in Japan that Summer 1978), or the brink of disaster here at home, where they had rave reviews for their first three albums but no radio […]
John Waite and Jonathan Cain put on their big boy pants for a frank conversation about The Babys on the 45th anniversary of “Head First”, the album which featured their hit,”Every Time I Think of You”” in Winter 1979.
It is the massively popular September 1983 release “Sports” by Huey Lewis and the News. Huey Lewis is my guest here In the Studio.