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“I’m probably the worst musician in the band,” admits Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio on the forty-fifth anniversary of The Kinks live album “One for the Road”. “They’re very good players, and this record shows them off as players as well.” Part one of my classic rock interview.
For Memorial Day Weekend 2025: “Echoes In the Studio”, the voices of & tributes to fallen rockers. Part three of four.
Bachman Turner Overdrive In the Studio with Randy Bachman for “Four Wheel Drive” 50th anniversary.
For their 1975 “Fandango”, my guests Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard in “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” ZZ Top were tellin’ tall tales here In the Studio long before Netflix or Amazon Prime were ever invented! -Redbeard
the first time that I met legendary songwriter/ guitarist the late Teenie Hodges was at a Talking Heads record release party for “Fear of Music” in Memphis in 1979. Teenie had sought me out to introduce himself, since I had been influential in getting ROCK 103 Memphis to play the Talking Heads version of “Take Me to the River”, the soul classic originally co-written and recorded by Memphis legend Al Green.
One of the priceless pieces of twenty-five years of rock history at Q102 Dallas/Ft Worth was a tape cartridge that I had dubbed from a cassette containing a live medley of ZZ Top’s encore of “Lagrange” which had closed their headlining show at Castle Donington Raceway in England August 17, 1985. The Texas trio arguably […]
Bad Company had elbowed their way to the forefront of the rock world by the late March 1975 release of their second album, “Straight Shooter” ,avoiding the sophomore jinx with timeless songs “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad”,”Feel Like Makin’ Love”, and “Shooting Star”. But as my guests Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke share here, strange things can happen eventually when that much success is achieved that quickly in lives so young.
“Nuthin’ Fancy” indicated a creative well running low for Lynyrd Skynyrd which would only worsen soon on “Gimme Back My Bullets”. No doubt the non-stop pace of nearly constant touring partly was to blame, but there was something darker and even more sinister which no one outside the band knew, nor anyone in it would admit. This tour had casualties…United once again in Eternity, Gary Rossington, Leon Wilkeson, & Ed King played it like they felt it here In the Studio.
It was over fifty years ago that US audiences were introduced through a Paul McCartney song,”Come and Get It”, to a little-known English band The Iveys, soon to be rechristened Badfinger and to become second only to The Beatles in sales on the Apple Records label.
By 1975 David Bowie had abandoned the Glam Rock he had virtually invented in the guise of the ego-tripping tragicomic Fallen Rock Star, Ziggy Stardust. Bowie’s mid-decade “Young Americans” album with the #1 hit “Fame” pointed directly toward Disco’s dominance a mere two years later…the late David Bowie is my guest for “Young Amercans”