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Not since “Aqualung” over half a century ago had Ian Anderson addressed the historic characters and iconography of the Old and New Testament Bible this head on, mixed with twentieth century and even current events, as on “The Zealot Gene” by Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is my guest here In the Studio.
Charlie Daniels told me that he had just finished writing “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” before he and the Charlie Daniels Band performed it at their annual Volunteer Jam in Nashville on January 13,1979 , making this performance the first ever before a live audience .-Redbeard
How did Pink Floyd evolve from the sublime introspection of “Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973 to the madness and despair of “The Wall” six years later? David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters explore the dark, ominous, yet vitally important transitional musical missing link, January 1977’s “Animals” here in my classic rock interview, an album that was highly anticipated.
The pivotal album in Sammy Hagar’s long career, “Standing Hampton”…Sammy joins me In the Studio.
Not always considered a Progressive Rock band, nevertheless the title song to Traffic’s most popular album, November 1971’s “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” fits easily high atop any list of the most popular and creative songs of the Progressive Rock era..In my classic rock interview In the Studio prior to Jim Capaldi’s death in 2005 from cancer, it is clearly evident how much Steve Winwood and Capaldi loved woodwind player ChrisWood, and each other.
“Hotel California” by The Eagles… impressive combination of cinematic vision, songcraft, and high tech production seemed to be coming from a place in the near future to which the rest of rock would have to catch up…Joe Walsh, Don Henley, & the late Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey are my guests In the Studio for “Hotel CA” .
The story behind this free concert performance by Van Halen of “Poundcake” in the streets of downtown Dallas in early December 1991 gets filed under Urban Legends that are actually true. That’s me introducing Van Halen from the stage. -Redbeard
Men At Work managed to occupy the peak slot in America for 15 weeks. The songs “Who Can It Be Now?” and “Down Under” followed the Business As Usual debut album from Men At Work to #1 sales for all three in the U.S., something never before done by a rookie band, not even the Beatles.
The remarkably durable breakthrough fourth album by progressive rockers YES has turned out to be anything but “Fragile”… YES co-founder Jon Anderson is joined In the Studio by keyboard innovator Rick Wakeman who joined the band to make “Fragile”.
It is a miracle that “American Girl”, on the 1976 debut Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released forty-five years ago, was ever discovered to be played on album rock radio: it was sequenced tenth, last song on side 2! Here TP and the best working band in America then stripped it down to its essence in order to “make it last all night…” during a multi-night stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore in February 1997.