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For the forty-fifth anniversary of this record-setting release “Escape” I will be joined by former lead singer/co-writer Steve Perry, Journey co-founding guitarist/songwriter Neal Schon, and newest recruit from The Babys back then, keyboardist/composer Jonathan Cain. Get the details on Journey’s “Escape” plan brilliantly executed here In the Studio the week of July 12.
Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Ric Savage, & Phil Collen join Redbeard “In the Studio” for the 45th anniversary of “High ‘n’ Dry”.
“It went platinum (1,000,000 sales ) in thirteen days,” Pat Benatar states matter-of-factly while she and hubby/ musical director Neil Giraldo reminisce In the Studio about the explosive third album,”Precious Time”, as it headed rapidly to the top-selling perch in America in Summer 1981…
Genesis’ biggest album in their long fifty year+ career, “Invisible Touch” (worldwide sales estimated at 15,000,000) turns forty, so we convened Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins here In the Studio to discuss the blockbuster sales behind “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”, “Land of Confusion”, “In Too Deep”, “Throwing It All Away”, and “Invisible Touch”.
After meeting and interviewing Dave Matthews during the 1996 Horde Festival tour just as their second studio album, Crash, was being released, none of the subsequent successes of the Dave Matthews Band since then has surprised me. Impressed ? Absolutely, but not surprised…
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.
Deep Purple’s “Fireball” is the under-appreciated entry to “Machine Head”., with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover In the Studio.
Jimi Hendrix performed two 1970 Memorial Day concerts in Berkeley CA at which he unveiled unreleased songs, including the portentous “Hear My Train a Comin’ “. Presented to honor American Black History Month.
This week’s classic rock interview guest: ex-Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel had a cult following after four studio solo albums, with his most significant creation being the ground-breaking “Shock the Monkey” video. But with the May 1986 release of “So” forty years ago,(#1 UK, #2 U.S., over 5 million sold; 4 Grammy nominations including Album and Record of the Year for the #1 hit “Sledgehammer”), Peter Gabriel was vaulted into international pop stardom with all of its attendant door-opening , barrier-eliminating amenities…(more)
AC/DC’s lead guitarist Angus Young is my guest, with priceless memories from the In the Studio archive by the late AC/DC rhythm guitarist/riffmaster Malcolm Young, for the 50th anniversary of “High Voltage”.