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Jackson Browne had grown increasingly active in a series of high-profile humanitarian causes including nuclear energy moratorium, climate change awareness, famine relief, and anti-apartheid in South Africa…But not until the February 1986 release of “Lives in the Balance” had the popular singer/songwriter turned his introspective mirror around in his songs. Jackson Browne joins me here In the Studio .
The Sting and I…We had already done multiple interviews when he was in The Police and now Sting had released three solo albums, including his solo “The Soul Cages”, by the time we reconvened in 1991. Sting had lost both parents by then, the most recent his father, and was clearly wrestling with his star ascending amidst pain and personal loss.
“The way you change Music is by changing the music,” David Bowie told me, without any hint of irony whatsoever, as we discussed January 1976’s “Station to Station”. Songs include “Golden Years”,”Stay” ,”TVC 1-5″ ,”Wild is the Wind” , and the title song, often cited by post-punk bands including The Cars, Talking Heads, and Gary Numan as a major influence. David Bowie guests for “Golden Years” golden anniversary.
If I told you that in 1981 one of America’s top music acts released a concept album that identified growing cracks in the foundation of our society and presciently predicted practically everything we find today, who would you guess it was? Bob Dylan? Neil Young? Crosby Stills and Nash? I doubt that Styx would come to mind to many, but that is precisely what “Paradise Theater” was, part lament, part warning. Current members Tommy Shaw, James Young, & Lawrence Gowan all weigh in as does ex-member Dennis DeYoung on “Paradise Theater” ‘s forty-fifth anniversary.
The January 1996 solo project release “Victor” by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson was a highly personal rock Rorschach test for the gestalt guitarist, primal scream therapy with a beat. Alex Lifeson lies down on the couch here In the Studio on the album’s thirtieth anniversary..
With Belfast-born Van Morrison’s the mainstream rock audience November 1970’s “His Band and Street Choir” finally caught up to the quality jazzy, folksy rhythm’n’blues Morrison had been belting out consistently since critics began lauding his debut,”Astral Weeks”. This rare 21st century classic rock interview was conducted in Belfast by the BBC’s intrepid John Bennett.
It’s the thirty-fifth anniversary of Scorpions “Crazy World”. Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolph Schenker are my guesst In the Studio.
In order to explore the best of Spirit plus the concept album “The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus”, we sat down with singer/ songwriter/ keyboard player Jay Ferguson to hear “I Got a Line on You”, “Dark-Eyed Woman”, “Animal Zoo”,” Mr Skin”, and “Nature’s Way”.
For “Lola”, Kinks singer/songwriter Sir Ray Davies In the Studio discussing those essential Kinks recordings.
It is the 55th anniversary of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Carl Palmer is my guest, along with my archival interviews of the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.