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Clearly, young Jeffrey Gaines was already reinterpreting Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” and mesmerizing audiences with it as early as Fall 1992, which this live acoustic performance on my Q102 Dallas/Ft.Worth radio show reveals.
Happy birthday to The Who‘s Roger Daltrey tomorrow (Tuesday )! Here’s The Who performing Pete Townshend‘s “Behind Blue Eyes” live on 17 December, 1982 in Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens. – Redbeard
To mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of the album widely hailed as one of the greatest concert recordings ever, we present my archival interviews with the late Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts from In the Studio regarding the Allman Brothers Band “Live at Fillmore East” the week of 6/22..
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)
Redbeard rocks St Patty’s Day with Spotify all-Irish playlist!
“Love It to Death” in March 1971 may have been the third album by the band Alice Cooper, but that doesn’t change the fact that nobody bought the first two. By December of that same year, EVERYBODY had heard “I’m Eighteen” off of Love It to Death , and Alice Cooper had written and recorded a soon-to-be-classic additional full album, “Killer”. And it was. Alice proves in my classic rock interview that you can project practically any fringe, edgy, sociopathic image in rock and get away with it – as long as you deliver the hits.
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.
The real-life backstory inspiration for the Alan Parsons Project’s million-seller album “Turn of a Friendly Card”, released in November 1980, is pretty interesting. Alan Parsons is my guest In the Studio.
Listen here to Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers, the late Mick Ralphs, and drummer Simon Kirke with me In the Studio for the best of Bad Company, part one marking their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 1985 ZZ Top’s”Afterburner” kicked in. But don’t go looking for it in the 2019 ZZ Top rockumentary film “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” .That otherwise well-done pastiche of just some of the chapters in this colorful trio’s fifty year telenovela implied that all meaningful recording by ZZ Top wrapped at the conclusion of “Eliminator” way back in 1983. Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard join me here In the Studio for “Sleeping Bag”,”Stages”,”Woke Up with Wood”, and “Planet of Women”.