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They were the changes in musical direction and key personnel made on Jethro Tull’s critical preceding third album,”Benefit”, in April 1970, which provided the oxygen in “Aqualung” ‘s tank a year later. Ian Anderson is my guest for your “Benefit”.
“Chicago II” climbed to #4 sales in America, #6 in the UK, a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and sales of over a million, igniting a legacy of thirty-six releases in fifty years together. Chicago co-founder Robert Lamm tells the insider tale of Chicago “II”.
If you have not listened to the Guess Who’s January 1970 classic “American Woman” album recently, I predict you will be amazed at how strong the songs were, such as “No Sugar Tonight”; how environmentally aware lyricist/ gifted singer Burton Cummings was on “New Mother Nature” and “Hand Me Down World”; and how rockin’ Randy Bachman could complement Cummings’ pop side on “American Woman” and before that, “No Time”. So why did Bachman leave at the Guess Who’s peak? Find out here from Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman In the Studio.
Don Henley interview about making his Building the Perfect Beast
Tom Petty archival interview for “Damn the Torpedoes ” In the Studio
King Crimson singer/ bass player Greg Lake discusses the progressive rock touchstone “In the Court of the Crimson King” with Jon Anderson of YES and Mike Rutherford of Genesis In the Studio.
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” interview with Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, part two
“Outlandos d’Amour’ has a certain grotesque, naïve charm about it,” Sting offers in this interview about the second album by The Police, “but ‘Reggatta de Blanc’ is infinitely a better record.” Both the critics and the rock audience agreed, garnering two #1 hits in the UK with “Walking on the Moon” and “Message in a Bottle”, plus topping the album sales chart there with “Reggatta de Blanc”.
This one haunts me. Believe me, I am far from being alone in the admiration and appreciation of the obvious musical talent of singer/songwriter Kevin Gilbert, first demonstrated in Summer 1990 with the collaboration with pop producer Patrick Leonard as Toy Matinee. Gilbert had been a mainstay in the late ’80s singer/songwriter L.A. brat pack […]
“Well the biggest difference was that I was going to have to write all the songs this time,” quips Ian Anderson in a bit of understatement when I asked, in this classic rock interview, about the departure of Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams between their 1968 debut, “This Was”, and the much more successful “Stand Up” the following year.