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Foghat- Fool for the City- late Lonesome Dave Peverett & Rod Price

British blues-rock foursome Foghat's "Fool for the City" album, with the title song plus "Slow Ride", dominated American FM airplay from its release in September 1975 all through the following year (#20 Billboard). Foghat were four British electric bluesmen who comprised the most successful  limb of the sprawling Savoy Brown musical family tree, albeit that success almost exclusively in North America. This is a bittersweet edition of In the Studio as both of my guests in this classic rock interview, Foghat co-founding guitarist/singer/songwriter Lonesome Dave Peverett and slide guitarist/songwriter Rod Price, have since passed away.
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Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason

"YOU try following up 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Go on, just try it!" playfully admonishes Pink Floyd guitarist/singer David Gilmour. "We've been trying to do it ever since!", laughs drummer Nick Mason. Gilmour and Mason are my guests, Roger Waters makes a cameo, and we include archive comments from the late keyboard player Richard Wright to round out the definitive classic rock interview regarding "Wish You Were Here" on its fiftieth anniversary.

Bruce Springsteen & the E St Band- Thunder Road- Apollo Theater 3-9-2012

Bruce Springsteen fans have held  October 27, 1975 as noteworthy ever since his third album, Born to Run, was released then with unprecedented mainstream magazine covers Time and Newsweek heralding, somewhat prematurely, the biggest thing since…