(#2) Bobby Rydell On His Friendship With the Great Buddy Rich Bobby Rydell was a teen idol before my time. I was around but just a baby when he had hits like :Wild One” and “Volare” in 1960 and “Forget Him” three years later. All three sold a million copies. […]
(interview clip #4) When Bobby Rydell Met The Up & Coming Band The Beatles I look for interesting moments in time in all the interviews that I do. There’s always a little voice inside my head that’s always asking, “bring me somewhere I’ve never been?” Well, Bobby Rydell certainly has […]
(#1) Former Teen Idol Bobby Rydell Understands Artists Like Justin Bieber I say this all the time but I’d be dead now if something had happened in my life to make me famous as a teen. I don’t think I would have handled fame at that age. Some say folks […]
9 – INTERVIEW – Jim Messina: The Making Of a Producer Not everyone knows what they’re going to grow up to be as a kid. Jim Messina picked up the guitar at 5-years-old and he be came very gifted on the instrument. He was a singer/songwriter who earned spots in […]
Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren Nominated For Rock Hall Of Fame The class of 2019 nominations have been announced and the list also includes Janet Jackson, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Devo, John Prine, Roxy Music and Todd Rundgren. Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, the MC5, the Cure, Rufus & […]
Jefferson Airplane Co-Founder Marty Balin Dead at 76 He played a main role in the San Francisco bands sound in the 60’s and in the follow-up band Jefferson Starship singing lead vocals and writing on the latter’s “Miracles” from 1975. Balin was the chief songwriter on Jefferson Airplane’ debut album […]
#6 – INTERVIEW – Eddie Money Was Surprised How Cool The Stones & Zeppelin Were To Hang With They say never meet your heroes and sometimes that’s true. I’m always tempted to do a video on the rudest Rock stars I’ve ever met. It’s not a long list but at […]
#3 INTERVIEW – Elliott Murphy Had a Different Lou Reed Experience In his 2017 book “Lou Reed – a Life” author Anthony DeCurtis called Lou Reed “Witty, vicious, contradictory and brilliant.” He was certainly plugged into something wonderful but had an incredibly dark side. Singer/songwriter Elliott Murphy tells us about […]
There’s that old cliche’, “you never know what’s around the corner.” Bad things can lead to more hard times but usually these watershed moments are roads to learning, discovery and better things in life. When a young Elton John (known by his real name Reginald Kenneth Dwight back then) was […]
Every person in every job has that story to share that they would rather not talk about. Interestingly these little tales are too juicy not to get around. Former April Wine founder Jim Henman told us an interesting ditty on blacking out on stage in Eastern Canada. INTERVIEW #3 April […]
