October 9, 2022 – It’s not every day that one gets to cross off two classic bands on their interview wish list but that’s just what happened with Jeff “Skunk” Baxter. The Guitarist was a founding member of Steely Dan in the early seventies and a few years later he […]
August 13, 2022 – Lets look back at this day in Rock History. John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 40 years and a music journalist since 1989. He graduated from Broadcasting school as a newsman so he would have the skills to write […]
August 11, 2022 – In the beginning Steely Dan was very much a band. In 1972 there were six guys in the mix, Donald Fagen on keys and vocals, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Denny Dias and Walter Becker on Guitars, Jim Hodder on drums and David Palmer on vocals. There was […]
July 25, 2022 – When Jimmy Page says your guitar solo is his favorite that says something. The Led Zeppelin legend would tell anyone who would listen how much he loved that solo in Steely Dan’s “Reelin in the Years.” Check out the video. John Beaudin has been in major […]
May 27, 2022 – Like Michael McDonald, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, played with both Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. A dude needs skills to enter those rooms. We covered much real estate with Baxter. In this clip we look back at the original version of Steely Dan’s “My Old School” […]
Losing a long time band-mate can be as painful as saying goodbye to ones spouse. There’s always much history there, trust, understanding, discovery etc. Donald Fagen opened up to Rolling Stone magazine about his last meeting with his, then, very sick band-mate Walter Becker who we lost on September 3rd […]
It was a tough year again in Rock and Roll. Losing Malcolm Young of AC/DC, Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers, Tom Petty etc has got to hurt. Here is our “Year in Review” of the top musicians we lost in 2017. John Beaudin has been in major market radio […]
John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 33 years and a music journalist since 1989. He graduated from Broadcasting school as a news man so he would have the skills to write about the artists that inspired him since he bought his first album, […]
