Archive for category: Classic Rock Interviews

These are the interviews from the most recent editions of the weekly national radio broadcast of In The Studio .

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Rush- Permanent Waves 45th Anniversary- Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson

Rush 45th anniversary interview "Permanent Waves" with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson
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Guess Who- American Woman 55th- Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman

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.
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Kansas @50: Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt

Over a half century of being America's leading Progressive Rock band, the Topeka-based progressive rock band Kansas sold about twelve million albums just off of back-to-back blockbusters  Left Overture  in 1976 and Point of Know Return  barely…
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Pink Floyd- The Wall- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Roger Waters admitted to me that, in 1980, Pink Floyd had been guaranteed one million dollars per night to perform "The Wall" on a stadium tour. "And I refused to do it outdoors," Waters tells me in this classic rock interview. "But how can you do a show, that's about the alienation you feel about doing stadium shows, in a stadium?"
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Pink Floyd- The Wall pt2- Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Pink Floyd's monumental opus The Wall...the numbers that it has generated are starting to rival the Great Wall of China: #87 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time; worldwide sales of an estimated 30,000,000...
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Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed- Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman

Original Rolling Stones bassist Bill Woman joined by guitarist Mick Taylor for seminal “Let It Bleed” interview.
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ZZ Top- Deguello- Billy Gibbons, the late Dusty Hill & Frank Beard

Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard In the Studio for “Deguello”
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Bryan Adams- Reckless

Bryan Adams In the Studio for “Reckless”
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Pink Floyd- Endless River- David Gilmour, Nick Mason

Interviews with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Nick Mason about "The Endless River" for the fascinating back story of a "final " musical statement, 1994's "The Division Bell", which was never intended to be the superstar progressive rock band's last word but which nevertheless became that when Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright died in 2008.