Van Halen- Alex, David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony, the late Eddie Van Halen
The interviewsof the earliest years of Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s emigration from The Netherlands to Southern California, meeting Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, playing Pasadena backyard parties to the Sunset Strip, and recording their January 1978 debut.
Journey- Frontiers- Neal Schon, John Cain, Steve Perry
Jonathan Cain, band co-founder/guitarist Neal Schon, and former singer Steve Perry reveal considerable personal pathos during the Big Payday provided by "Separate Ways", "Faithfully", and two more Journey hits which were inexplicably bumped off of "Frontiers", "Only the Young" and "Ask the Lonely".
Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies
In February 1973 when Alice Cooper's sixth album "Billion Dollar Babies" went #1 sales, we all thought that Marshall McLuhan, Andy Warhol, and Alice Cooper were being hyperbolic with their predictions about video fame's impact on society. We laughed then, but as it turns out, the joke's on us...Alice Cooper is my fascinating guest on the 50th anniversary of “ Billion Dollar Babies”.
Def Leppard- Pyromania- Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Rick Savage
Def Leppard “Pyromania” interview with Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Phil Collen In the Studio.
Journey- Infinity- Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Steve Perry
With their 1978 fourth album,"Infinity", some rock writers even today attempt to reduce the remarkable transformation by the San Francisco band Journey as "talented veteran but commercially struggling group hires world-class singer, which anybody would recognize; shortens song arrangements; and instantly becomes the biggest band in America". "Wrong," says Journey lead guitarist/songwriter/co-founder Neal Schon ."Wrong!"
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young- Deja Vu
"In the Studio" : David, Stephen, Graham, and Neil of Crosby, Stills, Nash , and Young with Redbeard for "Deja Vu" .
Bryan Adams- Cuts Like a Knife
Bryan Adams interview to explore his breakthrough album "Cuts Like a Knife" from January 1983
Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy
Warren Zevon, the gambler's son who wrote and sang "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead", presumably is indeed resting in peace, having passed away far too soon in 2003...Here is my rare interview with Warren Zevon for “Excitable Boy".
Kinks- To the Bone- Ray Davies
"I'm probably the worst musician in the band," admits Ray Davies of The Kinks In the Studio. "They're very good players, and this record 'To the Bone' shows them off as players as well." Part one of my interview.
Moody Blues- Seventh Sojourn- Justin Hayward, John Lodge
Justin Hayward & John Lodge are In the Studio for their international #1-seller, "Seventh Sojourn".