Medium Rare Archives

Rare musician interviews by Redbeard not part of the weekly radio series .

Van Morrison- Moondance @55

This ultra-rare, fascinating Van Morrison interview with the reclusive "Howard Hughes of Rhythm 'n' Blues" is nothing short of a revelation...

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David Lee Roth- Crazy from the Heat 40th Anniversary

The incomparable David Lee Roth interview about January 1985's "Crazy from the Heat" plus the platinum solo album, "Skyscraper" here In the Studio.

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"Chicago II" climbed to #4 sales in America, #6 in the UK, a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and sales of over a million, igniting a legacy of thirty-six releases in fifty years together. Chicago co-founder Robert Lamm tells the insider tale on the 55th anniversary of Chicago "II".

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Eddie Money- Sound of Money 35th Anniversary

Just before Christmas 1989 Eddie Money joined me In the Studio to discuss his roller-coaster career and first "best of" compilation, The Sound of Money. Alternately hysterically funny and harrowing, in my classic rock interview Eddie Money shares…

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Genesis- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 50th- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford

For the sublime "Selling England by the Pound" by Genesis, I am joined by Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins In the Studio.

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Eric Clapton- Journeyman 35th Anniversary

Eric Clapton's mid-Eighties trifecta of studio albums, starting in 1985 with Behind the Sun followed by August, peaked in November 1989 with Journeyman. Thirty-five years on it has aged remarkably well, a combination of some of Clapton's…

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Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers @40- Ian Gillan, Roger Glover

Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers” with Ian Gillan and Roger Glover

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Grateful Dead- Early Best

If you really want to have fun with a self-proclaimed Deadhead, first have him/ her set down their phone and then ask them to name the Grateful Dead's highest-charting Billboard album up to the band's 1987 best-seller, "In the Dark" . You'll get a lot "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty" guesses, and after that I'd have picked "Terrapin Station". The correct answer turns out to be the tasty mid-decade effort by the Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah". Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, & Phil Lesh are In the Studio.