Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed 55th- Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor 11-25
Two Rolling Stones who were there, original bass player Bill Wyman and then- 21 year old lead guitarist Mick Taylor, are my guests In the Studio for the story of recording and touring behind Let It Bleed, the November 1969 masterpiece. Let It…
Genesis- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 50th- Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks 11-18
Fifty years ago rock music's live conventions simply were not equipped technically to pull off the multi-media visions of Pete Townshend's Quadrophenia or Peter Gabriel's concept opus for Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. When the technology…
Don Henley- Building the Perfect Beast 40th Anniversary 11-18
With the mothership infamously waiting for Hell to freeze over, Eagles singer/songwriter/drummer Don Henley recovered impressively from an unremarkable first solo attempt with his second, November 1984's Building the Perfect Beast. Containing…
ZZ Top- DeGuello 45th Anniversary- Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard 11-11
Because I was on the radio during the late Seventies at ROCK 103, I distinctly remember practically every major touring band that came through Memphis then, home of ZZ Top recording mecca Ardent Studios, marveling at the sounds that Billy Gibbons…
Eric Clapton- Journeyman 35th Anniversary 11-4
Unbeknownst to his millions of ardent fans worldwide, Eric Clapton had entered drug rehabilitation around the time of his Live Aid appearance in Summer 1985, and by the end of the decade was completing a trilogy of sobriety albums with Behind…
Bryan Adams- Reckless 40th Anniversary 11-4
Personally Bryan Adams really impressed me with only his second effort, You Want It, You Got It, and up to a million eventually joined me in that assessment with his third in early 1983, Cuts Like a Knife, so by the time November 1984's Reckless…
Led Zeppelin II @55- Robert Plant, Jimmy Page
Though barely ten months had passed between the inauspicious releases of their debut and followup in 1969, so much had transpired in that time with the band- and the world- that by the time Led Zeppelin II erupted in late October 1969, the largest…