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Interviews from the early '80s to the present with musicians from the worlds of hard-rock, blues, metal, and prog, with the emphasis on guitarists.

Steve Newton


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    That time Lemmy from Motörhead made me feel like a twit because I hadn’t heard Skunk Anansie yet

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2019


    By Steve Newton One thing you had to love about Lemmy Kilmister–apart from his brain-rattling music–was how good he was at being himself. He wasn’t the type to put on […]

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    That time I asked Jeff Healey about his 1989 Grammy nomination and he told me that Jimmy Page would probably win

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2019


    By Steve Newton On February 16, 1989, I did the second of my three interviews with Canadian guitar hero Jeff Healey. He was only 22 at the time, but holy […]

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    That time Adam Levine of Maroon 5 told me that he needed more spicy plum sauce–and didn’t love the White Stripes

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2019


    By Steve Newton Maroon 5 are pretty huge these days. Huge enough that they’re playing the Super Bowl halftime show today, for what that’s worth. I interviewed the band’s 24-year-old […]

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    That time I asked Bruce Fairbairn if Bob Rock had tried stealing his AC/DC project, The Razors Edge

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2018


    By Steve Newton Back in December of 1991 I wrote an article in the Georgia Straight–the weekly Vancouver newspaper I still work for–on local producer-to-the-stars Bob Rock, who’d made a […]

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    That time B.B. King told me that Eric Clapton could make him do whatever he wants

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2018


    By Steve Newton I’ve been lucky enough to have interviewed blues legend B.B. King twice, once way back in 1984, then again in 2002. The last time was a couple […]

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    That time I called Susan Tedeschi to talk about Just Won’t Burn and her mom said she was in the tub

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2018


    By Steve Newton I did my first interview with Susan Tedeschi in November of 1998, just eight months before she met husband-to-be Derek Trucks while opening for the Allman Brothers […]

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    That time Mick Ronson told me he was a rocker, as if I didn’t know

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2018


    By Steve Newton I watched that recently released documentary on Mick Ronson, Beside Bowie, the other day, and it inspired me to digitize another snippet off my first interview with […]

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    That time Robin Trower told me that most of the pop music in England was “rubbish”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2018


    By Steve Newton Robin Trower is one of my fave guitarists of all time. His string of wicked albums in the seventies–in particular Twice Removed from Yesterday, Bridge of Sighs, […]

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    That time Leslie West told me that Eddie Van Halen inspired him to get back into guitar after rehab

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017


    By Steve Newton In the Year of Our Lord, 1974, Mountain was one of my favourite bands. Back then I played the crap out of their new live album, Twin Peaks, marvelling […]

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    That time Warren Zevon told me that “Werewolves of London” wasn’t as big a hit as people think

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2017


    By Steve Newton As we enter a new year I find myself thinking: "Man, there aren't many singer-songwriters like Warren Zevon around anymore." That dude was one of a kind, that's for sure. In my 35-plus years of interviewing musicians, chatting with him has gotta be in my Top 10. Too bad I only got … Continue reading That time Warren Zevon told me that “Werewolves of London” wasn’t as big a hit as people think The post That time Warren Zevon told me that “Werewolves of London” wasn’t as big a hit as people think appeared first on earofnewt.com.

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