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Hey friends! Welcome to another episode of Adulting with Autism. Happy Wednesday! I hope you had a fantastic weekend. Mine was great and eventful—I'll have to share the story sometime this week. This episode is specially for parents and caregivers. Our guest is Russ Solomon, a parent wellness mentor who's all about helping parents find their innate peaceful nature. Russ blends his lifelong spiritual journey with decades of experience as a musical therapist, drum circle facilitator, and Reiki practitioner. He offers a transformative experience called "In-Tune Parents," aimed at unlocking joy and well-being for both parents and their kids. We had a fantastic discussion on why Russ focuses on parents instead of kids, the importance of parental support, and practical ways to bridge the gap in transitioning young adults into independent adults. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy this insightful conversation. You might even want to take notes! And don't forget to check out Russ's free masterclass on his website. It could be a game-changer for you. Thanks for tuning in, and always keep adulting! Love you guys! April Ratchford https://raisingspecialneedskids.com/masterclass/ https://www.facebook.com/InTuneParents PS: Don't forget to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, and Spotify. Like us on Facebook at Adulting with Autism Podcast and visit our website, Adulting with Autism, to check out our merchandise. 20% of proceeds go to a nonprofit sponsoring housing and transition programs for those in need.
Send us a Text Message.“Son, never trust us lawyers because we're going to fuck you every time.” In 1991, how did Freddi Szilagi find himself face to face, hand-delivering a $10,000 check to Edwin Edwards at the Hotel Monteleone? In short, because of Russ Solomon and Tower Records. For a more detailed explanation, you can hear our guest this week break it all down for you. Before he was enmeshed in the world of state politics, Freddi Szilagi grew up poor on the Upper East Side of New York City. His mother was an aspiring Opera singer who moved from one bedroom apartment to another with four kids, two dogs, and a grand piano. Having a father who was a piano prodigy, who blew off his scholarship to Julliard, you could safely say that Freddi grew up with music in the house. When a friend set up an interview for Freddi to work at the new Tower Records at 4th and Broadway, it set in motion a 17-year career taking him from NYC to working an A-Team project at the new store that had opened in New Orleans. Meeting the woman who would become his wife while opening the store, Freddi moved down to New Orleans working under Dan Shepard. Eventually, Dan left New Orleans, Freddi became the General Manager and he immediately set about highlighting the tremendous music that was coming out of the city of New Orleans. A large part of that was becoming a part of the fabric of the New Orleans Jazzfest. Freddi finished his Tower career at the Washington DC store, leaving after receiving an offer from a member of his kid's school PTA, who worked for Time-Life music. Make sure to check out this week's episode with Freddi recalling buying kid's music from the Mafia, profanity-filled conversations with Dr. John, and a whole lot more.
How the 2024 Republican National Convention could affect California politics. A new organization aims to bring local news coverage back to the Central Valley. Finally, “A New Spin on Vinyl” art exhibition takes place in Yolo County. How the RNC Could Impact California The Republican National Convention is taking place in Milwaukee, just days after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On its first day, Trump made his choice for vice president - Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. Rob Stutzman, a Republican political strategist and former deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, joins Insight to talk about the potential impacts of the RNC, Trump, and Vance on California's political landscape ahead of the November elections. Central Valley Journalism Collaborative As news deserts continue to spread across the country, a new nonprofit organization aims to bring robust local coverage back to California's Central Valley. Central Valley Journalism Collaborative Executive Director Alma Martinez and Executive Editor Joe Kieta talk about the organization's mission and founding. Also, CVJC Health Equity Reporter Vivienne Aguilar and editor Trey Bundy talk about the collaborative's Health Equity Lab journalism. CapRadio is a partner of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative. ‘A New Spin on Vinyl' Tower Records has been a landmark name in Sacramento, from its founding in 1960 by Russ Solomon to its peak as an international record empire. Now, an art exhibition honoring Solomon is on display in Yolo County. A New Spin on Vinyl is running through Aug. 17 at The Barn Gallery in Woodland. Artist and exhibit founder Dwight Head and Bridgett Rangel-Rexford, Exhibitions Manager at YoloArts talk about the pieces on display, and the connection between music and art.
Are you an Intune parent? Theresa Alexander Inman sits down with Russ Solomon, a parent wellness mentor and owner of Intune Parents. They discuss Russ's journey from a music therapist to a parent wellness mentor, the unique challenges parents of children with special needs face, and his approach to eliminating stress and creating inner peace through the Intune Parents program. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 00:36 Russ Solomon's Background 04:28 Challenges Faced by Parents 04:54 Introduction to Drum Circles 06:55 Development of Intune Parents 11:17 Teaching a Stress Elimination Process 22:10 Framework of Intune Parents Program 26:14 Importance of Strength-Based Approach 40:39 Encouraging Parents to Take Action 41:22 How to Connect with Russ Russ Solomon helps successful, heart-centered, spiritually minded parents of kids with special needs access inner peace so they can become the calm in the storm, create harmony at home, and ignite their children's potential, while eliminating chronic stress, and raising their family in a way that's aligned with everyone's highest good. Integrating a lifelong spiritual journey with decades of experience in music therapy, he offers a harmonious blend of heart and science to unlock lasting joy and well-being for both parents and kids. Learn more from Russ at: https://intuneparents.com/ This is the link to the landing page for the MasterClass called, "Becoming The Calm In The Storm; How Heart-Centered Parents Of Kids With Special Needs Nurture Peace & Cultivate Potential" About Theresa A wife and a mother to two children and grandmother, Theresa Alexander Inman is a Parenting Coach, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and Infant Toddler Development Specialist. She was introduced to the field of behavior analysis in 2007 after working in many capacities in the juvenile justice system. Her goal is to improve the lives of children and families by helping them strategize child develop skills to prevent or reduce the effects of possible delays while having fun! She also served as a panelist on the first annual Autism World Summit. Theresa is also an author, having published “How Can I Help My Child Communicate?” in 2022. Connect with Theresa today! • Instagram | Theresa Inman • LinkedIn | Theresa Inman • BabyBoomer.org | Theresa Inman • YouTube | Parenting with Confidence • Tiktok | https://www.tiktok.com/@parentcoachtheresa • Spotify via Anchor.fm | Parenting with Confidence Website: https://www.theresaalexanderinman.com/ About Parenting with Confidence Parenting with Confidence with Theresa Alexander Inman presents you with answers if you are a tired and frustrated parent with a child diagnosed with a developmental delay. We aim to lift you up from the pressure of doing it right and provide you with the resources to set you and your child up for success! Please share, comment, rate, and download! Thank you! Blessings! Theresa --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-alexander-inman/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-alexander-inman/support
“ ‘There's a place called Tower Records' and the way that he described it, it was a supermarket of music! It's got two stories. I was like, wow…I've gotta go there!” Not only did Pete Pataro *go* there, he had a 15-year career - starting in that Washington DC store, assistant managing in the brand new Annapolis store, and eventually running Cherry Hill, NJ for 10 years. Along the way, Pete was a sponge, learning about genres, bands, sidemen, and all facets of music, the music business, and retail in general. While in Washington DC, a store that had a lot of turnover due to being directly across the street from George Washington University, Pete was tasked with assisting in the interviewing and hiring of staff. He hired several people who would go on to be General Managers in the company. Pete also lays claim to having hired one Dave Grohl. By our esitmation, that's the fourth Store #130 employee laying claim to Grohl's illustrious 6-week career. It was in Cherry Hill New Jersey that Pete found his groove. Located right next to one of the busiest (at that time) malls in America Cherry Hill was the perfect “suburban” Tower Records location. Strong in metal, alternative and hits, it would explode each Christmas, outperforming other stores of a similar size and weekly gross. Pete had a strong supporting cast and talked about some who worked alongside him. No Tower Records/Pete Pataro conversation would be complete without Pete telling us about the time actor Joe Pesci (“Goodfellas”, “Casino”, “My Cousin Vinny”) called Russ Solomon, without Pete's knowledge, to intervene because of Pete's suspension by his Regional Manager.
Fuzzy Swing never worked for Tower Records, but he worked at Tower Records in San Francisco as an inventory rep and sales associate on behalf of RCA. In addition to Tower, he had several mom & pop independent stores in the Bay Area. In later years Fuzzy was promoted to sales covering the Sacramento area stores Tower Broadway, Tower Citrus Heights, Tower K Street, Tower Stockton, Tower Chico, and Tower Fresno as well as calling on Tower International and working with the team at Corporate. Fuzzy eventually moved over to CEMA, later EMD holding the position of Regional Director where he came into contact with many more Tower stores nationally. Not bad for a guy who started his retail career in North Carolina in 1970, working for several indie record stores, focusing as a singles buyer, and managing the rock and roll band Frog Level. On this week's episode, Fuzzy walks us through all of this and more. We talk about his visits to Tower Annual Conferences, the annual Halloween parties CEMA threw at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, Fuzzy's interactions with Russ Solomon and his famous nephew Adam Lambert of American Idol and Queen fame. And as we mentioned at the top, though Fuzzy never worked at Tower, he ended up marrying Tower...he'll explain it all to you in this episode.
Geoff Mayfield has had a long and illustrious career in the music business. Starting as an Editor for a Columbus, OH music magazine called “Focus”, it wasn't long before Geoff found himself behind the microphone at WBBY jazz radio. Geoff's background in both music journalism and radio stood out to an executive at Camelot Music, the mall-based music retailer based out of Canton, OH, and soon he found himself working at Camelot's corporate offices. It was at Camelot that Geoff first became aware of Tower Records as executives talked about Tower Records going into Manhattan. Also, reading a profile of Russ Solomon in Rolling Stone magazine sparked Geoff's interest in the West Coast-based company. A speech about Tipper Gore's PMRC record labeling, written for Camelot's CEO led to both an “Atta Boy” from Russ Solomon and indirectly led to Geoff's being hired by Billboard Magazine as their Music & Video Retail Editor. During Geoff's time with Billboard, both as Retail Editor and then as Director of Charts, he was able to build relationships with many at Tower. Even after Tower's demise, Geoff kept in close contact with many and played a significant role in both their life and in some cases, the celebration of lives well lived. Geoff still stays active as he's been teaching at the Los Angeles College of Music for the last 7 years as well as still contributing to both Variety and Billboard. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about how music used to be purchased and beyond.
Don Erwin started with Tower in 1972 and was a Manager for Tower Posters from 1973-1978. He worked for Dick Harris whose MTS Inc's employee number was 1. Dick, Don and MTS eventually got smart and spun off Tower Posters' success by becoming California Posters, later CP Rock, one of the country's premier distributors of counterculture posters. At one point California Posters sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of poster merchandise to most of Tower's competition.And the paraphernalia business was like printing cash. Being flown to NYC and attending parties by High Times magazine sounds like a scene out of a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. But nothing can be that easy, can it? The rise of paraphernalia laws in California led to Sacramento law enforcement targeting Tower Poster stores. Don Erwin tells us about the comically tragic trial that Tower won, only to be told by law enforcement that they wouldn't back off from coming after Tower Poster stores.Don Erwin's job titles at California Posters were Grand Pubah and Grand Wazoo which translated to National Sales Manager. When Don was told in 1985 that Tower was shutting down California Posters/CP Rock and he was being let go, Don took the generous severance package. He ventured into the poster business. Shortly thereafter Don was sued by MTS Inc.But this story had a happy ending; many years later Don Erwin ran into Russ Solomon at a trade show and thanked Russ for launching his licensed merchandise career.Join us for an informative look behind the operations of the company very few people know about; Tower Posters.
Pam Hopson first began working for Tower Records/MTS Inc. in 1976. But unlike many, Pam had to pay to get the job. One of the employment agencies Russ Solomon used back in the early days charged the employee and not just a little bit. Pam paid $400 in 1976 ($2,137 in 2023 dollars) to get a job doing what she did best at the time; running business machines, particularly a 10-key. Starting in the office with just 24 other employees Pam started in Sales Audit and then transferred to the Payroll Department.As Payroll Manager, Pam oversaw 3,000 employees paid weekly (a $14 million dollar annual payroll). Pam lobbied to have payroll moved to a bi-weekly system but Russ and Bud were concerned that the company's employees would struggle with the adjustment and that idea was shot down.At the time, the Payroll Department was taking on an increasing amount of insurance claims as well as calls from store employees who had grievances about things occurring in their stores, as well as the need to get that payroll out each week. Pam Hopson and Shauna Pompei lobbied for a separate Personnel Department formed. Bud Martin finally agreed and Personnel, later Human Resources was born at Tower Records.Pam also talks about meeting her future husband Chris Hopson. She also talks about his subsequent need to personally deliver the Advertising Department's payroll to Pam personally.This is part one of a conversation with Pam Hopson regarding her Tower Records experience. Later in the summer Pam and her family will pay tribute to the late Chris Hopson. They will tell us more about her husband and their father and his place in the Tower Records story.
The last time Kevin Ertell saw Russ Solomon, at the premiere of “All Things Must Pass”, Russ walked up to him and the first thing out of his mouth was, “Kevin! Can you believe what those fuckers have done to our website!?” During his time as SVP of Tower.com, Kevin spent many an afternoon in Russ Solomon's office while Russ peppered him with questions about online retailing from a recent article he had read. It was time that Kevin cherished. Kevin had a wide and varied career at Tower Records. Starting out in the original Las Vegas store in the video store, then to "apprentice" as the Classical Buyer for that store and out to Panorama City California as a Video Assistant Manager and eventual Store Manager. He landed as Sherman Oaks Video Store Manager under Regional Manager Gayle Boswell. While Kevin was in California he auditioned as the bass player for the band of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, but didn't get the gig.Working in the stores wasn't enough for Kevin. Having an interest in tech, he joined the Store Service team. With an all star roster of employees many will remember, he was a part of the nationwide and then world wide rollout of the Tower ISP program.Wanting to put that ISP knowledge to practical use and get closer to his long distance relationship, Kevin took the position of General Manager of the Tyson's Corner Virginia store. In a thriving, busy store he worked the Tower ISP program to its fullest, oversaw a one of a kind Cirque Du Soleil in-store and dealt with the wrath of a woman who worked for a US Senator who wanted Tower Records to remove their Playboy videos, lest they tempt her son.It was back to Sacramento to work on the challenge of Tower.com. Kevin tells us about the time it took to make Tower.com the #2 store in the US back when buying music on the web was not normal, how a consortium of retailers including Virgin, Best Buy, Borders Books and Tower Records got rejected by the record labels to sell major label music files before Apple Music and how after 20 years, in 2005 it all ended as Kevin was recruited by Borders Books to rebuild their Borders.com and help start up their Borders Rewards program.Kevin points out early in the episode that none of this would have happened had he not got a job at Tower Records in April of 1985 following an extremely dark chapter in his young life. Kevin said “I found my people. Tower saved me.”
“This is the worst handwriting I've ever seen” is a pretty common refrain this week's guest has heard throughout his career in the music business. His standard reply was “Are you hiring me for my handwriting or are you hiring me for my music knowledge?” After you listen to this episode, you'll agree that Carl Michelakos was continually hired for his dizzyingly precise music expertise. His recall of songs, artists, dates and chart positions is downright academic.Carl started with Tower Records in 1968, but was shopping in the record department of Tower Drug Store in 1957. Though he always bought 45 rpm singles at other stores around town (“If I could afford it, I bought it"), on his first visit to Tower he bought Elvis Presley's debut album, his first purchase of an LP. He got the job at Tower after spending a year meeting weekly with KXOA DJ Tony King. King was recording Carl's extensive 45 collection to have a better playlist than the other radio stations in town. Tony King told him he had an interview with Rick Briare at 16th & Broadway in Sacramento because “You belong in the music business”.Seven years with Tower, Carl considered himself a “lifer”. Until an opportunity he had been promised was pulled at the last minute. Shortly thereafter MCA Records came calling. Carl spent 25 years with MCA first servicing all the Tower stores in Northern California where they let him write his own orders. Gigs and promotions in Denver and Atlanta followed.After MCA and Polygram merged, Carl got a call from Stan Goman and Mark Viducich, telling him “We want you to come back home”. Soon after Carl returned to Bayside, the Tower-owned distribution company. Carl headed up Bayside Special Products and later worked on cultivating outside accounts to grow Bayside's business until the end in 2006.Carl also talks to us about the genius of Russ Solomon, having Stan Goman work for him on assignment for a short while, using his position & influence as Singles Buyer to manipulate the charts, the “Dutch Boy” who kept asking him for a job and why Ral Donner (who?) was his favorite rock & roll act of all time. Throughout you will be amazed at Carl's recall of names, dates, chart positions, song titles and the many people he hired and fired.
When Phil Myers started working at the TRIP warehouse during the 1986 holidays, he was taken by the sight of Earl Martis driving a forklift around the facility. Earl had a Miller Light in one hand and a Tiparillo in his mouth. Making sure to work hard, unlike some of his colleagues, Phil had every expectation to stay on when the holidays were over. Nonetheless, he was laid off from his temporary assignment by Earl Martis.A couple of years later Phil found himself in NYC and his brother Max recommended him to Matthew Koenig and Howard Cespedes. The day he went to talk to Howard, one of his favorite bands was doing an in store signing behind a large table and with an ice chest full of Budweiser Beer, leading Phil to think to himself “Oh, I've got to work here!” Phil got the job, worked his way to an amazing schedule through hard work and took in all that Manhattan had to offer. One Friday night while working his Country, Folk, Bluegrass section the local Capitol Records rep stopped by the store, unannounced, with an artist about to release his first album; Garth Brooks.After being Assistant Manager to Howard Cespedes, Phil got burned out on NYC, left for a short stint in Dublin, CA with Kevin Cassidy and then headed to the first Chicago store working as Operations Manager with Greg Wallis. The store was a failure out of the gate and it took a long time before things caught on. Phil was promoted to the position of General Manager and worked with a strong team who ultimately made Chicago a Top 10 store in the chain.From there Phil moved on to be a Video Regional Manager and then finished the last six years of his Tower Career as Midwest Regional Director, with a truly wonderful musical market of stores to oversee, until he left the company in 2005. Phil tells us about the amazing roster of Managers he oversaw, his TAC memories of Peter Glenn and Jack Gallagher, working with Bill Duffy, John Thrasher, Stan Goman and Russ Solomon, the end of his career consisting of closing stores and dealing with store resentment, having Tower dreams and a whole lot more. Join us for a wonderful, upbeat conversation with a true Tower jewel.
“When Russ found out I was on the union side? He literally came up to me and went for my throat”Randi Morton Swindel was working at Columbus & Bay when that store took a union vote in the mid 1970's and the union lost. And despite being opposite Russ Solomon, Randi Morton Swindel proved to be one of Russ' all time favorite employees. This week on “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” we talk with Randi, who was born in San Francisco and grew up in Oakland in a house filled with Classical Music. The Top 40 radio of KYA and KFRC got a hold of her and if that wasn't enough Beatlemania invaded her school and clique of friends causing Randi to cry (she wasn't a screamer) at the sight of The Beatles. In one five week period bridging 1965-1966 Randi caught The Rolling Stones at The San Jose Civic Auditorium and then Bob Dylan and The Hawks going electric at the San Francisco Masonic. James Brown, Otis Redding and a host of other concerts led to her eventually finding a job at Tower Records at Columbus & Bay. Randi was the second woman hired to work the cash register and the sales floor. From 1972-1984 Randi worked her way up between stints at Columbus & Bay, Mountain View, Fresno and then back to Mountain View. Along the way she met her husband Jim Swindel who held a music marketing job in Northern California. When Jim scored a Sales Management position in NYC, Randi went to be the Manager of the original Lincoln Center location and then to the Village Store while also holding the position of Northeast Regional Manager overseeing the opening of South Street Philadelphia, Washington DC and the Boston store on Newbury Street. Randi tells us about amazing in stores with REM, Violent Femmes, Tina Turner and a nightmare visit with a prickly Lou Reed, phone calls from Bud Martin about $75 plumbing paid outs, navigating NYC in the 80's, overseeing the opening of iconic Tower stores on the East Coast, the decision to step away from her career at Tower, her son Joey's Godfather Russ Solomon and a whole host of other subjects.
“You can't fire me!” Was it an inside joke this week's guest shared with friends and confidants or was it a statement of fact, out there in the open? Craig Martin, son of Tower Records CFO Walter “Bud” Martin started working at the 16th & Broadway store in the summer of 1975 at age 15 with Carl Michelakos as the store's General Manager. As a young man he got turned on to a variety of jazz guitar players and went down that road learning all that he couldAfter Michelakos left, Craig stayed with Tower in the summers, but instead worked at the Sacramento warehouses before a couple years later moving to San Diego to work with Wayne Ennes. Craig went to great lengths to quiet his relationship to his father so that he would be accepted amongst the crew. Once Wayne left, his replacement was said to have told the whole store about Bud & Craig, father & son. Working on some of the A Teams, Craig helped open the original store in Seattle, Lincoln Center's original NYC location, Washington DC and London Picadilly Circus. It was in London Craig ran into legal issues and was deported for not having proper work papers. He made his way back, continued to work at Piccadilly and was the General Manger of the London store for four years. After more than five years in London (he was originally supposed to be there for six months) he talked to Stan Goman about coming back to the US. Craig ended his career running the Marina Del Rey store from 1992-2005. Craig recalls his lifelong relationship with Tower Records founder Russ Solomon, whose office he used to pilfer promos as a child.
Growing up in Encinco CA and regularly shopping the Sherman Oaks Tower Records, Bob Kaufman had a fake i.d. as an underage teenager. It wasn't to buy beer, but to sneak into the local clubs to see his favorite touring bands play. Booking concerts at University of California Santa Barbara as well as doing air shifts on the college radio station, Bob knew he had to one day work in the work in the music business. So where did he start out? Where thousands of music and movie legends start; in the mailroom, in his case at Sony Music in Century City. It was at a music industry networking event that Bob met Stan Goman. Telling him he worked in the music business and spoke Chinese (he was a Chinese language major in school), Goman reportedly barked “Talked to Cahoon!” It was after dinner with Keith Cahoon and an evening of concerts that he was hired to work operations for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Only problem is that when Bob landed in Sacramento, before leaving for Japan, Keith Cahoon forgot to tell anyone at 2500 DelMonte Street. Some blew him off and some greeted him warmly. Nonetheless, Bob Kaufman was a Tower employee. In this week's episode, Bob tells us about landing in Japan and immediately being tasked with writing Operations Manuals for the newly franchised Korean operation by observing Jason Munyon and what he did each day. Bob also tells us the story of Jazz clerk Ching from the Singapore store and Russ Solomon bonding…in Sacramento. Bob also recalls a wild encounter with Michael Jackson, his manager and bodyguard that almost led to a brawl, but ultimately led to Bob meeting his wife. We wind down our talk with Bob, who was in the Conference room when a representative of Deutsche Bank had him removed for vehemently objecting to the terms of the sale of Tower Records Japan to raise capital to pay down the US debt obligations. He may have started with the company differently than most and worked in parts of the company none of us knew about, but after listening to this episode you'll see that Bob Kaufman also bled red & yellow.
This week's guest, Julie Bianucci, was only 18 years old, far away from her hometown of Lake Tahoe, NV and fresh out of secretarial school when she went to interview for a job at a company she'd never heard of, MTS, Inc. For over 10 years Julie was Tony Valerie's Executive Secretary. In addition to telling us about Tony Valerio as a boss and a person, she walks us through the Accounts Payable process for those who want to know. Following Stan Goman's initiative to get the Managers together every year, Julie took on the role of Travel and Meetings Department Manager where, with her team, she coordinated the yearly Tower Annual Conferences (TAC) as well as all corporate travel and planning. At it's height, a TAC involved making arrangements for over 800 attendees and over 20-25 bands and musical artists each year. Julie tells us about one memorable TAC where one beloved artist who was performing, asked specifically to meet another legendary artist who was famous for staying in their tour bus. Julie also tells us about an artist who threatened to walk because they didn't like the way their equipment was being handled. While overseeing TAC, Julie was met each morning by the Hotel's security team who briefed her on the previous night's shenanigans, often not giving Security the response they were anticipating or hoping for. Julie also reminds us that these events were held in the 90's by revealing one of the largest expenses Tower had to pay out of pocket at each Conference.“He spent his whole life working on staying young” is how she describes Tower Records founder Russ Solomon and fondly recalls her friendship and working relationship with the head of the company she'd never heard of. Learn all about the behind the scenes logistics of working 19 hour days to make yearly TACs a time to remember.
Joining Tower Records in 1978 Jon Kerlikowske spent 14 years working and running stores like Tempe, Christown and Mesa (plus one year working for Handleman) before leaving for the bright lights of Nashville, TN. Jon talks about the charm of running a store in Nashville where the country singers were real people you would see around town, bumping into them in the Grocery store or the local movie theatre. In Nashville the yearly focus appeared to be on the week long Fan Fair (now known as CMA Fest) where the 1,000 square foot booth would do more business in 6 hours than the main Nashville store for the day. On top of that, the Nashville store would host multiple in store performances with established and up & coming country musicians making for a very busy week. Jon winds down our conversation talking about being a clerk in the jazz section and the first time he met Russ Solomon in the Tempe, AZ store. This scenario ended up with Jon spending an hour with him at a local restaurant, discussing his thoughts and impressions on his store.
For over 4 decades, Tower Records was a pioneer in the music industry and the bedrock of record store culture. It was run by rebels and outsiders, where founder Russ Solomon was revered and idolized. Tower would become the mecca for music fans creating a generation that lived by their diehard slogan, “No Music, No Life”. For decades, it seemed like the sun would never set on the iconic yellow and red letters that illuminated so many urban cityscapes. But that light would eventually burn out... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Growing up in the 1930's in Cincinnati OH, Rudy Danzinger's parents weren't music listeners. Lionel Hampton was Rudy's first major exposure to music and because of that single live performance he became a fan of big band music. Moving to California, Rudy took a job as manager of a local record store, Marin Music, in Mill Valley CA. Rudy innovated early on; soliciting record orders from the area businesses as well as hooking up a speaker near the store's front door causing customers to come in off the street asking what he was playing. Pretty heady stuff for the early 1950's. Rudy met Russ Solomon in 1958 working for Record Supply, a music distributor. It proved to be a fateful meeting that would pay off down the road when Rudy came to work at Tower.Working in Book Division, Rudy found his calling. Partnering with publishers to get Tower Books some co-op advertising, Rudy soon became the conduit for Book signings that made sense for Tower. Musicians, athletes, and yes straight up authors were often greeted at a Tower book signing by Rudy Danzinger.Rudy reminisces about some of the better signings that came Tower's way. He also tells the story of a book signing Tower passed on, but brought the author to the Main Office to meet Russ Solomon, only to leave the Corporate office with 500 Tower employees lined up high-fiving and roaring their approval as he left.Rudy Danzinger claims he's the oldest living ex-Tower employee around. Whatever his status, you'll enjoy our conversation with a man who truly loved his job and brought joy to many he worked with.
Before he started working for Tower Records Watt Avenue in 1975, today's guest Mike Farrace had already run a Sacramento music magazine called “Rock & Roll News”. Following three years working at Tower Records Watt Avenue under Store Manager Mike Koontz, Farrace started working for Tower Advertising. Mike tells us all about his time as Northwest Advertising Ad Manager, chasing down labels and blank tape companies for advertising dollars. Yet the whole time he was in Advertising, Farrace was thinking about starting up a Music Magazine that would be a Tower in house exclusive. Spending a year submitting proposals to John Schairer, he was finally told by Carla Henson “Mike, he's just throwing those [proposals] in the trash.” Next, Mike Farrace went straight to Russ Solomon and within 20 minutes at lunch, they were plotting out what would eventually become PULSE! Magazine, an independent publication that reflected Tower Records, its customers and the music it sold in the best possible way. The first 3 issues were put together by Farrace himself and over the course of 222 issues it eventually built up an impressive in house staff. When PULSE! started it was the old fashioned paste up method of putting a magazine together. It wasn't for several years until PULSE! got into computer graphics typesetting/publishing. But that simple, convenient move got Mike Farrace thinking and reading about a digital future. This led to Tower having its first database store online which led to Tower selling music on the internet. Mike also tells us about the only time an artist got pissed at PULSE!, and how it was all Mike's fault. Later in our discussion Mike recalls seeing the end coming for Tower and how things ended for PULSE! and himself in 2002.
Born to a single, loving, hippie mother and possessing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers, Brandi Merolla didn't recognize the brightly lit storefront at 4th & Broadway. She was on her way home in the fall of 1983 when she came upon this neon temple. As she walked up to open the door, she saw a sign that said “HELP WANTED”. Brandi asked for an application and when the clerk at the Info Desk saw her resume and her art background she told Brandi “Why don't you apply for the Art Department?” Brandi had no idea that this new, huge record store employed artists and soon her life would change in a way she couldn't imagine. On this week's episode, Brandi Merolla takes us through her time at Tower during the infancy of Store 125 in The Village and all the opportunities and events she was a part of during this fascinating time in Tower's history. Brandi created backdrop displays for the in stores of Iggy Pop, Fela, Kate Bush, The Cure, Souxsie & the Banshees, Lou Reed, Paul Young, Violent Femmes, Timbuk 3, Samantha Fox, and Max Roach.4th & Broadway's front window was prime NYC real estate and Brandi tells us about a time she got a thumbs up from an artist whose work she recreated in the window and then later collaborating with The Beastie Boys for their window display before their debut “Licensed To Ill” came out. Hint: They didn't get everything they wanted. Hers is a story of opportunity, loss and ultimately redemption. When Brandi left Tower, it wasn't on her terms. But despondent over losing this $4.25 an hour job she would have gladly continued to work, someone whispered in her ear that this was the best thing that could have ever happened to her. Soon Brandi was taking all of the skills she learned at Tower and making foam core displays for 90% of the record labels based in NYC. She also parlayed this into a position with FAO Schwartz and a 20 year affiliation with The Howard Stern show where she has probably been exposed to more foam core displays of Gary Dellabate's teeth than anyone in the tri-state area. Join us for this fascinating story on “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records”. Also, we open this week's episode with a tribute to Patti Drosins, wife of Russ Solomon who passed away at the end of November 2022.
“If you don't have the product customer's want, but you have a lot of the product customer's don't want, why bother opening your doors?” was a line that this week's guest, George Scarlett, wrote in one of his famous memos to the field. That single sentence stuck with me throughout my time at Tower and in various situations in other jobs. With one simple sentence, George summed up what every Tower Management team should have been trying to accomplish in properly ordering the correct product mix for their store. And while George is probably best known for his highly informative, always entertaining product missives (is there any store out there that didn't have a binder that said “Scarlett Memos” on the side?) there was a whole lot more to George's adventures before, at and after Tower. Did you know George was hired and left Tower Records on four different occasions for four different reasons? On this episode he'll tell us all about the circumstances behind each flight and return. Along the way George also tells us about early musical influences, why George's mother put the “Batman” theme on the record player each morning, pear farming, nightclubbing, why John Lennon was the cutest Beatle, his mercurial relationship with Ken Sockolov, introductions and interactions with Corporate muckety mucks, hiring Greek-American princesses from Northern Virginia, working in radio, his admiration for his co-workers and the folks working in the stores, why Tony Valerio scared him, Tower dreams, when Top 40 radio was truly radical, going to lunch with Jim Swindel, his relationship with Russ Solomon over the years and making peace with his working past. And a whole…lot…more.Is this a long episode; the single longest episode we've aired yet. But with so many people traveling for Thanksgiving this week, George's velvet tones are sure to soothe, amuse and make you reflect while traveling on trains, planes and automobiles. Stick with the episode. It's a goodie!
In 1971 Carla Henson went to interview for a Summer job at the Tower Records headquarters in Sacramento. She got the job and she stayed with it for the better part of 30 years. Her original workplace was at a desk in between Walter “Bud” Martin and Russ Solomon. Later, Carla worked for John Schier, Stan Goman and Chris Hopson. When she started with the company, there were only 5 people working at the Main Office. Carla Henson had a hell of a ride and a front row seat to the genesis of Tower Records. Born in Oakland and struck by lightning when she heard the record “Tallahassee Lassie” by Freddie Cannon while in second grade, Carla's was a life of music both behind the scenes and on the scene. Hanging backstage with Russ Solomon, Roger McGuinn and Bob Dylan in Houston, TX, digging deep into the local music scene in both Austin, TX and New Orleans, LA and flying to Tahiti to meet up with Russ were all a part of a day's work for Carla. “I got up every day for 30 years and loved…my…job! Not a lot of people can say that,” Carla tells us. Join us for a very special conversation this week with Carla Henson.
“It was better than going to college. I wouldn't have traded it for anything,” is how this week's guest, Tom Rule, describes his 20-year tenure with Tower Records. Tom started his career at a small indie record store in California called Condor Records. As it happened, his first day on the job was the day Elvis Presley died and for a while he didn't understand why everyone was calling the store with questions about Elvis Presley records. Twenty years with Tower included stints in El Toro, Watt Avenue, Mountain View and TRIP part time covering the Bay Area. He transferred to Broadway in Sacramento, a two year stint full time at TRIP, back to Mountain View where he became that store's first CD Buyer and eventually the store's Assistant Manger. Off to Nashville for 3.5 as Assistant Manager for 3.5 years, opened and was General Manager for the Ann Arbor MI store then to Chicago to help Schaumberg and finished in 1999 at the Bloomingdale, IL store. WOW!During our conversation Tom recalls a standard record industry lunch with CBS Records where he peppered Jerry Pitti repeatedly with questions as to why they wouldn't allow Tower to carry what were deemed “parallel imports” and a hilarious back and forth with Stan Goman when he was called out for a promotion he had done for years. Tom also recalls working at the Nashville store and his involvement with Fan Fest, planning out his partying at Tower's Annual Conference so that he could get more from the daily meetings and his impressions of Tower Records founder Russ Solomon. Tom's story has come full circle and has a happy, on-going ending in that he has his own indie record store, Moldy Toe's Records (https://www.facebook.com/moldytoesrecords) in San Clemente, CA where he tells us about the current state of music retail and the demographics of customers currently buying music in his shop. Join us for this fun conversation with the always interesting, irrepressible Tom Rule.
Born in Mexico City, raised in Chicago and moved to California at age 12, Monica Ricardez started her career with Tower Records as a clerk in West Covina. She got a call two days after submitting her application and filling out Bob Fetter's famous 2 page music quiz. Rotating between the record floor and the Classical Department, Monica also worked in the unique position known as Label Auditor doing inventories for specific record distributors before Tower had computerized inventory tools. Leaving Tower and moving to Mexico City to open a business with a friend, Monica became friends with one of the investors of Tower Records Mexico who lured her back to Tower and she never looked back. Training a crew of people who knew nothing about how Tower Records operated, Monica proved invaluable during her time in Mexico City. A couple years later she came back to the US working with Rick Dorsey in West Covina and immediately set about working the Latin Music section. “It's not a great section” she told him. In true Tower fashion, Dorsey gave Monica free reign to overhaul the section which she did immediately causing significant growth in that department. Recognizing these increases, Monica was promoted to the position of Southwest Latin Music coordinator and ultimately, after interviewing with Stan Goman and George Scarlett she was promoted to National Latin Music coordinator and worked out a deal where she didn't have to move to Miami as originally envisioned. Monica discusses her triumphs, her inability to get some Tower Managers fully on board and other hurdles she faced and overcame during her time at Tower Records. Her interactions with Russ Solomon are what kept her with the company to the end.
This week's guest, Dave Coker, was shopping at the original Tower Records location in Sacramento when he was 10 years old. When he started working at the Tower Broadway store in 1968, the San Francisco Tower store had just opened and soon the world of music retail would open itself up to Coker Dave. Going to College and doing Military service while working on and off for Tower in 1973, Dave was riding his bike down the street when Russ Solomon flagged him down and asked him if he wanted to go to a new store they were opening in Stockton, CA. Dave talks about the origins of his nickname, running his first store in Stockton, being transferred to Westwood in Los Angeles and partying way too much on company time and off and giving career advice to one of his buyers and future recording artist, Dan Navarro. Getting the offer to move to the lush, green state of Washington at just the time he wanted to get out of the craziness of LA, Dave mad his move, first to Tacoma and then to the U-District store where his video store employed members of the band Green River. Dave explains why top shelf record label people passed up jobs in Los Angeles to stay in Seattle and the camaraderie of the music professionals in the Northwest. Dave also reminisces about the origins of the Tower Annual Conference (TAC) and how things changed when Tower went from a small, local operation to a world-wide concern.
If you had to bet which employee of Tower Records had visited the Playboy Mansion the most, who would you bet on? Russ Solomon? Robert Stapleton? Stan Goman? Robert Stapleton? Bob Feterl? If I could place an actual wager on this bet in Vegas, I'd take my life savings and bet it was Robert Stapleton. But I'd be very wrong and very poor. Clint Johns visited the Playboy Mansion more than any other Tower Records employee, visiting 2-3 times a year and he even once lost track of one of his friends in the grotto, but I digress…In this episode, Clint Johns tells us all about his career with Tower and everything we'd want to know about Tower Magazines. Privately, at Magazine industry functions, Tower's competition would acknowledge Tower's superior Magazine departments; the depth and breadth of the departments and particularly the dedication to zines and small press. Never at a loss for words, Clint takes us through his time working in the stores, as a Book/Magazine Regional working with Kevin Cassidy and his descent into Mag Hell, working with the enigma Doug Biggert. Clint also walks us through the three types of Magazine Section Leaders he witnessed during his time in Magazines. Finally, Clint tells us about the day he worked up the nerve to pop his head in Russ Solomon's office and came out impressed 3 hours later. Join us for a deep dive into one of the most unsung, profitable and respected departments of the company with our guest Clint Johns.
“He was the most important factor in any type of music education I had” says this week's guest Kevin Cassidy in reference to his father. Kevin grew up on the streets of Philadelphia and pretty quickly grew into a jazz-loving, doo-wop appreciating, Beatles album buying, James Brown revering pre-teen and teenager. As a teenager Kevin quickly found a double date to a Blind Faith/Frank Zappa concert wasn't the best way to score with the ladies (“You'll never take me out again”), but it laid the groundwork to Mr. Cassidy's exploration of a variety of musical styles. Going to college at the University of Georgia on a basketball scholarship, started working at Underground Records which eventually turned into School Kids records. When basketball didn't figure into his future, Kevin headed to Colorado to, again, work in a record store for close to six years. After years of the record store life, Kevin Cassidy headed out to the Bay Area where his family had relocated. Working for a family that owned three local restaurants, one of his customers, Robert Olsen suggested he leave the service industry and become the Tower Records Berkeley jazz buyer. From there, Kevin blazed a path through Tower Records. He learned some smart business lessons from his Regional Manager Wayne Ennes. Running stores and then becoming a Regional Manager full of single store markets, the nightmare of opening the WOW store in Las Vegas, Kevin eventually was bumped up to running Retail Operations during Tower's toughest time.We finish with Kevin reminiscing about two important Tower folks who had a great impact on him; Tower Records founder Russ Solomon and his good friend Robert Olsen.
“It was all music, all the time” is the way our guest this week, Wendy Powell, describes growing up in a family where her father was a musician traveling around the country playing in a variety of bands and styles. That love of all things music led to Wendy working at Tower Records in Stockton, CA. Her first meeting with her boss from the future, Stan Goman, consisted of him telling her to get her receiving department cleaned up. From there, Wendy wanted to hit the bright lights of NYC. Instead she ended up in the suburbs of Long Island at Carte Place…but eventually ended up in the Village working in Tower Records 4th & Broadway. In the Village store pop artist Keith Haring was a regular shopper and Wendy recalls an interesting interaction with him. Almost every department at Tower consisted of a band that was recording and touring and Wendy tells us about some of them. She also recalls Spike Lee filming “Mo Better Blues” with Wesley Snipes in the Jazz Department. Opportunity called back in Sacramento CA when a position as an Assistant to Stan Goman opened up. Not holding her messy Stockton receiving department against her (it probably was fine, Stan just *had* to make a point) Wendy got the job and worked 13 years for Mr. Goman. Wendy Powell credits that time with Stan and the hands on experience of working in Record Division/Retail Ops as what has carried her throughout her work career. Wendy talks about the day Stan was let go and how she came home crying as a result. But there were a lot of joyful times in Wendy Powell's story. Wendy talks about the ability to work at many Tower Records Grand Openings, especially at Lincoln Center with Elton John. Wendy got to attend Arista Records 15th Anniversary Party at Radio City and meet one of her idols and many icons in the industry. Wendy's involvement at the Tower Annual Conferences is discussed. She also tells a touching story of Russ Solomon and Stan Goman coming to her and her roommates apartment one year for Thanksgiving dinner. So whether you were on the receiving end of one of Wendy's phone calls on behalf of Stan or simply want to learn about another Tower legend's career, sit back and check out our “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” podcast interview with Wendy Powell.
You've gotten the call to go to Japan and run Tower Records Asian Operations…now what? In part two of our podcast interview with Keith Cahoon, he takes us through his journey navigating the record business in a place that originally didn't want Tower Records to succeed. In fact, initially, many of the major Japanese record companies would not sell to Tower Records. But that didn't deter Keith Cahoon and his team (after taking over from Mark Viducich & Stan Barton) from moving forward and building one of the largest retail brands Japan had ever seen. In this episode of our podcast, Keith Cahoon attempts to set the record on the original businessmen who reached out to Russ Solomon about opening in Japan, the prevailing wisdom of why the record labels discouraged in store appearances and performances from musicians, and who Tower reached out to for the first Tower Japan instore. Keith also explains what the “Large Retail Store Law” was about, Russ Solomon's regular visits and scouting for locations, which Tower Big Wig would insist on eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken when they visited, the amazing team he worked with to build, expand and grow Tower's Asian business, and finally, the precise moment Keith sensed things were over for the future of Tower Records. Keith also offers his final thoughts on the legacy of Tower Records founder Russ Solomon. If the film "All Things Must Pass" made you more aware of Tower Records Asian operations, this episode will completely open your eyes to how a kid from Stockton, with a lot of help, was able to run a retail music empire.
When you're a carpenter and it's getting into the rainy/cold season, what do you do for employment? If you're Keith Cahoon, you apply for a job at Tower Records, which you expect to last for a total of 3 months. Working at Tower, then leaving, then getting hired back and then leaving again was a regular occurrence for Keith. Staying with Tower Records provided Keith an opportunity of a lifetime, though he didn't know it right away. Keiths first seven years with Tower were in the US. Seemingly out of nowhere, Keith was asked to run Tower Record's Asian Operations when there were only 3 stores. When Keith left Tower Asia had grown to 62 stores with over $500 million a year in sales, eclipsing the US operation. In this first of two parts, Keith Cahoon talks about the role music had in his life as a child & teen, his early years as a carpenter, as a Tower employee, as a Blues buyer, as someone who helped Earl Martis put TRIP together and how he ultimately got the surprise phone call from Russ Solomon asking him to go to Japan.
Rick Dorsey is a 20 year Tower Records veteran. Starting his career in West Covina in 1986, Dorsey also worked at, and then in May of 1992 (the first day of the LA riots) ran, the Westwood, Los Angeles store until 1995. Rick ultimately went back to West Covina where he worked until 2006 when Tower Records went out of business. But long before he worked for Tower, Rick had the bug of being a major music fan. His older sister brought home records by The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Ramones and she turned Rick onto music greater than what was being played on radio. Music became his main identity as a teenager as he snuck into local clubs to see some of the great LA bands of the time; Oingo Boingo, The Stray Cats, X, Agent Orange and others. In this episode Rick tells us about the managerial influence of Bob Feterl and Anita Bonds, why shopping visits from Michael Jackson were so stressful, conversations he had with George Harrison, what R&B song Al Cowlings and OJ Simpson were looking for the day before the low speed White Bronco chase, why Anita Baker stopped her show at the Greek Theatre to shout out Westwood's Jazz Buyer and why Russ Solomon's style guided his managerial outlook.
Terri Williams started working at Tower owned Central Valley Record Racks in 1975 at 15 years old. In 1978 when she talked about going to College, Russ Solomon told her “Stick with us, kid. I'll make you a star!” Terri was hired by Chris Hopson in the newly formed Tower Advertising Department. For the next 32 years she helped Chris Hopson and Tower Records establish a first rate Advertising Department. In 1982 Terri became the New York City Regional Marketing Manager, working to help establish Tower 4th & Broadway a full year before the store opened. Terri then went on to open up the whole Eastern corridor (Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC and many more New York City stores). Following Terri's work on the East Coast she was promoted to National Marketing Manager and then Vice President of Marketing. On this episode of “2500 DelMonte Street, Terri reminisces about the early days of CVRR, explains for everyone exactly what CO-OP advertising is and how it worked at Tower, talks extensively about the work that went into getting the New York market up and running, living in Russ Solomon's NYC condo, the Store Opening party for 4th & Broadway and Andy Warhol's appearance there, the Talking Heads in-store for “Speaking In Tongues” featuring David Byrne and pop artist Robert Rauschenberg (and the Tower ad he designed for the event), another view of the Donald Trump story from the Trump Tower store, working with Rock The Vote, the reopening of Tower Lincoln Center with Elton John, Rudy Giuliani and Placido Domingo and insights working alongside Chris Hopson and Russ Solomon. Terri also talks about how Tower Records “Dancing Christmas Trees” was the last commercial project that the upstart Pixar Studios did before branching out into movies. We finish our conversation with Terri discussing her departing Tower Records in 2002 and why she didn't make it into the film “All Things Must Pass”.
Tim Devin started working record retail in the Bay Area for Wherehouse Records. On new release dates, he would have to drive to the Tower Records Campbell store on his lunch hour to pick up New Releases as Wherehouse wouldn't receive theirs until 4 or 5 days later. Finally realizing he needed to be working for Tower, he applied at Tower Records Mountain View where he was hired by Assistant Manager Barbara Williamson. Tim transferred to the Washington DC store shortly after Mountain View Store Manager Kevin Ferreter moved to DC and enticed him with the promise “You'll get a store, Tim!”.From there Tim's Tower career was in and around New York City, running stores in Paramus NJ, the Village store at 4th & Broadway and the Lincoln Center store at 66th & Broadway. Tim finished his career as the Regional Director for Tower Records in the New York area. Tim discusses some of the best concerts he saw growing up, the weekly scrutiny by NYC based record labels on where records were positioned when he ran the Village Store, the time he told The Artist formerly Known as Prince “no!”, the night Russ Solomon showed up unannounced and drank beers in Tim's office with the band Luscious Jackson and Daniel Lanois and the in-store nobody showed up for, leaving the “artist” almost in tears. Tim also talks about Tower Washington DC's most famous alumni, Dave Grohl and how he was greeted at the Lincoln Center store when he arrived to man the cash register in support of the release of the Foo Fighters album “There Is Nothing Left to Lose”. Tim talks about his role as New York Retail Director and how Tower was chasing new opportunities & carving new sources of revenue, despite knowing that the end appeared imminent. He finishes by reminiscing about time spent with Tower Records founder Russ Solomon.
In this second interview with former Tower Records COO Stan Goman, he tells us about his transition from the field to the Main Office, his relationship with Russ Solomon, why Tower Records never opened stores in Florida, did Apple Computers approach Tower Records to sell the new iMacs in 1998, how fancy restaurants chosen by the record labels didn't impress him and how he dealt with his departure from Tower Records when he was let go at the end. All this and more in this episode of “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records”.
Solomon's is an eatery in the heart of downtown with an event space that hosts comedy, music, and everything else that was beloved by the restaurant's namesake: local legend Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records. Andrea Lepore of Solomon's describes the food, events and other reasons you should pop into Solomon's next time you're in Downtown Sacramento on this week's episode.
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ANDREA LEPORE knows how to tap into the city of Sacramento when it comes to opening restaurants in the Capital City. Lepore leads a women-based ownership that is responsible for bringing us Solomon's and the Russ Room located on the K Street mall. The space. The food. The energy. The connection. The restaurant and live entertainment space were inspired by Tower Records owner Russ Solomon. The story about how it all came together will blow your mind. In today's episode of Experience the Buzz, Host Steve Buzzard catches up with the savvy entrepreneur . "If I were starting a restaurant I would easily seek out the expertise of Andrea. Her way of giving life to an idea is simply amazing to witness. She is an all-star in the field." Our conversation hits THREE areas: SEGMENT ONE
For over 4 decades, Tower Records was a pioneer in the music industry and the bedrock of record store culture. It was run by rebels and outsiders, where founder Russ Solomon was revered and idolized. Tower would become the mecca for music fans creating a generation that lived by their diehard slogan, “No Music, No Life”. For decades, it seemed like the sun would never set on the iconic yellow and red letters that illuminated so many urban cityscapes. But that light would eventually burn out. Find our how on The Great Fail. Thank you to our partners at AdvertiseCast. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheGreatFail Thank you to our sponsors at Ping Identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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For over 4 decades, Tower Records was a pioneer in the music industry and the bedrock of record store culture. It was run by rebels and outsiders, where founder Russ Solomon was revered and idolized. Tower would become the mecca for music fans creating a generation that lived by their diehard slogan, “No Music, No Life”. For decades, it seemed like the sun would never set on the iconic yellow and red letters that illuminated so many urban cityscapes. But that light would eventually burn out... Tune in on AdvertiseCast: https://www.advertisecast.com/TheGreatFail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
DC chats with Michelle Johnson, founder, and frontwoman of "Blonde Sabbath," a tribute to Black Sabbath, an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 and often cited as the pioneers of heavy metal music. Michelle talks about the band's past as well as the future of the band with a new lineup and some cools things to come. During Rock News, DC covers very cool classic rock documentaries on Netflix and the great content at vokalnow.com, including lots of Barside Jive, while everyone is hunkered down at home in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. Also buy a copy of 'All Things Must Pass' a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon. Go here.... https://amzn.to/2U4kdrV
DC chats with Michelle Johnson, founder, and frontwoman of "Blonde Sabbath," a tribute to Black Sabbath, an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 and often cited as the pioneers of heavy metal music. Michelle talks about the band's past as well as the future of the band with a new lineup and some cools things to come. During Rock News, DC covers very cool classic rock documentaries on Netflix and the great content at vokalnow.com, including lots of Barside Jive, while everyone is hunkered down at home in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. Also buy a copy of 'All Things Must Pass' a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon. Go here.... https://amzn.to/2U4kdrV
Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything, the future of the microbiome. Now, the microbiome has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years. Now, what is a microbiome? I guess we will learn more, but for the purposes of this discussion, it's the full set of microbial organisms, chiefly bacteria, but maybe others, that live in different niches within our body. Our mouth, nasal cavity, skin folds, everywhere that has contact with the outside world. The gut microbiome is one of those microbiomes and it's the community of bacteria living in our digestive system, not necessarily related to disease, but as a normal part of our physiology. We have long known that there is a lot of bacteria in our digestive tract and we know, for example, that they help us digest our food. That's what we were taught in medical school many decades ago when I was in medical school. We also know that when we treat infections with antibiotics, it can alter these species because these species are sitting in your gut and they also can be very susceptible to antibiotics. So when I treat a patient for urinary tract infection or for pneumonia, not only am I killing the bacteria, hopefully, that's causing the infection, but I'm probably altering the microbiome of that patient in ways that might lead to some symptoms. They might have some digestive issues that are associated with that antibiotic. Now, it's become clear that the bacteria living in our gut have much more complicated relationship with our health and with our disease. They seem to be involved in our immune system. They seem to be changing sometimes in both acute and chronic disease. The idea has even emerged that there's a healthy microbiome, the set of bacteria that you would love to have and host in your bowel and that there might be treatments for some diseases that involve changing the microbiome to get it to be more healthy, so to speak. This has gotten probably the most publicity in the idea of fecal transplants. Yes, if you're not familiar with that, you heard correctly. This is the idea where poop, forgive the terminology, the technical terminology, poop from healthy people is introduced into the digestive tract of people with disease in order to help them normalize their microbiome to hopefully get it back into a healthy state. So this is getting serious. Ami Bhatt is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. She has a medical specialty of hematology and studies the human microbiome, mostly in the gut, and has developed new ways to measure the presence of bacteria in the human body and ways to interpret these for health and disease. Ami, you specialize in hematology, the study of blood and blood diseases. How does a hematologist get interested in bacteria that live in the gut? Ami Bhatt: So, thanks a lot for having me, Russ. It's a pleasure to be here. I actually first became interested in the bacteria viruses and fungi that live in and on us, as I think many young people did which was by watching a TV show. I remember being about, I don't know, nine or ten years old, and I was left at home for the first time, for like ten minutes by myself or something like that, and so I turned on the TV. My younger brother and I were watching a television show about germs and, they showed these horrifying microscopic images of all of the bacteria that are squirming around everywhere. And I thought, “Wow, this is fantastic and also very gross, and we should really learn more about this.” If you fast forward many years later, part of the reason I became interested as a hematologist and oncologist in viruses and bacteria was because I learned that viruses can cause cancers in some cases. And as you well know, there are viruses that cause well-known cancers like liver cancer. Liver cancer is caused, in some cases, by a hepatitis virus. We know that the human papilloma virus causes cervical cancer and other cancers. And I thought, “Wow, there are all of these relatively simple organisms. They don't have many genes.” You know, a virus can't even live by itself. It requires a human cell in these cases in order to replicate. It's amazing that such simple organisms can alter the biology of such complex organisms like us. That was how I ended up getting interested in bacteria viruses and fungi that live in and on us. Of course, first I learned about them as kind of bad guys but there are trillions of microorganisms that live in and on us and most of them are probably not bad guys. Many of them are probably actually quite helpful and so I've taken a more holistic view of what bugs mean to us. Russ Altman: So tell me, what are we finding when we look at the microbiome? How many of these are old friends that we've known for years and how many surprises are there where we're saying, “Wow, we had no idea that this bacteria species was living in us.” And then how do we figure out what they're doing, good or bad? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, this is an incredibly complex question in part because we don't even know most of the microbes that live within us. Despite the fact that now, there have been tens of thousands of papers published on the gut microbiome of humans, for example, we know relatively little about who these organisms are. The classical ways of studying microorganisms was by taking them, culturing them, looking at them under the microscope. Russ Altman: Right, give them a little sugar and they'll grow. Ami Bhatt: Exactly. Describing them based on what they grow on, so what they like to eat, what color they stain, what shape they are. But now what we're understanding is organisms that look really similar under the microscope, and have very similar growth characteristics, for example, can have totally different genomes which means that they can probably do totally different things. So one of the things that we're learning in the field is that we know relatively little about the organisms even within our own guts. And so a lot of effort has been put into trying to better enumerate who's there and what they're doing. Russ Altman: I also know that these bacteria often, you can't just grow them on sugar and salt, they actually need each other to live so it's like a very highly interlinked environment. Is this idea of a healthy microbiome, is that an oversimplification or is it in fact true that you could look at a sample of somebody's poop and say, “That looks pretty good,” versus, “Oh, we have a problem here.” Ami Bhatt: You know, I think in general we're coming to a consensus that for the gut microbiome, at least based on the individuals who've been studied to date, having a more diverse community is better. And so having a larger variety of different types of organisms is probably better than the alternative, which is having a handful of organisms that are present at a high abundance. But in general, what we think we know now is that there isn't just one healthy microbiome. There isn't that golden poop out there that we should fecal transplant into everyone and then we'll all look like a Kardashian and live for 250 years. Russ Altman: I know a young man in Boston whose name will not be mentioned who's actually made several thousand dollars donating his poop to research and to microbiome stuff for the last couple of years so he's in the money. Ami Bhatt: Yeah, oh yeah. It's a great way to, you know, turn poop into cold, hard cash. Russ Altman: Poop into cash. Okay, that was a very distracting idea. So there are many healthy microbiomes. And how can a patient or a person who's listening, how can they figure out what the state of their microbiome is? You know, it's interesting. I think if I talk to most laypeople or my patients or family members who aren't in medicine and I ask them, “How's your gut health?” Most people can actually tell you. Most people have a very good sense of how their gut is functioning based on their daily bowel movement or bowel movements, how they feel, do they feel bloated, etc. And so I would say most people who don't have gastrointestinal symptoms, I'm talking about diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, bloating, those are people who probably have fairly healthy gut microbiomes. Russ Altman: So that's good news 'cause that means you can use your normal life experience to kind of self-diagnose if there's a problem and if things are going well both literally and figuratively, then we're okay and then there's no need to worry. So what are the impacts… Well, this is The Future of Everything. I'm Russ Altman, I'm speaking with Ami Bhatt about microbiomes and healthy and diseased ones. What about when you take antibiotics? This is a huge insult to the system. Do we know what happens to the gut microbiome and does it bounce back or does it then change forever? Where are we in that knowledge? Ami Bhatt: Absolutely. So, you know, I liken antibiotic exposure to a forest fire. You're basically getting rid of the vast majority of life that exists in the gut microbiome. And you don't get rid of everything because even the most broad-spectrum antibiotics that we use don't kill off every single microorganism in our gut. Russ Altman: And that's also true of the forest fires where those few species come back right away. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely, absolutely. So it's very, very similar of a situation. Some of the best work that we have in the field focusing on how antibiotics affect the microbiome have actually come here from Stanford from a colleague named David Roman. He and his colleagues did some really transformative early work in the early 2010s on the exposures of antibiotics to the gut microbiome in healthy individuals. They took a handful of individuals, gave them antibiotics, and studied what happened to their microbiomes. What they found was that, there was definitely a simplification of the microbiomes when people were exposed to antibiotics. Russ Altman: That loss of the diversity you were talking about. Ami Bhatt: Exactly, that's loss of diversity and then basically after the people stop the antibiotics assuming they were living a healthy lifestyle, which they were, they regained their diversity, mostly. Russ Altman: So that's good news. Ami Bhatt: Good news. On repeated exposures to antibiotics, what people have observed is that there may be a point at which you can't quite get back to your normal and every time you're exposed to antibiotics, you may be readjusting to a new normal. Russ Altman: Does the microbiome run in families? Can I assume that my wife and I, our kids are outta the house. That's a whole different story, and I know nothing about their microbiomes. But do my wife and I have the same microbiome probably because we're spending a lot of time together or could they be very different even in that home situation? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, so we call the scientific jargon for this is cohabitating adults. Russ Altman: That's what I do with my wife. Ami Bhatt: Yes, so you and your cohabitating adult, your lovely wife, you probably do have some shared species and strains. So research has suggested that cohabitating adults do share some strains. There has been some limited work to show exciting results that people who own pets, for example dogs, may actually even share a few strains with their pets. Now this is really exciting because as you know, there's this hygiene hypothesis out there and the idea that we've become too clean as a society that's why we have, like, asthma and allergies and eczema that are increasing. Russ Altman: We need more exposures as youths. Ami Bhatt: Exactly, and we know that people who have animals when they're young or who live on farms when they're young actually have a decreased incidence of these diseases. So one question that has arisen is, is it because we're actually getting microbes from these animals around us? Russ Altman: That raises an issue that I really, I did wanna get to so I'm glad that you've raised this, which is, the role of the gut microbiome with the immune system. In fact, you would think they might be at battle with one another but I think it's much more complicated and I know you've looked into this. So, how should I think about the relationship of my gut bacteria with the health of my immune system? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, so we know that animals that can be reared without microbes, we call these germ-free animals. Russ Altman: So like the bubble boy but they're the bubble cow or the bubble. Ami Bhatt: Yeah, bubble mouse. All kinds of bubble animals. Russ Altman: That's probably easier than the bubble cow. Ami Bhatt: Yes, but you know, even bubble fish have been generated. You can generate these animals without really any measurable microbes and what we know about them, surprisingly, is that their immune systems are really messed up. That observation actually suggests that the immune system is really dependent on microbial exposures in order to mature properly. We also know, interestingly, and this is more of a correlational relationship, that the immune system develops over the first three years of life. You know, that's why a lot of kids and babies get their immunizations or vaccinations in that early period of time. That's actually also when the microbiome develops. So we know that the vast majority of microbiome and immune system development happens in those first three years of life. That suggests that just like having, you know, a sparring partner, someone who urges you. Russ Altman: Keeps you sharp. Ami Bhatt: Yeah, absolutely. I think the microbes keep the immune system sharp and I think the immune system keeps the microbes sharp. Russ Altman: Okay, so we should be rooting for a certain amount of healthy competition between the bacteria and the immune system and it's part of developing this robust immune system. Taking that idea and combining with your earlier comments about there's many healthy microbiomes, you've made a study of the cultural and geographic diversity of the microbiome including even in places like Africa where I imagine that the lifestyle, the diet, many things are different from the West Coast of the United States. Why are you doing that work and what are we finding? Ami Bhatt: The reason we're doing this work which is really trying to broaden our understanding of all of the different types of healthy and diseased microbiomes that exist around the world, is that we know, unlike human genetics, like your human genome doesn't really change over the course of your life, we know that the microbiome can change over life and that the microbiome is pretty much controlled by your lifestyle and your environment. For example, if you, Russ, were to move to Greenland and take up a diet that was entirely of fish and seals, your microbiome would change dramatically. And that suggests that the variety of lifestyle choices and environmental exposures that people have can really affect their microbiomes and they affect their microbiomes way more than their personal genetics do. Russ Altman: So it's the environment that is playing a huge role. Even though I'm the same Russ, after six weeks in Greenland, I'm a different microbiome Russ. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely, absolutely. So one of the challenges in research has been that we tend to, in my opinion, overstudy kind of the same people over and over, in part 'cause they're convenient. Honestly, if I was to do a study of a thousand people's microbiomes, it'd be a lot easier for me to do the study here at Stanford and just to recruit, you know, the incoming freshman class. Russ Altman: It would be very diverse. It would be both Facebook employees as well as Google employees. Ami Bhatt: There you go, yeah. And then throw in like a little bit of Apple just for the fun. Russ Altman: There's your diversity. Ami Bhatt: We know that many of these people are gonna have very, very consistent lifestyles. And so we thought that it was really important to broaden our understanding of all of the different types of microbiomes that can exist in the world, both for the purpose of better enumerating what is normal, normal can be a variety of things, but also because, not only should genetic research be done all over the world, we wanna make sure that genetic researchers are being encouraged all over the world. We started this collaboration with a really impressive consortium called the H3 Africa Genomics Consortium. They do a lot of human genetic work and as you know, life originated in Africa, there's a huge amount of human genetic diversity there and we, being kind of a one-trick pony said, “Hey, we should collect poop and we'll sequence it and we'll learn about the microbiomes of these individuals.” Thankfully we have collaborators who are game for that and we've been studying the microbiomes of individuals in urban township settings and rural areas and trying to understand how they're similar and different to each other and similar and different to us. Russ Altman: This is The Future of Everything. I'm Russ Altman, I'm speaking with Dr. Ami Bhatt about the microbiomes in Africa and fascinating because of the diversity and the history of Africa, it is possible that there will be more diversity of the microbiomes in Africa than there is in the rest of the world or certainly it will be more diverse than what we're seeing in local areas as you described. And I also totally buy your argument that if there are gonna be in the future treatments of the microbiome, we really need to understand the range of normal so that we don't start treating people in Africa with microbiomes that are irrelevant or even damaging. So let me ask that, we hear a lot about when people migrate from one place to another, after a certain amount of time they start getting the diseases of the local milieu. So, you know, we hear about people from China who come to the U.S. They have a certain diet and lifestyle in China, and after a couple of generations, they start getting the same heart disease that has been plaguing all of the U.S. Could there be a microbiome connection to this? Is it that changing your geography is not just the lifestyle and the McDonald's and dietary considerations, but that you're also now being exposed to microbiomes that might change your disease risk? Ami Bhatt: I absolutely believe so. One of the things that we don't know is whether or not a healthy adult can actually acquire new microbes easily from the environment, but certainly the idea that changing someone's lifestyle can change their microbiome is well established. There have been migration studies where immigrants have been studied over the course of time. I absolutely think this is related to disease. One of the things I'm really fascinated about is this observation that my parents, for example. My parents came over from India to the United States for school. They were born and raised in India. They could eat all of the delicious street food that is there. But when we used to go back to visit when I was a kid, my parents would say, “Absolutely no street food for you,” and absolutely no street food for them, because we would get terrible diarrhea, to be honest. Why is that so? My parents have been exposed to that. Russ Altman: They've grown up on it. Ami Bhatt: Yeah, they've grown up on it. Presumably their immune systems have gotten used to it, so why could they suddenly not eat these foods anymore? And I really do think part of it might be that their microbiomes had shifted over time. Russ Altman: Fantastic. This is The Future of Everything, I'm Russ Altman. More with guest Dr. Ami Bhatt about the microbiome and its significance for both health and disease, next on Sirius XM Insight 121. Welcome back to The Future of Everything, I'm Russ Altman. I'm speaking with Ami Bhatt about the microbiome. And in the last segment we had a great discussion about health and disease and immune system. People like to manipulate their microbiome and there's been a lot of popular press about yogurts and probiotics. Is that all real? How should people think about the opportunities for manipulating or improving their bowel health by ingesting foods that modify it? Ami Bhatt: I think it's natural for us to wanna improve our bowel health. I think almost every one of us has done this. By the time we're an adult, we know that there are certain foods we don't tolerate, certain foods that actually work out better for us. I think many people learn, for example, in their 20s and their 30s that they don't tolerate lactose anymore, for example. Russ Altman: Right, so milk is out. Ami Bhatt: Milk is out. And probiotics are an interesting opportunity for us to try and change that microbiome. Russ Altman: Can you tell me what is the definition of a probiotic? Because I think there's even confusion about that. It sounds great. Pro, biotic, I mean what could be wrong with it? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, it's a fantastic thing, but, it is actually a moving target, also. So, the idea of a probiotic is it's live microbial therapy. Right? It's a compound, not a compound, but organisms that you can ingest or put on you if they're skin probiotics. Russ Altman: Oh, so there are skin probiotics? Ami Bhatt: There are skin probiotics now, too. So you can ingest or put these things on you and that they will somehow improve your health. They can come in a variety of “flavors.” On one extreme, while fecal microbiota transplantation is not technically considered a probiotic, it is one of the most complex live microbial therapies we can administer. Russ Altman: Yeah, it's a definitely cousin idea because you're introducing bacteria on purpose to help. Ami Bhatt: Exactly. Most probiotics come in either pill form, so you can go to, often like the natural foods store and you'll find an area where they have a bunch of bottles that are labeled with different complicated Latin and Greek names. Those are probiotics. Alternatively you can have things like foods that actually contain live bacteria or sometimes fungi. Russ Altman: On purpose. Ami Bhatt: On purpose. Turns out, this has actually been an important part of cooking for millennia. Bread, for example, is obviously fermented by yeast. In the classical way, it was not just fermented by yeast but also by bacteria that are present in the air and on the grains of wheat. Russ Altman: I believe that's part of the sourdough magic is that it's not just the yeast but a complex. My son teaches me about the complex bacteria required for high-quality sourdough. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely, so we consume bacteria in these ways. Of course, when we bake bread, the bacteria die but there are things like yogurt. Yogurt is made by actually culturing milk with bacteria, and we can buy live active culture food. Russ Altman: Now, will yogurt automatically come with bacteria or is it a special type of yogurt that would have bacteria? 'Cause I know that people often think, “I love my yogurt, it's giving me good probiotics.” I don't know if that's true. Ami Bhatt: The majority of commercial yogurts that are available, the bacteria have been killed. So if you want to go to the store and buy a live active culture yogurt, meaning a yogurt that still has living organisms in it, you've gotta look for that. They usually say, “live active culture,” and if you turn the container around to the back, you can actually see the names of the organisms that are included. Russ Altman: The list of Latin names. Lactobacillus and things like that. Ami Bhatt: Exactly, exactly. Also if you make it at home, of course, you would also be live active culture. So there are other types of foods that are live active culture. Sauerkraut, kimchi, in fact, almost every culture has some sort of fermented food that's an important part of their culture and their cuisine. Russ Altman: Yes, we're overloading the word culture. Every culture has their favorite bacterial culture. Here's the big question. Is there evidence for health benefit? Ami Bhatt: This is really where it gets kind of tricky. It gets tricky because there have been some big studies done on pills, like probiotic pills, used in the medical setting to do things, specific things, like, prevent antibiotic associated diarrhea. For example, many of our listeners have probably gone to the doctor, gotten an antibiotic for a bacterial infection, and have been told by either their doctor or friend, "Hey, eat some yogurt while you're having this." In that concept there is, we know that antibiotic is killing a lot of the bacteria in your gut, maybe some of these bacteria from the yogurt will fill in the gaps, and prevent you from having the diarrhea that's associated with having low diversity microbiomes. Russ Altman: And does that indeed happen? Ami Bhatt: You know, so, there are studies that say it does, there are studies that say it doesn't. And I think really, the jury is out. It's a really complicated topic. As a physician, I would say, there is really limited evidence for the utility of probiotics in the health setting, and in disease management. Russ Altman: So as a physician, it kind of falls into the, well, I don't think it's doing any harm, so I'm not gonna tell you not to do it, but I wouldn't bet the farm that it's gonna solve the problem. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely. And I would say in some extreme circumstances of health, like, you know, for example, there have been studies showing that, immunotherapy, which is a type of treatment that's used to treat cancer patients, immunotherapy may depend on what the microbiome contains. We know that there may actually be risks associated with taking probiotics when you're on an immunotherapy agent. Russ Altman: So that's a big deal, because now we're talking about risks. Can you tell me a little bit more about that? Ami Bhatt: Yeah. Russ Altman: Sounds like it's new. Ami Bhatt: It's really new. I think none of these data are published yet. But at conferences, at scientific conferences, people have been talking about observations that cancer patients on immunotherapy who are taking probiotics, may actually respond worse than those who are not. Which really begs the question of, you know, could we potentially be doing harm by giving people probiotics. Russ Altman: So that's something we'll have to keep a close eye on. And I'm sure that oncologists will pay close attention, because they don't wanna undermine their treatments by saying, “Oh, it can hurt,” when in fact, maybe it can hurt. So that's an important one. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely. Russ Altman: This is The Future of Everything. I'm Russ Altman, I'm speaking with Dr. Ami Bhatt, about the microbiome. And I wanted to move to the issue of the microbiome over time and in aging, folks, which we all are. I think you made a reference to this, that it doesn't stay the same. What do we know about the process of aging? And is there things that elderly people should be thinking about in terms of their microbiome? I was struck when you were talking about the immune system, you were very convincing that people have a good sense of how their bowel is doing when you ask them. I'm not sure people have a good sense of their immune system when you ask them in the same way, maybe they do. So it's all confounded together in my mind as the aging process, the immune system, what do we know about that? And what should people be thinking about as they age? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, so it's interesting, there's been a lot of focus on the microbiome and the immune system in early life, lots of studies on those first three years. And what we think is that, for the adult period, people to tend to be pretty stable in both of those things until later on in life, and our group and others are actually starting to study, the microbiome of aging individuals. From animal studies, it's actually been demonstrated in the African killifish fish model. Russ Altman: Killifish? Ami Bhatt: Killifish. Yeah. These are really cool, short lived fish. They're actually the, I believe the shortest live vertebrate animals. Russ Altman: So what are we talking? Ami Bhatt: Months. Russ Altman: Months of life. Ami Bhatt: Months of life. Russ Altman: So they really have to go for it. Ami Bhatt: Yeah, they gotta go big, go big and then they have to go home. So, an interesting study was done, where they took poop from young fish, and then transplanted it into old fish. And they actually find that the old fish can swim faster when they have young poop in them. Russ Altman: Am so glad you've mentioned this, 'cause I've heard about these kind of studies, and also like old mice giving their poop to young mice, and vice versa. So yeah, so what's going on there? Ami Bhatt: You know, it suggests that there is something within the gut microbiome of these young individuals that can actually alter the biology of these animals, older animals, either through their immune system. Russ Altman: They are swimming faster. Swimming faster. The older fish. So now we just have to figure out what would that mean for a human, and when do I ask for my young colleague's, well, I don't even wanna say it. How do we approach this issue? And do we think that there's a real hope now for therapies? I mean, are people now thinking about a future, where in addition to the pills that you're getting from your doctor, they'll be interventions to try to spruce up your microbiome? Ami Bhatt: Yeah, I think that there is a great opportunity here. In part because we know that there is this association between the alteration of the microbiome and diminishment of the immune system. I think in the future, although there are no data to support this yet, that older individuals will get things like, microbial therapies or fiber cocktails that will help keep their microbiome healthy, and maybe prevent them from getting things like shingles, you know, a reactivation of a viral infection, maybe that's related to our gut microbiome, who knows? Russ Altman: And you've made a really important point here, it's not just introduction of the bacteria, but you need them to be happy, so to speak, and to live. And so you mentioned fiber, because that might be one of the substrates upon which these bacteria live, in order to stay in your bowel after they've been introduced. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely. We can't just put them there, we've got to feed them as well. And so, since fiber is what a lot of these healthy microbes eat, then we've got to feed them. Russ Altman: So when we think about high fiber diets, part of the reason we're recommending this to patients is not just for the bulk and to help them the musculature of their bowel, it's also to have a good relationship with the underlying microbiome. Ami Bhatt: Absolutely. Russ Altman: Thank you for listening to The Future of Everything. I'm Russ Solomon. If you missed any of this episode, listen anytime on demand with the Sirius XM app.
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Im sechsten Jahr in Folge gedenkt unser Buddy Marc Hype mit mit seiner Mixtape-Serie "GONE… but not forgotten" den im Vorjahr verstorbenen Musikern. Auch im Jahr 2018 sind zahlreiche Künstler von uns gegangen, an Material für das 2018'er Tribute-Tape mangelte es (leider) nicht. Rest in Peace: France Gall, Hugh Msekela, Dennis Edwards, Leon Ndugu Chanceler, Lovebug Starski, DJ Kuya, Henry Storch, Jerzy Milian, DJ Devastate, Craig Mack, Matt Dike of Delicious Vinyl, Cameron Paul, Alias of Anticon, Chuck Freeze of Jazzy 5, Bob Dorough, Godfather of Boo Yaa Tribe, John Jab'o Starks, Huckey of Texta, Reggie Lucas, Demba Nabé of SEEED, Jalaluddin Nuriddin aka Lightnin' Rod of The LAST POETS, Aretha Franklin, DJ Ready Red of the Geto Boys, Charles Aznavour, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, Roy Hargrove, Yvonne Staple of the Staples Singer, Joe Jackson, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Gary Harris Sugarhill Records, Paul Trouble Anderson, Bobby Davis, Nancy Wilson, Galt McDermot,Cecily Taylor, Coco Schumann, Edwin Hawkins, Ray Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Otis Rush, Marty Balin, Mac Miller, Ed King, Russ Solomon, Burt Reynolds, Verne Troyer, Anthony Bourdain, Winnie Mandela, Stan Lee
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On the fourth episode of Creative Spectator, resident music-nerd Ben pays tribute to Tower Records founder Russ Solomon, checks out the Australian Music Prize Shortlist Showcase and sings the praises of Dark Fair, Titus Andronicus and The Men. Music Credits Intro/Outro: Money 1973 by NO FUTURE Source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/NO_FUTURE/ROXO_01/Money_1973 CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Gig Intro: Turn Off The Telly by Future Sauce Source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Future_Sauce/none_given_1250/04_Turn_Off_The_Telly CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Recommendations Intro: I n s t e r s t e l l a r C a p i t a l i s m by Anonymous420 Source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anonymous420/___1389/Anonymous420_-____-_02__ CC License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
A tale as old as time: baby boomer loves music, starts business based on music, loves partying and hanging out but also loves going into millions of dollars of debt even as he charges up to $20 for a CD until the world decides music should be (mostly) free. On this episode we delve into the life and times of Russ Solomon, all-around nice guy and bad businessman who still somehow became the head of one of the biggest music retailers in the world for nearly four decades.
This week Cameron and Jay talk the Slayer and Black Label Society concert announcements, the death of Tower Records founder Russ Solomon, the new Shinedown, talk to Suicide Girls founder Missy Suicide, and pay tribute to red dirt artist Brandon Jenkins.
Steffan talks to Vinny Marino on the death of former Tower Records founder Russ Solomon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The wonderful and talented comedian Lizzy Weisman joins the fellas on the magical 69th episode of the podcast. The trio opens the show talking about getting older, which inevitably leads to them discussing personal insecurities. Lizzy talks about her time working at a primate sanctuary in Africa and diving with whale sharks. The conversation shifts to relationships and the difficulties of dating as a female comic. The gang geeks about about being fans of old Jewish comedians. Chase spends a little time asking Lizzy about her hustle in the comedy game. Somehow the three get to talking about circumcision and smegma before bring the show home with the current events...Joey Diaz and his reportedly controversial tweet about a UFC fighter and Tower Records founder Russ Solomon dies like a boss. Outro: "Guitar Pull" by Gee Dubs Social Media: Instagram: @lizzy_weisman @randyvalerio @chaseabel @readysetblowpocast Twitter: @lizzy_weisman @randyvalerio @chaseabel1 @readysetblowpocast Facebook: facebook.com/liz.weisman, facebook.com/randy.valerio.777, facebook.com/chase.abel.54
What's Your Deal? As usual, Old Man Dog has a deal. Today? While you're driving, keep an eye out for the awesome billboard featuring the one and only Russ Solomon.
Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records, passed away on Sunday. He died while sipping whiskey and watching the Oscars. That's the way to go, right? It got us thinking... How would you want to go out? For Stacie, it's holding hands with her husband while watching Coronation Street. For Clayton, it's eating cheese while watching Uncle Buck.
Sadly, the founded of Tower Records, Russ Solomon, passed away on Sunday (thanks Oscars...). What was the first record you ever purchased from the legendary and sadly long-closed Sacramento landmark?
Sadly, Russ Solomon passed away on Sunday. (Thanks Oscars...) Which, of course, leads Dog to ask this morbid question: How do you want to die? Part 2.
Sadly, Russ Solomon passed away on Sunday. (Thanks Oscars...) Which, of course, leads Dog to ask this morbid question: How do you want to die? Part 1.
Going overboard without a life raft for an absolutely killer song and the healing power of music; R.I.P., Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records and a weird and...combustible in-flight story. www.weaponofselfdistraction.com podcasts, music, songs, podcasting
Director Colin Hanks discusses his new film, All Things Must Pass, with Director Jeremy Kagan. The film charts the rise and fall of Tower Records, founded by Russ Solomon. From humble beginnings, Tower Records grew to become one of the music industry's most iconic retail stores.
The story of Tower Records is one of entrepreneurship. Colin Hanks examines the story in the 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass: The Life And Death Of Tower Records.
Russ Solomon is the founder of Tower Records and a music industry icon. During our time with Russ we discussed everything from 78s to streaming music on the internet. An incredibly interesting guy, Russ is also the subject of a new documentary entitled All Things Must Pass – The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records.
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