Podcast appearances and mentions of Steve Katz

Getting ready for Blade Show 2025 and how to enjoy your time there! This is an episode that you don't want to miss. Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 2025 #knifemaking #Knives #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Kyle Daily, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comSound Effect by jasper nys from PixabayMusic by marcelo moura from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

Number 80 and Season 9!What a great guest for our 80th episode! Walter Sorrells joins the K nives Templars for a couple fun hours of talk and fellowship. This is an episode that you don't want to miss. Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 2025 #knifemaking #Knives #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Kyle Daily, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by Tadashi Keiji from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

Number 79 and counting!Boy o BOY! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 2025 #knifemaking #Knives #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Kyle Daily, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by P Richmond from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

Number 78!! A Batson's Round Up!YES, YES, YES! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 2025 #knifemaking #Knives #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Kyle Daily, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by Alana Jordan from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

Ever wonder how the CISO role went from obscure techie to boardroom MVP? In this episode of CISO Tradecraft, G Mark Hardy takes you on a journey through the evolution of the Chief Information Security Officer — from Steve Katz's groundbreaking appointment at Citibank in 1995 to the high-stakes, high-impact role CISOs play today. Transcripts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FlKBW6zlVBqLoSTQMGZIfz--ZLD_aS9t/edit   Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Evolution of the CISO Role 00:58 The First CISO: Steve Katz's Pioneering Journey 03:58 Rise of Security Certifications 08:39 Regulatory Wake-Up Calls and Compliance 12:23 Cybersecurity in the Age of State-Sponsored Attacks 17:58 The Impact of Major Cyber Incidents 25:07 Modern Challenges and the Future of the CISO Role 27:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Number 77 Knife Makers!!!Oh My! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 2025 #knifemaking #Knives #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Kyle Daily, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by Tadashi Keiji from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

EPISODE 76 is here!We are back! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 20525 #knifemaking #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, and Emily of Casting Crafts knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by Trygve Larsen from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

EPISODE 75!!!! We are back! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 20525 #knifemaking #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Emily of Casting Crafts and Odacir Pinto. knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.comMusic by Tung Lam from PixabayVisit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025oinky oinky oinky

We are back! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 20525 #knifemaking #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Emily of Casting Crafts and Odacir Pinto. knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.com Music by Noru from Pixabay Visit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2025 oinky oinky oinky

We are back! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 20525 #knifemaking #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Emily of Casting Crafts and Odacir Pinto. knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.com Music by Julius H. from Pixabay Visit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2024 oinky oinky oinky

We are back! Its' unbelievable that this much fun is free for our listeners!We talk about knife topics and the joys of life! Sit back, grab a beverage and listen to the Knives Templars!  See why we are climbing the charts on your favorite podcast app or station today!  We have been heard all over the world! So tune in, enjoy and SUBSCRIBE to the knives templars today. Please support our sponsors   Pops Knife Supply - http://popsknife.supplies  Phoenix Abrasives - Phoenixabrasives.com   Ameribrade - https://www.ameribrade.com  The Rivers Experience - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYgdTzDUMUYlqbJOiyVLQg  Pops Knife Supples - popskinfesupplies.com   - castingcrafts.com  -  Maritime Knife Supply - maritimeknifesupply.com, TRMAKER - TR-Maker.com. - Clark Iron Forge - All brought to you by Pork House Productions, Skjeggmennknives.com, knife-maker.com, Theriversexperience.com, and Josh of All Trades Blacksmithing. (c) Pork House Group 20525 #knifemaking #knifemakingpodcast #knivestemplars #blademaking The Knives Templars are Chip Carlisle, Josh Foran, Erick Rivers, Marc Vasallo, Jason Fry, Steve Katz, Emily of Casting Crafts and Odacir Pinto. knivestemplars.com Want to sponsor the Knives Templars and run your ads on our podcast? Email us at knivestemplars@yahoo.com. See us at https://knivestemplars.com Music by Peter Barbaix from Pixabay Visit: https://knife-maker.com PORKHouse Productions (c) 2024 oinky oinky oinky

Steve Satterwhite On Cyber is a Cybercrime Magazine Podcast series brought to you by Entelligence. In this episode, Steve Satterwhite, founder and CEO at Entelligence, joins host Charlie Osborne to discuss the cybersecurity industry's talent gap and skills shortage, as highlighted by Steve Katz, the World's First CISO in a previously-recorded interview for Cybercrime Magazine. An industry leader in delivering affordable, high value professional services to security-conscious enterprise and government organizations worldwide, Entelligence addresses the cyber skills gap by working as a seamless extension of each customer's organization, providing a set of customized services that include security readiness assessments, quick-start solution deployments, and longer-term resident expert engagements. Learn more about our sponsor at https://entelligence.com

AL KOOPER 'THE LOST INTERVIEWS' EPISODE 6   Singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist AL KOOPER continues to relish an incredible life of music. Although these days it's mostly through his weekly online column for The Morton Report entitled ‘New Music for Old People' Kooper reveals… “This column is like the title says - its intention is to fill the gap for those of us who were satiated musically in the '60s and then searched desperately as we aged for music we could relate to and get the same buzz from nowadays. iTunes was the answer for me in 2003 and I have been following the new releases every Tuesday ever since I realized there was an endless stream of music I could enjoy there. The reason I am writing this column is to make sure others don't miss this. These are not top ten items; but they SHOULD be!” Kooper is also excited about the re-release of the classic ‘Super Session' album featuring Al Kooper-Mike Bloomfield-Stephen Stills. The album is re-mastered with the latest (Hybrid Multichannel SACD) technology. The package includes new liner notes written by Al Kooper that tell the story of the Super Session album and the new 5.1 Multichannel mix. The 5.1 mix by Al Kooper with mastering by Bob Ludwig was never released and yet it has acquired some fame from industry insiders familiar with the Multichannel mix with comments like "excellent" and "it deserves to be heard. “The new mastering of the Stereo tracks for new SACD Stereo and CD Stereo audio are by mastering engineer Steve Hoffman. -The official release of ‘Super Session' on amazon.com is -September 9th. AL KOOPER: had a life changing undertaking technologically and musically after receiving a Webcor reel to reel tape recorder as a Bat Mitzvah gift in 1957.Born in Brooklyn and growing up in Queens, New York … Kooper began his incredible music career as a fourteen-year-old guitarist with The Royal Teens (“Short Shorts” #3 U.S. Hit in 1958). In 1960, Kooper joined the songwriting team of Bob Brass and Irwin Levine and wrote “This Diamond Ring” (#1 U.S. Hit in 1965) for Gary Lewis & the Playboys. At 21, Kooper moved to Greenwich Village and began a momentous relationship with Bob Dylan. He performed and recorded with Dylan including adding his classic Hammond organ riffs on “Like a Rolling Stone”(#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Hit in 1965). During those recording sessions, Kooper met Michael Bloomfield. In 1967, Al Kooper joined The Blues Project as their keyboardist. He left the band before the group was to appear at the infamous Monterey Pop Festival, and instead, along with bandmate Steve Katz, formed the jazz/rock/psychedelic/ R&B/ group …Blood, Sweat & Tears. Kooper left Blood, Sweat & Tears after their critically acclaimed debut release … ‘Child Is Father to the Man' (1968). The album spawned the classic rock mainstays … “I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know” (Penned by Kooper) and “I Can't Quit Her” (Written by Kooper/Levine). Al Kooper recorded a jazz inspired jam entitled ‘Super Session' in 1968 with Michael Bloomfield and Stephen Stills. The album spawned an incredible cover of Donovan's “Season of the Witch” and my favorite track “His Holy Modal Majesty” (Written by Kooper and Bloomfield). The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold. It was Al Kooper who called Judy Collins in the middle of the night and put Joni Mitchell on the phone to sing “Both Sides Now” which eventually became a huge hit for Collins in 1968. Throughout the years …Kooper became a mainstay in the recording studio performing with The Rolling Stones, The Who, B.B. King, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Alice Cooper, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joe Cocker, Tom Petty, and Roger McGuinn to name just a few. Kooper discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1972 after watching several of their appearances at a frequented club in Atlanta. Al moved to Atlanta and signed the band to his new record label ‘Sounds of the South.' (He would eventually sell the label to MCA Records). Al Kooper produced and performed on Lynyrd Skynyrd's first (3) albums…  (‘Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd, Second Helping, and Nuthin'Fancy). Also, on the singles “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird,” and “Saturday Night Special.” Al Kooper produced The Tubes, David Essex, Nils Lofgren, Rick Nelson, Ray Charles, The Staple Singers, Bob Dylan, and Lynyrd Skynyrd … to name just a few. He also played and arranged three tracks on George Harrison's ‘Somewhere in England' album and performed with the remaining Beatles … George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr, on Harrison's Hit single “All Those Years Ago” (U.S. #2 Billboard Hot 100 Hit in 1981). Kooper has also written and composed on countless albums and scores for television and motion pictures. And let's not forget an incredible SOLO CAREER … I Stand Alone (1969), You Never Know Who Your Friends Are (1969), Easy Does It (1970), New York City (You're A Women)(1971), Possible Projection of the Future/ Childhood's End (1972), Naked Songs (1973), Act Like Nothing's Wrong (1977), Championship Wrestling (1982), Rekooperation (1994), Soul of a Man (Live album 1995), Black Coffee (2005), and White Chocolate (2008). Al Kooper published his well- received memoir entitled … Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock ‘N' Roll Survivor. The first edition was released in 1977 with subsequent editions released in 1998 and 2008. (The 2008 edition being the best of the three). I had the rare opportunity of chatting with Al Kooper about the remastered classic ‘Super Session' album on 5.1 Multichannel mix … Al's column ‘New Music for Old People' … The Music industry today … Discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd … My infamous ‘Field of Dreams' question… And much-much more!   Support us on PayPal!

    A husband asked a question about a good Modern RPG that he could run for his wife.  She was not interested in anything related to Fantasy or the Science Fiction genre.  Not interested in any fantastical or supernatural elements in a modern setting.  When Jolene asked about this situation he immediately went to his bookcase and his Drivethrurpg Library.        Saul picked out some RPGs that did  not have any supernatural or fantastical elements.  From the generic RPGs to some RPGs that offer a very specific type of games.  From super spies and daring cops to very hard luck detectives and private eyes.  Rpgs from well known RPG publishers to independent publishers using self publishing.     As Always thank you all for listening.      Web Art by Jim Foster      Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones     Song by Steve Katz, song A Modern Tale, off the album Barricades     Available from Tribeofnoise.com    Used Under the Creative Commons License 3.0         https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Gordon Lawson is the CEO at Conceal. In this episode, he joins host Steve Morgan to share thoughts on Steve Katz, the world's first CISO, who recently passed away, and discuss his impact on the cybersecurity industry today. Conceal is a zero-trust network privacy and security company that disguises and protects your enterprise's online presence and privacy. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://conceal.io

This is an Encore Episode of my interview with Steve Katz, celebrated guitarist and singer and a founding member of two iconic bands: Blood Sweat & Tears and The Blues Project. His songs include "Sometimes In Winter", "Meagan's Gypsy Eyes" and "Steve's Song". We discuss those bands, Al Kooper, Murray the K, and much more . My featured song is “With You” from the album PGS 7 by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link. ---------------------------------------------The Follow Your Dream Podcast:Top 1% of all podcasts with Listeners in 200 countries!For more information and other episodes of the podcast click here. To subscribe to the podcast click here.To subscribe to our weekly Follow Your Dream Podcast email click here.To Rate and Review the podcast click here.“Dream With Robert”. Click here.—----------------------------------------FOLLOW YOUR DREAM - SPOTIFY 2023 STATS+61% Listeners+99% Streams+57% Followers+27% Minutes Created—----------------------------------------ROBERT'S MUSIC - SPOTIFY 2023 STATS1.2M Streams113.7K Listeners73.9K Hours133 Countries+138% Listeners+267% Streams+91% Saves+104% Playlist Adds+52% Followers-----------------------------------"THE SINGLES PROJECT” is Robert's new EP, featuring five of his new songs. The songs speak to the ups and downs of life. From the blissful, joyous “Saturday Morning” to the darker commentary of “Like Never Before” and “The Ship”. “This is Robert at his most vulnerable” (Pop Icon Magazine)Reviews: “Amazing!” (Top Buzz Magazine)“Magical…A Sonic Tour De Force!” (IndiePulse Music)“Fabulously Enticing!” (Pop Icon Magazine)“A Home Run!” (Hollywood Digest)Listener Reviews:Saturday Morning:”A neat and simply happy song!””It's so cute and fun. It's describing a world I wish I lived in every day!”Like Never Before:”Great message!””Great song, very perceptive lyrics!”Click here for all links.--------------------------------------“IT'S ALIVE!” is Robert's latest Project Grand Slam album. Featuring 13 of the band's Greatest Hits performed “live” at festivals in Pennsylvania and Serbia.Reviews:"An instant classic!" (Melody Maker)"Amazing record...Another win for the one and only Robert Miller!" (Hollywood Digest)"Close to perfect!" (Pop Icon)"A Masterpiece!" (Big Celebrity Buzz)"Sterling effort!" (Indie Pulse)"Another fusion wonder for Project Grand Slam!" (MobYorkCity)Click here for all links.Click here for song videos—-----------------------------------------Audio production:Jimmy RavenscroftKymera FilmsConnect with Steve:www.stevekatzmusic.wordpress.comConnect with the Follow Your Dream Podcast:Website - www.followyourdreampodcast.comEmail Robert - robert@followyourdreampodcast.com Follow Robert's band, Project Grand Slam, and his music:Website - www.projectgrandslam.comPGS Store - www.thePGSstore.comYouTubeSpotify MusicApple MusicEmail - pgs@projectgrandslam.com

Materiality, Disclosure, and Evidence...  New terms for cybersecurity professionals to understand under the new SEC Regulations for Cybersecurity.  And the Solarwinds indictment is just the beginning. Join the BSW crew as they tackle each of these new terms in preparation for SEC enforcement which starts this week. In the leadership and communications section, Steve Katz, World's First CISO, Dies in Hospice Care, Top CISO Communities to Join in 2024, Workplace Culture 101: How to Create Positivity at Work, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

In the leadership and communications section, Steve Katz, World's First CISO, Dies in Hospice Care, Top CISO Communities to Join in 2024, Workplace Culture 101: How to Create Positivity at Work, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

Materiality, Disclosure, and Evidence...  New terms for cybersecurity professionals to understand under the new SEC Regulations for Cybersecurity.  And the Solarwinds indictment is just the beginning. Join the BSW crew as they tackle each of these new terms in preparation for SEC enforcement which starts this week. In the leadership and communications section, Steve Katz, World's First CISO, Dies in Hospice Care, Top CISO Communities to Join in 2024, Workplace Culture 101: How to Create Positivity at Work, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

In the leadership and communications section, Steve Katz, World's First CISO, Dies in Hospice Care, Top CISO Communities to Join in 2024, Workplace Culture 101: How to Create Positivity at Work, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

Episode Originally Aired Aug 2020: Officially granted the title within a company in 1995, the CISO role is relatively new in Infosec's grand scheme. Since this first attribution, many have taken the job - and the reigns - to shape and define the responsibilities, but it looks like it is still a work in progress. With each step comes new challenges, new paths, new opportunities.Steve Katz is the one and only that can actually claim to hold the very first title - and have had, arguably, the most impact on shaping the role ever since. We were lucky to have the honor and pleasure to chat with him in this Episode of A CISO Story — and what a story it is. Well, so many stories, in fact, that we might have lost count on the way.Together we spent time remembering the past, evaluating the present, and envisioning the future of this role and its deep-rooted connections to the business for which it is its mission is to protect — as much as possible. Because one point that rings clear from this conversation is that "a CISO cannot aim to prevent risk but reduce it."With 25 years of history, are businesses making the most of the role, or are their expectations missing the mark? And, perhaps more importantly, what does the future hold for the CISO?What if we needed not just one CISO in a company?Yes, how about that?Does the First CISO think that there will be a Last CISO?Guest(s)Steve Katz, The First CISO*Disclosure: He didn't self-proclaim the title himself

Episode Originally Aired Aug 2020: Officially granted the title within a company in 1995, the CISO role is relatively new in Infosec's grand scheme. Since this first attribution, many have taken the job - and the reigns - to shape and define the responsibilities, but it looks like it is still a work in progress. With each step comes new challenges, new paths, new opportunities.Steve Katz is the one and only that can actually claim to hold the very first title - and have had, arguably, the most impact on shaping the role ever since. We were lucky to have the honor and pleasure to chat with him in this Episode of A CISO Story — and what a story it is. Well, so many stories, in fact, that we might have lost count on the way.Together we spent time remembering the past, evaluating the present, and envisioning the future of this role and its deep-rooted connections to the business for which it is its mission is to protect — as much as possible. Because one point that rings clear from this conversation is that "a CISO cannot aim to prevent risk but reduce it."With 25 years of history, are businesses making the most of the role, or are their expectations missing the mark? And, perhaps more importantly, what does the future hold for the CISO?What if we needed not just one CISO in a company?Yes, how about that?Does the First CISO think that there will be a Last CISO?Guest(s)Steve Katz, The First CISO*Disclosure: He didn't self-proclaim the title himself

KEEP THE DREAM FLOWING RETURNS! After a hiatus, we are BACK!! Our first new episode in a while is a wickedly cool thing – we have an interview with our friend STEVE KATZ, former guitarist with Woodstock giants BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS and head honcho of THE BLUES PROJECT! In this episode, Steve talks about the essential new BS&T documentary WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS? which has been playing in theaters of late and will soon be available on streaming platforms! The film documents the band's 1970 U.S. State Department-sponsored/forced goodwill tour behind the Iron Curtain and explores the backlash the band got as a result of the tour. It's a must watch!!

Steve Katz and Blood, Sweat & Tears (BS&T) are synonymous with the golden era of American rock and jazz fusion. This iconic band, known for its genre-blending music, was founded by Steve Katz and went on to achieve massive success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this episode, we explore the fascinating story of Steve Katz and his pivotal role in shaping BS&T's ground-breaking sound. Steve Katz was born in New York City and displayed a passion for music from a young age. His journey in the music world gained momentum in the early ‘60s when he joined The Even Dozen Jug Band, a folk collective. Later, he co-founded the influential rock band The Blues Project. In 1967, Steve co-founded Blood, Sweat & Tears, a band that aimed to fuse rock, jazz, and R&B elements to create a unique musical experience. His vision set the stage for a new era in popular music.  As a founding member, guitarist, and songwriter, Steve played a vital role in shaping BS&T's signature sound. His guitar work blended seamlessly with the brass section, creating a dynamic and unforgettable blend of rock and jazz. Under his creative leadership, BS&T released their eponymous album in 1968, which became a massive success, reaching the top of the charts. The album's hits like "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel" showcased Katz's song-writing prowess and the band's ability to transcend traditional musical boundaries. Katz left BS&T in 1973 to concentrate on solo projects and collaborations with other artists including the late Lou Reed. He also delved into producing and engineering, contributing his expertise to various musical endeavours. BS&T's legacy remained strong, leading to reunion concerts and acknowledgments of their contributions. These reunions often highlighted Steve's role in the band's success and his ongoing impact on the music world. Steve Katz joins us this week to talk about his rock n roll life, his autobiography and the upcoming documentary ‘What the Hell Happened to Blood Sweat & Tears” that details the way the Nixon Government coerced and blackmailed the band to play for audiences behind the iron curtain. It's truly a fascinating story. I hope you enjoy it. For more information about Steve Katz head for his website https://stevekatzmusic.wordpress.com/ If you'd like to contact me with feedback, comments or suggestions for future guests please feel free to reach out through my website https://abreathoffreshair.com.au/ I'd love to hear from you!

Steve Katz has had a fascinating career. From his earliest days hanging out in Greenwich Village, to touring the world with Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steve has seen a lot.We talked with Steve about his career, the new documentary on the band and his wonderful memoir. (Our giveaway of Alan Paul's new book on the Allman Brothers, "Brothers & Sisters" is still going... Email us to enter!)For more information, check out Steve's website, and for the film, check out their site to find out when the film is screening near you.

What the Hell Ever Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears? is a new documentary about the band that sold millions of records, won multiple Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, and headlined at Woodstock. Denny interviews Steve Katz, co-founder of the band, in this episode, which takes its title from Steve's autobiography. You'll hear about The Blues Project, Steve's prodigious career, and the stars whose work he produced and influenced.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Morning, a man celebrates his big casino win right, we travel to Nardelli's to grab some food in F, U, Or Both, Craig Rivet from After The Whistle Podcast joins us, and Steve Katz from Blood, Sweat, and Tears joins us!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pot for Pets? Dr. Stephan Katz explains how he is using parts of the marijuana plant to create a therapeutic treat for pets. Do animals respond the same as humans to medical marijuana? What is the legality of pot for pets? These burning questions and more are finally answered. Listen Now To Flush or Not To Flush It may be hard to believe, but people still flush kitty litter down the toilet. Not only is it bad for the pipes, Doc Halligan says it's bad for marine life. Apparently there is a parasite that is transmitted through cat feces and has been documented as a significant killer of otters and other sea life. Who knew? Listen Now Lessons from a Knucklehead Doug Green learned a lot of life's lessons from his dog, Shirelle. He even says that the dog was responsible for his career path as a psychotherapist. He also finds that dogs are great intermediaries in his practice. He'll share some of the important epiphanies inspired by Shirelle. Listen Now When is it Time to Let Go? It can be incredibly difficult to know when it's time to euthanize your furry-friend. Balancing your own selfishness with your pet's health and happiness is no easy task. Dr. Debbie has answers that will help you make the decision when that time comes. Listen Now Read more about this week's show.

The story behind the latest documentary from award-winning and Oscar nominated director John Sheinfeld, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS has to be seen to be believed. Blood, Sweat & Tears, known for hits such as “Spinning Wheel”, “You've Made Me So Very Happy”, and “And When I Die”, headlined the legendary Woodstock Festival and won multiple Grammy Awards, most notably 1970's win for Album of The Year, beating The Beatles' “Abbey Road” and “Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin.” This is the incredible never-before-told story about a top rock band that was unknowingly embroiled in a political rat's nest involving the U.S. State Department, the Nixon White House and a controversial concert tour of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland, countries that were behind what was then known as the Iron Curtain.  As a result, they found themselves in the crosshairs of a polarized America -as divided then as it is now – and became an early victim of cancel culture. Written, produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Chasing Trane, Who Is Harry Nilsson?, Herb Alpert Is...), and executive produced by James Sears Bryant, the film was created with the full cooperation of Blood, Sweat & Tears. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS features never-before-seen film and photos of the band, as well as present day interviews with five of the nine band members including distinctive lead singer David Clayton-Thomas, sax player and musical arranger Fred Lipsius, innovative bass player Jim Fielder, outspoken guitarist Steve Katz and drummer and band leader Bobby Colomby. For more go to: bstdoc.com

Steve Katz and John Scheinfeldspoke to Bill & Mike about Stranger-Than-Fiction Music Documentary 'What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? Through documentary footage shot during the Iron Curtain tour (and thought to be lost) and present-day interviews with band members and historians, as well as the unsealing of government records, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS? unravels the details of this extraordinary year in the life of the band.

Bill & Mike Got Your MLB Opening Day Up & Running With Guardians VS Mariners - Game 1-Opening Night 2023 - 10:10PM On WTAM 1100AM-Guards PBP Jim Rosenhaus - Cavs Vs Knicks Preview-Cavs PBP Tim Alcorn - WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS - STEVE KATZ of BS&T - Cleveland Beer-Restaurant News-Cleveland.com Marc Bona - Faith Furry Friends - It is Opening Day-NBC Radio Rory O'Neill had a look at USA Today's annual ranking of the BEST (and WORST) Ballparks in America - There has been a resurgence in “dumb phones” in the U.S. and it may be tied to the mental health impact of Smartphones-NBC Radio Erin Real

The blues lives here at KTDF! In this incredibly fun episode, we talk to the one and only STEVE KATZ, founding member and leader of the legendary 1960s New York band THE BLUES PROJECT! Steve, of course, also played with BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS at Woodstock, and was with that band for several years as well! So obviously, this is a good one, and we also discuss what Steve has been doing of late with the Blues Project, which includes touring (it's a hell of a band, folks, you need to check them out!) and recording a new album, EVOLUTION (now available at the official Blues Project website!). Did we mention that Scott has a good friend (Chris Morrison, ladies and gentlemen!) who is playing with the Blues Project now? All this and more, baby! This is part two of two!

The blues lives here at KTDF! In this incredibly fun episode, we talk to  the one and only STEVE KATZ, founding member and leader of the legendary 1960s New York band THE BLUES PROJECT! Steve, of course, also  played with BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS at Woodstock, and was with that  band for several years as well! So obviously, this is a good one, and we also discuss what Steve has been doing of late with the Blues Project, which includes touring (it's a hell of a band, folks, you need to check  them out!) and recording a new album, EVOLUTION (now available at the  official Blues Project website!). Did we mention that Scott has a good friend (Chris Morrison, ladies and gentlemen!) who is playing with the Blues Project now? All this and more, baby! This is part one of two!

Hey Guys! Happy New Year! will be putting out episodes of this podcast on more of a regular basis going forward and also, starting this month, there will be a new interview episode added to the private premium feed every month from now till September. I'm gonna be talking to Steve Katz, an original member of Blood Sweat & Tears & I'm very excited to put that one out. also I'm dropping my next single for my upcoming EP this month too. as much as I love the song, I will have mixed feelings about releasing it. but I"m trying to have more of a positive perspective on the song and less of a negative one despite the current predicament I"m in in relation to what the song is about. but yes, you can follow me on Spotify through the link of my last single to hear the next one coming out on the 24th. also, for this week's song, I was inspired by the weather I have been having living in LA this week that I thought I would cover a song to match that. here's the link to where you can listen to it just in case you wanted to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQstQST1GiM don't forget to also follow me on Tik Tok & Instagram right here: https://www.tiktok.com/@iheartoldies https://www.instagram.com/iheartoldies/ don't forget to also sign up for the premium version of my podcast. here you'll be able to find all of my current interviews and the new ones going forward as well. I really don't want you to have to miss out on these great interview episodes I'll be putting out for most of the year. here's the link to where you can sign up just in case you'll be interested in doing that: https://themillennialthrowbackmachine.supercast.com/new_landing? also would love it if you could check out my last single too. through this link, you should be able to find my artist page & follow it so you can get notified when my next song comes out this month. which it will on the 24th, but also do check out my last song too. it's really good. the one coming out this month is great too, but I hope you guys will listen to this one too: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/the-guru-girl also please do also check out the two interviews I did last year. my latest interview with Guitar Center is out now on my socials, but these two interviews are cool too. honestly hope to do more in the near future. hope you guys enjoy these ones, if you did, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com, you can also follow me & reach out to me on Instagram & Tik Tok @iheartoldies: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-sam-l-williams-musician-songwriter-podcast-host/ https://honkmagazine.com/sam-l-williams-talks-about-his-career-path-influence-and-new-music/ also please do check out the official Spotify and Youtube playlists for this podcast. here you'll be able to find all of the songs I have talked about on my podcast so far, and I update these playlists every week every time I talk about a new song on my podcast. hope you'll enjoy these playlists and if you did, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21f3uBS6kU4hUF6QAC5JMj?si=c7d9745eba684a28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1sYR7xky8&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7Nf don't forge to also check out the Redbubble Merch store for this podcast. hope you find the items in this store cool, and if you did, please email me at samltwilli@icloud.com and let me know your thoughts on these merch items: https://www.redbubble.com/people/60ssam95/works/36806158-keep-things-groovy?asc=u&ref=recent-owner if you liked my analysis on this week's song and you haven't heard it before and your a millennial/gen z. definitely reach out to me at samltwilli@icloud.com, or hit me up on Instagram & Tik Tok @iheartoldies. hope you guys enjoyed my podcast this week and the next premium podcast interview will be out by tomorrow.

It's always an honor to sit down with Dr. Steve Katz. Today, he gives us the full picture of what it takes to increase case acceptance in a truly authentic and meaningful way that will leave you feeling motivated and empowered. Listen as we chat about: Most commonly missed opportunities when presenting large casesReleasing approval addiction and communicating with patients precisely and efficientlyThe importance of focusing on team development, empowerment, and taking adequate time to prepareGoing beyond treatment and providing a higher level of care for patientsReach out to Dr. Katz: drkatz@smilepotential.com | 516-524-7573Smile Potential office number: 516-599-0214 To see a demo of DI and get a $50 gift card, visit: get.dentalintel.net/podcast

There are a few filmmaking books that have made as big of an impact on the craft of directing like today's guest's Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen, written by director Steve Katz.Shot by Shot is the world's go-to directing book, now newly updated for a special 25th Anniversary edition! The first edition sold over 250,000 copies, making it one of the bestselling books on film directing of all time. Aspiring directors, cinematographers, editors, and producers, many of whom are now working professionals, learned the craft of visual storytelling from Shot by Shot, the most complete source for preplanning the look of a movie.The book contains over 800 photos and illustrations and is by far the most comprehensive look at shot design in print, containing storyboards from movies such as Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, Dead-pool, and Moonrise Kingdom. Also introduced is the concept of A, I, and L patterns as a way to simplify the hundreds of staging choices facing a director in every scene.Shot by Shot uniquely blends story analysis with compositional strategies, citing examples then il-lustrated with the storyboards used for the actual films. Throughout the book, various visual approaches to short scenes are shown, exposing the directing processes of our most celebrated auteurs ― including a meticulous, lavishly illustrated analysis of Steven Spielberg's scene design for Empire of the Sun.Enjoy my conversation with Steve Katz.

Guest post by Will North, chief information security officer, MHR International The days when security was only important to financial services and defence organisations are long gone. With the substantial increase in data breach fines in light of GDPR and the devastating operational impacts of ransomware on organisations – from local councils and retailers to oil pipelines – information security is now a major concern for organisations across all industry segments and sizes. The cost of failure can be substantial. The influential IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 put the global average cost of a ransomware breach at $4.62m, which excludes the ransom. The war in Ukraine has intensified threat levels significantly, with governments around the world warning of an increased risk of cyber-attacks from Russia. Boards are asking more questions than ever about security and want answers in a language they can understand – profit and loss. Many years ago, the IT Director had to add security to their responsibilities, with specialist cyber-knowledge residing with a relatively junior member of the team. This meant information security focused primarily on technical IT solutions. There were often insufficient resources to fully understand the security posture of the organisation and how to improve it. Nobody senior had the job of driving the security agenda against the operational objectives of the wider business. This legacy operating model often failed to pacify the concerns of the board. Birth of the modern CISO This gave birth to the modern CISO with completely different responsibilities. Steve Katz, generally regarded as the world's first CISO, was appointed by Citicorp in the US in the mid-1990s, following a serious hack. He defined the role, believing he must understand the business and the risk it faces so he can put its requirements first. As the CISO's role has evolved, their key responsibility has become to articulate the security risks across the business in financial terms and demonstrate the value of improving security against competing operational demands. For example, why is a €50k piece of security software better value than recruiting another member of staff? A CISO has to make the case and be prepared to stand by their judgment. As well as improving security, the much harder task for a CISO is to understand when and where it is acceptable to reduce security to increase business efficiency. Security is easy if you want to stop an organisation operating, but balancing security, cost and operational efficiency is a fine art that takes skill and experience. The CISO's role is often multi-faceted now. The explosion of investment in cyber-security technology means CISOs must keep up to date with new propositions from vendors, while at the same time supporting their own organisation's sales function. With security a key factor when choosing a supplier, the CISO must demonstrate to prospects that their organisation is the right choice to protect business-critical services and data. The CISO must have soft skills and business acumen These responsibilities mean that a completely different skillset is required. The CISO needs great interpersonal skills to understand, engage and persuade other people within the business. They need effective communication skills to make their case to the board, who may have little security or IT knowledge. In addition, today's CISO needs experience of building and retaining high-performing teams, allied to a solid understanding of finance to appreciate the value vs cost of security. Business acumen is becoming as important, if not more important, for a CISO, as knowledge of security itself. To what degree largely depends on the size of the business. For larger organisations, it is the role or the security team to understand where the gaps are and what they need to do to address them. The CISO's job is to explain to the board why they should release the funds so the team can implement the righ...

Affiliate DisclosureCBD is becoming increasingly popular and it's no wonder why, it works! In this episode I sit down with Steve Katz, co-owner of Hempjoi, an online and retail store that specializes in CBD products. We cover things like why CBD is becoming mainstream, what to watch out for common when buying CBD, common misconceptions, broad spectrum vs. full spectrum, dosing and a whole lot more.Here are the links for this epsiode:Hempjoi - about this Florida based family businessHempjoi onlineCannabis topicals: uses, benefits, surprising factsAn Effective Topical episodeMulti-Use Massage Oil episodeBath Bombs episodeDifferences between full spectrum, broad spectrum and isolateWhat is the entourage effect?Choosing the right product - ask what are you trying to accomplish?Start low and go slow when experimenting with CBDGoldleaf CBD jotterGoldleaf Pet CBD jotterPet Dosing ChartLeaflyThe Ultimate Guide to CBD on AmazonThe CBD Handbook on AmazonTHCV may suppress appetite - articleThat's it for this week friends.  Please email me any questions, comments, pictures of your creations or anything else, I love hearing from listeners!  Direct messages to bitemepodcast@fastmail.com or leave me a voice message.  You can also support the show by subscribing, sharing episodes, leaving a review or buying me a cookie!  Whatever way you choose, I'm grateful that you're listening.  Stay high,MargeContact me with your name and email address (and optional mailing address) to subscribe to the newsletter and be automatically entered to win. tCheck Test the potency of infusions at home with tCheck. Use code BITEMEPODCAST at checkout for $25 off. You can leave a review via Love The Podcast!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitemepodcast)

Episode 143 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Summer in the City'”, and at the short but productive career of the Lovin' Spoonful.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" by the Walker Brothers and the strange career of Scott Walker. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, all the songs excerpted in the podcast can be heard in full at Mixcloud. This box set contains all four studio albums by the Lovin' Spoonful, plus the one album by "The Lovin' Spoonful featuring Joe Butler", while this CD contains their two film soundtracks (mostly inessential instrumental filler, apart from "Darling Be Home Soon") Information about harmonicas and harmonicists comes from Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers by Kim Field. There are only three books about the Lovin' Spoonful, but all are worth reading. Do You Believe in Magic? by Simon Wordsworth is a good biography of the band, while his The Magic's in the Music is a scrapbook of press cuttings and reminiscences. Meanwhile Steve Boone's Hotter Than a Match Head: My Life on the Run with the Lovin' Spoonful has rather more discussion of the actual music than is normal in a musician's autobiography. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Let's talk about the harmonica for a while. The harmonica is an instrument that has not shown up a huge amount in the podcast, but which was used in a fair bit of the music we've covered. We've heard it for example on records by Bo Diddley: [Excerpt: Bo Diddley, "I'm a Man"] and by Bob Dylan: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"] and the Rolling Stones: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Little Red Rooster"] In most folk and blues contexts, the harmonicas used are what is known as a diatonic harmonica, and these are what most people think of when they think of harmonicas at all. Diatonic harmonicas have the notes of a single key in them, and if you want to play a note in another key, you have to do interesting tricks with the shape of your mouth to bend the note. There's another type of harmonica, though, the chromatic harmonica. We've heard that a time or two as well, like on "Love Me Do" by the Beatles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love Me Do"] Chromatic harmonicas have sixteen holes, rather than the diatonic harmonica's ten, and they also have a slide which you can press to raise the note by a semitone, meaning you can play far more notes than on a diatonic harmonica -- but they're also physically harder to play, requiring a different kind of breathing to pull off playing one successfully. They're so different that John Lennon would distinguish between the two instruments -- he'd describe a chromatic harmonica as a harmonica, but a diatonic harmonica he would call a harp, like blues musicians often did: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Love These Goon Shows"] While the chromatic harmonica isn't a particularly popular instrument in rock music, it is one that has had some success in other fields. There have been some jazz and light-orchestral musicians who have become famous playing the instrument, like the jazz musician Max Geldray, who played in those Goon Shows the Beatles loved so much: [Excerpt: Max Geldray, "C-Jam Blues"] And in the middle of the twentieth century there were a few musicians who succeeded in making the harmonica into an instrument that was actually respected in serious classical music. By far the most famous of these was Larry Adler, who became almost synonymous with the instrument in the popular consciousness, and who reworked many famous pieces of music for the instrument: [Excerpt: Larry Adler, "Rhapsody in Blue"] But while Adler was the most famous classical harmonicist of his generation, he was not generally considered the best by other musicians. That was, rather, a man named John Sebastian. Sebastian, who chose to take his middle name as a surname partly to Anglicise his name but also, it seems, at least in part as tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach (which incidentally now makes it really, really difficult to search for copies of his masterwork "John Sebastian Plays Bach", as Internet searches uniformly think you're searching just for the composer...) started out like almost all harmonica players as an amateur playing popular music. But he quickly got very, very, good, and by his teens he was already teaching other children, including at a summer camp run by Albert Hoxie, a musician and entrepreneur who was basically single-handedly responsible for the boom in harmonica sales in the 1920s and 1930s, by starting up youth harmonica orchestras -- dozens or even hundreds of kids, all playing harmonica together, in a semi-militaristic youth organisation something like the scouts, but with harmonicas instead of woggles and knots. Hoxie's group and the various organisations copying it led to there being over a hundred and fifty harmonica orchestras in Chicago alone, and in LA in the twenties and thirties a total of more than a hundred thousand children passed through harmonica orchestras inspired by Hoxie. Hoxie's youth orchestras were largely responsible for the popularity of the harmonica as a cheap instrument for young people, and thus for its later popularity in the folk and blues worlds. That was only boosted in the Second World War by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, which we talked about in the early episodes of the podcast -- harmonicas had never been thought of as a serious instrument, and so most professional harmonica players were not members of the AFM, but were considered variety performers and were part of the American Guild of Variety Artists, along with singers, ukulele players, and musical saw players. Of course, the war did also create a problem, because the best harmonicas were made in Germany by the Hohner company, but soon a lot of American companies started making cheap harmonicas to fill the gap in the market. There's a reason the cliche of the GI in a war film playing a harmonica in the trenches exists, and it's largely because of Hoxie. And Hoxie was based in Philadelphia, where John Sebastian lived as a kid, and he mentored the young player, who soon became a semi-professional performer. Sebastian's father was a rich banker, and discouraged him from becoming a full-time musician -- the plan was that after university, Sebastian would become a diplomat. But as part of his preparation for that role, he was sent to spend a couple of years studying at the universities of Rome and Florence, learning about Italian culture. On the boat back, though, he started talking to two other passengers, who turned out to be the legendary Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart, the writers of such classic songs as "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine": [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald, "My Funny Valentine"] Sebastian talked to his new friends, and told them that he was feeling torn between being a musician and being in the foreign service like his father wanted. They both told him that in their experience some people were just born to be artists, and that those people would never actually find happiness doing anything else. He took their advice, and decided he was going to become a full-time harmonica player. He started out playing in nightclubs, initially playing jazz and swing, but only while he built up a repertoire of classical music. He would rehearse with a pianist for three hours every day, and would spend the rest of his time finding classical works, especially baroque ones, and adapting them for the harmonica. As he later said “I discovered sonatas by Telemann, Veracini, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Hasse, Marcello, Purcell, and many others, which were written to be played on violin, flute, oboe, musette, even bagpipes... The composer seemed to be challenging each instrument to create the embellishments and ornaments to suit its particular voice. . . . I set about choosing works from this treasure trove that would best speak through my instrument.” Soon his nightclub repertoire was made up entirely of these classical pieces, and he was making records like John Sebastian Plays Bach: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Flute Sonata in B Minor BWV1030 (J.S. Bach)"] And while Sebastian was largely a lover of baroque music above all other forms, he realised that he would have to persuade new composers to write new pieces for the instrument should he ever hope for it to have any kind of reputation as a concert instrument, so he persuaded contemporary composers to write pieces like George Kleinsinger's "Street Corner Concerto", which Sebastian premiered with the New York Philharmonic: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Street Corner Concerto"] He became the first harmonica player to play an entirely classical repertoire, and regarded as the greatest player of his instrument in the world. The oboe player Jay S Harrison once wrote of seeing him perform "to accomplish with success a program of Mr. Sebastian's scope is nothing short of wizardry. . . . He has vast technical facility, a bulging range of colors, and his intentions are ever musical and sophisticated. In his hands the harmonica is no toy, no simple gadget for the dispensing of homespun tunes. Each single number of the evening was whittled, rounded, polished, and poised. . . . Mr. Sebastian's playing is uncanny." Sebastian came from a rich background, and he managed to earn enough as a classical musician to live the lifestyle of a rich artistic Bohemian. During the forties and fifties he lived in Greenwich Village with his family -- apart from a four-year period living in Rome from 1951 to 55 -- and Eleanor Roosevelt was a neighbour, while Vivian Vance, who played Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy, was the godmother of his eldest son. But while Sebastian's playing was entirely classical, he was interested in a wider variety of music. When he would tour Europe, he would often return having learned European folk songs, and while he was living in Greenwich Village he would often be visited by people like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and other folk singers living in the area. And that early influence rubbed off on Sebastian's son, John Benson Sebastian, although young John gave up trying to learn the harmonica the first time he tried, because he didn't want to be following too closely in his father's footsteps. Sebastian junior did, though, take up the guitar, inspired by the first wave rock and rollers he was listening to on Alan Freed's show, and he would later play the harmonica, though the diatonic harmonica rather than the chromatic. In case you haven't already figured it out, John Benson Sebastian, rather than his father, is a principal focus of this episode, and so to avoid confusion, from this point on, when I refer to "John Sebastian" or "Sebastian" without any qualifiers, I'm referring to the younger man. When I refer to "John Sebastian Sr" I'm talking about the father. But it was John Sebastian Sr's connections, in particular to the Bohemian folk and blues scenes, which gave his more famous son his first connection to that world of his own, when Sebastian Sr appeared in a TV show, in November 1960, put together by Robert Herridge, a TV writer and producer who was most famous for his drama series but who had also put together documentaries on both classical music and jazz, including the classic performance documentary The Sound of Jazz. Herridge's show featured both Sebastian Sr and the country-blues player Lightnin' Hopkins: [Excerpt: Lightnin' Hopkins, "Blues in the Bottle"] Hopkins was one of many country-blues players whose career was having a second wind after his discovery by the folk music scene. He'd been recording for fourteen years, putting out hundreds of records, but had barely performed outside Houston until 1959, when the folkies had picked up on his work, and in October 1960 he had been invited to play Carnegie Hall, performing with Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Young John Sebastian had come along with his dad to see the TV show be recorded, and had an almost Damascene conversion -- he'd already heard Hopkins' recordings, but had never seen anything like his live performances. He was at that time attending a private boarding school, Blair Academy, and his roommate at the school also had his own apartment, where Sebastian would sometimes stay. Soon Lightnin' Hopkins was staying there as well, as somewhere he could live rent-free while he was in New York. Sebastian started following Hopkins around and learning everything he could, being allowed by the older man to carry his guitar and buy him gin, though the two never became close. But eventually, Hopkins would occasionally allow Sebastian to play with him when he played at people's houses, which he did on occasion. Sebastian became someone that Hopkins trusted enough that when he was performing on a bill with someone else whose accompanist wasn't able to make the gig and Sebastian put himself forward, Hopkins agreed that Sebastian would be a suitable accompanist for the evening. The singer he accompanied that evening was a performer named Valentine Pringle, who was a protege of Harry Belafonte, and who had a similar kind of sound to Paul Robeson. Sebastian soon became Pringle's regular accompanist, and played on his first album, I Hear America Singing, which was also the first record on which the great trumpet player Hugh Masakela played. Sadly, Paul Robeson style vocals were so out of fashion by that point that that album has never, as far as I can tell, been issued in a digital format, and hasn't even been uploaded to YouTube.  But this excerpt from a later recording by Pringle should give you some idea of the kind of thing he was doing: [Excerpt: Valentine Pringle, "Go 'Way From My Window"] After these experiences, Sebastian started regularly going to shows at Greenwich Village folk clubs, encouraged by his parents -- he had an advantage over his peers because he'd grown up in the area and had artistic parents, and so he was able to have a great deal of freedom that other people in their teens weren't. In particular, he would always look out for any performances by the great country blues performer Mississippi John Hurt. Hurt had made a few recordings for Okeh records in 1928, including an early version of "Stagger Lee", titled "Stack O'Lee": [Excerpt: Mississippi John Hurt, "Stack O'Lee Blues"] But those records had been unsuccessful, and he'd carried on working on a farm. and not performed other than in his tiny home town of Avalon, Mississippi, for decades. But then in 1952, a couple of his tracks had been included on the Harry Smith Anthology, and as a result he'd come to the attention of the folk and blues scholar community. They'd tried tracking him down, but been unable to until in the early sixties one of them had discovered a track on one of Hurt's records, "Avalon Blues", and in 1963, thirty-five years after he'd recorded six flop singles, Mississippi John Hurt became a minor star, playing the Newport Folk Festival and appearing on the Tonight Show. By this time, Sebastian was a fairly well-known figure in Greenwich Village, and he had become quite a virtuoso on the harmonica himself, and would walk around the city wearing a holster-belt containing harmonicas in a variety of different keys. Sebastian became a huge fan of Hurt, and would go and see him perform whenever Hurt was in New York. He soon found himself first jamming backstage with Hurt, and then performing with him on stage for the last two weeks of a residency. He was particularly impressed with what he called Hurt's positive attitude in his music -- something that Sebastian would emulate in his own songwriting. Sebastian was soon invited to join a jug band, called the Even Dozen Jug Band. Jug band music was a style of music that first became popular in the 1920s, and had many of the same musical elements as the music later known as skiffle. It was played on a mixture of standard musical instruments -- usually portable, "folky" ones like guitar and harmonica -- and improvised homemade instruments, like the spoons, the washboard, and comb and paper. The reason they're called jug bands is because they would involve someone blowing into a jug to make a noise that sounded a bit like a horn -- much like the coffee pot groups we talked about way back in episode six. The music was often hokum music, and incorporated elements of what we'd now call blues, vaudeville, and country music, though at the time those genres were nothing like as distinct as they're considered today: [Excerpt: Cincinnati Jug Band, "Newport Blues"] The Even Dozen Jug Band actually ended up having thirteen members, and it had a rather remarkable lineup. The leader was Stefan Grossman, later regarded as one of the greatest fingerpicking guitarists in America, and someone who will be coming up in other contexts in future episodes I'm sure, and they also featured David Grisman, a mandolin player who would later play with the Grateful Dead among many others;  Steve Katz, who would go on to be a founder member of Blood, Sweat and Tears and produce records for Lou Reed; Maria D'Amato, who under her married name Maria Muldaur would go on to have a huge hit with "Midnight at the Oasis"; and Joshua Rifkin, who would later go on to become one of the most important scholars of Bach's music of the latter half of the twentieth century, but who is best known for his recordings of Scott Joplin's piano rags, which more or less single-handedly revived Joplin's music from obscurity and created the ragtime revival of the 1970s: [Excerpt: Joshua Rifkin, "Maple Leaf Rag"] Unfortunately, despite the many talents involved, a band as big as that was uneconomical to keep together, and the Even Dozen Jug Band only played four shows together -- though those four shows were, as Muldaur later remembered, "Carnegie Hall twice, the Hootenanny television show and some church". The group did, though, make an album for Elektra records, produced by Paul Rothchild. Indeed, it was Rothchild who was the impetus for the group forming -- he wanted to produce a record of a jug band, and had told Grossman that if he got one together, he'd record it: [Excerpt: The Even Dozen Jug Band, "On the Road Again"] On that album, Sebastian wasn't actually credited as John Sebastian -- because he was playing harmonica on the album, and his father was such a famous harmonica player, he thought it better if he was credited by his middle name, so he was John Benson for this one album. The Even Dozen Jug Band split up after only a few months, with most of the band more interested in returning to university than becoming professional musicians, but Sebastian remained in touch with Rothchild, as they both shared an interest in the drug culture, and Rothchild started using him on sessions for other artists on Elektra, which was rapidly becoming one of the biggest labels for the nascent counterculture. The first record the two worked together on after the Even Dozen Jug Band was sparked by a casual conversation. Vince Martin and Fred Neil saw Sebastian walking down the street wearing his harmonica holster, and were intrigued and asked him if he played. Soon he and his friend Felix Pappalardi were accompanying Martin and Neil on stage, and the two of them were recording as the duo's accompanists: [Excerpt: Vince Martin and Fred Neil, "Tear Down the Walls"] We've mentioned Neil before, but if you don't remember him, he was one of the people around whom the whole Greenwich Village scene formed -- he was the MC and organiser of bills for many of the folk shows of the time, but he's now best known for writing the songs "Everybody's Talkin'", recorded famously by Harry Nilsson, and "The Dolphins", recorded by Tim Buckley. On the Martin and Neil album, Tear Down The Walls, as well as playing harmonica, Sebastian acted essentially as uncredited co-producer with Rothchild, but Martin and Neil soon stopped recording for Elektra. But in the meantime, Sebastian had met the most important musical collaborator he would ever have, and this is the start of something that will become a minor trend in the next few years, of important musical collaborations happening because of people being introduced by Cass Elliot. Cass Elliot had been a singer in a folk group called the Big 3 -- not the same group as the Merseybeat group -- with Tim Rose, and the man who would be her first husband, Jim Hendricks (not the more famous guitarist of a similar name): [Excerpt: Cass Elliot and the Big 3, "The Banjo Song"] The Big 3 had split up when Elliot and Hendricks had got married, and the two married members had been looking around for other musicians to perform with, when coincidentally another group they knew also split up. The Halifax Three were a Canadian group who had originally started out as The Colonials, with a lineup of Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne. Byrne didn't turn up for a gig, and a homeless guitar player, Zal Yanovsky, who would hang around the club the group were playing at, stepped in. Doherty and LaCroix, much to Yanovsky's objections, insisted he bathe and have a haircut, but soon the newly-renamed Halifax Three were playing Carnegie Hall and recording for Epic Records: [Excerpt: The Halifax Three, "When I First Came to This Island"] But then a plane they were in crash-landed, and the group took that as a sign that they should split up. So they did, and Doherty and Yanovsky continued as a duo, until they hooked up with Hendricks and Elliot and formed a new group, the Mugwumps. A name which may be familiar if you recognise one of the hits of a group that Doherty and Elliot were in later: [Excerpt: The Mamas and the Papas, "Creeque Alley"] But we're skipping ahead a bit there. Cass Elliot was one of those few people in the music industry about whom it is impossible to find anyone with a bad word to say, and she was friendly with basically everyone, and particularly good at matching people up with each other. And on February the 7th 1964, she invited John Sebastian over to watch the Beatles' first performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Like everyone in America, he was captivated by the performance: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand (live on the Ed Sullivan Show)"] But Yanovsky was also there, and the two played guitar together for a bit, before retreating to opposite sides of the room. And then Elliot spent several hours as a go-between, going to each man and telling him how much the other loved and admired his playing and wanted to play more with him. Sebastian joined the Mugwumps for a while, becoming one of the two main instrumentalists with Yanovsky, as the group pivoted from performing folk music to performing Beatles-inspired rock. But the group's management team, Bob Cavallo and Roy Silver, who weren't particularly musical people, and whose main client was the comedian Bill Cosby, got annoyed at Sebastian, because he and Yanovsky were getting on *too* well musically -- they were trading blues licks on stage, rather than sticking to the rather pedestrian arrangements that the group was meant to be performing -- and so Silver fired Sebastian fired from the group. When the Mugwumps recorded their one album, Sebastian had to sit in the control room while his former bandmates recorded with session musicians, who he thought were nowhere near up to his standard: [Excerpt: The Mugwumps, "Searchin'"] By the time that album was released, the Mugwumps had already split up. Sebastian had continued working as a session musician for Elektra, including playing on the album The Blues Project, which featured white Greenwich Village folk musicians like Eric Von Schmidt, Dave Van Ronk, and Spider John Koerner playing their versions of old blues records, including this track by Geoff Muldaur, which features Sebastian on harmonica and "Bob Landy" on piano -- a fairly blatant pseudonym: [Excerpt: Geoff Muldaur, "Downtown Blues"] Sebastian also played rhythm guitar and harmonica on the demos that became a big part of Tim Hardin's first album -- and his fourth, when the record company released the remaining demos. Sebastian doesn't appear to be on the orchestrated ballads that made Hardin's name -- songs like "Reason to Believe" and "Misty Roses" -- but he is on much of the more blues-oriented material, which while it's not anything like as powerful as Hardin's greatest songs, made up a large part of his repertoire: [Excerpt: Tim Hardin, "Ain't Gonna Do Without"] Erik Jacobsen, the producer of Hardin's records, was impressed enough by Sebastian that he got Sebastian to record lead vocals, for a studio group consisting of Sebastian, Felix Pappalardi, Jerry Yester and Henry Diltz of the Modern Folk Quartet, and a bass singer whose name nobody could later remember. The group, under the name "Pooh and the Heffalumps", recorded two Beach Boys knockoffs, "Lady Godiva" and "Rooty Toot", the latter written by Sebastian, though he would later be embarrassed by it and claim it was by his cousin: [Excerpt: Pooh and the Heffalumps, "Rooty Toot"] After that, Jacobsen became convinced that Sebastian should form a group to exploit his potential as a lead singer and songwriter. By this point, the Mugwumps had split up, and their management team had also split, with Silver taking Bill Cosby and Cavallo taking the Mugwumps, and so Sebastian was able to work with Yanovsky, and the putative group could be managed by Cavallo. But Sebastian and Yanovsky needed a rhythm section. And Erik Jacobsen knew a band that might know some people. Jacobsen was a fan of a Beatles soundalike group called the Sellouts, who were playing Greenwich Village and who were co-managed by Herb Cohen, the manager of the Modern Folk Quartet (who, as we heard a couple of episodes ago, would soon go on to be the manager of the Mothers of Invention). The Sellouts were ultra-professional by the standards  of rock groups of the time -- they even had a tape echo machine that they used on stage to give them a unique sound -- and they had cut a couple of tracks with Jacobsen producing, though I've not been able to track down copies of them. Their leader Skip Boone, had started out playing guitar in a band called the Blue Suedes, and had played in 1958 on a record by their lead singer Arthur Osborne: [Excerpt: Arthur Osborne, "Hey Ruby"] Skip Boone's brother Steve in his autobiography says that that was produced by Chet Atkins for RCA, but it was actually released on Brunswick records. In the early sixties, Skip Boone joined a band called the Kingsmen -- not the same one as the band that recorded "Louie Louie" -- playing lead guitar with his brother Steve on rhythm, a singer called Sonny Bottari, a saxophone player named King Charles, bass player Clay Sonier, and drummer Joe Butler. Sometimes Butler would get up front and sing, and then another drummer, Jan Buchner, would sit in in his place. Soon Steve Boone would replace Bonier as the bass player, but the Kingsmen had no success, and split up. From the ashes of the Kingsmen had formed the Sellouts, Skip Boone, Jerry Angus, Marshall O'Connell, and Joe Butler, who had switched from playing "Peppermint Twist" to playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in February 1964. Meanwhile Steve Boone went on a trip to Europe before starting at university in New York, where he hooked up again with Butler, and it was Butler who introduced him to Sebastian and Yanovsky. Sebastian and Yanovsky had been going to see the Sellouts at the behest of Jacobsen, and they'd been asking if they knew anyone else who could play that kind of material. Skip Boone had mentioned his little brother, and as soon as they met him, even before they first played together, they knew from his appearance that he would be the right bass player for them. So now they had at least the basis for a band. They hadn't played together, but Erik Jacobsen was an experienced record producer and Cavallo an experienced manager. They just needed to do some rehearsals and get a drummer, and a record contract was more or less guaranteed. Boone suggested Jan Buchner, the backup drummer from the Kingsmen, and he joined them for rehearsals. It was during these early rehearsals that Boone got to play on his first real record, other than some unreleased demos the Kingsmen had made. John Sebastian got a call from that "Bob Landy" we mentioned earlier, asking if he'd play bass on a session. Boone tagged along, because he was a fan, and when Sebastian couldn't get the parts down for some songs, he suggested that Boone, as an actual bass player, take over: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Maggie's Farm"] But the new group needed a name, of course. It was John Sebastian who came up with the name they eventually chose, The Lovin' Spoonful, though Boone was a bit hesitant about it at first, worrying that it might be a reference to heroin -- Boone was from a very conservative, military, background, and knew little of drug culture and didn't at that time make much of a distinction between cannabis and heroin, though he'd started using the former -- but Sebastian was insistent. The phrase actually referred to coffee -- the name came from "Coffee Blues" by Sebastian's old idol Mississippi John Hurt – or at least Hurt always *said* it was about coffee, though in live performance he apparently made it clear that it was about cunnilingus: [Excerpt: Mississippi John Hurt, "Coffee Blues"] Their first show, at the Night Owl Club, was recorded, and there was even an attempt to release it as a CD in the 1990s, but it was left unreleased and as far as I can tell wasn't even leaked. There have been several explanations for this, but perhaps the most accurate one is just the comment from the manager of the club, who came up to the group after their two sets and told them “Hey, I don't know how to break this to you, but you guys suck.” There were apparently three different problems. They were underrehearsed -- which could be fixed with rehearsal -- they were playing too loud and hurting the patrons' ears -- which could be fixed by turning down the amps -- and their drummer didn't look right, was six years older than the rest of the group, and was playing in an out-of-date fifties style that wasn't suitable for the music they were playing. That was solved by sacking Buchner. By this point Joe Butler had left the Sellouts, and while Herb Cohen was interested in managing him as a singer, he was willing to join this new group at least for the moment. By now the group were all more-or-less permanent residents at the Albert Hotel, which was more or less a doss-house where underemployed musicians would stay, and which had its own rehearsal rooms. As well as the Spoonful, Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty lived there, as did the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Joe Butler quickly fit into the group, and soon they were recording what became their first single, produced by Jacobsen, an original of Sebastian's called "Do You Believe in Magic?", with Sebastian on autoharp and vocals, Yanovsky on lead guitar and backing vocals, Boone on bass, Butler on drums, and Jerry Yester adding piano and backing vocals: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe in Magic?"] For a long time, the group couldn't get a deal -- the record companies all liked the song, but said that unless the group were English they couldn't sell them at the moment. Then Phil Spector walked into the Night Owl Cafe, where the new lineup of the group had become popular, and tried to sign them up. But they turned him down -- they wanted Erik Jacobsen to produce them; they were a team. Spector's interest caused other labels to be interested, and the group very nearly signed to Elektra. But again, signing to Elektra would have meant being produced by Rothchild, and also Elektra were an album label who didn't at that time have any hit single acts, and the group knew they had hit single potential. They did record a few tracks for Elektra to stick on a blues compilation, but they knew that Elektra wouldn't be their real home. Eventually the group signed with Charley Koppelman and Don Rubin, who had started out as songwriters themselves, working for Don Kirshner. When Kirshner's organisation had been sold to Columbia, Koppelman and Rubin had gone along and ended up working for Columbia as executives. They'd then worked for Morris Levy at Roulette Records, before forming their own publishing and record company. Rather than put out records themselves, they had a deal to license records to Kama Sutra Records, who in turn had a distribution deal with MGM Records. Koppelman and Rubin were willing to take the group and their manager and producer as a package deal, and they released the group's demo of "Do You Believe In Magic?" unchanged as their first single: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe in Magic?"] The single reached the top ten, and the group were soon in the studio cutting their first album, also titled Do You Believe In Magic? The album was a mix of songs that were part of the standard Greenwich Village folkie repertoire -- songs like Mississippi John Hurt's "Blues in the Bottle" and Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" -- and a couple more originals. The group's second single was the first song that Steve Boone had co-written. It was inspired by a date he'd gone on with the photographer Nurit Wilde, who sadly for him didn't go on a second date, and who would later be the mother of Mike Nesmith's son Jason, but who he was very impressed by. He thought of her when he came up with the line "you didn't have to be so nice, I would have liked you anyway", and he and Sebastian finished up a song that became another top ten hit for the group: [Excerpt: (The Good Time Music of) The Lovin' Spoonful, "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice"] Shortly after that song was recorded, but before it was released, the group were called into Columbia TV with an intriguing proposition. Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, two young TV producers, were looking at producing a TV show inspired by A Hard Day's Night, and were looking for a band to perform in it. Would the Lovin' Spoonful be up for it? They were interested at first, but Boone and Sebastian weren't sure they wanted to be actors, and also it would involve the group changing its name. They'd already made a name for themselves as the Lovin' Spoonful, did they really want to be the Monkees instead? They passed on the idea. Instead, they went on a tour of the deep South as the support act to the Supremes, a pairing that they didn't feel made much sense, but which did at least allow them to watch the Supremes and the Funk Brothers every night. Sebastian was inspired by the straight four-on-the-floor beat of the Holland-Dozier-Holland repertoire, and came up with his own variation on it, though as this was the Lovin' Spoonful the end result didn't sound very Motown at all: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream"] It was only after the track was recorded that Yanovsky pointed out to Sebastian that he'd unconsciously copied part of the melody of the old standard "Got a Date With an Angel": [Excerpt: Al Bowlly, "Got a Date With an Angel"] "Daydream" became the group's third top ten hit in a row, but it caused some problems for the group. The first was Kama Sutra's advertising campaign for the record, which had the words "Lovin' Spoonful Daydream", with the initials emphasised. While the group were drug users, they weren't particularly interested in being promoted for that rather than their music, and had strong words with the label. The other problem came with the Beach Boys. The group were supporting the Beach Boys on a tour in spring of 1966, when "Daydream" came out and became a hit, and they got on with all the band members except Mike Love, who they definitely did not get on with. Almost fifty years later, in his autobiography, Steve Boone would have nothing bad to say about the Wilson brothers, but calls Love "an obnoxious, boorish braggart", a "marginally talented hack" and worse, so it's safe to say that Love wasn't his favourite person in the world. Unfortunately, when "Daydream" hit the top ten, one of the promoters of the tour decided to bill the Lovin' Spoonful above the Beach Boys, and this upset Love, who understandably thought that his group, who were much better known and had much more hits, should be the headliners. If this had been any of the other Beach Boys, there would have been no problem, but because it was Love, who the Lovin' Spoonful despised, they decided that they were going to fight for top billing, and the managers had to get involved. Eventually it was agreed that the two groups would alternate the top spot on the bill for the rest of the tour. "Daydream" eventually reached number two on the charts (and number one on Cashbox) and also became the group's first hit in the UK, reaching number two here as well, and leading to the group playing a short UK tour. During that tour, they had a similar argument over billing with Mick Jagger as they'd had with Mike Love, this time over who was headlining on an appearance on Top of the Pops, and the group came to the same assessment of Jagger as they had of Love. The performance went OK, though, despite them being so stoned on hash given them by the wealthy socialite Tara Browne that Sebastian had to be woken up seconds before he started playing. They also played the Marquee Club -- Boone notes in his autobiography that he wasn't impressed by the club when he went to see it the day before their date there, because some nobody named David Bowie was playing there. But in the audience that day were George Harrison, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, and Brian Jones, most of whom partied with the group afterwards. The Lovin' Spoonful made a big impression on Lennon in particular, who put "Daydream" and "Do You Believe in Magic" in his jukebox at home, and who soon took to wearing glasses in the same round, wiry, style as the ones that Sebastian wore. They also influenced Paul McCartney, who wasn't at that gig, but who soon wrote this, inspired by "Daydream": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Good Day Sunshine"] Unfortunately, this was more or less the high point of the group's career. Shortly after that brief UK tour, Zal Yanovsky and Steve Boone went to a party where they were given some cannabis -- and they were almost immediately stopped by the police, subjected to an illegal search of their vehicle, and arrested. They would probably have been able to get away with this -- after all, it was an illegal search, even though of course the police didn't admit to that -- were it not for the fact that Yanovsky was a Canadian citizen, and he could be deported and barred from ever re-entering the US just for being arrested. This was the first major drug bust of a rock and roll group, and there was no precedent for the group, their managers, their label or their lawyers to deal with this. And so they agreed to something they would regret for the rest of their lives. In return for being let off, Boone and Yanovsky agreed to take an undercover police officer to a party and introduce him to some of their friends as someone they knew in the record business, so he would be able to arrest one of the bigger dealers. This was, of course, something they knew was a despicable thing to do, throwing friends under the bus to save themselves, but they were young men and under a lot of pressure, and they hoped that it wouldn't actually lead to any arrests. And for almost a year, there were no serious consequences, although both Boone and Yanovsky were shaken up by the event, and Yanovsky's behaviour, which had always been erratic, became much, much worse. But for the moment, the group remained very successful. After "Daydream", an album track from their first album, "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" had been released as a stopgap single, and that went to number two as well. And right before the arrest, the group had been working on what would be an even bigger hit. The initial idea for "Summer in the City" actually came from John Sebastian's fourteen-year-old brother Mark, who'd written a bossa nova song called "It's a Different World". The song was, by all accounts, the kind of thing that a fourteen-year-old boy writes, but part of it had potential, and John Sebastian took that part -- giving his brother full credit -- and turned it into the chorus of a new song: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] To this, Sebastian added a new verse, inspired by a riff the session player Artie Schroeck had been playing while the group recorded their songs for the Woody Allen film What's Up Tiger Lily, creating a tenser, darker, verse to go with his younger brother's chorus: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] In the studio, Steve Boone came up with the instrumental arrangement, which started with drums, organ, electric piano, and guitar, and then proceeded to bass, autoharp, guitar, and percussion overdubs. The drum sound on the record was particularly powerful thanks to the engineer Roy Halee, who worked on most of Simon & Garfunkel's records. Halee put a mic at the top of a stairwell, a giant loudspeaker at the bottom, and used the stairwell as an echo chamber for the drum part. He would later use a similar technique on Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer". The track still needed another section though, and Boone suggested an instrumental part, which led to him getting an equal songwriting credit with the Sebastian brothers. His instrumental piano break was inspired by Gershwin, and the group topped it off with overdubbed city noises: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer in the City"] The track went to number one, becoming the group's only number one record, and it was the last track on what is by far their best album, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. That album produced two more top ten hits for the group, "Nashville Cats", a tribute to Nashville session players (though John Sebastian seems to have thought that Sun Records was a Nashville, rather than a Memphis, label), and the rather lovely "Rain on the Roof": [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Rain on the Roof"] But that song caused friction with the group, because it was written about Sebastian's relationship with his wife who the other members of the band despised. They also felt that the songs he was writing about their relationship were giving the group a wimpy image, and wanted to make more rockers like "Summer in the City" -- some of them had been receiving homophobic abuse for making such soft-sounding music. The group were also starting to resent Sebastian for other reasons. In a recent contract renegotiation, a "key member" clause had been put into the group's record contract, which stated that Sebastian, as far as the label was concerned, was the only important member of the group. While that didn't affect decision-making in the group, it did let the group know that if the other members did anything to upset Sebastian, he was able to take his ball away with him, and even just that potential affected the way the group thought about each other. All these factors came into play with a song called "Darling Be Home Soon", which was a soft ballad that Sebastian had written about his wife, and which was written for another film soundtrack -- this time for a film by a new director named Francis Ford Coppola. When the other band members came in to play on the soundtrack, including that track, they found that rather than being allowed to improvise and come up with their own parts as they had previously, they had to play pre-written parts to fit with the orchestration. Yanovsky in particular was annoyed by the simple part he had to play, and when the group appeared on the Ed Sullivan show to promote the record, he mugged, danced erratically, and mimed along mocking the lyrics as Sebastian sang. The song -- one of Sebastian's very best -- made a perfectly respectable number fifteen, but it was the group's first record not to make the top ten: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Darling Be Home Soon"] And then to make matters worse, the news got out that someone had been arrested as a result of Boone and Yanovsky's efforts to get themselves out of trouble the year before. This was greeted with horror by the counterculture, and soon mimeographed newsletters and articles in the underground papers were calling the group part of the establishment, and calling for a general boycott of the group -- if you bought their records, attended their concerts, or had sex with any of the band members, you were a traitor. Yanovsky and Boone had both been in a bad way mentally since the bust, but Yanovsky was far worse, and was making trouble for the other members in all sorts of ways. The group decided to fire Yanovsky, and brought in Jerry Yester to replace him, giving him a severance package that ironically meant that he ended up seeing more money from the group's records than the rest of them, as their records were later bought up by a variety of shell companies that passed through the hands of Morris Levy among others, and so from the late sixties through the early nineties the group never got any royalties. For a while, this seemed to benefit everyone. Yanovsky had money, and his friendship with the group members was repaired. He released a solo single, arranged by Jack Nitzsche, which just missed the top one hundred: [Excerpt: Zal Yanovsky, "Just as Long as You're Here"] That song was written by the Bonner and Gordon songwriting team who were also writing hits for the Turtles at this time, and who were signed to Koppelman and Rubin's company. The extent to which Yanovsky's friendship with his ex-bandmates was repaired by his firing was shown by the fact that Jerry Yester, his replacement in the group, co-produced his one solo album, Alive and Well in Argentina, an odd mixture of comedy tracks, psychedelia, and tributes to the country music he loved. His instrumental version of Floyd Cramer's "Last Date" is fairly listenable -- Cramer's piano playing was a big influence on Yanovsky's guitar -- but his version of George Jones' "From Brown to Blue" makes it very clear that Zal Yanovsky was no George Jones: [Excerpt: Zal Yanovsky, "From Brown to Blue"] Yanovsky then quit music, and went into the restaurant business. The Lovin' Spoonful, meanwhile, made one further album, but the damage had been done. Everything Playing is actually a solid album, though not as good as the album before, and it produced three top forty hits, but the highest-charting was "Six O'Clock", which only made number eighteen, and the album itself made a pitiful one hundred and eighteen on the charts. The song on the album that in retrospect has had the most impact was the rather lovely "Younger Generation", which Sebastian later sang at Woodstock: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Younger Generation (Live at Woodstock)"] But at Woodstock he performed that alone, because by then he'd quit the group. Boone, Butler, and Yester decided to continue, with Butler singing lead, and recorded a single, "Never Going Back", produced by Yester's old bandmate from the Modern Folk Quartet Chip Douglas, who had since become a successful producer for the Monkees and the Turtles, and written by John Stewart of the Kingston Trio, who had written "Daydream Believer" for the Monkees, but the record only made number seventy-eight on the charts: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful featuring Joe Butler, "Never Going Back"] That was followed by an album by "The Lovin' Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler", Revelation: Revolution 69, a solo album by Butler in all but name -- Boone claims not to have played on it, and Butler is the only one featured on the cover, which shows a naked Butler being chased by a naked woman with a lion in front of them covering the naughty bits. The biggest hit other than "Never Going Back" from the album was "Me About You", a Bonner and Gordon song which only made number ninety-one: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler, "Me About You"] John Sebastian went on to have a moderately successful solo career -- as well as his appearance at Woodstock, he released several solo albums, guested on harmonica on records by the Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and others, and had a solo number one hit in 1976 with "Welcome Back", the theme song from the TV show Welcome Back, Kotter: [Excerpt: John Sebastian, "Welcome Back"] Sebastian continues to perform, though he's had throat problems for several decades that mean he can't sing many of the songs he's best known for. The original members of the Lovin' Spoonful reunited for two performances -- an appearance in Paul Simon's film One Trick Pony in 1980, and a rather disastrous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Zal Yanovsky died of a heart attack in 2002. The remaining band members remained friendly, and Boone, Butler, and Yester reunited as the Lovin' Spoonful in 1991, initially with Yester's brother Jim, who had played in The Association, latterly with other members. One of those other members in the 1990s was Yester's daughter Lena, who became Boone's fourth wife (and is as far as I can discover still married to him). Yester, Boone, and Butler continued touring together as the Lovin' Spoonful until 2017, when Jerry Yester was arrested on thirty counts of child pornography possession, and was immediately sacked from the group. The other two carried on, and the three surviving original members reunited on stage for a performance at one of the Wild Honey Orchestra's benefit concerts in LA in 2020, though that was just a one-off performance, not a full-blown reunion. It was also the last Lovin' Spoonful performance to date, as that was in February 2020, but Steve Boone has performed with John Sebastian's most recent project, John Sebastian's Jug Band Village, a tribute to the Greenwich Village folk scene the group originally formed in, and the two played together most recently in December 2021. The three surviving original members of the group all seem to be content with their legacy, doing work they enjoy, and basically friendly, which is more than can be said for most of their contemporaries, and which is perhaps appropriate for a band whose main songwriter had been inspired, more than anything else, to make music with a positive attitude.

Ken & Steve discuss what they think are the worst cars ever made. Steve's ear meat get repaired, Ken & Steves idea for a show called "what would it take"

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Steve Katz was co-founder/singer/guitarist/composer for two iconic bands: Blood Sweat & Tears and The Blues Project. He talks about them and his amazing music career! Steve and Robert also do a Songfest where they play and discuss each other's love songs!Robert's featured song in this episode is “With You” from Project Grand Slam's album PGS 7 released in 2019. Robert chose this song because it's a love song, and this episode contains a Songfest with Steve and Robert featuring love songs that they have each written. In this episode, Robert and Steve discuss:Steve's early years in musicThe Greenwich Village scene of the 1960sHis relationships with Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk and many othersFounding The Blues Project, and their first two albumsFounding Blood Sweat & Tears, their music, tours and personalitiesProducing Lou Reed and others In the second half of the interview Steve and Robert do a Songfest together. They play three of Steve's love songs: “Meagan's Gypsy Eyes”, “Sometimes In Winter” and “The Good Years”, and three of Robert's love songs: “Lament”, “Tessa” and “Now And Always”, and they discuss them and tell the backstories.  If you enjoyed the show, please Subscribe, Rate, and Review the podcast. Just click here. Get your Complimentary DREAM ROADMAP with Robert's 5 steps to pursue and succeed at YOUR dream. Just click here: https://www.followyourdreampodcast.com/dreamroadmap Connect with the Follow Your Dream Podcast:Website: www.followyourdreampodcast.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followyourdreampodcast/Facebook: www.facebook.com/FollowYourDreamPodcastEmail Robert: robert@followyourdreampodcast.com Follow Robert's band, Project Grand Slam, and his music:Website: https://www.projectgrandslam.comStore: https://www.thepgsstore.com/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PGSjazzFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectgrandslam/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/04BdGdJszDD8WtAFXc9skWApple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/project-grand-slam/274548453Email: pgs@projectgrandslam.com Robert's featured song in this episode is “With You”, from Project Grand Slam's album PGS 7, Spotify link- https://open.spotify.com/track/3EGizm7e2aaO9Y12xezRiD?si=UIz0AlPSSZGFOnoTRy2poQ&dl_branch=1 

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Brent Bonham joins Steve Katz on the Hilco Global Smarter Perspectives Podcast Series to discuss how thorough diligence and the right monetization partner can deliver maximum asset recovery value for companies in distress.

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