Podcast appearances and mentions of Steve Morse

In the studio up near Dallas today talking with one of the most versatile guitar players in rock music - Andy Timmons. From his rock roots to his trademark melodic playing on songs from his new CD 'Recovery'; to touring with his 80's glam metal band 'Danger Danger' (and opening for Kiss and Alice Cooper!) Andy gives a glimpse into the world of rock and roll and what it's like working with Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Steve Morse to 60's singing stars like The Beach Boys and Lesley Gore. Bring along your love of music and listen in to what this stand out studio session player has to say and join us.About the Spotlight Conversations podcast:Tune in as I invite friends inside my cozy linoleum free recording studio to talk about all things media - radio, television, music, film, voiceovers, audiobooks, publishing - if guests are in the spotlight, we're talkin'! Refreshingly unscripted and unusually entertaining, listen in as each guest gets real about their careers in the entertainment biz, from where they started to how it's going. Join us in my swanky studio where drinks are on ice and the conversation starters are music + media - always a deal breaker for the rock and roll homemaker! New episodes every other Tuesday. Social media links, website and more hereFollow and subscribe to my podcast hereA very special thank you to friends who helped bring my Spotlight Conversations podcast together and especially for their continued support:Booth Announcer: Joe Szymanski ('Joe The Voice Guy')Theme Song Composer: Mark Sparrow, SongBird StudiosAffiliated Stations:Radio Free RaleighHouston Radio Platinum

The deep state is scrambling as Trump's America First agenda gains momentum. Lindsey Graham stabs Trump in the back—again—while MSNBC melts down over Joy Reid's cancellation. Meanwhile, Elon Musk demands accountability from bloated federal agencies, and Kash Patel takes over the FBI and ATF, sending shockwaves through Washington. South Carolina's RINOs push deceptive bills, and James Carville makes a laughable prediction about Trump's future. Plus, a wild story with rock legend Steve Morse and proof that Trump's economic policies still deliver wins. The swamp is panicking, and conservatives are taking action!

From major shakeups at the FBI and ATF to the importance of firearm privacy, Charlie dives into the latest battles for gun rights with expert insight. Plus, a trip down memory lane with legendary guitarist Steve Morse leads to a hilarious mishap, and Trump once again proves Obama wrong with Apple's massive $500 billion U.S. investment. It's a packed hour of news, stories, and undeniable conservative victories! | https://www.audacy.com/989word | The Charlie James Show | Listen on Spotify : https://spoti.fi/3MXOvGP | Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-charlie-james-show-podcast/id1547262821 | Join our Live Stream Weekdays - 3pm to 7pm | Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/989word, Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2031096, X: https://twitter.com/989word, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/989word/ | Red Meat, Greenville." 02/24/25

Hyvää uutta vuotta Rock Around The Blogista! Tässä jaksossa Sami Ruokangas ja Juha Kakkuri käyvät läpi vuoden 2024 parhaita levyjä ja keikkoja. Mikä sai kyyneleet silmiin, kosketti ja jäi mieleen? Keskeinen ikuisuusaihe on myös esillä: Rolling Stonesin vuoden 1999 harvinainen pienen teatterin keikka on nyt julkaistu tallenteena ja Juha muistelee keikkaa paikallaolleena. Oma jännittävä tarinansa on se, kuinka Juha sai ajalla ennen internetiä tiedon tuosta keikasta ja lopulta lipun. Kuuntele, viihdy ja sivisty! Seuraa ja kommentoi meitä somessa: https://www.instagram.com/samiruokangas https://www.facebook.com/RockAroundTheBlogFinland Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Y2txSIyPeCUDwilXIRpnY?si=2b3cd289334e4478 Menossa ovat mukana Emilia Sisco, Helsingin Sanomat, Espoon Kulttuurikeskus, Unna Kortehisto, Aretha Franklin. Billie Holiday, Sami Kantelinen, Seppo Salmi, Jukka Sarapää, Jukka Eskola, Pope Puolitaival, Sellosali, Grammy-palkinto, The Black Crowes, Tavastia, Guns N´Roses, Bruce Springsteen, The Magpie Salute, Rich Robinson, Sven Pipien, Rolling Stones, Faces, Small Faces, Classic Rock, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, The Coward Brothers, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Ian Hunter, Michael Monroe, Bob Dylan, Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, Benmont Tench, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck, Lucinda Williams, Def Leppard, Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Cheap Trick, Ross Halfin, Metallica, Slash, Johnny Depp, T. Rex, Marc Bolan, Mick Ronson, The Black Keys, Ohio Players, Sakke Koivula, Peer Günt, Alice Cooper, Flow, New York Dolls, Alexandra Palace, Canned Heat, Robban Hagnäs, Wentus Blues Band, Savoy-teatteri, Tullikamarin Klubi, Fito de la Parra, Count Basie Orchestra, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Vivino, GA-20, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Keith Richards, Tower Records, Ronnie Wood, Quireboys, Spike, Black Eyed Sons, Nigel Mogg, Luke Morley, Thunder, Chris Johnstone, Frankie Miller, Rod Stewart, Eagles, Cher, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, U2, Radiomafia, Record Store Day, Black Friday, Black And White Records, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Robert Trujillo, Kirk Hammett, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Howlin´Wolf, Jools Holland, Storyville, Helge Tallqvist, 22 Pistepirkko, Ina Forsman, Marjo Leinonen, Kulttuuritalo, Olympiastadion, G Livelab, Malmitalo, Hound Dog Taylor, Tim Carman, Josh Kiggans, Pat Faherty, Cody Nilsen, Matthew Stubbs, Charlie Musselwhite, Canyon Lights, Heather Gillis, Steve Conte, KK's Priest, Barcelona Rock Fest, Deep Purple, Simon McBride, Steve Morse, Bob Ezrin, Pink Floyd, Hanoi Rocks, Ben Granfelt, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice ja Lemmy Kilmister.

Dave DiCenso began his career in the late 80s on the metal scene in his hometown of Boston. He later studied at the Drummers Collective in New York and went on to enjoy a successful and varied career touring and recording with Steve Morse, Hiromi, John Petrucci, Duran Duran, Josh Groban, and many others. He is the author of several books including Universal Rhythms for Drumset and his most recent, Fluid Fills and Musical Phrasing, and just celebrated the milestone 30 years of teaching at Berklee. In this episode, Dave talks about: Self identifying as a “backbeat” drummer and that being the common thread in all the music he's played Possible reasons for modern drum recordings sounding “safe”  How your limitations can actually benefit you and help you define yourself How his teaching approach has evolved over 30 years at Berklee  “Mastering the instrument that plays the instrument” i.e. self-mastery Taking a break from performing in an effort to finally address a physical issue that has dogged him his whole career  Here's our Patreon Here's our Youtube Here's our Homepage

In this episode of Best Websites, Stephen Morse highlights his website One-Step Pages, which has been going strong since 2001 and offering many tools for finding genealogical records. Best Genealogy Websites: One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse In this episode, Lisa Louise Cooke's guest is Steve Morse, the founder of the One-Step Webpages website. Since […]

Send us a textDiscover the transformative journey of Bill Sallurday as he uncovers his Italian roots, tracing his family lineage back to the picturesque village of San Cipriano Picentino. With a passion for genealogy, Bill's relentless research has revealed his family's true surname, Sabato, and connected over 8,000 individuals through a comprehensive genealogical database. His dedication not only reconnected him with his heritage but also earned him honorary citizenship from the village, highlighting the profound impact of his work. Tune in to hear about the unexpected paths and serendipitous moments that genealogy can lead to, from newfound relatives to heartwarming family reunions.Embark on a personal journey through Italy, as Bill recounts his visit to San Cipriano Picentino, a quaint village at the base of the Amalfi Coast. Through social media, Bill discovered a street painting linked to his ancestors' home, unveiling deep familial ties and showcasing the power of digital connections in tracing one's roots. Hear stories of unexpected connections, like a train ride that led to a spontaneous visit to Florence, illustrating how genealogy can bring families closer, bridging distances and generations. Bill's experience emphasizes the importance of community resources like Antenati, and how they can help unearth rich family histories.Explore the practical side of genealogy research with insights into using Family Tree Maker and Ancestry. Discover how to manage databases, identify duplicates, and creatively utilize search strategies to map the geographic spread of descendants. With tools like Steve Morse's advanced search interface, listeners can learn to navigate the intricacies of genealogy, from seeking dual citizenship to expanding their family tree globally. This episode is not just about tracing lineage; it's about inspiring others to embark on their genealogical adventures, enriching their understanding of family history, and connecting with their past in meaningful ways.Wandering SpectatorTurnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Farmers and NoblesRead about my research story and how to begin your family research.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.

EP 600 Discussing Current Metal Topics and Releases

EP 600 Discussing Current Metal Topics and Releases

Today on the Hot Jazz Network Podcast, Dave Lopez and George Cole announced an important benefit/fundraiser for the Jason Becker Creative Care Project. Jason Becker's story, if you haven't heard it, is one you'll never forget—a tale of brilliance, talent, determination, adversity, and ultimate triumph. A child prodigy on guitar, Jason rose to prominence as a teenager when he was one half of the legendary rock guitar duo Cacophony (with his great friend Marty Friedman). After wowing audiences worldwide with his amazing guitar skills and deep compositions, Jason auditioned for—and secured—the coveted position with David Lee Roth, following in the footsteps of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai. He wrote and recorded the DLR album "A Little Ain't Enough" and was poised to take over the rock guitar world when a nagging pain in his leg was diagnosed as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease, a debilitating and fatal condition with a life expectancy of approximately five years.Jason did indeed lose the ability to play guitar, walk, talk, and breathe on his own. However, he never lost his will to live or his desire to create music. Communicating through a series of eye movements with a system developed by his father, Jason spells out words as well as musical notes and chords. He imparts his musical vision to his team, who then input the notes into a computer, edit the parts to his exacting standards, and generate charts for session musicians. Through this remarkable process, Jason composes his profoundly beautiful music, rich in melody and counterpoint, brimming with emotion. His inspiring music and life story have been the subject of countless news articles, magazine cover stories, and an award-winning documentary, "Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet."Not only is Jason still alive, but he's busier and more prolific than ever. His release, "Triumphant Hearts," showcases his gift for melody and deep knowledge of classical composition and orchestral arrangement. The album features Jason's signature, amazing guitar playing (recorded in the '80s and '90s) as well as performances by a who's-who of guitar virtuosos, including Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Neal Schon, Steve Morse, Paul Gilbert, Joe Bonamassa, and many others.Jason Becker isn't just an extraordinary musician; he's also one of the most positive, upbeat, and inspiring individuals alive. "I really feel lucky," says Jason. "I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music."DAVE LOPEZ Born in Chile, David Lopez's musical journey began when his brother introduced him to the world of guitar, rock, and Latin music. Growing up in Richmond, CA, Dave developed a passion for the diverse sounds of hip hop and heavy metal. Learning from the legendary musician and composer Jason Becker, Dave further honed his skills and later worked in studio management at the renowned Jackson St. Studios and Sound Wave Studios with artists ranging from 2Pac to Metallica. In 2003, he formed Flipsyde and toured worldwide with acts such as Snoop Dogg, Black Eyed Peas, and Busta Rhymes. Flipsyde's success included platinum and gold records, such as their 2005 debut album, "We the People" (Interscope). Their song "Someday" was chosen as a theme song by NBC for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games and appeared on the soundtrack for the 2008 film "Never Back Down."Jason Becker Creative Care Project Launch Party Fundraiser Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM Baltic Kiss, 135 Park Place, Point Richmond, CA 510-260-0571 https://www.baltickiss.com/ https://jasonbecker.com/

Steve Morse is an iconic member of the Boston Music Community. Steve just passed away a few days ago and is one of the most respected music critics, writing for The Boston Globe and covering the vibrant music scene. He also had been teaching a music course at The Berklee College of Music and I was fortunate to have him on my podcast in 2023.  We mourn the loss of our dear friend, and we pass on this replay of our tremendous conversation and walk we took through the streets of Cambridge Massachusetts.Support the show: https://takinawalk.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Boston Globe music critic Steve Morse was a guest on WBZ's Nightside program in November 2011 talking about his career.  Bradley Jay fills in for Dan Rea. 

Do you have questions about anything in the recording, mixing, or production realm? Great! We've got the perfect guy to answer them for you, live on this week's TAXI TV! Ronan Chris Murphy is an acclaimed music producer, engineer, and mixer, known for his versatile work across various genres. With a career spanning decades, he has collaborated with notable artists like King Crimson, Tony Levin, Steve Morse, and Terry Bozzio. Murphy is also recognized for his work in progressive rock, experimental, and world music, along with his expertise in recording techniques. Beyond his production work, he is a founder of the Recording Boot Camp, where he teaches advanced music production and recording techniques to aspiring producers. But, to many TAXI members, Ronan is best known for his excellent mentorship and classes at our annual (free for members) conference, The TAXI Road Rally (November 7th – 10th, 2024).

Wir haben uns dieses mal wieder ganz viele Gitarren, Amps und Pedale angeguckt, z.B. das Nano Cortex von Neural DSP, den neuen Engl Steve Morse Amp, zwei Spark Amps, Delays, den neuen Fender Mustang Micro plus. Natürlich haben wir in das neue Album von David Gilmour rein gehört und in Attachment Theory von Sophie Chasseé. Und wir reden über Linkin Park: neue Sängerin und ein altes Album. Diese Folge auf Youtube https://youtu.be/r02boEhgfok 00:00:00 Intro und Begrüssung 00:02:10 Linkin Park hat eine neue Sängerin 00:06:35 David Gilmour Probe gestreamt und Vorabkonzerte in Brighton 00:11:50 Bodycount haben Comfortably Numb gecovert 00:12:55 Beat ist jetzt auf Tour 00:14:10 Equipment News 00:52:55 Neue Musik: David Gilmour – Luck And Strange 00:59:40 Sophie Chasseé – Attachment Theory 01:06:50 Wieder reingehört – Linkin Park – Minutes To Midnight 01:13:45 Album Jubiläen 01:31:30 Verabschiedung und Outro https://www.facebook.com/gitarrenkram https://gitarrenkram.de https://gitarrenkram.de/gitarrenkram-unterstuetzen Unsere Musik auf Bandcamp https://silentmenband.bandcamp.com/releases

Pacific Street Blues & AmericanaSeptember 29, 2025ContactPlay, What's the Common Thread? 1. Tab Benoit / Why2. Fabulous Thunderbirds feat Billy Gibbons / Pay Back Time 3. Little Feat feat Shaun Murphy / Wang, Dang, Doodle4. Rolling Stones / Rollin' Stone Blues 5. Shemekia Copeland / Blame It On Eve6. Coco Montoya / I Was Wrong (Dave Steen - Zoo Bar) 7. Clarence Gatemouth Brown / Bogalusa Boogie Man 8. Sixth Ward Brass Band / Jesus on the Mainline9.  Charlie Patton / Hang It on the Wall (Rumble, How the Indian's Rocked the World) 10. Lightin' Hopkins / Sad News from Korea (Podcast - Music of War)11. Dave Alvin / Highway 6112. Amanda Ann Platt & the Honeycutters / On the Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady)13. The Allman Brothers / Dimples (John Lee Hooker: podcast) 14. Jimmy Hall (wet willie) and Steve Morse (dixie dregs, deep purple) / Whipping Post15. Warren Hayes / This is Life as We Know It 16. Curtis Salgado / Who Is He and What Is He to You?17. Keb Mo / Grandma's Hands18. Buddy Guy & Tracy Chapman / Ain't No Sunshine19. Rory Block, Eric Bibb, Maria Muldaur / Lean on Me20. Mick Jagger / Use Me (Until You Use Me Up) 

Sami Ruokangas juttelee vaikutelmat heinäkuussa Espanjassa näkemästään Deep Purple -keikasta sekä uudesta Purple -albumista, joka nousi Suomessakin listakärkeen. Tämä on hurja suoritus vuonna 1968 perustetulta bändiltä, etenkin kun kokoonpanossa on ”jälleen” uusi kitaristi. Kuuntele, viihdy ja sivisty! Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jTN72tbcFHs9BmTI6dPPQ?si=0906a633dab14a99 Menossa ovat mukana Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Blaze Bayley, Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Bob Ezrin, Barcelona Rock Fest, Simon McBride, Don Airey, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Howlin´ Wolf, Ian Gillan, Lemmy Kilmister, Ritchie Blackmore, Rainbow, Steve Morse, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, Black Sabbath, Colosseum II, Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Jon Lord, Nazareth, Carl Sentance, Roger Glover, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pretty Maids, Manfred Mann´s Earth Band, Robert Hart, Bad Company, Kenney Jones, Small Faces, Faces, The Who, Thin Lizzy, Scott Gorham, Darren Wharton, Scott Travis, Judas Priest, Tom Hamilton, Aerosmith, Damon Johnson, Ricky Warwick, David Coverdale, PSOF (Perfect Strangers Of Finland), Juha Kakkuri, Guns N´Roses ja Jimi Hendrix.

Deep Purple - The transition from Steve Morse to Simon McBride's 'Portable Door' plus 50 Years of Rock In this episode I am joined by Brendon Snyder where we talk about the new Deep Purple single 'Portable Door' and discuss our personal journeys to Deep Purple and how we feel each line up of the band has moved their musical legacy forward. Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine

Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dixie-dregsSubscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeSteve Morse and Andy West are legendary players. In addition to co-founding the Dixie Dregs together in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, both virtuosos have colorful personal resumes. Guitar giant Morse's is more high-profile. He remains the leader of the Steve Morse Band, who opened the Dregs's late April show at Nashville's CMA Theater, where this Rundown was filmed, with 45 minutes of smart shred. He's also been a member of Kansas and Deep Purple, as well as another instrumental powerhouse, Flying Colors.Besides his tenure in the Dregs, West has recorded with Vinnie Moore, the Steve Morse Band, Paul Barrere, and Henry Kaiser, with whom he's been a member of the Mistakes, Crazy Backwards Alphabet, and Five Time Surprise, which also includes Messthetics guitarist Anthony Pirog. (Full disclosure: I recorded a version of Steppenwolf's “The Pusher” with Kaiser and West as part of Kaiser's Moods & Modes of Halloween video quarterly in 2023.)The Music City show was classic Dixie Dregs, with more than two hours of high-wire playing, all anchored by the bold melodies that mark their compositions. Joined by longtime Dregs drummer Rod Morgenstein, violinist Allen Sloan, and keyboard player Steve Davidowski, the concert was an affirmation of Morse and West's vitality and musical partnership after sharing stages for more than 50 years. In the video, Steve and Andy explain their rigs in person and in detail.Shop Dixie Dregs' Gear:Roland GK-3 Divided Pickup - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5MGOvEngl Steve Morse Signature 100-Watt Amps - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vNJP4LENGL Amplifiers E412VSB 240-watt 4 x 12-inch Amplifier Cabinet - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/daMO92Roland GR-55 Synthesizer - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkM9Q1Keeley Compressor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0drY9TC Electronic Flashback - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y2XqeGTC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MmMANnErnie Ball 2023 Super Slinky Paradigm Electric Guitar Strings - .009-.042 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75vaJ5Line 6 Helix Guitar Multi-effects Floor Processor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy6LnzElectro-Voice ZLX-12P-G2 1000W 12-inch Powered Speaker Pair - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXMKZ0Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/dixie-dregsSubscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeWin Guitar Gear: https://bit.ly/GiveawaysPG Don't Miss a Rundown: http://bit.ly/RIgRundownENLMerch & Magazines: https://shop.premierguitar.comPG's Facebook: https://facebook.com/premierguitarPG's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/premierguitar/PG's Twitter: https://twitter.com/premierguitarPG's Threads: https://threads.net/@premierguitarPG's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@premierguitar[Brought to you by D'Addario: https://ddar.io/wykyk-rr]0:00 - D'Addario & Joe Glaser0:15 - Steve Morse Intro0:56 - Steve Morse's No.1 Ernie Ball Music Man Guitar2:29 - Steve Morse's Custom String Mute4:08 - Steve Morse's Custom Pickup Switching6:07 - Recreating Dixie Dregs' Back Catalog7:31 - Steve Morse's Signature Engl Amps & Cabs8:18 - Steve Morse's Pedalboard11:19 - Designing the Engl Steve Morse Signature13:56 - Steve Morse's Roland GR-5515:45 - Steve Morse's No. 2 Ernie Ball Music Man Guitar18:19 - Andy West's Gould Basses22:09 - Andy West's Line 6 Helix Floor & EV Speakers© Copyright Gearhead Communications LLC, 2024#guitar #guitarist #rigrundown #guitarplayer #bass #bassist #guitargear #stevemorse

This is a special on Deep Purple. They have played a hard-driven rock sound for almost 60 years. The band has endured many lineup changes but have played a consistent powerful sound. These are select studio and live tracks from one f the greatest bands of all time. Please have a look at these special interest sites.If you would, please make a donation of love and hope to St. Jude Children's HospitalMake an impact on the lives of St. Jude kids - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (stjude.org)Get your Vegan Collagen Gummies from Earth & Elle, available thru Amazon at this link.Amazon.com: Earth & Elle Vegan Collagen Gummies - Non-GMO Biotin Gummies, Vitamin A, E, C - Plant Based Collagen Supplements for Healthier Hair, Skin, Nails - 60 Chews of Orange Flavored Gummies, Made in USA : Health & HouseholdKathy Bushnell Website for Emily Muff bandHome | Kathy Bushnell | Em & MooListen to previous shows at the main webpage at:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1329053Pamela Des Barres Home page for books, autographs, clothing and online writing classes.Pamela Des Barres | The Official Website of the Legendary Groupie and Author (pameladesbarresofficial.com)Listen to more music by Laurie Larson at:Home | Shashké Music and Art (laurielarson.net)View the most amazing paintings by Marijke Koger-Dunham (Formally of the 1960's artists collective, "The Fool").Psychedelic, Visionary and Fantasy Art by Marijke Koger (marijkekogerart.com)For unique Candles have a look at Stardust Lady's Etsy shopWhere art and armor become one where gods are by TwistedByStardust (etsy.com)For your astrological chart reading, contact Astrologer Tisch Aitken at:https://www.facebook.com/AstrologerTisch/For booking Children's parties and character parties in the Los Angeles area contact Kalinda Gray at:https://www.facebook.com/wishingwellparties/I'm listed in Feedspot's "Top 10 Psychedelic Podcasts You Must Follow". https://blog.feedspot.com/psychedelic_podcasts/Please feel free to donate or Tip Jar the show at sonictyme@yahoo.com

Brian Tarquin is a seasoned musician, producer, and composer whose multifaceted career spans over several decades. With a repertoire that traverses various genres, Tarquin has established himself as a versatile artist with a distinctive musical voice. Throughout his illustrious career, he has garnered widespread acclaim and accolades, including three Emmy Awards, solidifying his position as a prominent figure in the music industry.Born and raised in New York City, Tarquin's musical journey began at a young age when he first picked up the guitar. Drawn to the instrument's versatility and expressive potential, he immersed himself in the world of music, exploring different styles and techniques. His early influences ranged from rock and blues to jazz and classical, laying the foundation for his eclectic musical palette.As Tarquin honed his craft, he quickly emerged as a standout guitarist, captivating audiences with his virtuosic playing and innovative approach to music. His passion and dedication led him to collaborate with a diverse array of artists, from rock icons like Steve Morse and Billy Sheehan to jazz luminaries like Larry Coryell and Mike Stern. With each collaboration, Tarquin's musical horizons expanded, enriching his artistic vision and propelling him to new heights of creativity.In addition to his work as a performer, Tarquin has also made significant contributions as a producer and composer. His production credits include a wide range of projects spanning various genres, from rock and metal to jazz and fusion. With a keen ear for sonic detail and a deep understanding of musical composition, Tarquin has earned a reputation for delivering high-quality productions that resonate with audiences worldwide.One of Tarquin's most notable projects is his album "Beyond The Warrior's Eyes," which holds a special significance in his career. Inspired by the bravery and sacrifice of military personnel, the album serves as a tribute to the men and women who have served their country with honor and courage. Moreover, "Beyond The Warrior's Eyes" is not just a musical endeavor; it is also a charitable initiative aimed at supporting the organization Hope For The Warriors.Hope For The Warriors is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive support and assistance to wounded, ill, and injured service members and their families. Through various programs and services, including medical care, mental health counseling, professional training, and transition assistance, Hope For The Warriors aims to empower veterans and their families to overcome the challenges they face and transition successfully to civilian life.For Tarquin, "Beyond The Warrior's Eyes" represents a fusion of his musical passion and his desire to make a positive impact in the lives of others. By channeling his creative energy into a project that supports such a worthy cause, Tarquin hopes to raise awareness and support for the invaluable work of Hope For The Warriors while honoring the bravery and resilience of military personnel.In summary, Brian Tarquin is not just a musician; he is a visionary artist whose music transcends boundaries and inspires audiences worldwide. With his unwavering commitment to excellence and his dedication to making a difference, Tarquin continues to leave an indelible mark on the music industry and beyond.https://www.briantarquin.com/Support the showThanks for listening for more information or to listen to other podcasts or watch YouTube videos click on this link >https://thetroutshow.com/

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Brian Tarquin has an accomplished musical career that has earned him, not one, but 3 Emmys as well as multiple nominations for his work in television and film. He has also collaborated with Joe Satriani, Jean Luc Ponty, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson and Bumblefoot just to name a few. He talks about his creative process, his early influences, his body of work, his charities and what's next for this talented artist!

Leaders today are grappling with uncertainty on multiple fronts. And the quickening pace of change is leaving many feeling overwhelmed and underprepared.It's in high-stakes moments like these that mentoring can help leaders overcome loneliness, gain a new vantage point, or benefit from objective advice from someone who's been there before. In fact, in our recent Global Leadership Monitor, 71% of the CEOs we surveyed felt that mentoring could have been better incorporated during their transition into the role.But, when it comes to choosing a mentor, what should you prioritize? What does a great mentor-mentee relationship look like? And when in your career can you benefit most from a mentor?In this episode of Leadership Lounge, we put these questions and more to three of our esteemed leadership advisors: Symon Elliott, Mia Keinanen, and Steve Morse. Here, they share real-life examples of how mentors can propel leaders forward for professional and personal success.Tune in to discover how having a mentor can increase the longevity of your success as a leader, and why vulnerability and honesty are key traits to harness for a fruitful mentoring relationship.

Super stoked to announce that in today's episode of the show, I speak with session drummer/composer/producer and musical director Van Romaine. Many of you may know of Van from his current roll as MD for pop superstar Enrique Iglesias, but he has also held positions and performed with numerous other artists including The Steve Morse band, Blood Sweat and Tears and even Nena (the 99 Red Baloon's singer). We had a really great convo, check it out now ! For more information on Van, please visit - www.vanromaine.com For more information on Travis, please visit www.travismarc.com For more information on the Musicians Mentor, please visit www.musicians-mentor.com Lastly, and as usual, please remember to rate, review and follow as we continue to create new content for you all, thank you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/musiciansmentor/support

On this week's Loudini Rock & Roll Circus Podcast we give you our predictions and trends to watch in the next 12 months. Will A.I take over the industry? Will classic bands that have been long dead miraculously put out new music? Will the music industry continue to shrink or is there any hope for growth?  We answer all this and more!   #autotune #spotify #classicrock     Topics Discussed: What we did this week: Loudini: Happy New Year, Steve Morse on Rick Beato,  Citizen X, The Puppetman, it's a wonderful knife, Guimoon: the lightless door ; musical journey/exploration, phil knight says used guitar prices are tanking Mr Pittsburgh: Die Hard   Continue shrinking music business   Less pay for musicians for traditional gigs   Creator market place   A.I. becoming a bigger player...making music creation and marketing faster and more effective   More low cost "done for you" marketing services   More political rhetoric from musicians   Streaming services (spotify) will continue to be scrutinized.   More separating stems from classic recordings   Customer/fan created music   Song Catalog bubble   our dead pool   New songs created with a.i. from classic artists/bands   Young people will continue to discover old music   Ticket master will hit a wall   Reunions from tired old bands with only one surviving member       reference: Muiscbsharp Terence Fisher Full stack creative         New & Notable:   Kevin: Speed of Light; Teeth Loudini:  Large Mirage; When The Morning Comes https://youtu.be/VQPZAeikFVE?si=lH9xd8eThxlB77Ys https://youtu.be/v744m16AI3A?si=eIbn6pwxOWp3j_sS   Loudini's Great Moments in YouTube: MIMPHX; The Electric Guitar   This Day In Music https://www.thisdayinmusic.com   top40weekly.com   Viewer's Comments   Offer:   Get a FREE EP HERE: http://LouLombardiMusic.com if  you love great guitar driven rock from the 70s, 80s, 90s and even  today, you will want to get my EP "The Bad Years". Get your copy while  supplies last!

Colossal Street Jam has a new album coming out in January, 2024. We had to the chance to sit down with lead singer Gene Potts to learn all about this exciting band! We take a listen to the title track, No Way To Live as well. Join us as we talk Rock and learn all about Colossal Street Jam!Rock and Roll music that DESERVES to be heard!Here's a little background on the band:It's once been said that all roads lead to home… That's precisely where this long-time band of brothers & creative soulmates found themselves, when their well-traveled musical roads converged. It was at this poignant juncture that COLOSSAL STREET JAM was born. One may define their electrifying synergy as the cosmic melding & explosive concoction of abstract minds, unique talent, inherent soul, and tireless passion for their beloved craft. Having a deep & mutual admiration for one another, as well as having tremendous respect for their many, and diverse collective influences, who helped shape their gritty, melodic, psychedelically tinged hard rock stylings, each member truly brings their own individuality, and nuance to the mix. An eclectic potpourri for the senses, CSJ ultimately, and seamlessly fuse their independent ideas to deliver a singular vision & signature sound that can easily be coined as “New Classic Rock” for the ages. This hard-driving, 70's inspired, 5-piece ensemble is comprised of Gene Potts (vocals)… Sal Marra (guitar/vocals)… Tony Flora (bass)… Dave Halpern (drums)… and Eric Safka (keys). With their roots firmly planted and their musical heritage tightly in place, CSJ has long been an integral part the legendary Asbury Park, NJ music scene. Always proud to honor these roots, and the place that gave them their start, the band forever carries with them that feeling of tradition, and heart that has endeared them to growing audiences both nationally and internationally. In 2016, the band's release, “Living Free”, was met with critical acclaim and worldwide press. The albums single, “Songbird” received extensive radio airplay both locally, and globally. In 2018, that same record won an award for Australian Indie Album of The Year For Internet Radio. It subsequently remained on the Indie charts, Down Under, for 6 months. Later that year, in November of 2018, CSJ released their follow up album, “Just Take Hold”… Once again, they were greeted with extensive Indie and College radio airplay for that record's namesake single, “Just Take Hold”, as well as for their cover version of the Sugarloaf classic, “Green Eyed Lady”. In May and December of 2019, CSJ completed two successful European tours, which journeyed them throughout The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. COLOSSAL STREET JAM has shared stages nationwide with the likes of Mark Farner, of Grand Funk Railroad, Robbie Krieger of The Doors, The Black Crowes, Kings X, Stone Temple Pilots, Rival Suns, Blackberry Smoke, The Drive By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Gov't Mule, Johnny Winter, Sebastian Bach, Bruce Dickinson, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Zebra, Deep Purple, Leslie West, Clarence Clemons, and countless others.

Mike Portnoy Interview: Mike talks about playing with Dream Theater, Sons of Apollo, Winery Dogs, Neal Morse, Steve Morse… his top 3 musical experiences, growing up in Long Island, lessons learned in the music business, sobriety, list making, regrets, dislocating his wrist on stage while playing, becoming more adaptable, and more - 100% REAL Discover Where the Money's Hiding in Today's Music Business: https://MusicReboot.com Support this show: https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support Mike Portnoy is one of the founding members of Dream Theater, a band he played with for 25 years and 10 Million record sales. His current projects include Sons of Apollo (Ron Thal), Winery Dogs (Billy Sheehan, Richie Kotzen), Transatlantic & Neal Morse projects, Flying Colors (Steve Morse), Metal Allegiance (Alex Skolnick) & he's also played with Twisted Sister, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour and many other bands and projects Subscribe & Website:  https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe Cool Guitar, Music & ELG T-Shirts!: https://www.GuitarMerch.com 

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Joe Satriani Bass Sideman And Mermen Co - Founder Releases New Ambient Soundtrack#newmusic #newalbum #bass #ambient #joesatriani ALLEN WHITMAN, former bassist with legendary virtuoso guitarist JOE SATRIANI and co-founder of the San Francisco-based influential instrumental surf-rock trio THE MERMEN has announced the digital-only release (through label SQUEAKEY STUDIOS) of a new soundtrack/ambient album “MONOGATARI NO FŪKEI.”The album incorporates acoustic guitar-driven sonic environments with samples and synth that forwards a pace matching its title: “Landscape Of Stories”. The movement, using field recordings made on a recent visit to Japan, is compelling, occasionally contemplative and often propulsive.A stalwart of the San Francisco music scene, also credits live performance and musical collaboration with, among many others, the likes of HELIOS CREED, TINY TIM, THE SANDALS, THE INK SPOTS, NELS CLINE, MIKE KENEALLY, CARMINE APPICE, DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ, DJ QUEST, SAMMY HAGAR, TONY MACALPINE, DWEEZIL ZAPPA, STEVE LUKATHER, STEVE VAI, STEVE MORSE and JOHN PETRUCCI.To purchase: https://squeakeystudios.bandcamp.com/album/monogatari-no-f-keiInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/squeaksmore/https://audius.co/squeakeystudioshttps://soundcloud.com/squeakey-studiosThanks for tuning in, please be sure to click that subscribe button and give this a thumbs up!!Email: thevibesbroadcast@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/listen_to_the_vibes_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevibesbroadcastnetworkLinktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeuTVRv2/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheVibesBrdcstTruth: https://truthsocial.com/@KoyoteFor all our social media and other links, go to: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastPlease subscribe, like, and share!

In the wake of the nationwide actions on ending fossil fuels, Steve Morse of the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project joins the show to discuss why the biggest polluter is often ignored when we discuss our climate catastrophe. Steve also talks about the work of the Climate Crisis and Militarism Project and how you request their help to address the Climate. Jim interviews some people at the Nashville Climate March and we also hear from Jamal Bowman along with some word salad from Nancy Pelosi.

Rod Morgenstein - Percussion Discussion - Episode 122 Firmly back in the legends lounge today with the remarkable Rod Morgenstein. Join Rod and myself as we talk about his remarkable career so far from his early days with Dixie Dregs through to the melodic hard rockers Winger. Rod gives us a fascinating insight to the recording of the Buddy Rich Tribute Album "Burning For Buddy" and the amount of work Rod put into learning a huge Buddy arrangement only for it not to be used! We also talk about Rod's latest project the Wing Thing, a really useful tool for loosening over tightened wing nuts www.morgensteintool.com! we talk about so much great stuff in this conversation, i dont want to spoil it by giving it away! Rod played a huge part of my youth playing drums and it was a total thrill chatting to him! Thanks so much for giving up your time! www.rodmorgenstein.com

Steve Morse is one of our country's greatest rock critics and interviewers.He spent years as The Boston Globe Rock authority and has interviewed countless legends-from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Marley.He also teaches Rock Music History at the Berklee College of Music.https://www.mmone.org/steve-morse/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Morse is one of our country's greatest rock critics and interviewers. He spent years as The Boston Globe Rock authority and has interviewed countless legends-from Bruce Springsteen to Bob Marley. He also teaches Rock Music History at the Berklee College of Music. https://www.mmone.org/steve-morse/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola and his guest Van Romaine.  Van has been touring the world (and in recent years as music director) with  Latin/pop superstar Enrique Iglesias for fourteen years.  In between you can find him recording and performing in a band with former Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse among others.  Let's welcome Van to the Drum Channel east coast studio where he and Billy discuss his early years, studying with studio guru Gary Chester, bands/artists he's worked with, playing on one of the biggest hip-hop songs and so much more. Enjoy! 

In this episode Jeremy discusses the brand new release from Sweet & Lynch, "Heart and Sacrifice". Also, your emails and updates on Journey, Greta Van Fleet, Steve Morse and more... You can now support the Classic Guitar Rock Podcast by becoming a patron for a measly $3 per month! Please support us on Patreon today! www.patreon.com/classicguitarrock Opening and closing theme: Opening and Closing Theme: Open Highway by Silent Partner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-lunnen7/support

Guitar fans, this one's for you! It's a big thrill to have Steve Morse back out on the road for his first Steve Morse Band tour in 10 years. The next round of tour dates kicks off with a weekend jaunt beginning May 25th in Homer, New York and wrapping up on May 28th in Cleveland, Ohio at the Music Box Supper Club.Steve joins Matt as part of the latest Bonus Track to talk about his return to the road following his 2022 departure from Deep Purple. We dig through a lot of other topics including some great road war stories, a Miami Vice tale and what he thinks about today's generation of guitar players.Visit Steve's official website for the latest dates and news regarding all of his upcoming activities.If you enjoy these podcast episodes, consider joining our Record Club on Patreon for a wealth of additional bonus content. We appreciate your support!Also, please rate and review this podcast, wherever you're listening. Thank you!

The legendary Bonnie Bramlett joins us, with stories about Stephen Stills, Dickie Betts, Janis Joplin, Elvis Costello, Derek Trucks, and much more. Steve Morse, from the Dixie Dregs, Kansas, and Deep Purple, introduces us to his new band, plus shares a great Gary Rossington story. Bruce Blackman, who went to number two in 1976 with Starbuck and Moonlight Feels Right, has a new album that's doing very well on the charts, and he's giving us the scoop. We have two new features this week, Liner Notes, with the inside scoop on some historic music, and Covers, with a remake of a rock-era classic we think you'll enjoy checking out. Thanks for listening.Intro courtesy of Diane Williamson, the worldwide voice of OnStar and Intercontinental Hotels.Our producer/editor is Jane Jones.

How do you get ideas of the designs to make climbing walls and clip and climbing attractions? Can you get hurt and fall? How does the company that gets your attraction make any money? Do you have small versions for indoor use? What is the craziest thing that has happened while building these types of attractions? What is your favorite theme that you can apply to these attractions? All these questions and so much more will be answered by Steven Morse from RCI Adventures. They make Clip and Climbing Attractions along with Sky Trails, Rails, and even MAZES!!

I met Kenny Aronoff through LinkedIn and thought he would be a fairly interesting podcast guest. Boy, was I wrong! Not fairly interesting, but incredibly interesting and fascinating.   As you will learn, Kenny was named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 100 drummers of all time. In his biography, you will see a partial list of the people and bands that have benefited from his talents.   You will get to hear how he eventually decided to start playing modern music. This story is one in a million and it, I must say, captivated me right from the outset. I hope it will do the same for you. I do hope you enjoy it. I'm not going to give it away. Listen and see for yourself.     About the Guest:   Kenny Aronoff is one of the world's most influential and in demand session and live drummers. Rolling Stone Magazine, in fact, cited him as one of the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” and Modern Drummer named him #1 Pop/Rock Drummer and #1 Studio Drummer for five consecutive years. The list of artists he's worked with on the road and/or in the studio reads like a who's who of the music industry, and includes:    John Mellencamp, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty, Sting, The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Gibbons, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Bob Seger, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Jon Bon Jovi, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Joe Cocker, Steven Tyler, Dave Grohl, Chris Cornell, Garth Brooks, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge, Keith Urban, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Beyonce, Mick Jagger, Slash, Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Martin, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, Celine Dion, Lenny Kravitz, Vince Gill, The Buddy Rich Big Band, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland, Hans Zimmer and many others.    With a style of playing that combines power and finesse, his unique and versatile sound has been instrumental on over 60 Grammy-nominated or awarded recordings representing over 300 million in sales, with more than 1300 that were RIAA certified Gold, Platinum or Diamond.    Kenny's winning approach to drumming and to life has given him the ability to sustain a successful career for over four decades.                                                                                                                                     In addition to performing and creating amazing music, Kenny is an inspirational speaker.He talks about Living Your Life by Your Purpose, Teamwork Skills, Innovation, Creativity, Hard Work, Self Discipline, Perseverance, and staying Relevant in your career and life.  Striving to always be better have been the tools that have kept Kenny at the top of his game for over four decades.     Author is the most recent addition to his long line of credits.  Sex, Drums, Rock ‘n' Roll! The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business (Backbeat Books, November 15, 2016). This is not about sex; it is about the same passion that drives us all to be the best we can be doing what we love with those with whom we want to share our talents.    How to Connect with Kenny:   IG   https://www.instagram.com/kennyaronoff/   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KennyAronoffOfficial   Twitter  https://twitter.com/AronoffOFFICIAL   Linkedin   https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennyaronoff/   TicTok  https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=kennyaronoffofficial&t=1660858209914   Website    https://kennyaronoff.com   Youtube https://www.youtube.com/kennyaronoffofficial   Uncommon Studios LA  https://uncommonstudiosla.com         About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Welcome once again to unstoppable mindset. I get to do something today. I have not done on this podcast before. But I've been looking forward to it for quite a while. I get to talk to a real live still absolutely functioning incredible man who is also a musician Kenny Aronoff has been a drummer for four decades he has played with basically anyone that you can imagine, although I'm going to try to stump him with one in a second here. But he's played with all of the people in the who's who have music no matter who they are. And and I'm so really excited to have the chance to talk with with him today. So Kenny, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Kenny Aronoff  02:08 Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.   Michael Hingson  02:11 All while stump you right at the outset. Have you ever played with George Shearing   Kenny Aronoff  02:14 is that the guitar player who   Michael Hingson  02:16 does know George Shearing was a blind jazz pianist? He died?   Kenny Aronoff  02:20 Okay, I know. I'm thinking is that your is another guy had a close name? No, I never did. Well, there   Michael Hingson  02:25 you go. Oh, well, I found one. Well, I don't know he had a trio that he worked with. But I don't know how much he worked with a number of people primarily he played on his own. So it's not too surprising. But that's okay. But Stevie Wonder John Mellencamp Mellencamp. And have you ever. Oh, I gotta ask Have you ever played with Michael Buble? A.   Kenny Aronoff  02:51 Singer, I think he came onstage for one of these big events. Well, I play with everybody. I think I did play with Michael Boulais. He was one of the guests shows we were honoring whoever was, you know, I'll play with 25 artists in one show. Yeah. Might have. He may have been paired up with somebody else singing. Yeah. So I think I did.   Michael Hingson  03:11 Well, you know, we finally got to see him in Las Vegas. He's been my wife's idol for a long time. And I don't I enjoy him too. He's He's a singer who is saying the Great American Songbook, a lot of the old songs and all that. And he was in Vegas earlier this year. And so we got to go see him. And we actually really were very fortunate because we, we were escorted in early because my wife was in a wheelchair. And so they brought us in. And then the Azure came about five minutes before the show started and said, I've got two tickets that haven't been used down in the orchestra pit and they said I could give them to someone. Would you guys like them if the seats accessible? So of course, we said, Sure. Well, it was and we ended up being 18 rows from the stage, actually two rows in front of his family. And we got to see it was it was great. It was a wonderful concert. So   Kenny Aronoff  04:04 yeah, he's very, very talented. He's created his own niche in his own style. And that's a hard thing to do.   Michael Hingson  04:09 It is. But but he has done it. Well with you. Let's start like I love to start. Tell me a little bit about growing up and where you came from, and all that kind of stuff. Well, I   Kenny Aronoff  04:19 grew up in a very unique little town in western Mass, a group and like an old country farmhouse in the hills of Western Massachusetts to be whatever town was Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Maybe 3000 people but what was unique about that town, it was basically a slice of New York City. I mean, New York City was three hours away. Boston was two hours away. And there was a lot of arts. A lot of you know you had theater people there you had the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the next town over Atlanta, Lenox mass, which is three miles away. You had, you know, Sigmund Freud's protege, Erik Erikson, the wintertime Norman Rockwell, the illustrator lived in our town and he I used to go over to his house and me my twin brother. We I think we were in second grade. We should still cigarettes from him. We had a, you know, let's see. Norman Mailer was the next house down for me when you couldn't see anybody's houses where I lived. It was all woods and fields. But Norman Mailer, the great writer was right down the street from me. Another eighth of a mile was a Patty Hearst used to live in the house which they she had rented from the Sedgwick family, which is where Edie Edie Sedgwick came from that family. Down the bottom of the hill was a summer stock theatre where a lot of actors would come up from New York to get out of the city. So I met like, you know, people like Franklin Joe of Faye Dunaway and Bancroft, Arthur Penn, the movie director lived in our town, and so he would direct some place there. Goldie Hawn, which Dreyfus, they went on and on it. And this, this seemed normal to me. I didn't realize Daniel Chester French, who, whose was the sculptor, who did you know, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, he he at one point did our area. And when I went to Tanglewood, which is the most elite student orchestra in the country, if not the world, took me four years to get in there. But it's won by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They only take seven percussionist in the whole world, when you when you audition, I literally failed three years in a row. And in my fourth attempt, I got in, but on that property is Nathaniel Hawthornes house. And he wrote The Scarlet Letter. I mean, I can just go on and on this area was just an extraordinarily extraordinary place to grow up with it was so many arts and intellectual people. But the thing that was amazing about this town was that it didn't matter. If you had money or had lots of money, everybody, you know, houses one locked keys were left in cars. It was a community. It was a it was a community where people support each other. So it's a great place to grow up.   Michael Hingson  07:13 That's one of the things I've always liked about Massachusetts. I lived in Winthrop for three years back in the well, late 1970s, early 1980s. But I always enjoyed the camaraderie and it was really hard to break into the community. If you were from the outside and I was viewed as an as an outsider, though I worked as hard as I could to, you know, to try to be involved. But if you weren't from there, it was really tough. By the same token, people were very kind to me, so I can't complain a whole lot. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty good. And I was you actually beat me to the question I was going to ask you if you had ever made it over to Tanglewood. I never got to go up in here the symphony in in the winter in the summer. But I did needless to say get over to hear the pops on several occasions and and that was fun. And there's nothing like the Boston Pops. There's other than a Boston Symphony for that matter, either.   Kenny Aronoff  08:13 Well, I got to perform timpani on that stage. And with Leonard Bernstein, conducting Sibelius Fifth Symphony Orchestra, which is a feature of the timpani in and it's, it was incredible. So you know, my parents saw Easter dragged me to the concerts I didn't really want to go. And I ended up then being in we actually did Fourth of July with Arthur Fiedler. And apart from mingled in with   Michael Hingson  08:40 the half shell. Yeah. So you went to school, went to high school and all that, how long did you live there?   Kenny Aronoff  08:48 Well, I lived in non stop until I was 18. After 18, I went to one year at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which is about an hour down the road. And then I transferred Well, what I did was I got into the Aspen School of Music, one by Julliard after my freshman year. And that's where George gave me the professor of Indiana University School of Music, now called the Jacobs School of Music. He was a he went to the percussion department at the school and this is the number one school of music in the country, if not the world. Yeah. And I wanted then I liked this guy. He was so deep. He was more than just a percussionist. He's a philosopher and a well rounded man. Anyway, I wanted to follow him and go to Indiana University. You have to realize I mean, Indiana was the best school and so I wanted to be in that school. And I demanded an audition up there and he tried to talk me out of it. Try to come back in January and will audition then. Then I said, Absolutely not. I want to audition. Now. I don't want to come to Indiana University, from the Aspen School of Music. It was a summer program. I convinced him I did audition, you had to audition for four different departments to get in. And it just so happened that they had people from four different departments that are you teaching up there like brass, woodwinds, violin percussion. And I auditioned, got in and spent four years at Indiana University. Now, that's when I started to spend more time away from home. Because you know, I was gone. You know, I come home for Christmas and summer, but that was pretty much it. Yeah. And it was an incredible education.   Michael Hingson  10:35 What? So, you, as you said, were dragged kicking and screaming to concerts and so on What changed your mind?   Kenny Aronoff  10:46 When I started to actually study classical music and start to perform in orchestras, I, I appreciate every style of music, and especially if it's done, right. And I've really, really enjoyed classical music. I mean, it was even though when I was a kid, and once rock'n'roll came out, it was like, you know, how was the classical music, but it was still on the soundtrack. To my upbringing, my parents had classical music and jazz on the turntable. They were from New York City. And that was very popular in that that time for them. So I didn't most keep the kid I had too much energy to sit and watch a concert, but performing it, you know, it was a different story. And then I became really good, eventually got into the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra after I graduated Indiana University. And I actually turned it down, which was a shock to everybody. Because I'd spent five years becoming great at classical music. And I turned it down. Because I mean, and thank God I did is because I was following my heart, my deepest desires, my bliss, or your, you know, whatever you want to call it, I wanted to still be in rock bottom open. Now, let me back up a little bit when I was 10 years old, playing outside of that country farmhouse. And there was nothing to watch on TV back then. There was no case not   Michael Hingson  12:12 much more now, either. But yeah, with the so what year was that?   Kenny Aronoff  12:17 That was 19. I want to say 1950 1963 or 64. And maybe mom yelled at me, my twin brother come in the house. And we were like, Oh my God, what do we do wrong? You know, like, we thought we'd done something wrong. And what it was that we come running across the lawn, and we'll get to the family room, she's pointed a black and white RCA TV set with the rabbit ears to get better reception. And on TV. Also never, you know, for guys playing rock and roll music, you know, electric cars and bass, that long hair, and I don't know who they are. But I heard rock and roll on radio, but I'd never seen it live. And I. I mean, I was at that very split second, I realized what my purpose in life was before I even knew what those words meant. And I just knew I wanted to be doing that. I wanted to be part of that. I want to be part of a team of guys that's playing music, like they are and I said to my mom, who are these guys said, Well, they're the Beatles, The Beatles, I want to be in the Beatles call him up, get me in the band. And give me a drum set. I don't want to play piano anymore. Anyway, she obviously didn't call the Beatles up and didn't get me a drum set. So that was where I was really blown away and realize this is what I want to do. So when I turned on the Jews from Symphony Orchestra, I turned out certainty for possibility or turns down certainty for you know, complete uncertainty. And that was that one we wanted to it's what Yeah, to do. Exactly. And thank God, I followed my heart because obviously it paid off. But it was a struggle, man, it was like took a long time for me to eventually run into a guy like John Mellencamp, who he took a chance with me, and then took a long time for me to, you know, plan a song, play a drums on a song that got on the record, you know, when I first got in the band that I had only and the reason why I got in the middle of combat is because I got the last record that they had, and they were looking for a drummer, and I just memorized everything that all these other drummers did on the record. And well, in that case, it was just wondering what but they I memorize him he played in so I won the audition. And five weeks later, we were making a record in Los Angeles. And I realized that you know, or the producer basically fired me after two days, because I had no experience with making records, you know, to get songs on the radio to be number one hits, and I was devastated. You know, I was like hey, but I played with Bernstein and Bernstein and didn't matter. I had No experience. I didn't understand the value of teamwork the level of it's not about me it's about we it's not about what I'm playing. It's about what can I play to make that song getting the right record that will eventually be played on radio and become a one hit single.   Michael Hingson  15:18 Usually got to add value.   Kenny Aronoff  15:21 Well value to the team   Michael Hingson  15:22 that was the most that's what I mean by adding Yeah,   Kenny Aronoff  15:25 yeah. Because you know, when you try to be great at anything, it's all about you. It's all about me. But to be Tom Brady are a great you know, a leader and be a great you know, do something great for the team. It is about the team. It's not about you serve the band, serve the song serve, whoever's in there. You know, serve, what can I do to get that song to be elevated to be a number one hit single? Because if you if you become an if you have a number one hits, surely you're gonna make millions dollars. It's the way it was when I was a kid.   Michael Hingson  16:00 So for you starting out more doing the I oriented kinds of things, but then moving to the we mentality, which is essentially what I hear you say, how did your style change? How did you change? How did it affect what you did?   Kenny Aronoff  16:17 Well, I wasn't thinking about just what I want to play. I was thinking about what can I do to get this song on the radio so in and I had to think about how I can be the greatest drummer I can be for John Cougar Mellencamp songs. So I started don't my plane down and made it simple and started to simplify what I was doing. And that really worked. I started this into Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater, Bad Company, groups, where the drummers were playing with authority. They had they pick the right beat, they kept time, they made it groove. But ultimately, it was to make those songs that song better, you know, and that's what I started changing. I simplified my playing. And I remember thinking, Man, I gotta learn to love this. Because if I don't love this, I'm gonna suck at this. If I suck it this, this, just get another drummer. And so I had to learn how to pivot into serving songs serving the artists.   Michael Hingson  17:15 Did you ever meet Buddy Rich? Absolutely. I've kind of figured, or that other great drummer Johnny Carson.   Kenny Aronoff  17:23 And never met Johnny Carson.   Michael Hingson  17:25 I remember I remember watching a Tonight Show where the two of them Oh, yeah. Did drums together?   Kenny Aronoff  17:32 Oh, it was incredible. But he was tribute record. And that was an such an honor. Playing you know, to to blazing. Well, one was the medium tempo song, big swing face, which was title of an album, and the other was straight, no chaser blazing fast. And it was it was a very meaningful experience for me.   Michael Hingson  17:54 You know, and clearly, you respect that and just listening to you. You, you respect that, that whole mentality and you're approaching it with a humility as opposed to just being conceited, which is, which is great, because that really is what makes for a good team person.   Kenny Aronoff  18:15 Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, once again, at that point, I understand a student serving, you know, serving the song serving the artist, serving you know, whoever, whatever it is, what can I do to be great?   Michael Hingson  18:28 That's cool. So you know, you, you've done that you say you started playing, so was your first maybe big break in the whole rock world with John Mellencamp, or Yeah, it happened after you turn down the Jerusalem symphony.   Kenny Aronoff  18:45 Well, after a turn on juicing shift and went home, I started practicing eight hours a day, seven days a week at my parents house, I humbly moved back home, and still didn't know how I was going to break into the Rock and Roll scene. And after a year, I after a year, I decided to move to Indiana and start a band with a bunch of guys and somebody and one of their dads invested a lot of money into getting as a band truck lights, PA, and the business model was to write songs, get a record deal, record those songs, and then go on tour. And after three years, we didn't get a record deal. And I was like, Man, I don't know what what I'm going to do. So I decided I was going to move to New York City, which is one of the top three centers of the music business. And I ended up a week before moving to New York City. I have lunch with the singer songwriter, woman Bootsy Allen, who asked me what I was doing. I said you have gone to New York. Are you going to crush it good luck. And they said you know there's a guy in town I don't know if you've heard of him is John Coogan guy. He's on MTV, this new network and he's made records, you know, who is this? Yeah, for whatever. I wasn't a big fan of his music. It was very basic. And at that point, I was born to technique and chops, which is something you know, usually when you're young, you're like, you want to do more as more. But she said, yeah, man, he's they just got off tour, they were opening up for kiss. And he fired his drummer last night. And I was like, what, and I was in my head of going thinking the meaning of a god, that's records touring, MTV, oh, my God, this this is like being in the Beatles. This is what I dreamed about. I went running out of the restaurant, went to a payphone and called up books, there was no cell phones, and I call up my buddy Mike, and in the band and said, Look, I hear you might be looking for a drummer that got audition. He said, Call me back in two weeks, and we're going to try to sort some things out. And eventually, I do get a call, oh, he called me back. And I did audition. And long and short of it is I, I won the audition, because I prepared intensely practicing six, eight hours a day, trying to learn all the drum parts that were on the last record, a winning audition. And five, we say well, now Nellie making the record which I got fired on, as I mentioned,   Michael Hingson  21:20 then what happened after you got fired?   Kenny Aronoff  21:23 Well, that was crucial. That was a life changing moment, when John said, with a producer, I thought it was John, but it was a producer wanted to get this record done. And I had no experience making records. So he wanted to get it done in eight weeks, which is not a very long time to go toward a new band and do overdubs, get vocals and mix and master. So he wanted to bring in his drummers. And when we had a band meeting, and I kind of knew I could tell something wasn't right, my my spidey sense that something's not right. We had a band meeting and John told me I'm not playing on the record. And the words came out of my mouth and life changing. And he said, You go home at the end of the week, I said, No friggin way. Am I going home. And I remember the band looking like Oh, my God. Can't believe K Dick. Because you know, John was pretty tough guy is pretty tough. And so they felt what's gonna happen next. See what happened was happening there. As I was overwhelmed. I felt like a loser. I felt like a piece of crap. I felt like just I was every negative thing sad, you know, depressed, and I was bummed. He was stealing my purpose, my whole deepest desires. My whole reason that I'm alive. He was taking that for me. I just said, There's no way and I told them, I'm not going home. And that'd be like me telling you, you're fired. And you go, No, I'm not. I'm like, Dude, you're fired. And like, No, I'm not. And What don't you understand about the words you're fired? So I just, I mean, I am. I said, Well, due to my studio drummer, what? And he goes, Well, yeah, but you're not playing on the record. And I started scrambling, I said, Well, I'll go in the studio and watch these other drummers play my drum parts on your record, and I'll learn from them and I'll get better. And that's good. Fuchs, I'm your drummer. He was silent, didn't say a word. Shit. We're okay. You don't have to pay me, I'll sleep on the couch. And then he said, perfect. And that's what happened. And that was a life changing moment. Because if I had gone home, who knows what would have happened, maybe you've gotten another drummer. So that was a jaunt. To me in my autobiography, sex, drugs, rock and roll, he was saying, Wow, he really respected me for that, at that moment, he didn't realize I had that, you know, that I cared that much. And I would, you know, stand up to him and demand to be there. And he respected me for that. So how, yeah,   Michael Hingson  24:02 how much of it was ego and how much of it was really following your heart at that moment?   Kenny Aronoff  24:07 It was more about fear. And about following my heart, okay. No, I was like, I see what you mean about ego. I didn't want to go back home and I would have been ashamed to go back home and, and but but the fear of losing this gig and the fear of the unknown and what comes next was making me want to fight for what I had.   Michael Hingson  24:31 Yeah, um, you know, when there are a lot of people who are excellent in their fields, and they think very highly of themselves, which is fine, except that really detracts from the the team orientation which I know you understand full well. And so, it it's great to hear that it was really more following your heart and really you wanting to do the right thing. and having the courage of your convictions?   Kenny Aronoff  25:03 Well, yeah, I mean, I didn't see any other way out. And I've been banging my head trying to make it for four years after turning down the Jerusalem symphony orchestra. And I was 27. And I thought, Man, I don't know any options. So I want to do this, if I'm going to make this happen. And, you know, if I look back at my life, when I'm passionate about something, I make it happen, you know, it's easy to get along with me, I'm a great team player. But there is definitely a point where I will like, draw a line in the sand. And I might be very nice about it. But um, you know, I this is, I will fight for what I want. And it's usually backed by passion, and desire, and when anything is backed by passion, desire, or purpose, or bliss, or whatever you want to call it, you know, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna get what you want, and it's gonna be hard for people to convince you otherwise. And so yeah, that's pretty much, you know, when John was taking away my, my job, I saw no other options, and I'm seeing torn MTV, regular TV, and making records. And being part of a band that I truly believe was gonna make it and I was like, that, there's no way I was going to just lay down, you know?   Michael Hingson  26:29 Are you a person who reacts to things knee jerk reaction, although they may very right, or would you say that somehow you've internalized and when you make a decision, is because you've really thought it through, which doesn't mean that you have to take a long time to do it. But do you? Do you think that you are the kind of person who when you say, I'm going to do this, it's the right thing to do, is because you've really thought it through?   Kenny Aronoff  26:55 Well, it's both I mean, there's a lot of things I do, because I have thought it through. But there's no question that at any given moment, if something comes across my table, and it strikes me from a place of my heart, not my brain, but my heart, and my passion, I will react. And that's when I'll use my brain to maybe observe and ask questions. But many times I've said Yes, before even, you know, get deep into asking questions when something blows me away, and I'm excited. Paul McCartney called me up and said, I want to make a record with you. I mean, it would just be a mad automatic. Yes. You know, it before it find out no, we're gonna make it in Siberia. And there's no heat in the building or something. And I mean, I'm just gonna say Yes, right away, because it's Paul McCartney. And now Yeah, yeah.   Michael Hingson  27:53 Yeah. I mean, that would make sense. But you've also, you've met him, you know, him, you've learned to trust too. So it's not like it is an unintelligent decision to just immediately say, yes.   Kenny Aronoff  28:07 Yeah, I guess with pa Yeah, of course. But I mean, you know, take somebody else, you know, I don't know. Somebody. That I don't really know that well. Sure. You know, and I would if it's the right person, I'm gonna go Yeah, right away.   Michael Hingson  28:23 Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. But still, and the if it's the right person, part of it is very relevant, it still means that you've done some thinking about it. One of the things I love in listening to you tell the stories is like with John Mellencamp, you really said look, I want to learn now, if I'm if I'm your drummer, and there's a problem with this record, and all that, then I want to learn what I need to do. So it will happen again. And the real great part about it is that you say I want to learn, I love people who are always interested in learning and becoming better and don't think so highly of themselves that they don't have anything else to learn.   Kenny Aronoff  29:03 Well, no, that's true. You know, I've I won't mention names, but I remember going up to a very, very famous singer. And I remember saying I could see he was frustrated, trying to explain what he wanted me to do. I got off the drumset when went up to him, I said, Listen to there's nothing I can do. You know, uh, you just have to be very specific about what you want me to do. And I will do it. Because I can do it. And I want to learn I want to be great. I want to and when you're working for an artist, you're in a place of service. So I want to get it I know I can get it. There was just a disconnect for for for the explanation. And that took took a while to work out but the bottom I saw his frustration, but I was trying to let him know dude, I can do anything you want. I'm capable. And I meant.   Michael Hingson  29:55 Again, the operative part is it sounds like you worked it out.   Kenny Aronoff  30:00 Well, I've worked out enough, you know, I've done so many big show. I mean   Michael Hingson  30:03 with with that person, you're able to work it out. Oh, that person? Absolutely. Yep. Yeah, that's my point. And so you do, you do explore. And that is, that's a wonderful trading characteristic that more of us should develop. And we should have confidence in ourselves to know what we're capable of and know what we're capable of learning, and then go forward, which is what I'm hearing from you.   Kenny Aronoff  30:32 Yeah, absolutely.   Michael Hingson  30:35 The first time I did a speech in public after September 11, I got a call from a pastor of a church and he said, I want you to come and tell your story he had then I'd been on Larry King Live two weeks before first time I'd ever been on CNN and Larry King Live, but it was again after September 11. And I was used to being in a in a public setting. So it didn't bother me a lot. But this guy calls up and he says, I want you to come and tell your story. We're going to be doing a service to honor all the people who were lost from New Jersey in the World Trade Center. And I said, Okay, I'm glad to do that. And then I said, just out of curiosity, any idea how large the service will be? How many people will be there? And he said, Well, it's going to be outside probably about 6000. You know, I've never done a speech before. And my immediate reaction was, it didn't bother me. Okay, great. Just wanted to know, and I've done some things in church before, and I've, I've talked in some public settings, but not to do a real speech like that. Yeah. But, you know, I knew that it didn't matter to me if it was 6000 or six, four, for me. There were techniques to learn. And over time, I learned that good speakers don't talk to audiences, they talk with audiences, and they work to engage people and, and when the in their speeches in various ways, and it's so much fun to do that. But 6000 It really just worked out really well. And there were other people there. Lisa beamer was there, her husband was Todd Beamer, the guy on flight 93, who said let's roll and, you know, it's a pretty incredible night and I'll never forget it. But you know, you know what you can do and when you really know your capability, but are willing to share it and grow and learn. What more can somebody ask for?   Kenny Aronoff  32:30 Yeah, I mean, I, my thing about being alive on this planet is to get the most value out of this life. I'm not I hope there's something after this, but whether there is or not, the point is to get the most value out of this life when it's very short. So I'm not wanting to sit, I'm just wired that way. I'm not sitting sitting on a couch, just you know, hanging out on a daily basis. You know, I I've played on 300 million records sold. I've toured with some of the greatest bands in the day, as diverse as you know, the highwomen, which is Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson whether James will Richard to Jerry Lee Lewis to the Smashing Pumpkins and Tony Iommi, from Sabbath to Boston Symphony Orchestra and Ray Charles and BB King to sting to The Beatles and The stones. And I feel fortunate that I get to play with so many different people because you get pigeonholed in my business. You're a rock drummer, you're a country drummer, you're this, you're that drummer. So and that that definitely ties into the ability to be able to connect, communicate and collaborate with people because who they want in the room with them. It's not just the most talented musician, it's somebody they want to hang out with. Mellencamp is to say, look at, I need people I get along with, I'm lonely on stage for two and a half hours. While the rest of the time I got to hang out with you guys. So I want people like get along with you. Right? You know, and I get I totally got that. Because the thing is, is that to get what I like about getting the most value out of life is that I'm wired to grow and learn. And the beauty it's a building, you know, a skyscraper, you know, the top only exists because you built the foundation from the bottom, you work your way up and you get, you have to be strong and you build and I don't believe in mistakes or failures. They're just events that get you to the top. And if the words mistakes and failures, bring in negative energy to your body, so I don't even use those words anymore. Everything's an event. Something that doesn't work out the way you want is a learning experience. It's a gift. And I'm like, basically Tom Brady, you know, you're always trying to get into the endzone. If you get if you fumble, you get sacked or whatever. Whatever life is filled with sacks and dropping the ball. He said where are you trying to go? What you Northstar or my North Star is the end zone. So that happened, what did I learn from it? How are we getting in the end zone? And that's where I look at life.   Michael Hingson  35:08 Yeah. Well, and, you know, to to extend your, your thought, I agree about the whole concept of mistakes and failures for me. And people have said it. And I and I firmly agree with, like Zig Ziglar, and others who say that there's no such thing as a mistake. It's a learning experience. And the question is, do you learn from it? And that's the real issue, do you learn from it, and I, I, where, after September 11, I started speaking to people and traveling the country and still do, and enjoy it immensely. But one of the things that I realized over the last three years with the pandemic is that I've never taught people some of the techniques that I learned along the way and used just because they came along, to not be afraid. On September 11, I had developed a mindset that told me that I can observe, I can focus and I don't need to be afraid. So we're starting to actually we're, we just submitted the first draft of a book about learning to control your fear so that you don't be an individual who when something unexpected happens, you let fear as I put it, blind you, you learn how to use that fear to help heighten your senses and direct you. And one of the things that I talk about is the whole concept of how much do you at night take time just to be introspective and look at the day? And what happened today? What what do I learn from this? How could I have done this? I was successful with this, but how could I have been even better? Or this didn't go? Well? Why? And what can I do about it and really think about it, you know,   Kenny Aronoff  37:01 that's good stuff that's very valuable, that says, that's a good way to learn, because you can learn from yourself. And, and, and sometimes we have to repeat things, many, many, many times to finally get the lesson. But if you do what you just said, and you take inventory and what went on that day, you could possibly learn that lesson way quicker.   Michael Hingson  37:24 And I've changed my language a little bit, I used to say that you are you're always going to be your own worst critic. And I realized that's negative. I'd rather say I'm my best teacher, if I allow myself to do it. And that is so true, isn't it?   Kenny Aronoff  37:39 Absolutely. That anything negative, you should throw out the window and pivot it, flip it to the it's always positive. And there's definitely always another narrative. And the positive narrative is always going to serve you better than the negative   Michael Hingson  37:55 always will. There's no great value in being negative and putting yourself down. You can be frustrated by something that didn't go the way you thought, Well, why didn't it? It may very well be that there's a legitimate reason why it didn't work out. But if you figure that out, and you allow yourself to teach you about it, you want to make you won't make the same scenario happen again. You will be successful the next time.   Kenny Aronoff  38:22 Yeah, absolutely. Yep. I totally agree with you on that.   Michael Hingson  38:26 So have you done anything in the music world dealing with rap?   Kenny Aronoff  38:34 I've never been on a rap record. But when you know, I remember being in the Mellencamp band. And that was a long time ago, I left in 96. I remember I was listening to some Snoop Dogg and I was grabbing ideas from those records and bringing it to melachim. That's what we were always encouraged to do. Back then they were budgets long we could make spend nine months making a record. And you could do a whole record sort of way and start from scratch. But I was getting ideas with ideas, loop ideas. I remember making sleigh bells on a song. Super I played sleigh bells on a whole bunch bunch of songs on early records in the 90s. And I copy that and John loved it. It's a different thing. And so yeah, in that regard, I did learn a lot from the rap music.   Michael Hingson  39:22 I've I don't know my my view of rap has always been I think it's a great art form. I'm not sure that I view it in the same musical way that that some people do because it's not so melodic, as it is certainly a lot of poetry and they kind of put poetry and words to to music in the background. But I also believe it's an incredible art form listening to some of the people who do rap. They're clearly incredibly intelligent and they're, they're pouring their hearts out about what they've experienced and what they see sometimes in ways that you don't even hear on regular mute. Music?   Kenny Aronoff  40:01 Oh, yeah. I mean, there's no question that it's, it's a, it's a form of music. It's a reflection of, you know, we're societies that you know, I mean, the arts will always reflect where people are at, and is a huge audience of there's a lot of people that can relate to this whole style of, of music or what rap is. It's a lyrics are very powerful in that they it's mostly centered around a beat and lyrics. And yet a lot of attention is drawn to that, as opposed to just take a band where they have, you know, two guitar players playing melodic lines and the keyboard player melodic line. And there's none of that really going on not not to the extent of of that in rap music. And although some people have added Dr. Dre at a lot of stuff, to the people he's worked with, like Eminem, but still, it's more centered around the voice the person.   Michael Hingson  41:04 And message and the message.   Kenny Aronoff  41:06 Oh, absolutely. The message. But you know, the thing is, is it's you, I guess it's up to everybody decide. You can call it whatever you want. And then it doesn't matter. If somebody's digging it. They did. They don't they don't is that?   Michael Hingson  41:23 Well, it is absolutely an art form. And it's an art form that should be as respected as any. In certainly it is to pardon the pun struck a chord with a lot of people and that's fine. And it's in it's great that there's so much of it going on. So what kind of tours have you been on lately? What kind of music have you done or what's coming up?   Kenny Aronoff  41:46 But I just finished the Joe Satriani tour. He was one of the greatest guitar players on the planet. Because it was just an evening with Joe Satriani. It's a very tech the music is very technical. It was, it was great for me because I was, you know, my, my technique excelled tremendously to play those types of songs. I'm going to Europe with him. See, April, May and how to June for nine weeks doing a thing called G four, which is a camp that he does in Vegas, which will feature the guitar players Eric Carroll, Steve Luthor, Steve Morse, C, Peter Frampton, and a bunch of other people. Basically, when I finished the Joe Satriani tour, I had 85 songs waiting for me to learn. Some of which I recorded my studio, I have a studio called uncommon studios. I tried to push back all the records I was going to make while I was on tour to when I got off tour. I did that and then I just finished doing a show maybe three nights ago with Jim Mercer and the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, who's showing his museum is so American collect collectibles as he calls it, a collection snatches musical instruments but it could be like, you know, American cultural type stuff like Abraham Lincoln's handwritten letters, you know, eases Wharton's writings, Muhammad Ali's gloves and belt from the thriller from Manila fight. I mean, it just goes on and on. And so I did a concert with him, but that featured like Kenny, Wayne Shepherd and Wilson from heart, John Fogarty, Buddy Guy, and Stephen Stills, and that was 30 songs. I had to learn and perfect. I write everything out. I know every tempo, I know all the song structure. So my goal is not just a drummer, but it's also to kind of keep everybody in it straight. And in line. We only have 112 hour rehearsal night before and the next day. It's, it's the show, so it's massive preparation. And next week, I'm going to do Billy Gibbons. So this week, on Thursday, I'm gonna do Billy Gibbons, a birthday party at The Troubadour and Swidler no songs, I'm finishing I'm starting to edit my second book. It's a self help book. It's about you know, living your life loud and how important time is in the short life we live. That goes into my speaking world. I have an agent and I do inspirational speaking, I'm mostly corporations. And so that book is kind of like, as a lot of the stuff that's in that speech, but a lot more with a lot of action items and takeaways. I'm just, I just put out a drum book. During the pandemic, a transition to my studio where people send me files, I make records for them, or I play drums on the records. I turned it into a place where new virtual speaking and now I may be launching a very a podcast with I have a whole team that will be you know produced to a director and everything, and I can do that from my studio, I have a wine that just came out. Uncommon wines just won an award. It's a cab serraj. Limited Edition. But yeah, I got a lot going on.   Michael Hingson  45:15 Well, and that keeps you busy. And it's obviously something that sounds like a lot of fun for you.   Kenny Aronoff  45:21 Absolutely. That this point, it's like, if it's not fun, I ain't doing it.   Michael Hingson  45:25 Yeah. Yeah, if you can't have fun, then what good is the world anyway?   Kenny Aronoff  45:32 It's up to you, man. It's up to you. You know, this, you know? We everybody has? Well, most people have options. So, you know, some people, you know, maybe less than others. But, you know, I just said, it's all in your mind. It's a mindset, you know, you can make things better, or more difficult. It is up to you.   Michael Hingson  45:58 And I think you really hit the nail on the head, if you will. Everyone does have options. And a lot of times we have more options. And we think we do we undersell ourselves, we underestimate ourselves, which is why I love doing unstoppable mindset. Because my goal is to help people recognize that, in reality, they probably are a whole lot more unstoppable than they think they are.   Kenny Aronoff  46:20 Yeah, well, exactly. But only you can figure out your power. It's up to the individual. And this is not a mental thing. This is an emotional thing. You have to feel your power. And and I think that's like a thing I call RPS repetition is the preparation for success. And that could be anything, anything you do over and over again, you get better at because you're doing it over and over again. And sometimes it takes longer to get somewhere with one thing then other things, but it's you can't just set it and forget it. You can't just like be successful one day and think that's it for life. No. I used to practice on the Joe Satriani tour, a song called Satch Boogie twice a day. And people go, why may you play that greatest said, because I played every day. And preparing every day? Yeah, playing it at night. That's why it sounds so good at night. And when I don't, then I usually learn a lesson that I need to do that I'm talking about the more technical things, you know.   Michael Hingson  47:24 Sure. Well, and that brings up the question of like, you're preparing to do the event at The Troubadour and so on, how do you prepare? What is it you do to learn the songs? How does all that work?   Kenny Aronoff  47:36 I've read every single note out that I'm going to play. Check out the church right here. For the viewers, I can hold up one sheet of music, very detailed. I write every single note out I got the tempo, and know exactly what to do, then I just drill it. I run through it. I practice the songs. When we're done. I'm going to practice that whole show tonight. Tomorrow, I'll practice it twice. And then Thursday, I'll practice it and then do the show.   Michael Hingson  48:05 Do you record your practice sessions? So you can listen to them? Or do you   Kenny Aronoff  48:10 know that that would be a real? That's a good thing to do? No, I don't. And it's no. That's a good, that's a great way to learn. But it's also time consuming?   Michael Hingson  48:24 Well, it well, it is a but you then get to hear it in a sense from the perspective of listeners.   Kenny Aronoff  48:32 So I do but I will I'm playing I'm listening to Yeah,   Michael Hingson  48:36 I understand. Yeah. And that's why for you, it may or may not be the best thing to do. I know for me, when I do a podcast interview, I will go back and listen to it again. And I do that because I want to see how I can improve it and see easiest way for me to do it. I listened to myself when I'm talking. And I listened to the person who I'm talking with. And I do my best to interpret their reactions and so on. But still, for something like this, I get to learn a lot by going back and listening to it. And as I as I tell everyone I talked with about this, if I'm not learning and it's the same thing with speaking if I'm not learning at least as much as my audience or my guest. I'm not doing my job. Well. Yeah.   Kenny Aronoff  49:27 Well, you don't I mean, there's no question listening to what you do is great. Great way to learn. I'm using is moving so fast and doing so much that just Yeah, I don't have time. But that's no question. I think that's a great way to learn. You know, and when I see myself I feel myself speaking. Oh my god, that's so humbling, right? Yeah. Oh my god. And   Michael Hingson  49:51 it's such a when you're speaking and you're doing an auditory thing like that it probably is best to go back and listen to it. I remember when I was are at the UC Irvine radio station que UCI and was program director. I worked to get people to listen to themselves. And they they would record their shows. So we actually put a tape recorder in a locked cabinet, a cassette machine, and we wired it. So whenever the mic was live, the voice was recorded. And then we would give people cassettes and we would say that you got to listen to it before the next show. Yeah, it was really amazing how much better people were. At the end of the year, some people ended up going into radio because they were well enough. They were good enough that they could be hired and went on to other things. Yeah, and it was just all about, they really started listening to themselves and they realized what other people were hearing. Yeah, no, that's,   Kenny Aronoff  50:51 that's, that's a great, I think that's brilliant. You know,   Michael Hingson  50:56 it's a it's always a challenge. So, so for you. What was the scariest or the, the weirdest show that you ever did or performance you ever did?   Kenny Aronoff  51:10 Well, probably the most one of the more scary moments in my life was when I was 20. Barely 23 And maybe I was still 22 I for my senior recital at Indiana University. You know, I was a performance major. I got you the way we learned how to play melodies and have that type of education because we play violin music or cello music on marimbas. Well, for my seniors I pick the virtuoso Violin Concerto that Itzhak Perlman played as his encore, in his concert I saw when I was a freshman, and so beautiful, but highly technical. And I spent one year, two or three hours a day, learning that one piece one of four pieces on my senior recital. And it was I learned it so well, that my professor won me to audition for concerto competition, and I won, which meant that I performed that piece with the 60 piece orchestra in an opera Hall bigger than the New York met, which is an Indiana University. Now granted, this is the number one school music in the country for classical music. So this is there's no handholding. There's no coddling, there's no trophies. This is like being I want to almost say like being a Navy Seal, especially with my teacher. But that guy helped make me and I was the right student for him become who I am. And the discipline that I learned from was extraordinary. But anyway, I've never, you know, usually when you're a percussionist, you're in the back the orchestra. So this was the hear the rolling the marimba out in front of the this big concert hall. And I'm in the wings, you know, with a tuxedo and I walk out like the solo violinists. And I was crapping my pants in the whole thing was memorized. And oh, man, I was terrified, but I crushed it.   Michael Hingson  53:14 Well, you took control of your fear.   Kenny Aronoff  53:18 I do well, I tend to I tend to take fear and use it as as a not a weapon, but I use it. It'll alternative the power, it is power. But on the other hand, we do have the ability to sabotage ourselves. And that's something is a child would do. Because you have self doubt you're small. everybody around you is big. You've got parents, teachers, coaches, whoever telling you, Kenny, that's wrong, bad, bad, bad. And as a little guy, you know, you're trying to please everybody. Then maybe my teachers saying to me, sometimes when I make a mistake, he'd look at me go, Kenny, are you afraid of success? And I'm like, What is he talking about? But realize that when you're younger, you start to think you're gonna make I'm gonna mess this up. Oh, here it comes. And you do and you do. But now that I'm older, I realize from this, this I hate that so much that I want to be successful so much. I overpower any of those feelings. I'm like, it's more like I got this and I'm gonna get it. And I meet believe it. But I can't tell anybody listening. There's a quick remedy for that. You don't take a pill and all sudden you become that? That's a long talk because I used to think how long am I going to end up being like this why sabotaging myself where your fear takes over. Now, I use my fear as my strength. I don't even know if I want to call it fear. Somebody says you get nervous when you do Kennedy Center Honors or any of these shows. At this point. Hell no. I don't get fearful As I get serious, I'm like in the Superbowl, and I know I can win. But I also know that things will not necessarily go the way you want. Because you're not the only one on that stage. Right? People, it's my job at any moment to be able to adapt, or die. You adapt immediately. You fix it, or you die, and I'm not about dying.   Michael Hingson  55:25 Have you ever had any experiences when you were on stage? And in a sense, you blew it? But then you recovered or anything?   Kenny Aronoff  55:34 Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, what you want to call blow it blowing, to me would be just one note in the wrong places. To me. It's nothing I don't like but the huge. The place I'm in now is I know very, very, very. I know how important is to forget about that. And to stay focused and stay in the game. It's like Tom Brady getting sacked. And his two minute drill to win the game. He gets sacked. He's got to be you can be pissed off for a second but he's immediately focuses on endzone, touchdown, endzone touchdown. One thing I learned from that experience, we aren't run in place that direction, the more we're doing this, you take it and you flip it, it becomes your power. So when something goes wrong, there's a part of me Of course, it's like really pissed off. But I also understand deeply in my gut, that you've got to blow that off and focus on how you're going to be a bad mofo. And I don't talk about my mistakes. A No, I don't have mistakes, I don't talk about the things that don't work out. Because you don't want to talk about them, you're giving it too much power, you just move past it. If somebody brings it up to you, you then can have a discussion. But unless somebody brings it up to you, you just move on, you don't think about it, and you don't dwell on it, because that will weaken you   Michael Hingson  57:00 every time. Absolutely every time. And you know, it's as we said, it isn't No, it isn't a mistake, you you did something, you played a wrong note, but you really spend so much time practicing, you do get it to be and I don't use this as a way to negate it, it becomes very rote. By the time you're playing in the actual performance, you have really worked to make sure that you truly understand what the event is, what the music is that you're supposed to be playing. And you're used to it. I would also wager that no matter how much you practice, when you get up on stage, now you're in a dynamic where you have the whole orchestra or the band or whatever. I wouldn't be surprised if there are times that you adapt on the fly as well.   Kenny Aronoff  57:54 Absolutely you do. I mean thing is, like this concert I just did with all these great artists, they were, you know, people, I have everything written out. But people would drop in courses are dropping parts. And I adapt and I direct, I help people, you know, or if I if I, if there's something I space out or something, I'm very quick at self correcting. And, you know, making it work out.   Michael Hingson  58:22 That's what it should be.   Kenny Aronoff  58:24 That's what exactly that's what it should be. Yeah. And and you, you you will let yourself down, if you get sucked into this bloody ego in, in getting drawn into Oh, woe is me and failure and all that. You got to push that aside, you got to be centered, like, like a Navy Seal or a warrior king, you know, or warrior queen, where you people are looking to lead and looking to you for strength and wisdom. And I want to be that person, I am that person.   Michael Hingson  59:03 And at the same time you also know when you're leading, if you're a good leader, you know when to let somebody else take the lead because they have a skill that works in that particular moment.   Kenny Aronoff  59:15 Absolutely. I call it lead them to lead. Hmm. Help them lead assist them to lead without saying anything. You do this your job to help them feel like they can lead.   Michael Hingson  59:30 So how did you get involved now in starting to do public speaking kinds of things and travel around and do some of that?   Kenny Aronoff  59:38 Well, I wrote an autobiography called Sex, Drugs, rock and roll and people were asking me to speak a little bit. I had done about 30 years of drunk, drunk clinics masterclasses where I would speak it was a show so but to speak. Like we're talking about I had to really work develop a craft it wasn't you know, I I worked to some writers, I built websites and got rid of them got different ones, I went and spoke to an agent and he told me what it really means to be a speaker what you need to do, I did what he told me doing, came back to him two years later, and showed him what I had done. And he was blown away. He said, I want to work with you. So he started, we started working together, and he started telling mentoring me and I started to put together a show. So filmed, you know, and I kept developing it and honing it down. And, and now you know, I've got, you know, teamwork, leadership, innovation, creativity, connecting communication, collaboration, realize your purpose, staying relevant speech. And it's I do perform. During the speech, I have a set of drums there, that's the entertainment part. People want to see me perform, because I'm a drama. But the the message is very powerful. And it's it. It's not just, I mean, I've done this, my success in the music business is a proof of, you know, how to go from this little kid from a town of 3000 to 40 years. Well, not 40 years later, it's a lot years later. And after that, at this point, it's 60 years later, how I became what I had, how they became successful, successful, and they've stayed successful. And a lot of those skill sets. And what I learned in the music business applies to these other businesses I do, which also applies to other people's businesses. So I speak about that. And just to answer your question a little bit more specifically, I just, I put together a show I have an agent, and we've been building off of that. And I just am doing more and more of that.   Michael Hingson  1:01:48 Tell me about your book a little bit.   Kenny Aronoff  1:01:50 Well, sex One immediate the autobiography, the one one,   Michael Hingson  1:01:53 now the firt. Right now, the autobiography The first one.   Kenny Aronoff  1:01:57 Yeah, that's basically my life story. It's about how I came from that middle town of Western Mass Stockbridge and how I went to, you know, how I went from there to where I am now, basically, in a nutshell, and there's all kinds of stories, you know, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Seger, John Mellencamp Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, meeting Bill Clinton, you know, there's a little bit of funny stuff, there's little bit of drama, is a little bit of rock and roll wildness. But the bottom line is the big message that the thread through the whole book is, I've worked my ass off and still working my ass off.   Michael Hingson  1:02:36 And I hear you stay in great shape. I must be from all those beating of the drums.   Kenny Aronoff  1:02:41 It is. But it's also I in my new book, I have the healthy life as a wealthy life, which is a basic eight step program on how to stay healthy, which affects you mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, you know, I won't go through all the details of it. But it's, it's definitely a setup. And you know, I'm aware of what I'm eating. And you know, I'm not perfect, but I'm aware of everything I put on me. So in other words, if I have a day one, eating not as well, as I, as I usually choose to, then I know how to make up for it the next day, and I do exercise every day. And of course, playing the drums. I mean, you're doing a three hour show. You're burning 1000s calories. Yeah. So there's that, you know,   Michael Hingson  1:03:24 which is, which is really pretty cool. And so you're, you're in a profession that keeps you active anyway, which is which is good. You cannot it's hard to tough to, to argue with that, isn't it?   Kenny Aronoff  1:03:38 Yeah. It's great. It's phenomenal. I love that unit.   Michael Hingson  1:03:42 Did you self published the first book? Or did you have a publisher,   Kenny Aronoff  1:03:45 I have a publisher for that was a hell, Leonard backbeats, which is now there now is Rowan and Littlefield did an audio version, this new book I have is is going to be self published. I am working in writing it for the second time. And it will be they have a marketing team. And but I own the book. And I may possibly look for a publisher after that. But this new book is more self help book. It's basically as I think I mentioned earlier, it's taking what I'm seeing in my speech, but with a lot more information, extending you know that information. So people can you know, if they want to hear more about what my my philosop

Up first, it's Kansas guitarist, Richard Williams. One of the things I asked him about was the passing of Jeff Beck. He said he saw him, but never actually met the legend. "I saw him, yeah, but I never did, uh, actually meet him. He would be one of those people where he wouldn't have been impressed because I would've just stood there and stammered, and mumbled, and then he would've finally just walked away just thinking I was an idiot. He was my personal fav." That lead me to ask him if there was any other artists he'd met that had him star struck...there was. "Yeah. Um, it was, let's see, the summer of 1978. We played Boulder, Colorado with, in the football stadium, with the Rolling Stones. And so we had played a few weeks earlier with them at the old, uh, football stadium in Cleveland. But at this particular show, there was a tent city built back to stage and uh, there was screens. We were just in our dressing room rehearsing and I saw the entourage pull up in limousines." He went on "The Stones are here. So sitting there I was just playing my guitar and all of a sudden, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards just walk in the door and says, "Hello, glad to have you on the show. Really love your band. If there's anything you need, just let us know." I just stood there like an idiot. I didn't know what to say and so I said nothing. My jaw was open and I, I'm sure I looked like there was something wrong with me. I was star struck." We also talk about the 50 anniversary of the band, his recent birthday, playing with Steve Morse and lots more. Then, it's Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box.  Mick was around at the beginning of heavy metal. He said at first they just called it classic rock. "When you think back to those early days, there wasn't any stigma attached to being classic rock, ya know." Mick went on to talk about the diverse musical tours they did back in the 70s....and that's just for starters on this great conversation. The new Uriah Heep album is out and it's called Chaos & Colour. He told me about the album, how the pandemic played into it, and why they got Jay Ruston to produce it again. He talks about rock cruises, what caused him to pick up a guitar in the first place, and even a story about his first guitar. He also spoke of the late Jeff Beck. "I love everything that Jeff did. He was my favorite all time guitarist". He meet Jeff a few times "He was a lovely guy." He told me he never learned any of his licks because he was so much of a fan. He told me about knowing Randy Rhoads. -Meltdown- https://wrif.com/2023/02/10/kansas-guitarist-rich-williams-on-being-star-struck-meeting-the-rolling-stones/ https://wrif.com/2023/02/13/mick-box-of-uriah-heep-talks-about-the-beginning-of-heavy-metal-jeff-beck-and-much-more/  

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Since release day for this episode falls on Christmas, we think it's fitting that we wish you a metal Christmas. In this episode we share some holiday share and break down that metal Christmas holiday class album "We wish You A Metal Xmas". We also have a special Crank It Up New Music Spotlight with Dallas Dwight from the LA Maybe. We share their latest song and find out what they've been up too. Enjoy and Happy Holidays to you and yours from the Growin' Up Rock Crew. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It's quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Leave Us A Five Star Review in one of the following places: Apple Podcast Podchaser Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin' Up Rock Loud Minority Facebook Group Do You Spotify? Then Follow us and Give Our Playlist a listen. We update it regularly with kick ass rock n roll Spotify Playlist Buy and Support Music From The Artist We Discuss On This Episode Growin' Up Rock Amazon Store The LA Maybe Music in this Episode Provided by the Following: Halestorm, The LA Maybe, Jeff Scott Soto, Bruce Kulick, Bob Kulick, Chris Wyse, Ray Luzier, Lemmy, Billy F. Gibbons, Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, John 5, Billy Sheehan, Vinny Appice, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Rudy Sarzo, Simon Wright, Geoff Tate, Carlos Cavazo, James Lomenzo, Doug Pinnick, George Lynch, Simon Phillips, Tim "Ripper" Owens, Steve Morse, Juan Garcia, Marco Mendoza, Chuck Billy, Scott Ian, Jon Donais, John Tempesta, Oni Logan, Craig Goldy, Tony Franklin, Stephen Pearcy, Tracii Guns, Greg Bissonette, Joe Lynn Turner, Tommy Shaw, Steve Lukather, Kenny Aronoff, Chuck Berry, Jackson 5, Garth Brooks, Bing Crosby, Carol Richards, Elvis Presley, The Temptations, Percy Sledge, Nat King Cole, Elmo & Patsy, Brenda Lee, John Lennon, Sin City Sinners Crank It Up New Music Spotlight Our Conversation with Dallas Dwight from The LA Maybe -  Song is “Down To Fight” If you dig what you are hearing, go pick up the album or some merch., and support these artists. A Special THANK YOU to Restrayned for the Killer Show Intro and transition music!! Restrayned Website

Ready to “fly the ‘copter” all the way to Germany? Well, being that I was just on tour opening shows for Deep Purple all over Europe (so cool!), you know there was NO WAY I was not going to land an interview with their brilliant new guitarist, Simon McBride. This exciting episode takes us all the way to Oberhausen, Germany, for an inspiring backstage guitar hang with the Irish 6-string virtuoso, where, in a side room at the town's KP Arena, Simon plugs in his custom Paul Reed Smith and demonstrates for you many of the captivating guitar approaches he employs each night on stage with his legendary bandmates — Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, and Don Airey. (Bonus: Concert clips from the show later that night!) Simon also reflects on what it means to take over the guitar chair from longtime Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse — who, after 28 years in the band, stepped down earlier this year — as well as what it's like follow in the footsteps of Deep Purple's founding guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore; trade licks each night with the band's formidable keyboardist, his good friend Don Airey; and start off one of the world's most iconic guitar songs each night, "Smoke on the Water." Thank you for listening! — Jude Gold, Host and Creator, No Guitar Is Safe, "The guitar show where guitar heroes plug in." This episode is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine and guitarpleyer.com. Guitar Player: Play better, sound better.

When Joe Robinson was learning to play in the remote village of Temagog, New South Wales, Australia, YouTube was his teacher. Then he discovered Tommy and Phil Emmanuel—Australia's sibling 6-string slicers—and set out on a path that would lead him to Nashville, where he's been a part of the city's guitar cognoscenti for the past 13 years. At 31, Robinson's fans include https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-tommy-emmanuel-cgp (Tommy Emmanuel) (who's been a committed mentor), https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-steve-vai (Steve Vai), https://www.premierguitar.com/rig-rundown-robben-ford (Robben Ford), https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-eric-johnson-2018 (Eric Johnson), https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-totos-steve-lukather (Steve Lukather), https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-albert-lee (Albert Lee), https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/rig-rundown-deep-purples-steve-morse (Steve Morse), and https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/lee-ritenour-dreamcatcher (Lee Ritenour). He's released six acclaimed albums, performed in 40-plus countries, and continues to serve a large online audience through livestream concerts and his own popular YouTube channel. Robinson shared his current touring rig before an October 18 show at his adopted hometown's City Winery. Brought to you by https://ddar.io/XSE.RR (D'Addario XS Coated Strings).

On this Barry Richman Interview: Tons of stories about playing with John Lee Hooker (his first gig), Buddy Miles, Eric Johnson, Greg Allman, Clapton, Derek Trucks flipping baseball cards at age 12, Roy Buchanan, Warren Haynes… not selling his ‘57 strat to Jerry Garcia, his cool vintage guitar and amp collection, playing Duane Allman's ‘59 Burst for 6 months… his dad, who was a top NYC session sax player, western wear and all kinds of cool stuff: Cool Guitar, Music & ELG T-Shirts!: http://www.GuitarMerch.com In a career that's spanned 50+ years, Barry has played, toured or recorded with John Lee Hooker, Allman Brothers, Eric Johnson, Gov't Mule, Eric Clapton, Les Paul, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Derek Trucks, Jimmy Herring, Steve Morse, Roy Buchanan, Sonny Landreth, Lee Ritenour, Stanley Jordan, Vivian Campbell, Rick Emmett & others Subscribe & Website:  https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe Support this show: http://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support

On this Jeff Watson Interview: Loads of great stories about hooking up with Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose, Ted Nugent, playing with ZZ Top, Jerry Harrison, how Night Ranger got started and lessons learned… top 3 musical experiences, low points… best decision he ever made, being invincible, the environment, regrets, more. GREAT convo: Cool Guitar & Music T-Shirts!: http://www.GuitarMerch.com Jeff founded Night Ranger and sold over 16 million LPs. He then released 2 solo records and started Mothers Army, along with Bob Daisley, Joe Lynn Turner & Carmine Appice. Jeff also scored movies and did some acting, in addition to playing sessions & performing with Chris Isaak, Sammy Hagar, Ted Nugent, Steve Morse, Styx, Heart, ZZ Top, Pat Penatar, Boston, Jerry Harrison, John Mayer, Aerosmith, Narada Michael Walden, Dave Jenkins, Tony McAlpine and loads more Subscribe & Website:  https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe Support this show: http://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support  

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