A (Mostly) 80s Music Podcast: What Difference Does It Make?

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80s Garage Band: The Pandoras Jul 10, 2020

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Melanie Vammen, Karen Basset and Sheri Kaplan Weinstein join us for a talk about their band, The Pandoras. They share their experiences as a young Southern Californian band coming of age in the 80s music scene and keep the memories of Paula Pierce and Kim Shattuck alive. These women are still the best of friends and it certainly shows in this episode.

We made a Spotify playlist of some of our favorites.

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Nick Egan: Punk Rock Video Director Jul 03, 2020

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Sure he's directed videos for Kylie Minogue and Bon Jovi (just don't tell Thom Yorke) but Nick Egan takes a punk rock approach to his videos. This leads to some clashes (pun intended) with Oasis and memorably Alanis Morissette; Nick dives deep into what went down which makes for a great listen.

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Nick Egan Visual Artist Jun 26, 2020

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Self-proclaimed "creative vandal" Nick Egan has created some of the most iconic 80s album artwork from The Clash and Bow Wow Wow to INXS and Duran Duran. In part one of our two part interview, we discuss how Nick got his start, all the way to working with Bob Dylan for his Biograph retrospective.

Great stories are told and Nick made us this amazing Spotify playlist.Enjoy!

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Alison Ellwood Director of Laurel Canyon documentary Jun 19, 2020

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We talk with director Alison Ellwood to discuss her latest documentary centered around the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 60s and 70s. Alison provides some great insight into what it takes to bring a documentary such as this to life. It's a really great film that is now available to view on the EPIX channel

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Doug "Cosmo" Clifford Drummer for Creedence Clearwater Revival May 29, 2020

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Doug Clifford joins us at What Difference Does It Make. Our discussion starts with the Golliwogs, the band that eventually morphed into Creedence Clearwater Revival and leads into Doug's solo album, Magic Window, an album created from recently located tracks and recorded back in 1985.

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Drummer Glen Sobel talk continued May 22, 2020

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It's another great talk on What Difference Does It Make as Glen Sobel tells us the secret to getting into Alice Cooper's Band, his experience on a major label with Beautiful Creatures and we go way back to Glen's high school days to hear how he won the talent show with his percussive unit Offbeat.

We highly suggest you check out Glen Sobel's Spotify Influence playlist

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Glen Sobel Interview May 15, 2020

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Glen Sobel, drummer extraordinaire for Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires tells us about his start in the business and the prep that needs to be done to make a show seamless. We had some much fun talking with Glen, so enjoy part one of this two part journey with one of the finest rock drummers working today.

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Valley Girl 2020 May 08, 2020

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We got the opportunity to talk with Producer Steven Wolfe and Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg for the just releasedre-imagining of the 80s film, Valley Girl.

This jukebox musical version is set in the present and Alicia Silverstone plays the grown up character of Julie originally played by Deborah Foreman. Her daughter is Jessica Rothe and her Randy, originally played by Nicolas Cage, is now played by Josh Whitehouse.

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Andrew Gold "Something New" Part 2 talk with Leslie Kogan Gold May 01, 2020

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Our talk continues as Leslie Kogan Gold tells us all the exciting ideas she has to keep Andrew Gold's music fresh and exciting. Besides the new album "Something New" out now via Omnivore Recordings, Leslie discusses the possibility collaborations, a Broadway musical and of course the viral sensation that is Spooky, Scary Skeletons. We also try to figure out which Golden Girl would be Andrew's favorite.

Thanks to Leslie and Omnivore Recordings for giving us permission to play Andrew's amazing music on this episode

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Andrew Gold album "Something New" talk with Leslie Kogan Gold Apr 24, 2020

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To celebrate the release of "Something New: Unreleased Gold" by Andrew Gold, we got the opportunity to talk with Leslie Kogan Gold. It was a real treat to learn all about this amazing musician Sure, he had hits with "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being A Friend" but he also was able to steer Linda Ronstadt's musical direction from Country/Folk to Rock.. He has composed music with 10CC, Leo Sayer, Juice Newton, Nicolette Larson and the list goes on and on..

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