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The Hollywood Geek Rock Scene Of The 90s & 2000s [Episode 193] Apr 15, 2024

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Writer/musician S.W. Lauden is this episode's guest to talk about a limited-edition vinyl LP compilation and oral history book called Generation Blue. The album and book explore the Hollywood Geek Rock scene of the '90s and early 2000s, featuring key bands Nerf Herder, The Rentals, Ozma, Baby Lemonade, Psoma, and Weezer who released their triple-platinum Blue Album 30 years ago this spring.
Previewed by the hit indie single “Where The Hell Is She,” a lost Geek Rock nugget by the band Shufflepuck, the album features eleven rare or exclusive vintage tracks while the book tells the story of the scene in the words of those who were there—including Lauden who played drums for the band Ridel High.
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U2's 'Pop' - A Lemon Or Overlooked Gem? [Episode 192] Apr 13, 2024

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Author Geoff Harkness returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book 40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart. U2 had been on a decade-long run of hits when they released their album Pop in 1997. That included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band’s Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold-out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be U2’s worst-selling album, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname “Flop Mart” in the press. The Pop era was left behind, but many U2 fans never forgot what Bono once called the “best thing we've ever done.”
40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes readers into the studio and onto the stage during U2’s most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album.
40-Foot Lemon follows U2 around the globe on PopMart, the biggest tour in rock history, and featuring the world’s largest TV screen, a 10-story golden arch, a sofa-sized olive on a 100-foot martini stick, and a giant lemon disco ball that did all sorts of tricks. When it was working. PopMart struggled to fill seats in the U.S., but it shattered records in Europe and South America, playing to packed stadiums and making history from Sarajevo to Santiago. 40-Foot Lemon is the definitive account of U2 at their most interesting.
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The Complicated Life Of Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape) [Episode 191] Apr 10, 2024

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Cam Cobb is the author of Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence - the biography on the legendary '60s cult musician known for his time in era-defining bands Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Moby Grape.
While celebrated by the likes of Tom Waits, Beck, and Robert Plant, Spence's life was sadly plagued by substance abuse, erratic behavior, and poor mental health. Spence’s story is the story of the 60s and one that has never been told in full until now. Weighted Down is a first-hand narrative of Skip Spence, told by his friends, bandmates, and family, and includes a trove of never-before-seen photographs. Cobb joins the podcast to tell us about this captivating story of Spence.
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"I Was An Acid-Fueled Teenage Dead Fiend!" [Episode 190] Apr 08, 2024

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Author Thomas "Nordy" Nordwall opens a window to the ways of the road and the extreme lengths Grateful Dead fans will go to, just to get that miracle ticket and be at one more Grateful Dead gig! His book Tour Head: "I Was an Acid-Fueled Teenage Dead Fiend!" is a humorous, yet unflinching look at a life spent in pursuit of a musical dream. Told from the perspective of someone who is not a musician in a traveling band, just a rabid fan, so obsessed that depression would set in if a few shows were missed!
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Rock & Roll Nightmares Come True with Author/Filmmaker Staci Layne Wilson [Episode 189] Apr 05, 2024

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It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. Our guest is award-winning filmmaker and Amazon # bestselling author Staci Layne Wilson.
Stacy has written, produced, and hosted three entertainment talk shows online: This Week In Movies, Inside Horror, and Dread Central Live. She has been featured on the BBC, Bravo, Reelz, MTV, CNN, and many more as a film historian and author. She’s recently released the book titled Amplified Adventures: A Traveler’s Guide to Rock Music’s Hallowed Halls: A Rock & Roll Nightmares B-Sides Book. This comes soon after two new books from her Rock & Roll Nightmares series were released at the start of 2024. We talk about that series, our favorite horror films, and the films Staci has produced and directed including 2020’s The Ventures: Stars on Guitars, a documentary about the hugely influential instrumental group dating back to the early 60s - The Ventures. Staci is the daughter of guitarist and founding member Don Wilson.
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The Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music [Episode 188] Apr 03, 2024

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Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists.
Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Robertson includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford. In this episode, Robertson gives us the stories behind Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Little Richard, Gram Parsons, and John Hartford.
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Journey's Rise, Fall, and Return [Episode 187] Mar 29, 2024

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Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock ‘n’ roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes. In his new book Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock, David Hamilton Golland unearths the band’s true and complete biography, based on over a decade of interviews and thousands of sources.
When Steve Perry joined jazz-blues progressive rock band Journey in 1977, they saw a rise to the top, and their 1981 album Escape hit #1. But Perry’s quest for control led to Journey’s demise. They lost their record contract and much of their audience. After the unlikely comeback of “Don’t Stop Believin’” in movies, television, and sports stadiums, a new generation discovered Journey.
A professional historian, Golland dispels rehashed myths and also shows how race in popular music contributed to their breakout success. As the economy collapsed and as people abandoned the spirit of Woodstock in the late 70s, Journey used the rhythm of soul and Motown to inspire hope in primarily white teenagers’ lives. Decades later, the band and their signature song remain classics, and now, with singer Arnel Pineda, they are again a fixture in major stadiums worldwide.
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Bruce Springsteen: Still "The Boss" After All These Years! [Episode 186] Mar 27, 2024

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Author Gillian G. Gaar is this episode's guest to talk about her brand-new book Springsteen @ 75. Through 75 career releases, performances, and accolades, this book covers it all including Bruce’s childhood in New Jersey and his time in early garage bands, The Castiles and Steel Mill. All 20 studio albums are covered along with a selection of his greatest singles. Also included are Bruce’s relationships with notable bandmates Steven Van Zandt and the late Clarence Clemons, his legendary concerts, his relationship with his wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa, his awards, and much more. Get ready for a discussion of the man who, coming up on his 75th birthday, is still "The Boss" after all these years!
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The Enduring Power Of AC/DC with Author Chris Sutton [Episode 185] Mar 23, 2024

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Author Chris Sutton has a new book as part of the Sonicbond On Track series called AC/DC: Every Album, Every Song. One of the greatest bands in rock history, AC/DC has released eighteen studio albums, two soundtrack albums, three live albums, and 57 singles. They’ve sold over 200 million albums worldwide and their 1980 album Back In Black became the second biggest-selling album in history with 50 million copies sold worldwide. Sutton not only gives an analysis of every track on every studio album from AC/DC including B-sides, outtakes, live albums and box sets, he also interviewed former members of AC/DC, collaborators and friends of the band.
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A "Red" Hot Discussion Of Sammy Hagar, Van Halen & More with Darin Bristow & Brent Kinnaird [Episode 184] Mar 20, 2024

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It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. Our guests are Darin Bristow and Brent Kinnaird, the hosts of the podcast devoted to Sammy Hagar called The Bogus Otis Show: 9 Degrees of Sammy Hagar.
The guys fill us in on how they got the podcast started, what’s behind that name Bogus Otis, and what it was like having Sammy Hagar himself appear on the podcast. We discuss Sammy’s career from Montrose, to his first solo run, his decade-long run with Van Halen, his tequila, his post-Van Halen projects like Chickenfoot and The Circle, plus what they hope to hear on Sammy’s upcoming Best Of All Worlds tour giving fans a Van Halen-heavy setlist with Michael Anthony on bass, Joe Satriani on guitar and Jason Bonham on drums. Darin and Brent also talk about Sammy’s 2012 book Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, some of the other books on rock they’ve read, the ones they still wanna read, and the books on rock that haven’t been written yet but they hope one day will be. So let’s get “Red” with Darin and Brent!
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