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Pod O Graffitti Part Two - Extreme Sep 27, 2018

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In 1989, Extreme made their debut with a self-titled record on A&M Records that was kinda, sorta produced by legendary producer Mack.

In this second episode of the Pod O' Graffitti series, your hosts Sonny "Hollywood" Pooni of the Growin' Up Rock Podcast, Brian Sword of The Double Stop Podcast, and Eric Miller of The Pods & Sods Network share their thoughts on this debut album. Tons of trivia, tons of little factoid nuggets, a close examination of the lyrics both immature and deep, lots of "Nuno's solo is really fantastic!", talk of B-sides, a few detours into Mozart, CSNY, two drink minimums, and drunken karaoke. Do.. you.. want.. to.. PLAY?!?

Six Pack of Stax - Volume One Sep 26, 2018

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Six Pack of Stax - Volume One A short, sweet, and random collection of Stax gems brought to you by your hosts Lee McCormack of The Tramps Like Us Podcast, Mr Brian Jacobs, and Eric Miller of Pods & Sods. Not a ton of research, not a ton of pontificating, just three friends sharing some of the greatest rock & soul the world has ever known.

In Volume One, we're unpacking some classics by Otis Redding, Booker T & The MGs, The Staple Singers, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding with Carla Thomas, and The Veltones.

PTE16 - Sean Watkins Picks the Essential Glen Phillips Sep 25, 2018

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Sean Watkins Picks The Essential Glen Phillips

Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and The Watkins Family Hour shares his 10 Essential Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket songs. Sean has gone from being a fan of Toad The Wet Sprocket to writing, recording and touring with Glen Phillips in a variety of configurations including the Works Progress Administration and the Mutual Admiration Society. In this episode he shares details of that connection, what about Glen's music inspires him musically, lyrically, and performance-wise, he provides some truly wonderful insight into some of Glen's greatest songs in and out of Toad The Wet Sprocket, how and why it is that Glen just gets better and better, and much more.

SOK3 - Emotions In Motion Sep 20, 2018

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How do you follow up such a landmark album as Don't Say No? Find out as we continue our Billy Squier sidecast series, Songs of The Knight: A Billy Squier Retrospective, with out detailed look at 1982's Emotion In Motion. Joined by podcast friends Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast and BJ Kramp of the Rock And/Or Roll Podcast, Eric and his co-hosts go in-depth and track back track of Billy's legendary record that featured massive radio hit Everybody Wants You and an iconic album cover by the great Andy Warhol. Some detours into 70s basketball, use of the word gerund, and Peter Gabriel as we meander off topic from time to time. Finally we wrap this episode in the series with Eric's personal top ten list of Billy Squier songs. We hope you'll follow us as we work through Billy's entire discography!

Pod O' Graffitti Part One – Introduction & Early Days Sep 13, 2018

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We're kicking off a new sidecast series - Pod O' Graffitti, a look at the Extreme discography!

In this introductory episode, your hosts Sonny "Hollywood" Pooni of the Growin' Up Rock Podcast, Brian Sword of The Double Stop Podcast, and Eric Miller of The Pods & Sods Network share their stories of discovering the music of Extreme, their memories of seeing the band live as far back as 1990 with Alice In Chains. We also break down some of the early pre-Extreme days from both Gary with The Dream and Nuno with Sinful, including a few rare tracks from the aforementioned. From here, we'll go album by album through the career of Extreme. You're all invited to the party!

PTE15 - Danny Seraphine Picks the Essential Chicago Sep 11, 2018

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Danny Seraphine Picks The Essential Chicago

Danny Seraphine shares his 10 Essential Chicago songs. Spanning all eras of the iconic band Chicago, Danny picks his favorites, shares memories of early drumming influences, some childhood memories, some really detailed and wonderful stories about the formation of Chicago, colorful memories of playing a mob bar with an owner that insisted on singing Sinatra songs with the band, locking with Terry Kath as a bass player and guitarist, the very first time the original Chicago lineup played together, meeting and working with percussionist Laudir de Oliveira, what happened to Al Kooper's video recording of the band's first studio sessions, sharing influences with The Bee Gees and Earth, Wind & Fire, getting fired from the band, what it meant to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his old bandmates, where he is now with performing live, and much more.

VCMBF 06 | Lauren Hoffman / Megiddo: An Audio Documentary Sep 06, 2018

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VERSE/CHORUS/MIDDLE8/BREAK/FADE Lauren Hoffman / Megiddo an audio documentary

Lauren Hoffman was the very first interview on Pods & Sods way back in October of 2013. The full story of her career until that point can be found there, but in this episode Lauren joins Craig for an extremely in depth conversation about the songs and stories surrounding MEGIDDO, her debut album released in 1997 on Virgin.

Check out Lauren's first appearance here: https://podsodcast.com/2013/10/20/ps004

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SOK2 - Don't Say No Aug 23, 2018

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What is "articulate rock"? Find out as we continue our Billy Squier sidecast series, Songs of The Knight: A Billy Squier Retrospective. Today we're taking at Billy's breakout album from 1981, Don't Say No. Joined by podcast friends Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast and BJ Kramp of the Rock And/Or Roll Podcast, Eric and his co-hosts go in-depth and track back track of Billy's legendary record that featured the massive radio hits In The Dark, Lonely Is The Night, My Kinda Lover (wait, or is it Lava??), and The Stroke. Some detours into John Lennon, Level 42 and Patton Oswalt as we meander off topic from time to time. Finally we wrap this episode in the series with BJ's personal top ten list of Billy Squier songs. We hope you'll follow us as we work through Billy's entire discography!

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EM81 - Jimmy Carter of Blind Boys of Alabama Aug 07, 2018

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Jimmy Carter of The Blind Boys of Alabama joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early life connecting with his classmates to form The Blind Boys of Alabama, early memories of touring and recording, memories of contemporaries like Sam Cooke and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, experiencing the Civil Rights movement and the diversification of the Blind Boys' audiences in the 80s, their appeal in the secular world, touring with Peter Gabriel, what it was like performing at The White House for Obama, memories of his final performance with longtime friend and partner Clarence Fountain, learning that their recording of Down In The Hole was used for the TV show The Wire, what his plans are for a new recording spanning the group's 80 year career, what he plans to do in the second half of his life and much more!

Album By Album | Iron Maiden 1982-1988 Aug 06, 2018

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ALBUM BY ALBUM: IRON MAIDEN 1982-1988 presented by Ryan Leonardo and Craig Smith for the Pods & Sods Network recorded July 2018

Ryan Leonardo reunites with Craig for the first time in a long time to discuss what many consider Iron Maiden's albums recorded during their best years: The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Weaved around these appreciations for the band and their music are stories about discovering these albums together as kids, the quest to find all of the Eddie artwork possible and some more childhood memories. Recorded in front of an audience as one as Ryan's girlfriend Karen joins in here and there to try to keep things above board (things are not kept above board).

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