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Dr Fink of The Revolution Picks the Essential Prince Apr 16, 2018

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Dr Fink of The Revolution Picks The Essential Prince

Dr Fink of The Revolution shares his 10 Essential Prince songs. Dr Fink also describes first hearing Prince's music, great stories about his audition, Prince's sense of humor and some practical jokes along the way, the writing and recording of Dirty Mind, how was Prince when it came to co-writing, what's his favorite classic video, diversity in the band, Prince's sexuality through the years, what hidden gems are buried in Prince's legendary vault that he'll hope to see released, and much more.

Corey Glover Picks the Essential Bill Withers Apr 12, 2018

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Corey Glover Picks The Essential Bill Withers

Corey Glover of Living Colour shares his 10 Essential Bill Withers songs. As a young kid growing up in New York, Corey first discovered the music of Bill Withers in his home and on long car-rides with the family. The work of Bill Withers would inspire and influence Corey's life as a performer, vocalist, and songwriter. He also shares memories of meeting Bill, his appearance in the Bill Withers Still Bill documentary, some insights on the songs, the lyrics, what Bill's presence in the music world meant to the black experience in the early and mid-1970s and much more.

EM74 - Rod Morgenstein Apr 10, 2018

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Rod Morgenstein of Dixie Dregs and Winger joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering drums, moving to Miami and his first connections with Steve Morse and the formation of Dixie Dregs, memories of working with Ken Scott and recording the first couple Dregs albums, playing in front of his musical heroes in the 70s, how he first connected with Kip Winger and Reb Beach, what was his experience like moving from jazz fusion to a more straight ahead rock drummer, thoughts on the grunge era and the Winger Pull album, memories of his recently departed friend Pat Torpey of Mr Big, what it's been like reconnecting with Dixie Dregs for the 2018 reunion tour, what's next and much more!

Moronophonics 10 | Ben Folds Five / The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner Apr 06, 2018

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MORONOPHONICS Ian Zapczynski & Craig Smith episode 10: Craig's choice Ben Folds Five / The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner 1999

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Nancy Wilson Picks the Essential Jimmy Page Mar 29, 2018

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Nancy Wilson Picks The Essential Jimmy Page

Nancy Wilson of Heart and Roadcase Royale shares her 10 Essential Jimmy Page, err.. ok it pretty much devolves into the Essential Led Zeppelin songs. Heart has long been unabashed Led Zeppelin fans, having performed tons of Zeppelin songs through their career. As Nancy shares her essential Led Zeppelin songs, she also shares memories about the first time she saw them in concert, the first time she met them, her memories on the legendary Kennedy Center Honors performance, how various Zeppelin songs have seeped into her DNA and how they've inspired and impacted her guitar playing and the music of Heart, how Zeppelin has inspired Nancy to dig into the blues even through her new band, Roadcase Royale, and much more. From the unique perspective as one legend talking about another, Nancy shares personal memories and musical insight into the work of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin.

Bryan Beller Picks the Essential Mike Keneally Mar 22, 2018

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Bryan Beller Picks The Essential Mike Keneally

Bryan Beller shares his 10 Essential Mike Keneally songs. Originally connecting in Dweezil Zappa's band in the early 90s, Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats) and Mike Keneally have been longtime friends and collaborators in various bands (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, G3, Dethklok) and on each other's work for 25+ years. The music of Mike Keneally is creative, progressive, versatile, introspective, layered, adventurous, humorous, emotionally powerful, and musically brilliant. Bryan walks us through his list of Keneally song selections, sharing memories of recording and performing these songs, why he chose the songs he chose, and offers some wonderfully detailed musical and technical insight.

Gun Violence In Music - 21 Lives and 516 Years Gone Mar 15, 2018

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Gun Violence In Music - 21 Lives and 516 Years Gone

In this very special episode, we're joined by more than a dozen of our friends from the podcast community for a retrospective of all those musical greats lost as a result of gun violence.

Some of these stories involve domestic abuse, suicide, robbery, murder, but all of them are stories of gun violence.

A gun in every single one of these scenarios turned a moment of crisis or crime into a fatality. Irreversible.

Join the fight for common sense gun reform today by texting JOIN to 64433.

EM73 - Meshell Ndegeocello Mar 13, 2018

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Me'Shell Ndegeocello joins Eric in conversation to discuss her early days growing up in a musical home, discovering exciting and varied music in her family's vast record collection, buying her first Prince record, auditioning for Living Colour just before signing her major label deal, working in the hit-centric music business, thoughts on recent comments regarding female artists from the Grammy world, thoughts on the current political and social climate in the world, the importance of her musical project Can I Get A Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin and what is ahead for that, her current covers record Ventriliquism and what inspired the interesting song choices she made for that record, what's next and much more!

Album By Album | Steven Wilson Mar 02, 2018

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ALBUM BY ALBUM: STEVEN WILSON presented by Henning Mielke and Craig Smith for the Pods & Sods Network recorded December 2017

Steven Wilson superfan Henning joins Steven Wilson obsessive Craig for a look at the solo catalog of their absolute favorite artist. First known for his work with Porcupine Tree, Wilson is one of - if not THE - most prolific musicians of our generation with numerous side projects and production credits to his name. Starting with 2009's Insurgentes, Wilson weaves through jazz and prog elements and concept albums with some stellar bandmates through the years to bring us to 2017's song-oriented To The Bone. Henning and Craig discuss each and pick some key tracks to sample.

To check out more SW, check out Uwe Häberle's Steven Wilson discography that is mentioned towards the beginning of the episode. As of this episode, it was last updated in May 2015 and contains 1,150 entries: http://www.voyage-pt.de/swdisco.html

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Neal Morse Picks the Essential Genesis Mar 01, 2018

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Neal Morse Picks The Essential Genesis

Neal Morse shares his 10 Essential Genesis songs. As one of the founders of Spock's Beard and Transatlantic, Neal Morse is a prog hero from the 90s through to today with his solo work (new album: Life & Times) and his Neal Morse Band. One of his favorite bands is Genesis - classic Genesis! So Neal shares his ten essential Genesis songs and his thoughts on why he picked those songs, how they influenced him, that era of prog rock and thoughts on working with and meeting several the guys in the band.

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