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On this episode, we are joined by The Legendary Rich Gilbert. Rich has had quite a career starting with his early days in the incredible Boston band Human Sexual Response, followed by the equally popular Zulus. Since then Rich has played with a who's who in music including Frank Black, Tanya Donelly, Wanda Jackson, Eileen Rose etc. We cover a lot of this in our talk and more. Enjoy!

Keep The Rock N Roll Alive.

On this episode, we are joined by Reid Paley, who in his own unique style has delivered great music to the masses since the early 80's. Reid started his musical journey when he moved to Pittsburgh and formed the outstanding garage punk band The Five. The band soon thereafter relocated to Boston and their buzz grew. When the band imploded Reid moved to Brooklyn and began a successful solo career which has included great musical collaborations with Frank Black(Black Francis) and The Reid Paley Trio. We had a great talk about all this and more. Enjoy!

Keep The Rock N Roll Alive.

On this episode we are joined by 18 year old Katy Nathan, who runs the Joe Perry fan page on Instagram and is a huge fan of Joe's music as well as Aerosmith in general. We also found out that she has an incredible knowledge of many other bands and proves it as she goes toe to toe with the host as they discuss their favorite songs from the Queen catalogue. 

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Keep The Rock N Roll Alive.

On this episode, we are joined by Jason "Ginchy" Kottwitz, guitarist and primary songwriter of the Austin Texas based rock band The Oxys.  "Ginchy", who has had stints with the reformed Dead Boys and Sylvain Sylvain and The Sylvains, and company made one of the coolest new albums ("A Date With The Oxys") to come out in 2022. The boys took the Dead Boys and Cheap Trick and smashed them together to come with a blazing guitar fueled rock n roll record that's up there with the best of them. We have a nice talk about the twenty year trip that led Ginchy to The Oxys and more..

Keep The Rock N Roll Alive.

Nat Freedberg returns to the show and plays "The Fastest Gun In Town" from Freeloader 2 live at Voice Motel. We go on to have a great conversation about a variety of topics including the passing of old bandmate Randall Gibson(The Flies, Scruffy The Cat), his songwriting process, his current band Freeloader, and the status of The Upper Crust.

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This is a replay of a show that originally aired on November 8, 2021 of our interview with Bob Nalbandian, who passed away last week. Bob started covering writing as a teenager and spent his entire adult life dedicated to promoting Heavy Metal as a writer, manager, podcaster, film maker, and even worked for a record label. This replay is a tribute to his life and career. Rest In Peace, Bob Nalbandian.

Recorded on zoom with additional editing done by Mike Nash at Voice Motel, Somerville MA on October 30, 2021

Cowboy Mach Bell returns to the show and shares details about his recovery from open heart surgery and talks about his latest book "I Gotta Rock. Cowboy was a member of Boston rock legends Thundertrain and later went on to front The Joe Perry Project and now has a new project called The Mach Bell Experience(MBE). In recent years he has written two books, the first "Once A Rocker, Always A Rocker" received stellar reviews to the point where he returned to writing and released "I Gotta Rock", another gem which documents his teenage years and early rock n roll path.  On the show he tells us incredible stories about seeing The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Jeff Beck Group, and the magical night when Thundertain opened for The Runaways and a trio of future Rock N Roll Hall Of Famers showed up at The Rat in Boston. 

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Keep The Rock N Roll Alive.

Our last episode of the year! 2022 is over and it was a fantastic year for us here at the Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico podcast! This week we take a look back at some of the great moments and guests we had on the show. We also look back at some of the artists that topped various charts and made it an exciting year in music.

Keep The Rock N Roll Alive

This episode is a special double header as we feature not one but two interviews in one show. Firstly, you will hear the host talk to Leah Callahan, a prolific songwriter and performer who has graced us over the years playing in bands like Turkish Delight, Betwixt, and The Glass Set, and now has released a string of impressive solo records. We get into her unique style of how she works with Richard Marr at Galaxy Park and his fantastic house musicians.  Following our talk with Leah, we have another fantastic songwriter, our old friend Kristian Montgomery, who has his fourth album("Lower County Outlaw") in two years coming in February, which is a pretty incredible task in itself. Kristian talks about his ups and downs and his continued to perseverance to write personal heartfelt songs. Two stylistically different artists, both prolific in their own ways...

On this episode of the show, we are joined by Jonathan Anastas, bassist of one of the original Boston straight edge hardcore bands - DYS. Also a member of the "Boston Crew" and the original bassist of Slapshot, Anastas has deep roots in the early days of American Hardcore. We had a great talk about Jonathan's hardcore beginnings with Decadence, DYS' formation, break up and reformation, and how the band is still active, relevant, and more popular than ever with a new deal coming in 2023. If that is not enough, we were also treated with a new track from Jonathan's solo project DYSbanded, which features DYS bandmate and trendsetter Dave Smalley on lead vocals...

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