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  • "The Doors: Every Album, Every Song"/Tony Thompson [Episode 38]
    The Doors remain one of the most original acts in the history of Rock and Roll. However, their actual music is sometimes overshadowed by the cult of Jim Morrison. Those with long memories will recall a point in the 1980s when he went from lead singer of an old band to a signifier of cool known as ‘Morrison.’ His image appeared everywhere on t-shirts, posters, and in the film The Lost Boys, adorning a wall in Keifer Sutherland’s vampire cave. A biopic in the 1990s attempted something like realism but managed only to dramatize the legend of the ‘Lizard King’. Meanwhile, outside of a few high rotation tracks on ‘classic’ rock stations, most of their work took a back seat to Jim’s ever-growing status as a cultural icon.

    “The Doors: Every Album Every Song” dusts off the vinyl and puts on the headphones for a sustained reappraisal of the band’s musical career. Hidden gems, deep cuts, overrated top ten hits and an enigmatic series of album closers are all subjected to late night interrogations. Let’s head to Venice Beach circa 1965, pick up a Fender bass organ on the way, take a face from the ancient gallery and walk on down the hall…

    Tony Thompson is a Canadian writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of “Summer of Monsters”, a novel about Mary Shelley’s early life, and “Shakespeare: The Most Famous Man in London”. His articles on books, music, and education have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Daily Review Australia, toppermost.co.uk, and Eureka St. He’s been a regular guest at the Melbourne Writers Festival and other literary events throughout Australia. He also plays blues harmonica with great enthusiasm.

    Purchase a copy of "The Doors: Every Album, Every Song" through Burning Shed: https://burningshed.com/tony-thompson_the-doors-on-track_book

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    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4B9KphjWZa1GVpPJeIy87v?si=a28d82afc2ea4cd1



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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    2 hr 5 min
  • "Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters"/Arthur Lizie [Episode 37]
    "Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters" is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty years of conversations, feature stories, and press conferences.

    With many interviews widely available for the first time—including new transcriptions and first-time translations into English—the book spans Young's words and ideas from 1967 onward: his early days with Buffalo Springfield and 1970s Harvest-fueled celebrity apex, an artistic rebellion and 1980s commercial dip, and the unexpected 1990s revival as the "Godfather of Grunge" through to his multi-decade victory lap as a living legend.

    Across the decades, Young's own words tell the story as he perpetually reinvents himself as a master of music and film, a technology pioneer and innovator, and a bold political observer and strident environmental advocate.

    Arthur Lizie is a professor of communication and media studies at Bridgewater State University. He lives in Massachusetts.

    Purchase a copy of "Neil Young On Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters" through Chicago Review Press: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/neil-young-on-neil-young-products-9781641604635.php


    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4IkkjzwEVQ87vRF3U35D2f?si=25106314d7624189


    More Musicians In Their Own Words books from Chicago Review Press: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/titles-pages-30.php#by_Series_musicians-in-their-own-words

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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    1 hr 8 min
  • "Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles"/William McKeen [Episode 36]
    Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three and a half minutes.

    But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between naïve young musicians and the hangers-on who exploited the decade's peace, love, and flowers ethos, all fueled by sex, drugs, and overnight success. One surf music superstar unwittingly subsidized the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. The transplanted Texas singer Bobby Fuller might have been murdered by the Mob in what is still an unsolved case. And after hearing Charlie Manson sing, Neil Young recommended him to the president of Warner Bros. Records. Manson's ultimate rejection by the music industry likely led to the infamous murders that shocked a nation.

    "Everybody Had an Ocean" chronicles the migration of the rock 'n' roll business to Southern California and how the artists flourished there. The cast of characters is astonishing—Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, eccentric producer Phil Spector, Cass Elliot, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, and scores of others—and their stories form a modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror. You'll never hear that beautiful music in quite the same way.

    William McKeen is the author of nine books and the editor of four more. He teaches at Boston University, where he chairs the Department of Journalism and serves as associate dean of the College of Communication. He teaches literary journalism, history of journalism, reporting, feature writing and history of rock’n’roll. He's worked for several newspapers and magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, The American Spectator, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, The Palm Beach Post in Florida and The St. Petersburg Times in Florida. His writing has appeared in Holiday, American History, Maxim, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has appeared on “The Today Show,” “The O’Reilly Factor,” “The CBS Evening News” and other news programs.

    Purchase a copy of "Everybody Had An Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles" through Chicago Review Press: https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/everybody-had-an-ocean-products-9781641605717.php?page_id=21

    Find out more about William McKeen at his official website: https://www.williammckeen.com

    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZCZOwSP6YrZL00WBlmKkT?si=66936c284ea340ef

    Recommended Reading: “Glimpses” by Louis Shiner https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JZ0EUK/ref


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    1 hr 35 min
  • "Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix"/Philip Norman [Episode 35]
    Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele and in fear of a father who would hit him for playing left-handed. Bringing Jimi’s story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock, and with a wealth of new information, acclaimed music biographer Philip Norman delivers a captivating and definitive portrait of a musical legend.

    Drawing from unprecedented access to Jimi’s brother, Leon Hendrix, who provides disturbing details about their childhood, as well as Kathy Etchingham and Linda Keith, the two women who played vital roles in Jimi’s rise to stardom, Norman traces Jimi’s life from playing in clubs on the segregated Chitlin’ Circuit, where he encountered daily racism, to barely surviving in New York’s Greenwich Village, where was taken up by the Animals’ bass player Chas Chandler in 1966 and exported to Swinging London and international stardom.

    For four staggering years, from 1966 to 1970, Jimi totally rewrote the rules of rock stardom, notably at Monterey and Woodstock (where he played his protest-infused rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner”), while becoming the highest-paid musician of his day. But it all abruptly ended in the shabby basement of a London hotel with Jimi’s too-early death. With remarkable detail, Wild Thing finally reveals the truth behind this long-shrouded tragedy.

    Norman’s exhaustive research reveals a young man who was as shy and polite in private as he was outrageous in public, whose insecurity about his singing voice could never be allayed by his instrumental genius, and whose unavailing efforts to please his father left him searching for the family he felt he never truly had. Filled with insights into the greatest moments in rock history, Wild Thing is a mesmerizing account of music’s most enduring and endearing figures.

    Philip Norman is the best-selling biographer of Eric Clapton, Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Jimi Hendrix. A novelist and a playwright, he lives in London.

    Purchase a copy of "Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix" through Liveright Books/WWNorton: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631495892


    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1E2qgiPpmVxTSC4rA7qBYl?si=681ed5656179492f


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    44 min
  • "Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock"/Michael Christopher [Episode 34]
    Come the late '70s, the rock music landscape was littered with the bloated carcasses of bands who partied too hard, burned out, or became complacent in success. The door was open for something fresh, wild, and enrapturing. Enter Van Halen. Made up of two Dutch-born brothers, one on drums and the other whose guitar was an extension of his very being, a bass player with a golden throat, and a frontman who made up for his lack of traditional singing ability with attitude and gravity-defying acrobatics onstage, they were unlike anything ever seen before.

    Alex and Edward Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and David Lee Roth put a cap on one decade and exploded into the next with a brand of music not quite punk, not quite metal, and not at all subtle. They went from headlining backyard keggers to top billing at the US Festival in front of three hundred thousand people within five years. Then, right when it looked like there wasn't an obstacle created to slow the Mighty Van Halen ascent, the group imploded from the inside out, only to rebound stronger than ever with ex-Montrose howler Sammy Hagar leading them to four consecutive number one albums.

    "Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock" tells the story of how one of America's greatest bands weathered arguably the most dramatic soap opera in rock and roll history with songs that would weave themselves into the fabric of every musician who heard them, alongside an incendiary and unrivaled live show. Featuring exclusive interviews with insiders, fans, and artists who were there to witness the rise, the tumult, and the making of legends, it's a story that has to be read to be believed.

    Michael Christopher is a journalist and music historian. He is the author of "Depeche Mode: All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band". A senior writer for the online music magazine Vanyaland, where he was a founding member and later managing editor, he contributes regularly to Ultimate Classic Rock, Loudwire, and LA Weekly. He also has a music and lifestyle column in the Daily Times, a newspaper in the Philadelphia metro region. His work has appeared in the Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, Rockpile, and Diffuser. He lives in Boston, building a respectable vinyl collection.

    Purchase a copy of "Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock" at the Van Halen Store: https://www.vanhalenstore.com/page/VH/books/B73

    Get the latest Van Halen news, read Van Halen-related features and more at the Van Halen News Desk: https://www.vhnd.com

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    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Y8IAG4i5a1ACkXq5Ul2YT?si=9c1713acb0924823


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    1 hr 43 min
  • "Haunted Rock & Roll" & "More Haunted Rock & Roll"/Matt Swayne [Episode 33]
    "Haunted Rock & Roll: Ghostly Tales Of Musical Legends" - From Rock & Roll’s pioneers to its contemporary rebels, the greatest names live on after death - in unexpected and frightening ways. Discover thrilling stories of Michael Jackson, Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Amy Winehouse, and many more rockers who’ve been seen haunting their favorite bars, clubs, and homes. "Haunted Rock and Roll" covers rock’s entire paranormal legacy, allowing you to explore the famous faces, places, and legends that define one of the biggest cultural movements of all time.

    Experience true stories of rock star ghosts while enjoying trivia and insights from renowned ghost hunters and researchers. Whether they’re making demonic deals for fame or being chased into the afterlife under mysterious circumstances, rockers have followed the same motto: live fast, die young, and leave a restless spirit.


    "More Haunted Rock & Roll: More Tales of Guitar Hero Ghosts, Rock Star Curses and Musical Mysteries" - "More Haunted Rock & Roll, the sequel to Haunted Rock & Roll", adds more ghost stories, creepy occult legends, and rock star UFO encounters to the extensive paranormal lore of Rock & Roll.

    Some of the ghost stories and ghost lore you’ll encounter in "More Haunted Rock & Roll" include: Did the ghost of John Lennon return to give his family messages of peace and love? Jim Morrison got kicked out of Barney’s Beanery for public urination, but he may be back on the guest list. Or is that the ghost list? Was AC/DC’s charismatic first lead singer Bon Scott behind the supernatural coaching session that bolstered the spirits of Brian Johnson, his replacement?

    Were the members of the Moody Blues subjects of rock’s first alien abduction? You may have heard of the Curse of the 27 Club. Get ready for the Grunge Singer Jinx. Kids in Satan’s Service? Backmasking messages? How about positive affirmations and creative visualization? It turns out that rock has a positive occult side too. Are you ready to revisit the crossroads? You’ll get a chance to read about these encounters and a bunch more. The book features over 30 chapters brimming with more stories about rock star ghosts, more rock star paranormal encounters, more haunted rock places, and more rock curses and mysteries.

    Purchase a copy of "Haunted Rock & Roll" and "More Haunted Rock & Roll" through Matt Swayne's official website: https://www.mattswayne.com


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)

    Music also used in this episode: "Posesión de la Gente Sombra" by Humanfobia (https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com)
    51 min
  • "I May Be Old but I've Seen All the Cool Bands"/Ken Schwartz [Episode 32]
    You’ve probably read about Led Zeppelin’s success in their famous biography "Hammer of the Gods". You watched Queen take over the world in "Bohemian Rhapsody". And although you probably won’t admit it to your friends, you enjoyed the crazy TV ride in Motley Crüe’s "The Dirt". Rock bios are all the rage. Lead singers, guitarists, managers, roadies, groupies, even drummers have told their tales and they all point to the same reason for their success...The Fans: This is their story. This is our story!

    In "I May Be Old but I've Seen All the Cool Bands", we read the story from the point of view of a life-long music fanatic. Read how music helped turn a shy kid into an extroverted metal head and how a passion for rock can shape anyone’s life. And laugh along as you try and understand how anyone could blow off a legend like Whitney Houston!

    Purchase a copy of "I May Be Old But I've Seen All the Cool Bands: One Fan's Story about Why Music Matters" through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/May-Old-Seen-Cool-Bands-ebook/dp/B09BP3PM15

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    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5CtNdWHKVJSjKjQ85F10G2?si=d0a6f55211274bdf

    Hear Tommy James "Celebration" including Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley of KISS on backing vocals (1972): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ctk_A57F6w

    Watch Pincushion Jones "All The Cool Bands": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bshz6s_f8a4

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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    1 hr 25 min
  • "Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There"/Marc Myers [Episode 31]
    Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience—and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In "Rock Concert", acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to uncover the history of this compelling phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there.

    Myers combines the tales of icons like Joan Baez, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Roger Waters, and Angus Young with figures such as the disc jockeys who first began playing rock on the radio, like Alan Freed in Cleveland and New York; the audio engineers that developed new technologies to accommodate ever-growing rock audiences; music journalists, like Rolling Stone's Cameron Crowe; and the promoters who organized it all, like Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, to create a rounded and vivid account of live rock's stratospheric rise.

    "Rock Concert" provides a fascinating, immediate look at the evolution of rock 'n' roll through the lens of live performances —spanning from the rise of R&B in the 1950s, through the hippie gatherings of the '60s, to the growing arena tours of the '70s and '80s. Elvis Presley's gyrating hips, the British Invasion that brought the Beatles in the '60s, the Grateful Dead's free flowing jams, and Pink Floyd's The Wall are just a few of the defining musical acts that drive this rich narrative. Featuring dozens of key players in the history of rock and filled with colorful anecdotes, Rock Concert will speak to anyone who has experienced the transcendence of live rock.

    Marc Myers is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about music and the arts. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Anatomy of a Song and Why Jazz Happened, and posts daily at JazzWax.com, a three-time winner of the Jazz Journalists Association’s award for Jazz Blog of the Year.

    Purchase a copy of "Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There" through Grove Atlantic: https://groveatlantic.com/book/rock-concert

    Find Marc Myers at his official website: https://www.anatomyofasong.com

    Read Marc Myers' daily blogs at JazzWax: https://www.jazzwax.com


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    1 hr 30 min
  • "Searching For Jimmy Page"/Christy Alexander Hallberg [Episode 30]
    "Searching For Jimmy Page" is the fictional story of Luna Kane. The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna’s repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s legendary guitar wizard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother’s suicide, to tease fact from family lore in order to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family’s farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred, Jimmy Page.

    Christy Alexander Hallberg teaches literature and writing online at East Carolina University. She serves as Senior Associate Editor of North Carolina Literary Review. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as North Carolina Literary Review, storySouth, Main Street Rag, Fiction Southeast, Riggwelter, Deep South Magazine, Eclectica, Litro, STORGY Magazine, Entropy, and Concho River Review. Her flash story “Aperture” was chosen Story of the Month by Fiction Southeast for October 2020 and was selected by the editors of the annual Best Small Fictions anthology series for the 2021 edition. She lives near Asheville, North Carolina.

    Purchase a copy of "Searching For Jimmy Page" through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Jimmy-Christy-Alexander-Hallberg/dp/1604892919

    Find out all about Christy Alexander Hallberg at her official website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com


    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VmwIe8XoJvJ92g83Al0hV?si=31682e2564094127


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    The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” & “Nasty” by Crowander (https://www.crowander.com)
    42 min
  • "Southern Man: Music and Mayhem in the American South"/Alan Walden [Episode 29]
    Written with S.E. Feinberg, Alan Walden’s "Southern Man" is the memoir of a life in music during one of the most racially turbulent times in American history. It presents the voice of Alan Walden—a remarkable, sensitive, humble, and brilliant man; a boy from the country who, serendipitously, along with his brother Phil and best friend Otis Redding, helped to nurture a musical renaissance. It is the story of a son of Macon, Georgia, and his passion for R&B and rock’n’roll at a time when it took wits and a Southern persistence to overcome the obstacles on the hard scrabble road to success—the tragedy of loss, disappointment, and betrayal, along with the joy of victory, optimism, and hope—and taking a dream right over the mountain. That dream led him to work with and nurture the talents of a virtual who’s who of Southern music, from Sam & Dave and Percy Sledge to Boz Scaggs and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

    Anyone who was alive during the golden age of R&B and Southern rock remembers the music, but Alan’s narrative invites the reader to the center of the story, into the studio and on the road, to backroom deals and backroom brawls. It wasn’t always peaches and cream. The music business is tough, and Alan Walden was one of the toughest kids on the street. He had to be, in order to survive in a world of guitars, guts, and guns. This is rock’n’roll noir—the story of a few pioneers who cut the rock and laid the pipe under the hard scrabble terrain so that the water of creativity can more freely flow today.

    Alan Walden helped to forge, along with his brother Phil and best friend Otis Redding, the foundation of a musical renaissance that emerged from the American South. As a manager, publisher, promoter, and producer, Alan helped to bring scores of artists into the world's consciousness—from R&B to Southern rock, from Percy Sledge to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Alan is an inductee into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and is the recipient of numerous gold and platinum records. He was recently honored by having a rehearsal room named after him at the newly restored Capricorn Studios. Alan currently resides on his ranch close to his beloved Macon, Georgia, with his wife Tosha, and continues to advise and encourage young people going into the music business.

    S.E. Feinberg grew up in Boston and was trained at the American Center for the Performing and Creative Arts, at Boston Center for the Arts, where he began a life of writing, directing, and producing plays. His play "The Happy Worker" was first produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, later touring through Eastern Europe. His screenplay of "The Happy Worker", executive produced by David Lynch, directed by Duwayne Dunham, and starring Thomas Haden Church and Josh Whitehouse, is now in postproduction. Steve is the co-author of "What’s Exactly The Matter With Me?", the memoir of P.F. Sloan, one of the most mysterious and elusive composers in the history of rock’n’roll. He recently completed "The Last Yiddish Pachuco", a musical comedy about the last Yiddish theatre in the Boyle Heights district of East Los Angeles.

    Purchase a copy of "Southern Man: Music and Mayhem in the American South" through Jawbone Press: http://jawbonepress.com/southern-man

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    Listen to a playlist of the music discussed in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/437n3Eo2BBxgBPCb78OQaM?si=aeda3e89a7754468


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    1 hr 44 min

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