Deeper Digs

Deeper Digs

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Deeper Digs episodes

  • Conversation with Bob Lefsetz

    The Rock N Roll Archaeologist has a conversation with thought leader and music-industry observer Bob Lefsetz. Lefsetz is the author and publisher of the Lefsetz Letter. The Lefsetz Letter is the original music-industry blog. It was a blog before there even were blogs--it goes back to 1986. First it was a mailed-out subscription newsletter that went mostly to music biz types, then in the Nineties it becamce an email bulletin with about ten thousand subscribers.

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    1 hr 26 min
  • Dave Davies of The Kinks

    What can you add about a living legend? Tune in to find out as Dave Davies of The Kinks speaks to the Rock N Roll Archaeologist about his new album, ‘Decade’ out October 12th, 2018, the family affair with some of his children’s musical endeavors and of course possible comings and goings with brother Ray as we scratch up something news worthy. A Kinks reunion?

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    58 min
  • Growin' Up Rock

    A chat with Steven Michael and Sonny “Hollywood” Pooni of ‘Growin’ Up Rock’ Podcast fame! These two rockers joined forces to talk all things hard rock and metal. They are true fans and live for the music. Like all of us at the RNRA, it is in the blood stream, born in an age when music was the currency that drove the culture. But they aren’t just discussing the past, they are very much into the present. In fact, their fourth show featured Sam Kizka from current young rock gods Greta Van Fleet!

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    1 hr 23 min
  • Dennis Dunaway of Alice Cooper

    As teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway, bassist and co-songwriter for the Alice Cooper group, and lead singer Vince Furnier (who would later change his name to Alice Cooper) formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars, and teens clubs. Their wild, impossible journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene, and along the way they discovered the utterly original performance style and look that would make them the stuff of legend.

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    1 hr 59 min
  • K.K. Downing of Judas Priest

    It’s a deep dig into what makes K.K. one of the greatest guitarists in heavy metal, growing up very poor in the midlands of England after WWII, and finding music as a path to escape where he ends up in one of the biggest bands in the world. He is the first member of the band that becomes Judas Priest, the workhorse and the glue that keeps it together until he leaves in 2011. We discuss all of it and more from his new book 'Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest'

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    1 hr 33 min
  • Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock with Steven Hyden

    The Rock N Roll Archaeologist, Christian Swain sits down with Steven Hyden, the author of the newly released 'Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock', a thoughtful meditation on the history, current state and potential futures of “Classic Rock” (his assertion is 1967-1999) music. If you are a deep Digger, you will not want to miss this deep conversation.

    Hyden is also the author of the critically acclaimed 'Your Favorite Band is Killing Me' offers an eye-opening exploration of the state of classic rock, its past and future, the impact it has had, and what its loss would mean to an industry, a culture, and a way of life.
    Since the late 1960s, a legendary cadre of artists—including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, and the Who—has revolutionized popular culture and the sounds of our lives. While their songs still get airtime and some of these bands continue to tour, its idols are leaving the stage permanently. Can classic rock remain relevant as these legends die off, or will this major musical subculture fade away as many have before, Steven Hyden asks.
    In this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Hyden stands witness as classic rock reaches the precipice. Traveling to the eclectic places where geriatric rockers are still making music, he talks to the artists and fans who have aged with them, explores the ways that classic rock has changed the culture, investigates the rise and fall of classic rock radio, and turns to live bootlegs, tell-all rock biographies, and even the liner notes of rock’s greatest masterpieces to tell the story of what this music meant, and how it will be remembered, for fans like himself.
    Twilight of the Gods is also Hyden’s story. Celebrating his love of this incredible music that has taken him from adolescence to fatherhood, he ponders two essential questions: Is it time to give up on his childhood heroes, or can this music teach him about growing old with his hopes and dreams intact? And what can we all learn from rock gods and their music—are they ephemeral or eternal?
    Buy the book here: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062657121/twilight-of-the-gods/
    Steven Hyden on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourfavoritebandiskillingme/
    More on Steven Hyden: https://grantland.com/contributors/steven-hyden/#
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    Call us at 650-822-ROCK or email at: [email protected]

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    1 hr 34 min
  • Wayne Kramer of MC5

    Wayne Kramer is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer/ Kramer came to prominence as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5 (Motor City Five), a group known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing politics. MC broke up in 1972 amid personality conflicts, drug abuse and personal problems. Wayne battled drug addiction for many years, finally recovering in the 1990’s where he returned to an active recording and performing schedule.

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna

    Jorma has just released his memoir, 'Been So Long: My Life and Music'. From the privileged son of an American diplomat where he spent his youth in far away lands, to finding himself in San Francisco as the ‘Summer of Love’ was blooming, where he helps form the foundational band Jefferson Airplane. After a few years at the heights of rock stardom he forms Hot Tuna with bandmate, Jack Casady and they’ve been playing together ever since.

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    1 hr 34 min
  • Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers

    Mindi Abair is a two time Grammy Award nominated saxophonist, vocalist, author and national trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization that puts on the Grammy Awards show. Born in St. Petersburg, Florida and educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she graduated magna cum laude, she moved to the West Coast to pursue a multi-decade music career.

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    1 hr 35 min
  • Fare Thee Well with Joel Selvin

    Joel Selvin is a San Francisco Based music critic and author known for his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle which ran from 1972-2009. Selvin has written almost twenty books on various aspects of pop music, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock with Sammy Hagar. Joel has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard and Melody Maker. He has appeared in documentaries about the music scene.

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    1 hr 33 min

About Deeper Digs

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Deeper Digs is the companion show to the Rock N Roll Archaeology Podcast. We conduct interviews, go on field trips, and comment on special topics with rockers, writers, academics, artists,…

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