Records & Rockstars

The first episode in a four part recurring theme, this time featuring lots of special stuff, like Jack Black talking about the greatest rock band EVER, plus Jimmy Page on Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Angus Young on Bon Scott, Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones playing Russia for the first time, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson talk "train-wrecks", and live music to go with it all.

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The recurring theme is back, as we celebrate the majesty of the classic albums of 1973. This time, memories and music from albums out the 3rd quarter of that year. From ZZ, to Mott, to 10cc, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and some of the finest sounds of the south.

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A bit of a twisted start to a 25 minute escape into music and stories about people and places, hotels and motels, as we check into the Astor, Hotel Happiness, The Amsterdam Hilton, and what Don Henley says Hotel Cali is really about. Plus, two songs that inspired Records & Rockstars sister podcast, The Blue Hotel, The Memory Motel, and to wrap we'll take a ride in a Deathcab, and pop a psychedelic pill.

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More in part 2, the conclusion of our look at songs that gave someone else a shot at the lead vocal, including the other rare lead vocals alongside Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, plus Oasis, April Wine, and more.

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So many rock bands have a lead singer who carries most of the weight at the microphone. Think Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Who. AC/DC, and U2. But even Roger Daltrey, and Bono stepped away a couple times to give someone else a chance. This is that, with a breakdown of lead vocals by Beatles, Pink Floyd's "ringer", Keef, and more.

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These songs! And her voice! And these live performances, as passion abounds. Our friend Bif Naked says of our guest this time, “She's is the first artist about whom I felt so strongly. Her talent, words, and music move me like a hurricane”. Jeff's special guest this time is Toronto's Delyn Grey who brings out her left handed guitar and nails two performances of original songs, alongside two more of Delyn's songs from the studio, amid conversation about her career so far which is promising and exciting, with an October 2023 5 song EP release and live shows scheduled.

If there was a rack of records or CD's that if you like this one, you might like that one,

artists like PJ Harvey, Trent Reznor, Evanescence, might appear, next to her.

And she's moved audiences at The Drake, and Revival and The Horseshoe, and now she's here at Wild Woods Blue to sing and play and share words and music and her story, welcome singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist/band leader: Delyn Grey.

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This is a treat, long time coming, or perhaps as I like to think, it's precisely the right time, to finally meet and shine much deserved light upon multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her smile and her stories to Wild Woods Blue Studio. Her songs have landed in television and movies, and on record, as her 3rd full length releases fall 2023, from which she has put into the world, singles like “Slow Down”, and “Loved” and the one that most caught my ear as something very special, the song “Out of the Darkness” that comes with a harrowing true life story. She'll play two of those on her Martin guitar and her voice and playing are PERFECT. Plus we'll throw to five of Dani's exceptional songs from the studio, plus hear about the other facets of her career like teaching, and managing other artists, and for anyone thinking of creating and releasing music, Dani's Do's and Don'ts.  

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From Toronto, Dylan Hennessy is back as my special guest for the World Album Premiere Special, of MOBIUS RADIO. It's a 79 minute program, about an album unique in sound, and vision – that of Hennessy who invited me to contribute spoken word bits, intros and interludes, which may remind some of the ones legendary Los Angeles radio DJ Jim Ladd, contributed to Roger Water Radio K.A.O.S. album in the eighties.

Mobius Radio the album is now available on Bandcamp and wherever you stream your music.

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Jeff's special guest is as musical as it gets. And now a music author to boot. He learned to play, he learned to teach, and he landed the role as a guitarist in the “We Will Rock You” musical in Toronto, after winning the slot upon a successful audition with Brian May and Roger Taylor of QUEEN. Then he did some performances with Classic Albums Live, faithfully delivering the guitar parts of Jimmy Page for Zeppelin IV, and Alex Lifeson's guitar for the RUSH album 2112. He'd recreate records by other bands including Genesis, Beatles, YES, and Pink Floyd. Oh, and we talk KISS Cruise, because he's done that too. So, Bob Wegner knows how to play. He also knows how to compose. And now he's added author to his resume in coming out with Max Webster "High Class", the DEFINITIVE book about Max Webster, endorsed by Kim Mitchell and the other members of the Max machine, as it were. I hand Bob a guitar and he hands you a few performances including some deep tracks by Genesis and Paul McCartney, plus a precious gem by Max Webster. And we talk Beatles and Stones, and a reaction to Steve Lukather's recent rant about what the hell has become of (some) modern music and the way it's made.

Here comes the intelligent, talented and perfectly talkative Bob Wegner in an episode rooted in Max Webster, with branches all over the place, because these two are geeking out with Kim Mitchell's band, and beyond the moon.  

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The return of the guitar slingin' country livin' and playin' gent who after 30 years of laying it down on concert stages, comes with a full 8 song album of story-telling songs of passion, both up-tempo burners and introspective ballads, and a waltz, to boot. The title song "Talk To Me" finds Mike McCarthy reflective upon the exit of someone close. 45 minutes of Mike with Jeff Woods, for the premiere special of the "Talk to Me" album. May contain sax, mandolin, Hammond B3, guitars, bass, drums, vocals, but absolutely no nuts. Suitable for all family members ;)

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