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Join Holly Stephey as she talks to Ed Kleinman who in his words "This is my journey from listening to the bands of the mid 1950's to working with bands in the 60's and 70's. It is filled with stories regarding musicians in a time where the music industry was changing as quickly as the social and political climate."

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One tells a story of days gone by. A flash of your history, a snapshot of an instant.

Be it a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, it matters none.

Something jogs your brain cells where past history is stored.

You smile, and you think you have something worth telling.

 

*Ed Kleinman’s story chronicles his 18 years in the music industry from 1966 to 1984. He started as a part-time roadie making just enough money to buy cigarettes and put gas into his car. Eventually, he was able to hang out with musicians and tell lovely young ladies, “I’m with a band. You wanna meet one of ‘em?”

It tells how he was able to form his own entertainment company until he left the business world of rock and roll.

Those years brought a great deal of change to the music world and to all corners of society. The youth fought for equality for all, protested the Vietnam War and marched against it. The music got stronger, more political and more active in supporting change.

The 18 years he had in the music industry helped him further his career and enrich his sales force development role.

Join him as he reminisces and relives his rock and roll journey.

Peter Gabriel is one of rock music’s most active innovators. Between his Grammy- award-winning albums, social activism-based concerts, world music festivals, and his claim-to-fame band Genesis’s 2010 induction into the rock n’ roll hall of fame, Gabriel’s creative longevity is unquestionable. Author Daryl Easlea’s new biography, Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel illuminates this musical pioneer’s life and what inspires him. Daryl Easlea delves into the multi-talented Gabriel’s childhood, where he writes of young Gabriel’s influences, including his father who fostered his musical interest in everything from The Beatles to soul music. Gabriel began his musical career in the early 1970’s as the front man for Genesis, a band he created with fellow schoolmates. By 1975, citing the stress of being in the band and that Gabriel was newly married and with a baby, he set out on a solo career. Naming his first three albums after himself, he achieved moderate success with the singles “Solsbury Hill” and “Shock the Monkey.”  It wasn’t until Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, with the hits “Sledgehammer,” “Big Time,” and “In Your Eyes,” that he achieved commercial success. It was followed up five years later by the equally successful album US,  hits “Digging in the Dirt” and “Come Talk to Me” and as the author notes, is clearly the result of the singer’s personal struggles and years in therapy. Throughout Without Frontiers, Easlea weaves a beautiful biographical tapestry of Gabriel’s life. Quotes and interviews with friends and fellow musicians who were instrumental in Peter’s life help to chronicle the man and his immensely creative approach to his music.

Richie Scarlet, nicknamed ”The Emperor of Rock ’n Roll”, is multi-talented musician and producer from New York. The man started his career back in the late 70’s but he’s best known from his long and successful collaboration with former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. Scarlet has also worked with such names as Sebastian Bach, Mountain, and he’s released several solo albums, including the latest I PLEAD THE FIFTH which came out earlier this year.

London-born Ivor Davis first came to America in the early sixties and was appointed West Coast correspondent for the  London Daily Express in l963.His first big assignment came the following year: to hang out, travel with and get to know the four members of a new pop group from Liverpool who were tearing up the world with their music: the Beatles. In the summer of 1964 The Beatles embarked on a record-breaking, pandemonium tour of America. This is the first chronicle of that tour told by someone on the inside: Ivor Davis, then a young reporter for the London Daily Express. For 34 days, he had unrestricted access to the four boys from Liverpool from their hotel suites to the concert arenas to their private jet, fending off girls’ (& their mothers’) attempts to hook up with the band, playing all-night games of Monopoly with John Lennon, ghostwriting a newspaper column for George Harrison, being there as Bob Dylan introduced them to pot. In The Beatles and Me On Tour, Davis recounts the rip-roaring adventures of the most legendary band at a critical moment in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. As a writer for the Express & the Times of London, Ivor covered major events in North America. He penned a weekly entertainment column for the New York Times Syndicate interviewing some of the biggest names in show business. He was a co-author of the l969 book Divided They Stand, which chronicled the Presidential election & witnessed some of the biggest trials in American history: Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Bobby Kennedy , black-power militant Angela Davis, acquitted of murder in l972 Daniel Ellsberg’s trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers, Patty Hearst convicted of robbery after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. He co-wrote Five to Die, the first book ever published about the Sharon Tate murders.

A coastal community faces the wrath of a mysterious sea creature in Max Hawthorne’s heart pounding new novel, Kronos Rising.

 Max Hawthorne grew up in Philadelphia and graduated with a BA from Central High School and a BFA from the University of the Arts. He is a world record-holding angler whose writing has appeared in a multitude of outdoor magazines and periodicals. He is an avid sportsman and conservationist. His hobbies include fishing and the collection of fossils and antiquities. He lives with his family in the Greater Northeast.

Link to website ! http://www.kronosrising.com

Scentbird was born out of our frustration with the “perfume graveyard. All those scents you once loved (but got tired of wearing), all those scents you got as presents (and never really loved) all piling up and making you feel guilty about buying a new scent. But you love perfume! You love trying something new or matching the scent to the season oroccasion! New job? New man? You deserve a new scent. Still, at around $80 a pop, it is expensive and wasteful to buy new perfumes when you have all those “graveyard” perfumes left. Scentbird is the smart girl’s way to smelling amazing butspending smart. Just $14.95 amonth gets you a monthly supply of the perfume of your dreams. Designer and niche perfumes at your fingertips. Treat yourself to a new fragrance monthly or get your favorite;build a queue with the help of our recommender and be delighted by what you discover. Scentbird team was inspired by Andy Warhol.

*How it works! - 8 ml purse spray of any fragrance of your choice (enough perfume to apply daily for a whole month)  A custom perfume atomizer to protect your perfume. Just drop the purse spray we ship you every month into the atomizer, twist to close and you are good to go! Queue from a selection of 300+ designer perfumes and monthly new arrivals. Receive a 30-day supply of the fragrance of your choice every month. Update your perfume wardrobe monthly or stick to an old favorite. A luxury perfume automizer with your first order.No hidden fees, shipping inluded with the price of membership. "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."- Heinrich Heine, "Perfume is the most intense form of memory."- Jean Paul Guerlain.  Most of your scent memories come from the first decade of your life. The first perfume as we know it (a blend of essential oils and alcohol) was created in 1310 for Queen Elizabeth of Hungary.

Jesse Malin was born in Queens, New York. Jesse Malin’s passion for music began at an early age. Upon receiving his first nylon stringed acoustic guitar, Jesse taped an old 1950’s reel-to-reel recorder with a beat-up attached microphone to its body and the soon-to-be songwriter began his musical career.

Malin began playing live the age of twelve years old in the seminal hardcore band Heart Attack. After the group’s disbandment in 1984, Jesse and his childhood pals formed the rock and roll band D Generation and released three albums, touring the globe several times over before parting ways in 1999. Following several in-between bridge bands, including PCP Highway and Bellvue, Jesse Malin embarked on a solo career and has released five acclaimed records. Over the years Malin has also worked in both film and radio, currently co-hosting a monthly radio show on Sirius XM alongside John Varvatos, and is now completing production on a new album set to be released in 2015.

CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH WARD, BETTER KNOWN AS "CJ RAMONE," IS AN AMERICAN MUSICIAN BEST KNOWN AS THE BASSIST FOR THE PUNK ROCK GROUP THE RAMONES FROM 1989 TO 1996.PRIOR TO JONING THE BAND, CJ WAS A MARINE AND A RAMONESFAN. HE WAS SEEN AS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR INTO THE BAND. JOHNNY RAMONE CLAIMED HE KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHEN CJ AUDITIONED TO REPLACE DEE DEE THAT HE WAS RIGHT; COMMENTING THAT CJ "HAD THE RIGHT LOOK." WHEN THE RAMONES WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, ORIGINAL RAMONES DRUMMER TOMMY RAMONE CREDITED CJ WITH "KEEPING THE BAND YOUNG." CJ RAMONE WAS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER WHEN HE JOINED BY 9 YEARS. CJ'S FIRST SHOW WITH THE RAMONES WAS ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1989, IN LEICESTER, ENGLAND, AND HE PLAYED WITH THE BAND UNTIL THEY RETIRED ON AUGUST 6, 1996. AFTER THE RAMONES, HE PLAYED IN A BAND CALLED THE REMAINS, OR THE REMAINZ, WHICH WAS FORMED BY DEE DEE RAMONE, MARKY RAMONE, AND DEE DEE'S WIFE, BARBARA ZAMPINI (BARBARA RAMONE). HE ALSO PLAYED WITH HIS OWN BANDS LOS GUSANOS AND BAD CHOPPER. HE NOW TOURS ON HIS OWN AS CJ RAMONE WITH HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM - RECONQUISTA.

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. After serving as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, his solo career spanned several decades.

We will be featuring songs written by Joseph Arthur from his new Cd entitled "LOU"

Many people have been invited to take part in this show so , make sure to tune in as we never know who may be calling in... If you wanted to know what it was like with LOU , then don't miss this interview as there will be many things discussed and shared by those who Loved , worked and Friend's to LOU.

Lou Reed, Rock Icon never forgotten always remembered.

*Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. "Cooking on FB" was created because we often found ourselves talking about food and what we all create with Love ! We encourage people to Share their Recipes! Imagine Recipes from all over the world! Our Moms Favorite recipe, Friends or anyone who shared! This is one subject that Holly loves to talk about as she shares her love for food with everyone who passes through her life.. Make sure to tune in to hear all the fun things going on at "Cooking on FB" that can be found on the Net and On Facebook. Website and Facebook Page  Make sure to like the page and always check for new things to be added as new Yummy recipies are added every day.. Chefs and people who love food have been invited to be part of the show so you never now who may be calling in.. !