Rock 'n' Roll Fridays

Great chat with screenwriter Jeff Hupp on his latest project "Band on the Run"
A story at the height of the Detroit Garage Rock revival in 1999, a wheelchair-bound father, his musician son and his band bond on a raucous road trip as they war with a rival band on the way to South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.

It's Little Miss Sunshine meets Almost Famous meets Kodachrome

Born and raised in Berkley, MI, Jeff Hupp is an advertising professional, musician, and screenwriter. In the 90s, Jeff's band, the Detroit-based The Atomic Numbers, performed and recorded for various record labels, had a song included in Super Sucker, a movie from Michigan-native Jeff Daniels and rocked venues across the US, including the infamous local fave, Pine Knob Music Theatre, in Clarkston, MI.

During the pandemic, Jeff began screenwriting and soon placed in major screenwriting competitions, including The Page International (for his script Maybe Before New Year's) and the Austin Screenwriting Competition (for his comedy script "Band Freaks"). Jeff is looking forward to producing and directing his first indie film, Band on the Run in the summer of '23, utilizing an all Michigan-based production crew and actors.

For more information on the movie:  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/band-on-the-run-a-road-trip-comedy-indie-film#/

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Interview with Max Kendall. In this interview we talk playing live, mashups, songwriting and all things from the band Deco. Songwriter for Radio 1 favourites, Deco. Signed to Ultra Records. 

The brains behind viral mashup hits including 'Wonderwall x Smalltown Boy'. Played with Nile Rogers & Chic, Jess Glynne, Boy George & Culture Club. Worked closely with songwriters Pete Hammerton (One Direction, Little Mix), Paul Harris (Kylie Minogue, Purple Disco Machine). A lot of his work has been for viral pop band Deco who have had a very successful 2021 with mashup hits and supporting the likes of Nile Rogers & Chic, Jess Glynne and Culture Club. National TV appearances and Radio 1s Big weekend have followed.

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Great conversation with  Gary Gebler - Owner of Trax on Wax. Our talk was about meeting Peter Gabriel, the vinyl revolution, the greatest vinyl record of all time and what makes a great record store experience!

Gary has been working in the retail music world since 1974: district manager for Sam Goody, Vice President of Record and Tape Traders in Towson, MD * Opened Trax on Wax in 2009 to get back to what made him get into the business in the first place ... talking to cool people about cool music ..... opening the store was going against every trend conceivable .... economic, digital, political... * Won numerous industry awards: Retailer of the Year 1996-2006 and Billboard Magazine award * Has helped launch the careers of many of today's performers * Trax on Wax is Baltimore's only "true" record store ... just Vinyl and Vinyl related products.

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Great interview with Nicole June of June and The Jets. We talk live music, playing live and working at a music studio. Join the revolution of Rock 'n' Roll Fridays.

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Great interview with David Downham, owner of The Gradwell House Studios.

Yes, it was originally a house with a basement studio/DIY show space in Maple Shade NJ on W. Gradwell Ave. The studio has since occupied a chop shop in Gloucester City (2002-2004), some slumlord's leaky-roofed shit-hole on Atlantic ave in Haddon Heights (2004-2016) and our new wonderful and permanent home just around the corner in a repurposed, custom designed and built Masonic Lodge (Lodge 191 Y'all) on Station Ave in downtown Haddon Heights, NJ.

The original basement location was in Steve Poponi's (co-owner) rented Maple Shade, NJ home for 4 long . . . carpet-remnant-wall-covered, does-that-band-own-a-tuner, Samson-mixer-having, pj-whelihans-chicken-caesar-salad-clogging-up-the-utility-sink-right-behind-my-mix-position-smelling years. 

After Steve’s move to the Gloucester City chop-shop location Dave Downham entered the picture as a sparkly blue-eyed second engineer. Coming from his own soon-to-be defunct Cherry Hill NJ "Couches in the Desert" basement studio Dave and Steve became 50/50 partners.  In addition to recording horrible bands (it was 2004, think high school Metalcore bands) and a couple good ones (really just Sugar Queef), the Gloucester location also continued to host live shows for touring bands (pretend there is an epic list here) and tons of local garbage. 

The limitations of this space and bondo dust in the air as well as the junkyard dogs and the prostitute-sidewalk-highway and the both-my-landlords-went-to-jail-1-month-after-we-signed-our-lease got Steve and Dave looking to move The Gradwell House again thus bringing them to Haddon Heights, NJ. The original Haddon Heights location was built with recording bands "live" in mind, and after 12 leaky-roofed years in this rented location, the limitations of this space once again got them looking to relocate, this time to buy! In 2016 The Gradwell House opened its permanent home, a custom built, wonderfully flexible, 6000 square foot music facility in downtown Haddon Heights.

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Great interview with Peter Brown of Loudo Guitars.

At 14, he took apart his Squire Stratocaster, and then hastily reassembled it when he saw his mom’s reaction. It wasn’t until Brown discovered the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, Arizona, that he finally found his calling.

At Roberto Venn, Brown trained himself to work long hours, performing complicated technical guitar repairs and honing in on elements of instrument design. He began to form his own theories about the craft of guitar-making, and set out to explore some of its mysteries.

“In the guitar industry, there’s a whole lot of mojo with how things work,” Brown said. “People know a little bit, and whatever you can’t explain becomes mojo. It seems to be one of those ways people sell stuff.

“I see it as a science,” he said. “If your mechanic tried to sell you on mojo, you wouldn’t take your car there.”

One of them took a shine to his ideas about guitar-making, and told him, “You’re laudo,’” which his classmate interpreted as Latin for “praiseworthy.” The Imperium, Pete Brown’s inaugural guitar model for his Loudo brand. Credit: Matt Walker for Loudo. He would spend the next 15 years restoring and rebuilding guitars, all the while refining the designs of his own instrument models.

One of the first musicians to play the Imperium is Zach LoPresti, a longtime friend of Brown’s and Loudo’s first brand ambassador. A talented improvisational player with the bands Gnarbot and Out of the Beardspace, LoPresti said the Imperium allows him to switch among a variety of feels on the fly.



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Great interview with Yvette Lopez about music, a new album, posing in Playboy, traveling with her family band as a child and recording in Berlin. 

Yvette Anna Marie Lopez was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico into a family of musicians, and has been inclined to dance from a very early age. A trained Spanish dancer, she forayed into the world of modelling at the age of 17. 

One of the most loved models in the USA, Yvette has appeared in 6 Playboy issues and has also graced the cover pages of several other esteemed magazines, such as Maxim Español, Lowrider, and FHM. She was voted to FHM’s Top 100 Hottest Celebrities and she also had a special celebrity guest appearance on Chris Angel's Mindfreak show. 

Also a musician, Yvette has written and recorded songs with famous producers like Jens Gad, Toby Gad, Willie Wilcox and Peter Rafelson. She has just finished the recording of her latest bilingual album in Berlin. In October 2021, she launched her own podcast show, Bodacious Minds. The former Playboy model also owns a clothing line called Walking On Love.

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Great interview with Lisa Bouchelle who talks about her new album, singing with major musical stars and playing live across the country.

Lisa Bouchelle has sung backup for Bruce Springsteen, dueted in concert with Jon Bon Jovi on his country hit "Who says You Can't Go Home," and has toured with and/or opened for Train, Bryan Adams, Don Felder of The Eagles, Blues Traveler, Meat Loaf, America, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Shooter Jennings, The Wailers, and Donovan Frankenreiter, among others. Her latest album is nopw out via Sony's The Orchard, and the first single reached #21 on the Billboard Magazine A/C Chart, reaching #21. Videos utilizing music from the album have over 4.6 million views on TikTok; and the video was picked up by MTVu for streaming on college campuses across the U.S.

New Music! Jump In!:
https://youtu.be/iT6JWzSDJY8 

Twice As Tall:
https://youtu.be/s6txdzEn_HY

Only The Tequila Talkin' (featuring John Popper):
https://youtu.be/06VbgC4rHBs


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Great interview with Nancy Barile. She along with countless other women in the city in the early 1980s,  was an integral part of Philadelphia’s punk and hardcore scenes, as a promoter, manager and writer. Nancy Barile, decided to write her own memoir, I’m Not Holding Your Coat. Now in its 2nd edition, the book struck a chord. 

From disaffected Catholic schoolgirl and 1970s music fanatic to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile pursued freedom at a time when punk music was new and dangerous. While booking some of Philadelphia's earliest DIY shows featuring Minor Threat and SSD, and managing raw local acts, Nancy was at the fierce center of the action as insurgents such as the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag rewrote history. She survived punk riots and urban decay, ran the streets with outcasts, and, in her rebellion, ultimately found true love--and a powerful understanding of human nature.

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Great interview with Jessica Magoch about performing live, her diverse musical background, the new sound of Jazz Hop and working with Joe Nicolo. Jessica Magoch pours a glam cocktail of swing, hip hop, blues and rap. Originally from Queens, NY, Jessica and her band reside in and near the Philadelphia area. They are winners of the PHL Live Music Award for Jazz and ranked 13 out of 100 of years best indie songs of 2020 on CFAB Radio, and recently won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Song of the Week ! The Butcher Bros. is an American music production team made up of brothers Phil and Joe Nicolo, originally based out of Philadelphia in the mid-to-late '80s. Together and individually, the brothers have produced albums for a wide variety of bands, including Urge Overkill, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Amy Grant, Cypress Hill, Nine Inch Nails, Dog Eat Dog, Anthrax, Rett Smith and Luscious Jackson. Learn more about Rock 'n' Roll Fridays: http://www.rocknrollfridays.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rocknrollfridays

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