Rock 'n' Roll Fridays

Great conversation with Brian Hahne. Brian is heavily involved with Curation Records and one of the founders of Raven's Reels Almanac. Great story about him meeting Bob Weir and how he started Raven's Reels Almanac to promote The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Circles Around The Sun and The Green Leaf Rustlers.


https://curationrecords.com/

California has always stood tall, visible from every peak and accessible from basements and backseats everywhere that hope, hurt and harmony exists within. A chrome, sunburned paragon of cool where pushers, poets and pretenders of sound are called to first test themselves before traversing the coastal communes, hills and highways with their musical wares.  From Bakersfield to Berkeley, Hermosa Beach to Humboldt all roads would eventually lead to Hollywood. The country ghosts of the Palomino and the punk ethos of the Masque stood together, electrified and psychedelicized in an all out assault on the poetic conventions and norms of the times. -- California Curated Cool, Curation Records.

Raven's Reels Almanac
https://ravensreelsalmanac.net/

 

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Conversation with Norm Alger. He is a Creator, Musician and all around man of art. Norm discusses playing live in Philadelphia, power of live shows, creativity, designing with music and living overseas. Norm is also a creative leader with broad experience in consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical marketing, higher education, financial, and professional services industries.  Adept at developing and launching brands and key strategic brand initiatives, driving awareness, building loyalty, and continually optimizing results. He discusses being in design mode listening to Stone Temple Pilots, Chemical Brothers, and Nick Drake. 

Listen Here to Some of Norm's Music:
https://www.reverbnation.com/livenotonevil
https://www.reverbnation.com/certainflightlessbirds

Meet Norm Here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/normalger/

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Talking meeting Nicolas Cage, playing Johnny Cash and playing Deputy Ramsey in Boardwalk Empire. Marc Donovan is an actor, singer and voicover artist.  Marc has been working as an actor since 2003, in various theatre productions throughout the country, as well as TV appearances on shows like BOARDWALK EMPIRE, BLUE BLOODS, and ZERO HOUR. He also been featured in and lended his voice to over 40 television and radio commercials.

 GODFATHER OF HARLEM  | Mike Wallace (recurring)  | EPIX
 | BOARDWALK EMPIRE  | Deputy Ramsey (recurring)  | HBO, prod. Martin Scorsese
 | BLUE BLOODS #313  | Producer (co-star)  | CBS
 | ZERO HOUR (pilot)  | Cop (co-star)  | ABC
 | THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS  | Recurring  | CBS
 | ALL MY CHILDREN  | Recurring  | ABC
 | ONE LIFE TO LIVE  | Day Player  | ABC
 | THREE MEN AND A CHICK FLICK  | Guest Host  | WE Network

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Soren Baker talks music, hip hp and rap.
Soren Baker has had more than 3,500 articles published in such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, XXL, and The Source. The Maryland native has penned liner notes for albums by 2Pac, Ice Cube, N.W.A, Gang Starr, and others. The former News Editor of HipHopDX.com, Baker has also worked on television programs for VH1 and Fuse and has sold a movie script. With Xzibit, Baker was the co-host of Open Bar Radio on 93.5 KDAY in Los Angeles. He has also written and produced DVDs for Tech N9ne and Chingy. He is the author of 2018's "The History Of Gangster Rap," 2006's "The Music Library: The History of Rap and Hip-Hop," and 2011's "I'm The White Guy - The Tech N9ne Edition" and "I'm The White Guy - The Jay-Z Edition." Baker has also co-authored books with Game, Glasses Malone, Young Bleed and Murs, and has three books on the Baltimore Ravens. 

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Michael Corsaro  Guitarist

Guitarist "Michael Corsaro" is one of the areas top guitarist from the Philadelphia and New Jersey music scene. In the early days, Michael use to study guitar with some of the biggest named guitarist from the NJ/Philly music scene specializing in Rock, Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz and is always aspiring to continue learning. Michael has spent decades studying and playing all over the country in a variety of bands. In 1988, Michael moved to L.A and spent several years playing the legendary clubs on the Sunset Strip such as Gazzaris, the Roxy, The Whiskey and the Troubador. During this time Michael studied guitar at the Guitar Insititute in L.A and was again seen nightly in the L.A club circuit honing his craft. 

Michael moved back and forth between NJ and L.A and in the late 90s decided to move back to NJ permanently. In the late 90s Michael started working full time in the private party band circuit with many of the top bands in the area such as "Spin City', "92nd Street" "Mirage" "RIO" and "Cheers the Band" 

Michael has also released a solo instrumental record with his band  G-Force" on Guitar9 records in 2002. Michael was also the guitarist in two Tribute bands. The Joe Satriani Band "Surfin with the Aliens" and the Judas Priest tribute "MetalGodz" which toured all over the U.S

Michael is also a full time Guitar teacher from Ocean City, NJ.

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Stephen Butler of Smash Palace talks music, teaching music, writing songs, playing the Philadelphia music scene, playing live, the Quincy Jones lawsuit, Columbia records, and the music industry overall.

Smash Palace signed with Epic Records in 1985. The new line-up included Brian Butler (lead vocals), Stephen Butler (lead guitar and vocals), Phil Rizzo (bass guitar), Harry Lewis (drums) and Greg Persun (rhythm guitar). 

The band's first self-titled LP was released in the fall of 1985 along with an MTV video of the first single, "Living on the Borderline" (directed by Nigel Dick). 

Smash Palace then toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada with Mr. Mister and the Cruzados. Greg DiDonato (keyboards) joined the lineup for the tour. When Smash Palace's A&R man, Dick Wingate, left Epic Records in 1985 he asked the band to come on over to his new label, Polygram Records. Unfortunately, once the band left Epic, the offer from Polygram melted away. 

The band recorded demos for tracks that were intended for their second album, including "Cold Wind", "Girl with the Stars in Her Eyes", "Stranger Than Strange" and "I'll Be There" (which was later reworked and recorded on the band's Over the Top CD release in 2004) and these tracks were played on Philadelphia radio station WMMR-FM's local music program Street Beat, but never officially released. 

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Special guest Joan talks about musical motivation when it comes to sales and teaching exercise classes. We talk about the relationship of music in life and how the positive vibes can help motivate you in life, work and in play. Joan talks about her friendship and the true kindness of RATT's John Corabi. 

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Special Guest Pamela Downes of the David Bowie Glam Band "Candy Volcano" talks about music, design and spirituality. She tells her story of meeting the famed 80’s band Squeeze. Pamela is a designer and musician. Candy Volcano has opened Philadelphia’s Philly Loves Bowie Week, a week-long celebration of the life and work of David Bowie since the inception of the celebration in 2017.

 If you don't remember the band Squeeze. Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. In the UK, their singles "Cool for Cats", "Up the Junction" and "Labelled with Love" were top-ten chart hits. Though not as commercially successful in the United States, Squeeze had American hits with "Tempted", "Hourglass" and "853-5937", and were considered a part of the Second British Invasion. 

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Alan Forbes talks music, design and creating original art work for band posters. Alan Forbes is a poster artist and painter who lives in San Francisco, California. He does posters and album work for The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. He has also created the iconic logo for The Black Crowes. He has done posters for Howlin Rain, Queens of the Stone Age, Rocky Erickson, Boneback and many others. He has also done album art for AFI and Goldfinger. Born in Connecticut in 1968, he is currently a California resident.

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Pearl Jam Stealing Your Girl and Talking Music and Design with Mr. Falco. Special guest John talks about design, beers, music and how Pearl Jam tried to steal his girlfriend. John is an guitar player and songwriter, designer for Tonewood Brewery in South Jersey, designer of T-shirts and stickers, and has a screen printing business for bands. He loves playing acoustic blues/american roots music live in front of audiences, creating new songs, and contributing to the creativity of New Jersey. The power of music "It fills a certain realm of sonic or spiritual place in our psyche it fits in, it's a component that is essential to life."

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