Rock School

"It seems to be a badge of honor especially in the rock and blues and country genres to proclaim your are self taught in music. It suggests you are a better musician than a formally taught player. Are you? This is well debated online and we will give you the facts."

"This is our Halloween show. For an hour, we will offer up songs that were written for someone who died. Not much more to it than that."

"Audius is maybe the future of music and streaming. All posts and plays are counted through a crypto blockchain so the artists are paid directly. But artists are not paid in money. They are paid in a new crypto coin named audio. Big people are putting big money into it. We will tell you all about it."

"This week is an interview with Bobby McDaniel, one of the first people to arrive and assist in the crash of the Lynyrd Skynyrd airplane, October 20, 1977. The plane crashed near his family farm. His is a harrowing story and tells it all to us."

"Can a song make a person do something awful. Many believe it can. In fact, there have been multiple court cases where a song was brought into evidence on a crime. We have a long list of court cases that used music as a defense."

"Elvis was not always buried on the Graceland property. After an attempted grave robbing he was moved there. In fact many musicians graves have been invaded or vandalized. We will tell you the list."

"This week back in 1988 Chers Believe was released and the effect introduced everyone to AutoTune. We will talk about the effects history, how its been used and why so many people hate it."

"Pollstar has released their yearly mid year report on live music and the results are good. People are going out and spending money. The one downside is ticket pricing and ticket gouging on secondary markets."

"This week in history, Jimi Hendrix played a concert and RF traffic came through his amplifier. It was his single coil pickups and being too close to a radio source. It became the inspiration for the Air Force base scene in Spinal Tap. We have collected a good number of other inspirations and where the idea for the movie came from."

"Soft 70s and 80s rock has been given the nickname Yacht Rock. Where did it come from and how does Van Halen figure into it. We will tell you all about it."