This first episode features a piece of music history....The first ever Digital Rock Recording. The marketing tag for it was "Tomorrows Sound Today." The story of the challenges of making and how hard it is to create a hit album are it is fascinating.
Co-host Tom Treumuth's band ,True Myth ,released the Warner Album in 1979 and he discusses making the pioneering Prog rock album , a hidden gem of the genre, with Co -host Andrew Schalk a chef and a self professed music junkie.
Over his 40 yr music career, Tom worked as a talent scout for RCA (USA) including working closely with Gene Simmons. His Hypnotic label released over 100 albums via A&M/Universal. Tom also ran a recording studio, did artist management/bookings and he produced over 60 albums with 8 achieving Gold and Platinum awards ( Honeymoon Suite, Helix, Big Sugar). More recently Tom was Co Managing Director of indie label Frostbyte (Universal) . His career started as a musician in True Myth who recorded the world's 1st digital rock album.
Famous names like Peter Gabriel , Robert Fripp ,George Martin, Jack Richardson Producer of The Guess Who, factor into the story.
Other artists who feature are: Honeymoon Suite, Big Sugar, Kazzer, Figgy Duff, Voivod ,Gene Simmons ,Helix ,Anvil, Yes, Genesis.
Gary Muth was a music executive who held management positions with a bunch of major music labels was the mentor for Toms the Band. He recorded artists we all know like The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Peter Gabriel and Balck Sabbath. His concerts included The Police and Talking heads and even a stage musical...Napoleon. He later co-founded Iceberg Media ..one of the world's first internet major broadcasters and he helped create world wide standard. Gary talks about what he saw in True Myth.
Gary Furniss was co producer of True Myth and went on to a long music career. He is President of Sony Music Publishing in Canada.
Also heard from are the Bands Guitarist Tony Cook and Bassist Steve McKenna.
True Myth has been released to Spotify. Tunes featured are Reach for the Heavens and Time after Time. It's a hidden gem of Prog rock.
Here is the link
https://open.spotify.com/album/72ObddjUqmZVIu3mQmriOR?si=N51YLMhSRQmuMXDkovX3yA
The Producer of The Talk Music Podcast is Eric Morrison, a television producer , executive and journalist. He was President of The Canadian Press for 14 years. Before going to CP he was Vice-President of CTV News . He had extensive experience in national and international news, including overseas postings and a variety of management positions. They included Executive Producer of the CTV National News and Producer of Canada AM . He has won Michener, CJF and RTDNA awards for editorial excellence. He was Co founder of Latitude 44, a tech conference in Toronto . He was Executive Producer and Co founder of The Disruptors , a program about high tech startups that now runs as weekly segments on BNN.
A Multi Platinum music producer /manager and a music super fan talk music.
The conversation ranges from best live concerts and venues , to music docs to why is it so hard to start a new rock band , who had 3 great albums in a row and why artists are selling their catalogues. The focus is both Global and Canadian.
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