James Stewart Reaney is well known in South Western Ontario as an entertainment journalist, support local advocate & member of the Forest City London Music Awards committee. Now retired as former London Free Press entertainment editor, we discuss his passion for 1960s bands the Byrds, Herman's Hermits, his love for classical music etc. He has passion for promoting accessible entertainment & is an amateur historian among other things.

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Graham Lear is an iconic Canadian drummer who's played with Gino Vannelli, Santana, REO Speedwagon, Saga etc. & is now Paul Anka's full time drummer. We discuss everything from his early days starting out with the Police boys band in London, Ontario to his experience playing at Live aid in 1985 & beyond.

Nick Panaseiko spent decades as both a live music & record company promoter. He famously brought Kiss to London, Ontario for their first trip to Canada. We discuss his experiences from his early years promoting local dances to his time promoting top acts for WEA records etc. Nick is known for his crazy promo man antics like the time that he hired exotic dancers & posed alongside them, topless to promote the Queen album "Jazz" that featured the hit song "fat bottomed girls" . Nick was instrumental in introducing a young Shania Twain to the world who he booked at Deerhurst resort in Huntsville, Ont. when she was known as Eileen Twain. He shares this and more with me in this podcast interview.

I chat with original lead singer from the classic Canadian rock band Thundermug, Joe DeAngelos. We discuss the beginnings of Thundermug, Joe's longtime friendship & commitment to Bill Durst (original guitarist in the Mug) & the infamous Kazoo solo in their international hit song Africa....among other things.

David Henman is a founding ex member & lead guitarist with Canadian classic rock band April Wine.
In this episode,we discuss early days of AW, bands that followed, opening for the Bee Gees, his life as a print journalist & editor, modern music of today's youth & a whole lot more.

In this episode I talk to legendary heavy metal drummer from the iconic Canadian band, Anvil. We discuss everything from Anvil's humble beginning, their now infamous doc "the story of Anvil" to the band offering to smoke a joint with Paul McCartney. Robb is not only a phenom on drums, he's also a very talented painter who's artwork has been widely respected & sought after world wide. Warning! There are a few f bombs dropped in this candid interview!
Find the Anvil website here: http://my.tbaytel.net/tgallo/anvil/
Check out Robb's awesome artwork here : http://robbreinerart.com/

Theme music for Tommy Solo's famous friends was written & arranged by T.Carriere ©2016 all rights reserved
Anvil audio clips belong to Anvil all rights reserved

this week I chat with world renowned photographer to the stars, John Rowlands. John tells me about his career dating back to 1960 taking famous pics of Elvis, the Beatles, Kiss, David Bowie etc.