Your Dad’s Record Collection

Scotty’s favorite band is the subject of today's episode, so we’re digging deep into the history that led to their 1980 masterpiece, Remain in Light. We trace David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz & Jerry Harrison from the early day's at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) scene through Fear of Music, Brian Eno’s production experiments, West African rhythms, Fela Kuti, Afrobeat & the creation of songs like “Once in a Lifetime,” “Born Under Punches,” “Crosseyed & Painless” & “The Great Curve.”

There was so much to cover that we split this one into two parts. Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Frippertronics & the making of Remain in Light continue in Part Two.

Sometimes you want to be a rock ’n’ roll star; other times you want to race a motorbike across a golf course and break your leg. Sometimes you try to be Elvis Presley; other times you forget your Coke-bottle glasses, wear your prescription sunglasses onstage instead, accidentally invent your signature look, and reportedly get called back for encore after encore while opening for the Beatles.

This week, we’re talking Roy Orbison. This is part UNO in a multipart series that will culminate in a very special episode on The Traveling Wilbury's. 

Drop the needle! Turn it up! 

It's finally here. The much awaited, eagerly anticipated, totally lives up to the expectation, Billy Joel episode! The Hot Takes ooze forth from this episode, in typical YDRC fashion. 

When you're young, you don't realize that you're taking everything in & that it's shaping you, informing you....hurting you. It took the world's first emo band (we declared it, therefore it's true) to reach down into the abyss of the soul, take everything & release the hurting in a primal scream. 

We're trying something new; Voice Notes!

The time has come for Ryan to change his ways, eat his words, become a true artist & endorse the ever enigmatic, un-en-dorsable, always living in his heart, Prince Rogers Nelson. 

The times, they-are-a-changing, & as a international super star, ya gotta pivot your career!

our technically second guest on the pod, Eddie, joins us today to talk about the story of a band that people like to think wasn't really a band - just a group of studio musicians showing off. While they did show off, they left a legacy of a song that persists, as one member put it, "like a bad case of herpes". 

Some people (it’s me, Ryan, I am some people) would say that a ‘rough around the edges’ is the best U2. However, by all accounts, The Edge is a complete gentleman & smooth as silk.