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Concert promoter and music memorabilia collector, Danny Zelisko, talks about his memoir All Excess on this episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Zelisko has plenty of stories to tell and quite a collection of personalized memorabilia from the likes of John Prine, Jimmy Page and others. For music history buffs into behind-the-scenes antics and unique memorabilia ... listen up to this podcast episode! Le...

Adrian Smith, longtime guitarist of heavy metal giants Iron Maiden, talks about his latest collaboration with guitarist/vocalist Richie Kotzen called (simply enough) Smith-Kotzen. The music created for the eponymous album is hard blues rock with a modern production and a 1970s feel. Smith will give the listener a run down of certain tracks, talk about Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain as a guest star o...

Otto Zielke became such an avid collector of concert posters that he finally opened up his own brick and mortar store. The store, Visible Vibrations, is a high-end poster memorabilia store in San Mateo, California with its own online presence as well (www. VisibleVibrations.com). The poster inventory at Visible Vibrations is made up of mostly original posters, not reprints nor reproductions — and...

Goldmine magazine editor and podcast host Patrick Prince talks to the roving anonymous record store reporter, Dr Disc, on the Record Store Recon edition of the Goldmine Podcast to discuss Washington D.C's SOM Records. This record store is small but specializes in all genres and sells mostly vinyl records. Listen to why you should check out this store and win some prizes directly from the store its...

It is said that John Till was so important to the Full Tilt Boogie Band that the moniker once had two letter Ls to represent the guitarist's name properly. Till's biographer, Michael Byrnes, comes on the Goldmine Podcast to debunk that myth and inform us of true tales never told about the Full Tilt Boogie Band and the making of Janis Joplin's masterful Pearl album. Byrnes is currently working on J...

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more abou...

Saxophonist Emilio Castillo of the Oakland, California, R&B-based horn group Tower of Power talks about the release of the 2-CD/3-LP (plus DVD!) set 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater - Oakland, CA - June 2018. Castillo also talks about particular details of staple Tower of Power (TOP) songs and popular classic rock songs that have the TOP horns as an important part of the sound — an...

The Alarm have recently released their album WAR (RAW in reverse), led by vocalist Mike Peters. Peters' lyrics are extremely on topic as he explores the anger and chaos of the last five years, from Brexit to the Capitol riots, the use of social media as a propaganda tool (as the song “Protect and Survive” sounds the alarm of “280 ways to start a war!”), all the way through the continuing pandemic....

1-2-3-4 Go! Records of Oakland, California, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win signed vinyl from a well-known Northwest rock band! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad c...

We all have them: pop songs we love and pop songs we loathe. There are songs that we love from the moment we hear them — and we know exactly why. And then there are certain songs — while being bestselling songs, well-crafted and well-performed — can still hit a certain nerve that can have us leaving the room on first note. It's nothing personal, it all depends on the individual. On this episode, t...

Goldmine is honored to have as a podcast guest, Michael Cartellone, the former drummer for the Damn Yankees and current drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Cartellone is also a fantastic fine artist — a painter — and has teamed up with Goldmine and the charity Cancer Support Community to auction off a professional reproduction of his painting of Ronnie Van Zant, the late vocalist of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who di...

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon talks with anonymous reporter Dr. Disc about his "virtual" visit to Obsession Records in Anchorage, Alaska. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this unique record store that serves the community of Anchorage well. As always, pick up clues during the episode and you can win a prize! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about you...

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon talks with anonymous reporter Dr. Disc about his "virtual" visit to Waterloo Records in Austin, TX. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this spacious record store, rated the best in the magical music city of Austin, and the store's top-notch website. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Do you love Hawkwind and wish to expand your knowledge of the band? Or perhaps you are a newbie and want to begin your journey into Hawkwind's Space Rock galaxy? Maybe you are a Motörhead fan who wants to learn about bassist "Lemmy" Kilmister's Hawkwind roots (after all, the name Motörhead is from a Hawkwind song). Either way, Dave Thompson's The Encyclopaedia Hawkwindia is the perfect book to enl...

Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken) is a guest on the Goldmine Podcast to detail a current fundraiser for the band's crew and their families hit hard financially by the pandemic. Foreigner is selling limited-edition memorabilia and merchandise at their web site Foreigneronline,com. There will also be an auction of a personally autographed guitar from Pilson himself. Foreigner is primarily a...

Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French comes on the Goldmine Podcast to discuss the group's Stay Hungry album getting the audiophile treatment over 35 years later. with Mobile Fidelity records. And, being the holiday season, A Twisted Christmas is discussed, too, with all the trimmings. Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Holiday season 2020! Goldmine can't think of a better way to get into the Christmas spirit than discussing Christmas records. Longtime Goldmine writer Tim Neely wrote a great piece in the January print edition — on newsstands now at select Barnes and Noble, Books A Million and indie record stores —where he talks about building a Christmas album collection in a cost-effective way. On the podc...

Listen to a full review of Tom Lounges' Record Bin in Hobart, Indiana on this episode of Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon. The Record Bin has a man cave aesthetic with music playing from its own internet radio show. And, if you listen to this podcast episode (and get a clue), you can enter a contest to win a gift package from Tom Lounges' Record Bin! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Le...

Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz calls in from his residence in Montana to talk about Record Store Day Black Friday, this year’s RSD drops (in August, September and October) and how record stores have coped during the pandemic. Take a listen to the episode, record collectors, it will only increase your enthusiasm for this year's RSD Black Friday. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Lea...

The Cars' bassist/vocalist Benjamin Orr is the topic of this podcast episode as his biographer Joe Milliken is our guest. Milliken published the biography Let's Go! about Orr's life growing up in Ohio and his integral involvement in the mega-popular rock group The Cars. Any Cars fan (or fan of that era) will want to listen to this one! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your...

Brandon Bogajewicz, the owner of the vinyl record subscription service Vinyl Moon (vinylmoon.co), explains how he curates each vinyl record compilation to make Vinyl Moon the most unique monthly vinyl membership around. The show is a part of The Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon discusses anonymous reporter Dr. Disc's visit to Scratched Vinyl in Barrington, Illinois. The visit was during Record Store Day's second Record Drop day and the good doctor plans on going back to Scratched Vinyl for the third RSD Drop on October 24, 2020. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this clean, well lit place for records and other mu...

Singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about his latest Spirals EP and his past songwriting credits such as "Bad Girls," a huge hit for his wife, the late Donna Summer. On this episode, we'll sample music from the Sudano's newest EP as well as an acoustic rendition of "Bad Girls" (the way the song was originally written). We will also talk about his affiliation with T...

William Shatner of Star Trek fame (Captain Kirk) talks about his latest album, The Blues, a tribute to the blues, melding Shatner's thespian talent with legendary musical accompaniment. Musical guests like Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, Pat Travers, Albert Lee, Steve Cropper, members of Canned Heat, James Burton of Elvis Presley fame, all dazzle while Shatner moans and groans along with...

On what marks John Lennon's 80th birthday, Beatles author John M. Borack and Goldmine editor Patrick Prince got together on a podcast episode to discuss many of the things that made Lennon such a special human being, from the great Beatle’s general philosophies on life to the nuances in his music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices