Rock Recovery

We sat down with two true rock stars and the nicest guys you’ll ever meet - Alice Cooper and Joe Norelli - truly two legends, not only in their careers, but in giving back to make a difference in so many people's lives through the healing power of music and the arts.

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels is a founder and member of RUN DMC - an American hip-hop group formed in 1983, Along with Beastie Boys , LL Cool J , DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince , and Public Enemy , RUN DMC pioneered new-school hip-hop music and helped usher in the golden age hip-hop .   Darryl is now actively involved in various projects, including mental health advocacy, his Darryl Makes Cookies...

Jim Sonefeld is the drummer and songwriter for Hootie and the Blowfish, and the author of "Swimming with the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride." The first single, “Hold My Hand,” a tune Sonefeld brought to the band early on, helped thrust Hootie & the Blowfish into its great success, and likewise showcases his songwriting ability. In the years to follow, the band woul...

Billy Rowe formed his first band, Jetboy, in San Francisco not too long after getting out of high school, and he hasn’t looked back since. By the mid ‘80s, Jetboy had relocated to Los Angeles and were at the forefront of the second wave of Sunset Strip bands – among them Guns N’ Roses, Poison, L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat – taking the scene by storm, and within a few years they had signed to majo...

Dean Delray is a man of many talents who turned his passion for music and comedy into a labor of love with a now thriving career on stage and a growing podcast network. Dean’s podcast, Let There Be Talk, features a who’s who of guests from the world of music, including AC/DC, KISS's Paul Stanley, John Mayer, Nancy Wilson, Rob Halford and many more. When he’s not chatting up rockstars he is br...

Jim Adkins – musician, songwriter, and leader guitarist for Jimmy Eat World who are celebrating three decades and 10 albums. The Mesa, AZ, band’s commercial breakthrough came with the release of several singles from their album Bleed American, with “The Middle” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and peaking at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 33 weeks total...

Wes Geer first found success as the founding member of Jive Records artist Hed P.E. as guitarist, songwriter and producer. After touring the world for eight years, he left the band, and landed in rehab. Three years later, now sober, he joined Korn as their touring guitarist, traveling to 42 countries, headlining shows, playing to crowds of 80,000 people, and appearing on a number of recordings and...

Truly renowned as a man of a thousand faces in rock, with three decades of experience as a master in rockstar impersonation, Bobby Jensen – aka “Rockstar Bob” -- has performed with Gene Simmons of KISS, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Alice Cooper and many more. Bobby was the lead singer for nearly 20 years with Hairball, best known for its fully-costumed, theatrical performances across the nation co...

A 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Slash is internationally famous as the lead guitarist for Guns N’ Roses, “the most dangerous band in the world,” as well as a co-founder of Velvet Revolver and an accomplished solo artist. In an industry known for excess, Guns n’ Roses seemed determined to set a new standard. And Slash admits that he ove...

Johnny Griparic is no stranger to the art of backing up legendary artists. He has righteously acquired the title of “de-lux” sideman by providing his straight forward no nonsense rock solid thunderous grooves for the who’s who in the music business, including Slash, Walter Trout, Ace Frehley, Don Felder and Richie Sambora to name just a few. But with success came parties, hangovers and blackouts,...

World-renowned guitarist and founding member of Korn and metal Christian band Love and Death, Brian Head Welch, also known by his stage name Head, shares his powerful testimony of meth and recovery. But success had a price. Welch become addicted to meth and alcohol. According to Welch, the band members also suffered personal battles with addiction: "We were only sober for just a couple of hou...

Mark Kendall is the co-founder and lead guitarist of the legendary band, Great White. He is acknowledged as one of rock’s greatest guitarists and is the co-creator of the platinum-selling albums “Once Bitten” and “Twice Shy.” But through all the accolades and success that the band acquired, Kendall found himself in the grips of addiction, and as he explains, “I think a trigger for a substance abus...

There are many iconic and memorable figures in heavy metal but there is only ONE Rock God. In a career spanning over fifty years, Rob Halford has forged an everlasting presence in the hearts and minds of millions of fans as the True God of Metal. As the front man for the legendary heavy metal band, Judas Priest, and as the writer and performer of some of the greatest songs of all time, Rob is the...

Join host Jane Gordon as she interviews one of rock’s true legends, shock rocker Alice Cooper and his wife and spiritual partner for more than 40 years Sheryl Cooper. Successful survivors of over five decades of rock and roll madness at its absolute zenith, the Coopers provide the lessons of how they conquered addiction and continue to pay it forward. #AliceCooper #SherylCooper #shockrock #solidro...