Rock School

"Back in 1981, The Go Gos album Beauty and the Beat hit number one making it the first time an all woman rock band topped the charts. To that end, we have compiled a list of women firsts in the music industry."

"This week, we speak with author Dewar MacLeod about his new book, Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture."

"This week, we will have a discussion with author Richard Aquila about his new book Rock and Roll in Kennedys America. A Cultural History of the Early 1960s."

"A friend of the show, author James Campion is back to discuss his latest book, Take a Sad Song. It is an in depth discussion and view of The Beatles Hey Jude. We will talk about the song and his findings."

"The King Biscuit Flower Hours was a one hour live music, syndicated radio show. It started in the 70s at the same time as other TV based shows. I grew up listening on WMMS Cleveland. This is the story of the show."

"At the end of 2022, Jeopardy had a category titled Classic Flute Rock. The problem is that the category did not include the one band viewers felt was THE classic flute rock band. So they revolted on Twitter. We will tell you the questions, the missing band, and offer up a few more flute rock questions."

"To start each year, Rock School goes back every ten years to find out what this new year will be the anniversary for. This is part two."

"To start each year, Rock School goes back every ten years to find out what this new year will be the anniversary for. We have a nice long list going back almost 200 years. This is part one."

"This is our yearly end of the year show tipping the hat to musicians who passed. Here is our list of players who died in 2022."

"Here is our first of two Christmas shows this year. Songs from Christmas movies. It's all opinion so please offer yours. Here are a few we like. Plus we will list out some of the best Christmas horror movies. Plus plus we will discuss why Die Hard is not a Christmas movie."

"Why do people choose to perform certain songs during Christmas. I would argue that often it's because the song is not under copyright. Many of your favorites are free for the playing."

"This week marks the anniversary of Aerosmith appearing on The Simpsons. While they weren't the first band to guest on the Simpsons, they were the first that people can name. So for fun we will play some musician appearances and the clips to go with it."

"There are three rather interesting copyright concerns that the government will need to deal with in 2023. Copyright and Artificial intelligence, the public domain and movies now that they will all have sound and if comedy performances are the same as a song so should have two levels of copyright protection. We will lay it all out for you."

"This is our annual Thanksgiving show. This year we'll play artists who contributed recipes to the book Eat Like a Rock Star. We will also talk turkey."

"It came up on our bottom of the hour calendar that three world records were set this week so we began looking for other Musicians world records. There are so many this this week is a list of those who have at least two."

"With this week being the midterm elections, Let's talk about musicians who became politicians."

"It seems to be a badge of honor especially in the rock and blues and country genres to proclaim your are self taught in music. It suggests you are a better musician than a formally taught player. Are you? This is well debated online and we will give you the facts."

"Audius is maybe the future of music and streaming. All posts and plays are counted through a crypto blockchain so the artists are paid directly. But artists are not paid in money. They are paid in a new crypto coin named audio. Big people are putting big money into it. We will tell you all about it."

"This is our Halloween show. For an hour, we will offer up songs that were written for someone who died. Not much more to it than that."

"This week is an interview with Bobby McDaniel, one of the first people to arrive and assist in the crash of the Lynyrd Skynyrd airplane, October 20, 1977. The plane crashed near his family farm. His is a harrowing story and tells it all to us."

"Elvis was not always buried on the Graceland property. After an attempted grave robbing he was moved there. In fact many musicians graves have been invaded or vandalized. We will tell you the list."

"Can a song make a person do something awful. Many believe it can. In fact, there have been multiple court cases where a song was brought into evidence on a crime. We have a long list of court cases that used music as a defense."

"This week back in 1988 Chers Believe was released and the effect introduced everyone to AutoTune. We will talk about the effects history, how its been used and why so many people hate it."

"This week in history, Jimi Hendrix played a concert and RF traffic came through his amplifier. It was his single coil pickups and being too close to a radio source. It became the inspiration for the Air Force base scene in Spinal Tap. We have collected a good number of other inspirations and where the idea for the movie came from."

"Pollstar has released their yearly mid year report on live music and the results are good. People are going out and spending money. The one downside is ticket pricing and ticket gouging on secondary markets."