Discograffiti

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with re-issue genius Bob Irwin. Bob and his wife Mary started the Sundazed Music label in 1989. The first Sundazed releases were The Great Lost Knickerbockers Album! by The Knickerbockers and Western Union by The Five Americans...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “Caroline, No” with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factual obsession and personal connection, and there’s nothing else quite like it. This is the final episode. Here are just a few of...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Dave Gebroe interviews our brother podcast’s host Rob Kassees as he walks us through the process of creating and releasing your own album, something he’s done many times over by this point.  In fact, he’s just released an initial sold-out vinyl press run of a new record that has to be heard to be believed.    Stay Puft...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series, Discograffiti presents Part 3 of Chuck’s chat with Tony Asher, Brian Wilson’s lyrical collaborator on Pet Sounds. This is easily the best, most honest and unguarded Tony Asher interview in existence. Huge thank you to Chuck.      Here’s just a few of the m...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with Dr. Paul Tanner, inventor (with Bob Whitsell) of the Electro-Theremin, which he also famously played on three Beach Boys tracks: “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” “Good Vibrations,” and “Wild Honey.” Paul passed away a...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” and “Pet Sounds” with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factual obsession and personal connection, and there’s nothing else quite like it.  Here are j...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, author Lewis Shiner discusses his epic, 868-page, music-based novel Outside The Gates Of Eden, which follows a series of characters from 1965 to the present day. Lewis describes it as a "War & Peace for the Woodstock Generation," and I believe it is an absolute masterpiece, one of the 10 best books I’ve ever read in...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with Larry Knechtel, the Wrecking Crew keyboard player and bassist who—along with Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys—has worked with Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, The Mamas & The Papas, The Monkees, The Doors, The Byrds...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Graham Nash reviews and discusses the “Ohio” single, CSNY’s 1970 tour, and their first break-up (of many) with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Wild Tales: The Graham Nash Interview Series tackles every last release the great Graham Nash ever had a hand in creating, including CSN/Y, C&N, and his solo career,...

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “I Know There's An Answer” (originally written as "Hang On To Your Ego") and “Here Today,” with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factual obsession and personal connection, and there’s no...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with Don Randi, Brian Wilson’s beloved Wrecking Crew pianist, not to mention Nancy Sinatra’s trusted ivory-tickling accomplice. Chances are if you’ve fallen in love with the piano work in a song from the 1960s or 1970s, it’s Don: “Good Vibrations,” “ABC,” “He’s A Rebel,” “It’s My Party,” “A Little Less Conversation,” “...

Here are just a few of the many things that Wee Man discusses with Discograffiti in Part 3 of this podcast:   The Sabbath song that single-handedly created thrash metal; The two songs on Sabotage that Ozzy felt were distractions on an otherwise perfect album; The many bad ideas behind Black Sabbath recording in Miami; The telling t-shirt that Ozzy had made during the recording of Technical Ecstasy...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with David Wild, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. His published books include Seinfeld: The Totally Unauthorized Tribute (1998), And the Grammy Goes To...: The Official Story of Music's Most Coveted Award (2007), He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond (2009), and others....

Jackass’s Jason “Wee Man” Acuna is such an Ozzy fan, he crossed the ocean to see the Back To The Beginning gig before even having a ticket. (He made it in, Thank God.) The biggest little metalhead on the planet joins Discograffiti in paying tribute to the all-time greatest metal band in a whipcrack-fast three-part series that’ll school you in how metal got started. And to sweeten the pot, we’re on...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with Tom Frangione, who’s been part of the official Beatles Channel on SiriusXM since its launch in 2017, serving as their 'Resident Beatles Expert'. He co-hosts the weekly "Fab Fourum,” “Apple Jam” with co-host David Fricke, and the weekly rarities program "Way Beyond Compare.” He also writes the weekly show "Across T...

Jackass’s Jason “Wee Man” Acuna is such an Ozzy fan, he crossed the ocean to see the Back To The Beginning gig before even having a ticket. (He made it in, Thank God.) The biggest little metalhead on the planet joins Discograffiti in paying tribute to the all-time greatest metal band in a whipcrack-fast three-part series that’ll school you in how metal got started. And to sweeten the pot, we’re on...

The Wrecking Crew is to the Sixties what The Immediate Family are to the Seventies, so it’s no accident that music doc director extraordinaire Denny Tedesco tackled both groups of studio musicians in equally fascinating documentaries.  While we’re on the topic of Graham Nash, The Immediate Family became Crosby & Nash’s touring ensemble, nicknamed The Mighty Jitters on the road for reasons we w...

Here’s just a few of the many things that Graham discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast: Woodstock, Altamont, and the death of Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Hinton happening one after the other after their debut record was released; The other candidates who were pitched to join CSN before Neil Young; What Jimi Hendrix called CSN’s music; A mind-blowing recollection of Jerry’s Garcia’s pedal...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with French horn player Alan Robinson, the man whose extraordinary playing graces “God Only Knows.” It’s absolutely incredible what a photographic memory Alan possesses—listening to him speak, it’s as if you’re sitting there right beside him, watching Brian Wilson through the control room glass. This interview is an ab...

Chuck Granata’s book Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is the ultimate dissection of Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece.  Chuck and I wound up diving so deep into the record, we unfortunately had to seek treatment for the bends…yet thankfully it was a risk worth taking, as Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factua...

By now, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston has retired from being interviewed, so this epic, unheard 2001 interview for Chuck Granata’s Pet Sounds book is absolutely priceless…especially seeing as his fanboy love for Chuck’s Sinatra book wound up contributing to a level of unvarnished honesty that’s super-rare for The Beach Boy universe.  Here’s just a few of the many things that Bruce discusses with Discog...

By now, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston has retired from being interviewed, so this epic, unheard 2001 interview for Chuck Granata’s Pet Sounds book is absolutely priceless…especially seeing as his fanboy love for Chuck’s Sinatra book wound up contributing to a level of unvarnished honesty that’s super-rare for The Beach Boy universe.  Here’s just a few of the many things that Bruce discusses with Discog...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Part 2 of Chuck’s chat with Tony Asher, Brian Wilson’s lyrical collaborator on Pet Sounds. This is easily the best Tony Asher interview in existence. You won’t want to miss a minute of this multi-part extravaganza. All I can say is: Thank you, Chuck.      Here’s just a few of the many things that Tony discusses with Discograffiti i...

Chuck Granata’s book Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is the ultimate dissection of Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece.  Chuck and I wound up diving so deep into the record, we unfortunately had to seek treatment for the bends…thankfully it was a risk worth taking, as Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factual ob...

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Part 1 of Chuck’s chat with Tony Asher, Brian Wilson’s lyrical collaborator on Pet Sounds. Since I didn’t conduct the interview, I can be fully honest in my assessment without fear of reprisal: this is easily the best Tony Asher interview in existence. You won’t want to miss a minute of this multi-part extravaganza. The amount of i...