Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Crazy fun with Alvino M. Bennett who's played with everyone from Muddy Waters, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Bryan Ferry, LTD, to Dave Mason, and so many more along the way. Starting as a 10 yr old in inner city Chicago, playing in the drum and bugle corps, club gigging at 12, say what?!? Having a manager and playing pro by 14, Alvino told great stories, and included so many of the p...

If you love the rock 'n roll, and who doesn't... Mitch Miller! (That story here.) Steve Resnik, creator, curator, and owner of the West Coast Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame Museum, and human encyclopedia of rock 'n roll, takes us through his growing up in Chicago in the 50s and 60s, coming alive as kid with the birth of said, rock 'n roll, walking us through the early days to the glory days. First as a...

We had no fun at all when Sara Niemietz paid us a call *nose grows* How does a 20 something take on playing a young Carol Burnett opposite Linda Lavin on Broadway, Wanda in Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing at the Annenberg, sing with BJ Thomas at The Grand Ole Opry, do Ellen at her invitation, record with Richard Marx, co-write with Melissa Manchester, be a regular player on Glee, appear on Providence...

Sitting down with 24’s Bill Buchanan, James Morrison, was an entertainment, an edutainment and a spiritual revelation. Warmth and wisdom on art, humanity and life. I’d be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful person. Easy on the eyes, ears… did I mentioned he played… WOW! His Selfish Man has been on heavy rotation in my brain on my device since he played it last night. I cannot stop singing it. Lu...

We went Live with Grammy nominated recording artist, sitcom (Mr. Belvedere), film (Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield), and Broadway star (I Love My Wife), plus author, Ilene Graff. She’s done it all, successfully. We dug in... Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Tony Roberts, Bob Uecker, Christopher Hewett, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Penny Marshall... and it was crazy fun. Ilen...

Little House on the Prairie's Alison Arngrim, NY Times bestselling author, stand-up comedian, activist, and TV history's #1 one bitch, according to Vanity Fair, was in the house. Nellie Oleson, the girl America loved to hate… is actually... nice… funny... and fun! A sweetheart. Shhhh… An advocate against child abuse following her own violation, an Aids activist, following the death of Steve Tracy,...

There aren't too many people who rock like my old pal, Steve Conte. This boy sings his ass off, and plays, like hell. In the best possible way. In town for Samantha’s graduation (surreal and fabulous), we were Live from New York. From my hotel room. Where the room was so cramped, and the hotel so unaccommodating, they wouldn’t loan me a second chair, thus the interview from my bed. Not as obscene...

From Comedian Tommy Moore: “This interview is a MUST SEE, after some pleasantries and shout outs it has the most intense, compelling, and riveting stories of courage and determination, wonderful people and horrible people, and obstacles of every kind, all told with remarkable humor, understanding, and compassion...Worth every minute of your time...God Bless Geri Jewell.” One of the most heart-warm...

Stupendous chat and mini-concert with Grammy nominated Harriet Schock, songwriter of the Gold and Platinum selling Helen Reddy smash hit, Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady. Harriet opens the BROADcast with it, joined by her longtime harmonizer, Andrea Ross-Greene. It’s an extended version, a Suite mashup with another of her hits, One Time Lover, Nothing like hearing the songwriter sings their own song....

Jeff Young's got great stories about his years playing with Jackson Browne, his thoughts before; the night with Bruce Springsteen, the year and half with Sting and its surprising to me sidebar; Bonnie Raitt, Steve Ferrone, Will Lee, The Apollo- seeing Sly, James Brown, Redd Foxx there; R & B, the blues. jazz, London calling, Cream, Traffic, Chris Wood; Larry Hagman (I know), Jan Michael Vincent, B...

What a gas (the good kind) we had with Coco Gemma Dolenz. Great stories about how she got her name, her brother Micky, their folks, the music, the movies. the Restaurant, Circus Boy, peroxide, The Monkees, what she learned from Peter, Mike, and Davy; The Beatles, John and George, Nilsson, Harry and Zak, Billy Bob Thornton, Dolenz & Daughters, Dolenz Delights, Etsy… music, food, a cookbook, salads,...

One of the greatest storytellers I've had the joy of spending time with, Peter Onorati is a gas! The good kind. As great an actor as he is, bringing truth, depth and unique flavor to every character he portrays, he brought that plus incredible warmth, humanity, and loads of the funny. And, funny people. I feel like I interviewed his whole family.... and Bobby DeNiro. Peter made it so easy… each qu...

Some things, some people are worth waiting for. Rob Bonfiglio is certainly one. From the opening moments of the show, Rob kills the title track of his recently dropped masterful power pop CD, Trouble Again. A Philly boy, Rob takes us through the junior high school band that wasn’t, the teacher who opened the door to jazz which became Rob’s passion, Berklee College of Music, Wanderlust his first si...

Roslyn Kind is a revelation. This showbiz talk show was easy on the biz, and the show. Spirituality, unconditional love, self-love, inclusion, past life regression, visitations, meditation, familial love, uniting, healing, living life’s calling, going with the flow, and, saving the country were in heavy rotation. Of course we talked about the music––and that voice! Oh lord that voice! Ed Sullivan...

Glee’s Josh Sussman is impossible to miss with his unique look which oft likens him to a possible Art Garfunkel son or a very young, much hipper, Larry Fine, in hair only. A Gleek, I recognized him immediately at a social soirée, bumping into him a couple more times over the past few years. Our interactions were brief, friendly, and perhaps a tad awkward. I didn’t anticipate this… one of the most...

Some things, some people, are worth waiting for. Steve Ferrone, may have forgotten us once, but he more than made good. The drummer who held the pocket for 25 yrs with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, 8 yrs with the Average White Band, 6 with Clapton, many with Chaka, Duran Duran, countless other icons… tells almost all… well, a lot. Meeting Tom, the journey, from the Super Bowl to the Hollywood B...

We couldn't go Live, and I wasn't about to throw Rob Bonfiglio under the Facebook, but it's been 136 straight Wednesdays... so, Kelsey and I recorded a little show about disappointments, whilst smiling. I sure missed y'all tonight. Well, we didn't go Live, but after the video uploaded I hosted a Facebook Watch Party, previously unbeknownst to me... and what fun... got to interact in real time. Can...

We were having so much fun with our friend, Tracy Newman, we broke the internet. Or, Mercury is retrograde… or FB’s Live feed’s a whore. 

We jumped into the show with Tracy singing arguably my favorite of her tunes, Fire Up The Weed, *coughs* then got right into her Emmy win with co-writer, Jonathan Stark, and the stories around that ground-breaking coming out episode of Ellen, and the politics a...

Who’s Gold We went Live on the road to the magnificent home of keyboardist/vocalist for The Who, Loren Gold - Roger Daltrey, Kenny Loggins, Kelly Clarkson, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, musical director for Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Hilary Duff, Taylor Hicks... ridiculously accomplished, talented, humble, Loren’s grateful for it all, with only nice things to say about everything and everybody. Gr...

This show was not what I anticipated. Rather than spend the evening with the American Comedy and Emmy Award winning comedian, Craig Shoemaker, discussing his stand up, TV, and film career, we spent the time diving deep about behaviors, addiction, recovery, healing through laughter––even when there’s nary a joke to be found––there’s none needed. The mere act of laughing, even forced, is a mood chan...

Hoodlum to boxer, painter. writer, Marine, lover, to iconic, Academy Award-nominated actor, Burt Young, has lived a life bursting with color, much like one of his stunning works of art. From the soaps to Chinatown, Nicholson, to a fateful meeting with a young, then unknown, Sylvester Stallone, who wrote a part with him in mind, Burt was the only actor who didn’t audition and earned more than the w...

I love surprises. I’m not sure I’ve ever been more thrillingly unprepared for the fabulousness that was about to unfold. Fleaxatarian (he ‘splains), actorvist, Esai Morales, is a revelation. I knew I adored his work from Bad Boys, La Bamba, NYPD Blue, to Ozark, with so much fineness in between… but it’s the man––the human––the passionate, quite brilliant, committed, inspiring, humble, real, self-a...

The Wizard of Oz. Noy. There’s no man behind the curtain. He’s the real deal. A working musician since the age of 13, a session musician no less, he took his native Israel by a rock/pop/jazz storm, a recognized part of their hit talk show house band by his early 20s. He’s been killing it worldwide since. No drinks, no drugs, fastidious practice, make the man, and the musician. With 10 albums of hi...

Before we went Live Fritz Coleman spent an hour hanging with me and my kids, watching their videos, offering accolades and suggestions, when requested, praising and encouraging, Twice nominated for Humanitarian of the year, the man’s a mensch, a giver. LA’s definitive weathercaster, with a 37 year tenure at it, Fritz spoke of “lucking” into the day job which has afforded him pursuit of his creativ...

I got an education from a Nuyorican––right there, I’d never heard the term before. Felix Angel Solis is a revelation––on the Fountain Theatre stage as Eddie, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Cost of Living, where he blew my mind and moved me beyond compare (I immediately set out to track him down), to his thoughts on acting––actors as musicians, the script the sheet music, “actioning,” “referenc...