Seeing Them Live

Charles welcomes YouTuber and lifelong music collector Alan Rosenberg (The Alan Rosenberg Show), who has spent over five decades assembling a collection of 5,000–6,000 albums plus ticket stubs, memorabilia, and a detailed database tracking purchases, songs, and chart data dating back to 1973. Rosenberg traces his obsession to early exposure through his older sister and recalls his first concert: T...

Charles welcomes Ben Daughtry and Jonathan Palmer of Love Jones to discuss the band’s return with a new six-song album, The Greatest Show on Earth (released February 2026), and their decades of blending lounge, soul, pop, and storytelling. They swap formative concert stories—both cite Van Halen at age 14—plus memories of Ted Nugent, Metallica’s Black Album tour, GWAR, Nine-Inch Nails, The Rolling...

Boston-based author and screenwriter Mike Bernard joins host Charles to talk live music, nostalgia, and Mike’s novel Concert Dates — a fictional story following six friends whose lives intertwine through the legendary Cape Cod Coliseum, a converted hockey rink that hosted the who's who of classic rock from 1972 to 1983. Mike shares his own concert memories, from taking his grandmother to see Liber...

Charles welcomes filmmaker and music collector Steve Herold to Seeing Them Live. Steve recounts his first concert, the Thompson Twins’ 1984 Into the Gap tour at New Jersey’s Garden State Arts Center, after missing a chance to see Van Halen at Madison Square Garden. He names Dramarama at the Fast Lane in Asbury Park in the early ’90s as his best concert, describing packed, punk-like club energy, an...

Singer-songwriter, artist, and guitar builder Victor Gurbo joins the show to discuss formative concert experiences and his own work. He recalls seeing Arlo Guthrie as a child, becoming a devoted Bob Dylan fan (having seen him 20–30 times), and admiring Levon Helm’s audience connection, including a Terminal 5 performance after Helm’s cancer battle. Gurbo shares a chaotic Jack White Radio City show...

Brothers Matheus and Thiago Khouri of Brazilian rock band Banda AL9 join Seeing Them Live to discuss their rise from posting acoustic covers on YouTube and Facebook to building a social following of over 2 million. They share their first concert experience seeing Paul McCartney in São Paulo in 2010, how their parents’ love of classic rock shaped them, and why they began releasing originals after g...

In this episode of Seeing Them Live, Charles welcomes his daughter, Lily, to discuss her first concert: seeing Harry Styles live in Lisbon in 2023, and the stressful effort to get her first passport in time. Lily shares how she discovered Harry’s music during COVID through Fine Line and Harry’s House, while her dad recounts missing expensive United Center tickets, buying Lisbon show tickets, and n...

Eric Vollweiler, a longtime producer and marketing strategist in the film festival and entertainment world, joins Seeing Them Live to trace how early theater trips with his dad and concerts with his mom shaped his path—from Aerosmith/Black Crowes at SPAC to Grateful Dead/CSN in Buffalo and a standout Ziggy Marley show in Vermont. He recalls moving to NYC in 1996, promoting clubs like the China Clu...

In this episode of Seeing Them Live, host Charles welcomes back Paul Peterson, a retired technology manager and lifelong audiophile who hosts the podcast 'An Avid Listener.' They delve into the intriguing topic of how bands evolve through lineup changes and the impact these shifts have on live performances. With personal anecdotes and examples from renowned bands like The Beach Boys, The Doors, AC...

Part two of our 2025 year-end concert review features incredible stories from Andy, Jessica, Steve, and superfan Dawn Fontaine. The show kicks off with Dawn who attended 55 shows this year and now books concerts for her favorite band Soraia. Dawn shares her unbelievable experience flying on the Rolling Stones' private jet in 2002, meeting Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the band, and hearing them...