The Albums That Saved Us

Welcome to Behind the Music...this week we discuss Southern California’s Rio A Tribute to Duran Duran...the band, the lineups, the shows, the highs, the lows, the groupies. The height and the eventual rock bottom... Look for #albumsthatavedus, email me at albumsthatsavedus@gmail.com, Instagram @albumsthatsavedus, Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/albumsthatsaveduspodcast/.

Fandom is a largely thankless job. I've heard story after story of fans meeting famous musicians and being disappointed or even devastated. Obviously we've got this version in our heads of what our idols are like. If we meet them and they're not like we think, it's disappointing. I think this is the number one reason I so rarely band stalked. I didn't want to be disappointed if that singer just wa...

Rio by Duran Duran  -- the quintessential 80s album, the quintessential 80s videos that helped put MTV on the map, and the quintessential 80s band, at least until about 1985. This year is the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Rio album, and it’s certainly one of the albums that saved us. Look for #albumsthatavedus, email me at albumsthatsavedus@gmail.com, Instagram @albumsthatsavedus, Facebook...

Double Platinum came out in 1978, and my bio dad gave me the double cassette for my 8th birthday. Double Platinum, double cassette. I had a little bad portable tape recorder that sounded terrible, but it was my only option to listen to my new cassettes. These were the first cassettes I had. I might have also gotten the Village People’s Macho Man cassette that birthday too. I largely went the way o...

I’ve seen a lot of concerts. My first concert was Duran Duran in 1987 on the Strange Behaviour Tour, with Erasure opening. Several months later I saw Depeche Mode for the first time, and that was even better. I was hooked. I loved live music, and seeing the bands I loved. There’s nothing like a good live show. There are those moments that are transcendent and take you into an alternate reality. Th...

Rising like a phoenix from the ashes after the death of their original singer Bon Scott, AC/DC releases their masterpiece Back in Black in 1980. One of the greatest and biggest-selling albums of all time. Changed many lives, especially of pub singer Brian Johnson, who was picked by the band to fill in Scott’s shoes after his untimely death, and working in an auto factory at the time, still dressed...

Welcome to The Albums That Saved Us. Music has always been a huge part of my life since I was a little kid. I think I can tie it back to 1976, those days before VCRs and Youtube, and if you didn’t see it, you didn’t see it.  KISS. Paul Lynde Halloween Special, 1976.  The Albums That Saved Us will be about the albums, songs, and bands that saved my life, and I would imagine many of our li...