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Danny Seraphine Picks The Essential Chicago Danny Seraphine shares his 10 Essential Chicago songs. Spanning all eras of the iconic band Chicago, Danny picks his favorites, shares memories of early drumming influences, some childhood memories, some really detailed and wonderful stories about the formation of Chicago, colorful memories of playing a mob bar with an owner that insisted on singing Sina...

VERSE/CHORUS/MIDDLE8/BREAK/FADE Lauren Hoffman / Megiddo an audio documentary Lauren Hoffman was the very first interview on Pods & Sods way back in October of 2013. The full story of her career until that point can be found there, but in this episode Lauren joins Craig for an extremely in depth conversation about the songs and stories surrounding MEGIDDO, her debut album released in 1997 on Virgi...

What is "articulate rock"? Find out as we continue our Billy Squier sidecast series, Songs of The Knight: A Billy Squier Retrospective. Today we're taking at Billy's breakout album from 1981, Don't Say No .  Joined by podcast friends Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast and BJ Kramp of the Rock And/Or Roll Podcast , Eric and his co-hosts go in-depth and track back track of Billy's legendary record...

Jimmy Carter of The Blind Boys of Alabama joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early life connecting with his classmates to form The Blind Boys of Alabama, early memories of touring and recording, memories of contemporaries like Sam Cooke and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, experiencing the Civil Rights movement and the diversification of the Blind Boys' audiences in the 80s, their appeal in the secul...

ALBUM BY ALBUM: IRON MAIDEN 1982-1988 presented by Ryan Leonardo and Craig Smith for the Pods & Sods Network recorded July 2018 Ryan Leonardo reunites with Craig for the first time in a long time to discuss what many consider Iron Maiden's albums recorded during their best years: The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Weaved around...

PODS & SODS episode 185 Our Look At 1988 - part II In the conclusion of our look at 1988, Jeff Harris joins in for a discussion about the top five Billboard albums of the year, some honorable mentions, and a round of trivia. Visit PODS & SODS at your online watering hole of choice: http://www.podsodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/podssods RSS FEED: http://www.podsodcast.libsyn.com/rss

SMISHSMASHCAST with Eric Miller and Megan Stemm-Wade Trivia with Derek Miner and Craig Smith SmishSmashCast returns to welcome the authors of the forthcoming book MIXING LINKS: THE MONKEES ON DISC (check out the first installment to hear all about the book)! In the conclusion, Craig and Derek go up against Megan for a few rounds of Monkees trivia with our venerable host Eric! Visit PODS & SODS & S...

PODS & SODS episode 184 Our Look At 1988 - part I Jeff Harris joins us for an in depth look at the year 1988 in our continuing series of 80s-centric episodes. In this episode, we look at the top ten Billboard singles of the year and follow up with some favorites from the year as honorable mentions. Visit PODS & SODS at your online watering hole of choice: http://www.podsodcast.com https://www.face...

Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early life discovering music and growing up with a musical family, how he got into discovering the keyboards via The Beatles, what the working structure was within The Thompson Twins in terms of creativity, are there any songs hidden in their vault, what it's been like returning to the stage after 20+ years, was he nervous...

SMISHSMASHCAST with Eric Miller and Megan Stemm-Wade An Interview with Derek Miner and Craig Smith Megan and Eric are back together to welcome the authors of the forthcoming book MIXING LINKS: THE MONKEES ON DISC - Derek Miner and Craig Smith. In this first installment, we learn about how they discovered The Monkees, the birth of MONKEESMIXOGRAPHY, how it became a book (and what to expect when it...

Kicking off our Billy Squier sidecast series, Songs of The Knight: A Billy Squier Retrospective, we're taking a look at Billy's early life in music, his two A&M albums with Piper and his solo debut from 1979, Tale of The Tape .  Joined by podcast friends Jon Lamoreaux of The Hustle Podcast and BJ Kramp of the Rock And/Or Roll Podcast , Eric and his co-hosts go in-depth on the details of these earl...

The legendary Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, Free, The Firm, The Law, and Queen + Paul Rodgers joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early life discovering music and the soul singers that inspired him to find his voice, his early days of songwriting, the success experienced by Free at an early age, was he ever tempted to wade into the Prog waters of the 70s UK scene, where his thoughts were at t...

Kicking off our Michael Jackson sidecast mini-series, we're taking a look at Michael's proper solo debut album from August 1979, Off The Wall .  Joined by dear friend and serious, SERIOUS Michael Jackson fan Beverly Brown and frequent and beloved guest/the musical encyclopedia himself Jeff Harris of  Behind The Grooves , Eric and his co-hosts go in-depth on the release of the record, going track b...

Joined by dear friend and serious, SERIOUS Michael Jackson fan Beverly Brown and frequent and beloved guest/the musical encyclopedia himself Jeff Harris of  Behind The Grooves , Eric kicks off a new sidecast series looking at the discography of Michael Jackson.  Over the upcoming weeks and months, we'll be doing episodes on Off The Wall thru History , with perhaps a little Janet and some bonus epi...

TWO PICK TEN WITH A TWIST: DESERT ISLAND BEATLES The always jovial Mister Brian Jacobs joins Craig for a risky and controversial episode of Two Pick Ten, where each pick their top ten Beatles desert island picks. Before they do, though - an icebreaker that has caused brawls on certain internet forums... but what happens AFTER is where things get really strange. This podcast is presented by the Pod...

Will Turpin of Collective Soul  joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early life discovering music, songwriting, and growing up with the family owned Real to Reel Studios in Atlanta, how he first connected with Ed Roland and how he officially joined Collective Soul, memories of their first recording sessions, traveling the world for Music In High Places , finding his own voice lyrically and mu...

Legendary drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police  and Gizmodrome joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early drumming influences from a trio perspective, switching from drumming to fronting a band, springboarding on the punk scene and evolving his unique style of playing with The Police, tips on how to get on the cover of Modern Drummer Magazine, the conflicts of songwriting in The Police, the...

Legendary drummer Steve Smith of Journey and Vital Information joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering the drums, his early teachers and training regimes, connecting with Jean Luc Ponty, working with Allan Holdsworth, going from the jazz kit to the rock kit, working with Ronnie Montrose, joining Journey and becoming a band member, what they saw in him from a drumming persp...

Dave Bickler Picks The Essential Survivor Dave Bickler shares his 10 Essential Survivor songs. Spanning all eras of the classic melodic band Survivor, Dave picks his favorites, shares memories of joining the band, the production struggles in making the first album with Ron Nevison, Bruce Fairbairn, and John Kalodner, memories of making the classic videos, recording Caught In The Game, getting fire...

Megan and Craig from SamePageCast present SOUND OF THE SUNSET, SOUND OF THE SEA The Monkees track by track, session by session Episode 05 - 1966 sessions 5/5 Tear Drop City Looking For The Good Times I'll Spend My Life With You (version one) Apples, Peaches, Bananas And Pears Don't Listen To Linda (version one) I Never Thought It Peculiar Laugh I'll Be Back Up On My Feet (version one) The Day We F...

Ricky Phillips Picks The Essential Ronnie Montrose Ricky Phillips of Styx , The Babys, and Bad English shares his 10 Essential Ronnie Montrose songs. From Van Morrison to Edgar Winter to Herbie Hancock to Montrose to Gamma, the work of under appreciated guitar god Ronnie Montrose has influenced countless fans and colleagues for decades - Ricky Phillips of Styx among them.  In sharing his 10 essent...

Roger Joseph Manning Jr of Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, The Moog Cookbook, and Beck's band (among many others) joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering drums and switching to keyboards, what the vision and strengths were of Jellyfish and why he thinks the music has resonated for so many years, what were the plans for the third album that never became a reality, how he shifted...

Lisa Coleman of The Revolution Picks The Essential Prince Lisa Coleman of The Revolution shares her 10 Essential Prince songs. Keyboardist Lisa Coleman also shares memories of the songs chosen, first hearing Prince's music, her parents' reaction to the sexual nature of Prince's work, connecting with Prince as a fellow pianist, thoughts and memories of the unreleased song Lisa and what was unique a...

BrownMark of The Revolution Picks The Essential Prince BrownMark of The Revolution shares his 10 Essential Prince songs. Bassist BrownMark also shares memories of the songs chosen, learning Prince's preferred style of bass playing, memories of the infamous 1981 gig opening for The Rolling Stones - his first gig, first hearing When Doves Cry with its lack of a bassline, his extended bass jams with...

Bobby Z of The Revolution Picks The Essential Prince Bobby Z of The Revolution shares his 10 Essential Prince songs. Drummer Bobby Z also shares memories of the songs chosen, being witness to early Prince sessions including for local advertising spots, what it was like on the road touring with Prince and Rick James in the early days, how he and Prince over talking drummer influences, how Prince wo...