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Dr Fink of The Revolution Picks The Essential Prince Dr Fink of The Revolution shares his 10 Essential Prince songs. Dr Fink also describes first hearing Prince's music, great stories about his audition, Prince's sense of humor and some practical jokes along the way, the writing and recording of Dirty Mind, how was Prince when it came to co-writing, what's his favorite classic video, diversity in...

Corey Glover Picks The Essential Bill Withers Corey Glover of Living Colour shares his 10 Essential Bill Withers songs.  As a young kid growing up in New York, Corey first discovered the music of Bill Withers in his home and on long car-rides with the family. The work of Bill Withers would inspire and influence Corey's life as a performer, vocalist, and songwriter.  He also shares memories of meet...

Rod Morgenstein of Dixie Dregs and Winger joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering drums, moving to Miami and his first connections with Steve Morse and the formation of Dixie Dregs, memories of working with Ken Scott and recording the first couple Dregs albums, playing in front of his musical heroes in the 70s, how he first connected with Kip Winger and Reb Beach, what was...

MORONOPHONICS Ian Zapczynski & Craig Smith episode 10: Craig's choice Ben Folds Five / The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner 1999 This podcast is presented by the Pods & Sods Network. You can hear us in moronophonic in the following locations: http://www.podsodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/podssods RSS FEED: http://www.podsodcast.libsyn.com/rss Record/scratching sound effects courtesy...

Nancy Wilson Picks The Essential Jimmy Page Nancy Wilson of Heart and Roadcase Royale shares her 10 Essential Jimmy Page, err.. ok it pretty much devolves into the Essential Led Zeppelin songs.  Heart has long been unabashed Led Zeppelin fans, having performed tons of Zeppelin songs through their career.  As Nancy shares her essential Led Zeppelin songs, she also shares memories about the first ti...

Bryan Beller Picks The Essential Mike Keneally Bryan Beller shares his 10 Essential Mike Keneally songs.  Originally connecting in Dweezil Zappa's band in the early 90s, Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats) and Mike Keneally have been longtime friends and collaborators in various bands (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, G3, Dethklok) and on each other's work for 25+ years. The music of Mike Keneally is creative,...

Gun Violence In Music - 21 Lives and 516 Years Gone In this very special episode, we're joined by more than a dozen of our friends from the podcast community for a retrospective of all those musical greats lost as a result of gun violence. Some of these stories involve domestic abuse, suicide, robbery, murder, but all of them are stories of gun violence. A gun in every single one of these scenario...

Me'Shell Ndegeocello joins Eric in conversation to discuss her early days growing up in a musical home, discovering exciting and varied music in her family's vast record collection, buying her first Prince record, auditioning for Living Colour just before signing her major label deal, working in the hit-centric music business, thoughts on recent comments regarding female artists from the Grammy wo...

ALBUM BY ALBUM: STEVEN WILSON presented by Henning Mielke and Craig Smith for the Pods & Sods Network recorded December 2017 Steven Wilson superfan Henning joins Steven Wilson obsessive Craig for a look at the solo catalog of their absolute favorite artist. First known for his work with Porcupine Tree, Wilson is one of - if not THE - most prolific musicians of our generation with numerous side pro...

Neal Morse Picks The Essential Genesis Neal Morse shares his 10 Essential Genesis songs.  As one of the founders of Spock's Beard and Transatlantic, Neal Morse is a prog hero from the 90s through to today with his solo work (new album: Life & Times) and his Neal Morse Band.  One of his favorite bands is Genesis - classic Genesis! So Neal shares his ten essential Genesis songs and his thoughts on w...

Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering guitar, forming Wishbone Ash in the vibrant British music scene of the early 70s, breaking into America, the success of the band's classic  Argus , some memories of gigs with such interesting opening acts as Bruce Springsteen and KISS, the changing business through the 1980s, the recent deluxe reissues of...

Dan Reed Picks The Essential Danny Vaughn Dan Reed of Dan Reed Network  shares his 10 Essential Danny Vaughn of Tyketto songs.  These two fan favorites have joined forces in recent years for a recurring tour called the Snake Oil and Harmony Tour .  And they've also become great friends and admirers of each other's work both as solo artists and with their respective bands. On this Part Two of Two,...

Jeff Scott Soto of Sons of Apollo joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering his voice, how he got the gig singing on the first two Yngwie J. Malmsteen records and what he learned from that experience, finding his own voice after early days in cover bands, performing with such greats as Journey, Queen and Jimi Jamison, his various solo careers efforts - Soto, his solo albums,...

Danny Vaughn Picks The Essential Dan Reed Danny Vaughn of Tyketto  shares his 10 Essential Dan Reed of Dan Reed Network songs.  These two fan favorites have joined forces in recent years for a recurring tour called the Snake Oil and Harmony Tour .  But, they've become great friends and admirers of each other's work both as solo artists and with their respective bands. On this Part One of Two, Dann...

RESEARCHING PRINCE: A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR DUANE TUDAHL Author Duane Tudahl joins Craig for a discussion about his book PRINCE AND THE PURPLE RAIN STUDIO SESSIONS: 1983 AND 1984. A Prince fanatic with an impressive resume going back several years, Duane tells the story about procuring a stack of Prince's session documents from Sunset Sound and how interviews with those who worked with Prince f...

Glen Phillips Picks The Essential Talk Talk Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket joins Eric to share his 10 Essential Talk Talk songs.  Talk Talk lead the synth pop movement with their 1982 debut album The Party's Over  and scored a couple MTV style hits early on, but they quickly evolved beyond their beginnings to become a truly innovative and unique band under the direction of Mark Hollis. The...

Ronnie Platt of Kansas joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days discovering his voice, working his way up through the Chicago music scene for decades struggling through a string of bands including Shooting Star and ARRA , his near misses with both Survivor and Foreigner, how that prepared him for when he ultimately got the meeting with the guys in Kansas after Steve Walsh had announced...

Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz Picks The Essential Weird Al Originals. Weird Al's lifelong drummer, Bermuda Schwartz joins Eric to share his 10 Essential Weird Al original songs.  Also some memories and anecdotes about working on those songs, what it's like for him to perform the wide variety of styles in Al's catalog both original and parody, memories from some of the video shoots, how Al presents songs...

Phil Collen of  Def Leppard and Delta Deep joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days of discovering the blues via British classic and hard rock, his early connections to the guys in Iron Maiden, first joining Def Leppard during the making of Pyromania , writing for Hysteria , how the loss of Steve Clark affected him personally when working on Adrenalize , how the band looks back at some...

Stax legend  William Bell joins Eric in conversation to discuss his early days of discovering music, seeing Sam Cooke as a kid, getting started with The Del-Rios as a young teenager, how he first connected with Stax Records, meeting Sam Cooke and what he learned from him, what the environment was like working with such Stax legends as Booker T & The MGs and Mavis Staples, he shares a wonderfully f...

An episode that sees one of your co-hosts taking a slightly different path this year.

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