Real stories of some of the greatest bands of the 60's 70's & 80's
Fred & Lloyd explore the power of music and it's influence on politics, movies, commercials, Hollywood, Television and fashion. They talk about the Peace sign and bell bottoms, grunge, mohawks, punk, Madonna, heavy metal hair bands, rap artists and the clothes they wear, Nike shoes, country artists and their sparkles. They cover a lot of ground and its very funny.
Then Billie Elish and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins are now a topic of conversation and Fred worked the Smashing Pumpkins music so they discuss how these two artist broke out to the mainstream.
Recommended Music:
Intro: David Bowie "Fashion"
Middle: Smashing Pumpkins "1979"
End: Billie Eilish "Bad Guy"
Ted Cohen was Artist Development for Warner Bros Records in Burbank and worked at WB for 14 years. He tells us stories about Little Feat, Doobie Bros, a girl named angel, Fleetwood Mac, Talking Heads, Van Halen, Roxy Music and Ted ends this episode with Prince. No spoilers here you’ll have to sit back and listen.........
Recommended Music:
Intro Fleetwood Mac “Bare Trees”
Middle: Doobie Bros “ Black Water” for Angel
Middle: Roxy Music “Avalon”
End: Prince “ Head”
Where would rock and roll be without the women ? Linda Ronstadt, Chrissie Hynde, Pat Benatar, Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Heart, Blondie and others. LA Lloyd and Fred explore the power of the women in rock. Linda Ronstadt sold over 100 million albums and dominated the 70's. and helped form the Eagles. Tune in and enjoy.
Recommended Music:
Intro: Linda Ronstadt "Your'e No Good"
Middle: Chrissie Hynde "Tattooed Love boys"
End: Blondie
The boys talk about the Grammy nominations of MC5, Todd Rundgren, Doobie Bros that Fred had worked with along with Pat Benatar, Kraftwork, T Rex and others.
In the box that Fred would get every week he recalls getting two debut albums and both albums go on to platinum status and set up the careers of Dire Straits and Rickie Lee Jones.
Fred shares some of the strategy of why some songs are released when they are and how the record company looks at the competition. How they choose a lead single and a follow up single.
Fred talks about the Warner Music office’s in New York that he had visited recently.
Recommended Music:
Intro: Dire Straits “Sultan’s of swing”
Middle: Rickie Lee Jones “Chuckies in love”
Middle: Rickie Lee Jones “Last chance Texaco”
End: Dire Straits “Money for nothing”