Comedian Don Jamieson has had a long and impressive career. Starting at MTV, Jamieson helped launch the careers of Kevin James, Jon Stewart and Tom Green before embarking on a stand-up career of his own. He is an Emmy Award winner for his work on HBO’s ‘Inside The NFL’, has toured extensively opening for [...]
Marc Spitz has a long and diverse resume as a pop culture writer and music journalist. He was a Senior Writer at Spin, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Maxim, Blender, Harp, Vanity Fair, Nylon and the New York Post. He contributes regularly to the British music magazine Uncut.
Spitz [...]
As a founding member of both Santana and Journey, Gregg Rolie has succeeded in two very different styles across several decades of rock music. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he performed at Woodstock.
His most recent project is the Gregg Rolie Band, and Gregg joined us [...]
This is the third and final installment of my recent in-depth interview with Gentle Giant keyboardist/singer/composer Kerry Minnear.
In this podcast episode we discuss the band’s early record deal with Vertigo, which was a tax relief scheme for a larger label; the mathematics behind Gentle Giant being able to continue recording; the grind of [...]
This past Sunday we were very lucky have two members of the legendary rock group Boston join us on Long Live Rock. Guitarist Gary Pihl and bassist Kimberley Dahme discussed a wide variety of topics including Gary’s side projct Alliance and upcoming gig with Sammy Hagar’s son; Gary working on Kimberley’s solo album; charity [...]
This is the second installment of my recent in-depth interview with keyboardist/vocalist/composer Kerry Minnear of Gentle Giant. In this podcast episode we discuss playing on the bill with Yes; differences between Gentle Giant and Yes; John Weathers; recollections of Free Hand; Playing The Fool and Gentle Giant’s reputation as a live band; the relationship [...]
I never met Kyle Woodring. I first became aware of him a few years ago when I was working on a book entitled The Grand Delusion: The Unauthorized True Story of Styx. I was trying to get as many interviews with people close to the members of Styx as I could, and Kyle was [...]
The last few months have been an exciting time for Gentle Giant fans. After years of relative inactivity, punctuated by sporadic releases of varying quality, over the course of the last few months Gentle Giant has released a large slice of its catalog in digital formats for the first time, and now those same [...]
Dennis Dunaway was the original bass player and founding member of Alice Cooper, a band he started with a school friend named Vincent Furnier. The band recorded a legendary strong of hit albums like Killer and Billion Dollar Babies, with hit singles like “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, “Be My Lover” and “School’s Out”. [...]
This is the second and final installment of my recent interview with Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery. In this podcast episode we discuss the challenges of marketing albums when you move around stylistically; the artistic freedom Marillion affords; the Marillion/Fish one-off reunion a while back; why that won’t lead to a full-blown reunion; changes in [...]
