One of the world's largest classic rock interview archives, from ACDC to ZZ Top, by award-winning radio personality Redbeard.

Mark Knopfler explains why he retired the Dire Straits franchise after 1991’s On Every Street but not from making new music, ...

Genesis was already a veteran English band by the time they released Abacab in September 1981. The progressive trio’s eleventh (!) studio album, Abacab was the result of another significant personnel ...

One of the world's largest classic rock interview archives, from ACDC to ZZ Top, by award-winning radio personality Redbeard.

“He was our guy,” Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington told me about songwriter J.J.Cale in my December 2000 interview,” kinda our ‘go to’ guy for songs back then.” For over four decades Cale, the ...

As it turned out, Pretzel Logic also was the last Steely Dan album to feature the five bandmembers Fagen, Becker, guitarist Denny Dias, original drummer and occasional vocalist Jim Hodder, and six ...

With John Mellencamp I spent part of my Christmas holiday 1991 in an A-frame cabin with a wood-burning stove in the still, snow-covered woods among the hills and “hollers” of Central Indiana’s Brown ...

With the Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band release Against the Wind, I can easily recall the moment when I first realized that, at that time, Bob Seger had become the biggest American rock star. It ...

 The third album by New Jersey band Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet released in August 1986, was such a phenomenon on so many different levels forty years ago. So we entreated band singing namesake Jon ...

When revisiting the Rush April 1984 release Grace Under Pressure, I had to double-check the math. Could Grace Under Pressure, in my mind that mid-period transitional album for the Toronto-based trio, ...

Released 7/7/77, rock and roll dreams combined with Midwestern tenacity and the talents of a Southern man to give Chicago-based journeymen Styx their first nationwide multi-million seller, The Grand ...