Chuck Negron Chuck Negron Live Again! Live albums..you love em’ or you hate em’. Personally, if they’re done in a way that makes me feel like I’m there, then I love em’! I can only think of a handful of live records that do that for me: “Johnny Rivers Live at the Whiskey A Go …
Charles Conner One of the legendary rock and roll show drummers of the 1950’s and 60‘s! Charles Connor spent years touring with some of the greatest entertainers of our time laying down a great backbeat that kept the audiences dancing! His first years of touring was as the original drummer for the Upsetters, the band …
Peter Tork What do you do when your track record includes being part of an award winning television show, being involved with a project that’s merchandising out-sold the Beatles, and being with a band that recorded an album which knocked “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” out of the number one slot in Billboard for …
Johnny Rivers The first time I ever heard the term “House Rockin” the person I thought of was Johnny Rivers! What about Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino? Believe me, those people can rip a house down board by board, but as far as all night, good time House Rockin goes, it’s gotta be …
Bill Church SE: Are you from the Bay Area?BC: Well, not exactly original, but I was in the Bay Area for 20 years. I was in Europe in the early ’60s, then I came to San Francisco in about ’67…and Ronnie was out in Boulder, Colorado. That was where I first met him. SE: Oh, …
Ronnie Montrose SE: Did you grow up in the Bay Area?RM: I was born in San Francisco, but my folks moved to Denver Colorado when I was a couple of years old, and I didn’t come back until the late 60s when I became a hippie. SE: What brought you back to the Bay Area?RM: …
Mick Taylor Being a lifelong purist I remember listening to the Rolling Stones since I was a little kid and finding it tough at first to adjust to the replacement of my favorite Stone, Brian Jones, the creator and a onetime guiding light for the Stones. After losing control of the band to Don Knott’s …
Brian Wilson When I pulled my mail from the box and opened the package containing Brian Wilson’s new CD… hey, I admit that I’m as much a skeptic as the next guy, but the first thing I did was put that disc in a player before I even put down the envelope. And I must …
Brian Wilson There’s nothing one could write about Brian Wilson that hasn’t been written a million times before so, to encapsulate: brilliant songwriter, soulful arranger, emotional producer, outstanding performer. It must be true that all great artists must suffer for their art. Here’s a guy raised and later managed by a controlling and abusive father — one day sixteen …
Hal Blaine – Part 2 SE: (laughs) I wanted to ask you about some of the drummers that came out of the British invasion like Ringo. What did you think of his playing? HB: Ringo did his job with The Beatles. His job was to be Ringo. Ringo hired me to do his …