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 vocal album. He was …
Hal Blaine (part 1) SE: Out of all the musicians in the wrecking crew Hal Blaine is almost a household name these days.HB: Well, you know I’ve been on so many hits obviously. I was actually in last Sunday’s Times crossword puzzle. SE: (Laughing) Really.HB: So I have really arrived! SE: I’ll say!HB: Really arrived. …
Lynn Carey The Roar Of Mama Lion In 1973 record stores all over the world were hanging posters to promote a new record called “Preserve Wildlife” by a new, up and coming band: Mama Lion. On that poster was what was to become one of the most contraversial album covers in the history of rock and …
Larry Levine A TALK WITH LEGENDARY STUDIO ENGINEER AND PHIL SPECTOR’S RIGHT HAND MAN This holiday season while standing in long lines in department stores, fighting off colds and flu, or sitting in traffic jams …just when you think that it couldn’t get any worse, you try to calm your nerves by switching on your …
Floyd Sneed THE RYHTHM SECTION In 1969 the AM rock/pop top 40 radio stations were jam packed with some of the greatest hit records in the history of top 40 radio. A lot of great melodies, catchy hooks and a straight, solid and steady rhythm section held all of those hit records together. Then in …
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, …