Booked On Rock

Eric Senich

Conversations with authors, musicians, and insiders revealing the stories behind classic rock's greatest songs, albums and artists.

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Sep 27, 2022 · 56 min
"Learning to See: A Photographer’s Guide from Zero to Your First Paid Gig"/David Molnar [Episode 84]
Whether you want to take better photos in your everyday life or make a full-time income as a photographer, maybe even working in the music business shooting concerts and album covers, the five-part framework author David Molnar teaches in “Learning to...
Sep 22, 2022 · 1 hr 36 min
"MusicQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music"/Robert Dimery [Episode 83]
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy — causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up. “MusicQuake”...
Sep 15, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
"Beat The Odds In Business & Life"/Sandy Gennaro [Episode 82]
Sandy Gennaro is a world-class speaker and drummer who has recorded and toured with several globally known artists including Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Monkees, Bo Diddley, Johnny Winter, Montrose, The Pat Travers Band, Mark...
Sep 8, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
"This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick"/Brian J. Kramp [Episode 81]
"This band has no past" was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick’s first album, but the band, of course, did have a past—a past that straddles two very different decades: from the tumult of the sixties to...
Sep 1, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
"Billy Joel: Every Album, Every Song"/Lisa Torem [Episode 80]
‘In the beginning,’ Billy Joel entertained Long Island locals, with The Hassles and Attila, prior to forging a solo career in 1971. One year later, the singer-songwriter-pianist captivated college students when “Captain Jack” dominated the...
Aug 25, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
"Rock On Film: The Movies That Rocked The Big Screen"/Fred Goodman [Episode 79]
When the use of Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” turned 1955’s ‘Blackboard Jungle’ into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic and cultural revolution. Starting with Elvis Presley and the teensploitation...
Aug 20, 2022 · 1 hr 8 min
"Phil Collins in the 80s"/Andrew Wild [Episode 78]
Phil Collins was everywhere in the 1980s. He had more top forty singles in the US than any other artist: fourteen as a solo artist and eleven with Genesis, along with two number one solo albums, plus twenty-five solo or group hit singles and eight...
Aug 18, 2022 · 33 min
"The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Magic"/Peter Shapiro [Episode 77]
Peter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone on to even bigger ventures, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Nashville), the...
Aug 11, 2022 · 1 hr 32 min
"It's All in the Mind: Inside the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, Vol. 2"/Robert R. Hieronimus, Ph.D. & Laura E. Cortner [Episode 76]
Get to know the formerly undiscovered artists and the technical wizardry behind your favorite scenes. Symbolic interpretations and subconscious messages of peace and love, plus in-studio hijinks by frustrated animators. How does the 'Yellow Submarine'...
Aug 6, 2022 · 1 hr 27 min
"Iconic Guitar Gear"/Greg Prato [Episode 75]
Renowned guitarists (or experts) discussing “tools of the trade” in their own words serves as the basis of “Iconic Guitar Gear”. Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Kurt...
Aug 4, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
AC/DC, Cheap Trick, KISS Stories & The Paranormal w/ Author Susan Masino [Episode 74]
Rock journalist Susan Masino is the author of "Famous Wisconsin Musicians" and "Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy: My Life and Times With AC/DC, Van Halen and Kiss", “AC/DC FAQ – All That’s Left to Know About the World’s True Rock ‘N’ Roll Band”, “The Story Of...
Jul 28, 2022 · 1 hr 50 min
"Loudmouth: A Novel"/Robert Duncan [Episode 73]
Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices by neglectful parents, and spends his childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming the city with...
Jul 21, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
"The Beatle Who Vanished"/Jim Berkenstadt [Episode 72]
HOW COULD DRUMMER JIMMIE NICOL SIMPLY VANISH AFTER PLAYING WITH THE BEATLES IN 1964? “The Beatle Who Vanished” is the first historical account of Jimmie Nicol, an unknown drummer whose journey from humble beginnings to saving The Beatles' first...
Jul 15, 2022 · 1 hr 48 min
"Motörhead: Every Album, Every Song"/Duncan Harris [Episode 71]
A perfect companion to the recorded output of a unique band, this book part of Sonicbond Publishing’s “On Track” series, covers all of Motörhead’s studio output plus rarities and significant solo work from the late great Lemmy. Beginning with the...
Jul 7, 2022 · 1 hr 56 min
"Warren Zevon: Every Album, Every Song"/Peter Gallagher [Episode 70]
Bruce Springsteen called him “one of the great, great American songwriters”, Jackson Browne hailed him as “the first and foremost proponent of song noir”, and Stephen King once said that if he could write like him, he “would be a happy guy”. The list...
Jun 30, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
Classic Rock Expiration Dates, McCartney/Lennon Misunderstood, Is Dylan Still Worth Listening To? Author Tim Riley Sounds Off! [Episode 69]
Author and NPR critic Tim Riley is our guest to talk about his prolific career as a music critic, author of several books on rock history, his brand-new website and latest venture The Riley Rock Report: an audio newsletter which was launched in March....
Jun 23, 2022 · 1 hr 34 min
"Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (& Lived to Tell About It)"/Bill German [Episode 68]
At age sixteen, Bill German began publishing a Rolling Stones fanzine out of his bedroom in Brooklyn. And when he presented an issue to the band on a street in New York, he obviously made an impression: before he knew it, the Stones had hired him to...
Jun 16, 2022 · 1 hr 35 min
"Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey"/Michael Goldberg [Episode 67]
If you don’t recognize the name James Calvin Wilsey, odds are you’ve heard him. His hypnotic guitar work on Chris Isaak’s top ten single from 1989 “Wicked Game” made Isaak an international star. But there is much more to his story than his guitar work...
Jun 9, 2022 · 1 hr 10 min
"The Clash: All The Albums All The Songs"/Martin Popoff [Episode 66]
Established in 1976 at the fore London’s punk rock insurgence, The Clash featuring lead singer and guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and singer Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon would outlast their peers while creating...
Jun 2, 2022 · 1 hr 28 min
"We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001, Expanded Edition"/Eric Davidson [Episode 65]
Nirvana, the White Stripes, Hole, the Hives—all sprang from an underground music scene where similarly raw bands, enjoying various degrees of success and luck, played for throngs of fans in venues ranging from dive bars to massive festivals, but were...