"takin ' a walk" introduces you to Adam Reader-The Professor of Rock

We often like turning you on to podcasts you might like if you like our podcast. Adam Reader is The Professor of Rock and he has been creating amazing music content with interviews and music commentary over the years on his Professor of Rock You Tube Channel. Adam now has a podcast and we want to introduce you to him.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a Walk.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
So this is Buzznight here. I host the Taking a
Walk podcast And one of the things I love being
able to do is to find podcasts or YouTube channels
that are doing amazing things you and the audience might
like to check out. And there's one that I recently

(00:22):
have discovered that's been toiling away on YouTube and building
massive audience there, and it's called the Professor of Rock.
And I'm here to speak to the Professor of Rock,
Adam Reader right now. Hello, Adam, how are you good?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm doing awesome? Thank you. And the cool part about
what you've built on your YouTube channel, the Professor of
Rock YouTube channel is it is now turned into a
podcast for everybody to consume. Part of the Gamut network,
which is run by the fine folks at Hubbard and

(01:03):
Hubbard has connected us so we're able to kind of
do this little little segment here. So for those that
don't know what you have built and what you do
on the Professor of Rock channel and now the Professor
of Rock podcast, tell us what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, So the podcast is really really the YouTube channel
as a podcast a little bit different, you know, because
it is a podcast, but I've really told the story
over the last ten years of the greatest artists and
greatest songs in history. Mostly focused on classic rock, but

(01:42):
I've focused really on all music, rock, pop, and soul
from really from the fifties to now, and mostly focused
you know, sixties, seventies, and eighties, but also into the
nineties and newer stuff. And I've interviewed, have the opportunity
interview I think were eight hundred and something artists now.

(02:04):
In fact, I have an interview later today with Bill Sismick,
the producer of many of the Eagles' finest albums. And
it's been just an incredible opportunity to spend, you know,
a couple hours with my heroes that my dad introduced
me to their music when I was a kid, and
that's really where this all spawned from. Buzz Is my

(02:26):
father and I. You know, we had a relationship was
here and there his vaults. I guess when I was
growing up as a teenager. We were kind of button heads.
But the two things we had in common were baseball
and music, especially music, and he raised me on rock
and roll. He loved the Beatles, he loved Modestown, he
loved Creeden's Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills and Nash, all that stuff,

(02:48):
and so, you know, he was a painting contractor and
he would drive around. I'd drive around with him and
his old Ford pickup, and you know, he would do
different jobs around. Grew up in a small town in Idaho,
the potato capital of the world, actually Black Fan, Idaho.
And in that small town, my window to the world

(03:09):
was music. It was, you know, first it was listening
to the top forty cant down with Casey case him
every every week, didn't miss a week, wrote them all
down in my notebook. And then you know, MTV once
we got it later on, we were a little behind
the times. They're in a small town. But really my
dad turned me onto it into to vinyl in eight tracks,

(03:29):
and that's how I learned about music. But he also
loved Zeppelin and Sabbath, and he loved some of the
heavier bands in the seventies. And so, you know, one
of my favorite stories of tells there was a kid
on the playground that was kind of picking on me, saying,
you know, my dad could beat up your dad. And
I said, well, my dad listens led Zeppelin, and your
dad listens to Conway Twitty, so you know. And so

(03:51):
my dad raised me on Zeppelin and all that good stuff,
and he told me the stories behind the songs, the
stories that he knew, and man, it just fascinated me.
And so I would go and study these artists and
these stories, and I now ask them about these things.
But the thing that fascinated me the most was that
my dad told me stories about his connection to the songs,

(04:13):
his memories, and I would get a look into his life,
him growing up, who he was when he was my age.
And and you know, he passed away about six years ago.
And man, that music that means more and more every
day to me because of the memories that I share
with my dad, and they've just become magical memories because

(04:37):
of that connection with him. And so I feel like,
in a way, I'm keeping you know, his spirit alive,
and keeping the music alive and introducing it hopefully to
new audiences. My kids, I've raised them on radio, as
I say, raised on radio, raised on the oldies, but goodies,
and and so that's essentially what this is. You know,
the story of rock and roll song by song. I

(04:59):
wanted to tell those stories from the artists. You know
from perspective, but also share some of my personal memories
in my dad's memories, and then have other the viewers.
I'm really standing for the fan.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I just if Alice Cooper's tour bus broke down in
front of your house and he didn't have sales service,
what would you ask him if you had him in
your front room for an hour? And that is how
I've always approached every interview, and so that's essentially the
goal and what I've always tried to do.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
I love that that's at the heart of what I
certainly believe with the Taking a Walk podcast, being able
to get to the heart of the music, what it
means to us and keeping those stories alive. So I
urged the audience to check out The Professor of Rock
and you could find it everywhere you get your podcasts,

(05:52):
and also check out the Professor of Rock on the
YouTube channel. And I know you also have a lot
of behind the scenes stuff available for subscribers further. Do
you want to just talk about that a little bit?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, so we do. We have. I actually do a
live stream every week with somebody outside of music athletes.
I'm actually going to be interviewing no mar Garcia Para,
you know, former short stuff for the Red Sox and
the Dodgers and many other teams. But yeah, that's an example.

(06:29):
CEOs from large companies, Brandon Fugel who has the Skinwalker
ranch the TV show, and I like to interview them
because they share their perspective on music and how it's
shaped their life because obviously in sports and entertainment in business,
music is such a huge part of that as well.
And then of course I share outtakes from interviews, things

(06:53):
that you won't see anywhere else. And sometimes I ask
some questions outside of the interview, as the interviews beginning
or is this ending? And I shared a lot of that,
and so it's insight that you wouldn't find on YouTube
or the podcast necessarily.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Thanks Adam, and I urged the audience to check out
the Professor of Rock