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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a Walk. Buzz Night the host of the Taking
a Walk podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And one of the things I love doing is discovering
new podcast especially music podcast And there's a great one
that started as a YouTube channel, still is a YouTube channel,
and now it's a podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's called The Professor of Rock.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we're here to talk to Adam Reader, the professor himself.
Hey Adam, Hey, how's going It's going great. I wanted
to ask you this question. Yeah, with all the many
interviews you have done, I think you've done into eight
hundred of them. I think as the Professor of Rock,
is there one takeaway that you find from musicians that

(00:44):
kind of gives insight into what their creative process is
all about?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah? You know, one thing that I have found that
has been common with most of the artists that I've interviewed,
especially the older uh, the old school uh or the ogs.
I guess if you would call them the you know,
I man, I had three hours with Leman Dozer from
Holland Dozer to Holland that wrote all the great motown

(01:12):
songs for the Four Tops and the Supremes and Martha
and the Van Del's and uh. And then you know,
I love interviewing like songwriters like Berry Man and Cynthia
While who wrote You've Lost that love and feeling and
on Broadway and uh, and then you know Brian Wilson,
one of my heroes.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Uh, Beach Boys, genius.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh. A lot of these artists, they they didn't have
a plan B. You know, they didn't have a plan B.
They wanted to do music and that was it. And that,
I mean, it was it was a music or bust.
And I really respect that because, I mean I grew
up in a in a small town where education was
really important and and it was like, you got to

(01:53):
go get your degree. You gotta go do this, You
got to get your mortgage and your two point five
kids and and live that that life that that to traditional,
your traditional life. And uh, it was kind of pushed
onto us that you've got to go do this. This
is this is the path you have to go get
a degree. And and uh, these artists they didn't follow

(02:13):
that path. They they didn't care. You know, they they
had a guitar in their hand from the age of six,
you know, like Neil Sean from Journey or Steve Lucather
from Toto, and and you know that was their craft
and they were they were going to make it in
music or they were going to starve. And and I
really think that's an incredible mentality because they they were

(02:36):
just driven by their art. They were driven by writing
and crafting and creating music. And I really respect that drive.
And so that that's one thing that I've I've found
in common.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
And I mean, if you were.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
If I go speak at you know, schools and colleges,
and you know, if I were to tell a high
school I've mentioned this before, people are a little shocked.
You can't say that, you know, you can't say just
go after with everything you have. But really they did.
They didn't have a plan B. It was like they
were going to make it music and that was that.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
So that's great.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I have discovered the same thing from talking to so
many folks, and it's a great lesson to be learned.
If you really believe in something and believe in yourself,
then take that no plan B approach for sure.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
So yeah, Adam Reid to the Professor of Rock.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Check out the podcast on all the platforms, Apple and
Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts, and coming up
on a future episode of Taking a Walk Adam and
I are going to talk about the amazing Led Zeppelin documentary,
which I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yes, I'm going to look forward to that.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Thanks Adam, thank you.