The VVN Music Interviews
The VVN Music Interviews includes discussions with the veteran music artists that have been recording for twenty years or more in pop, rock, R&B/soul, country, folk and blues.
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Dick Taylor started his career with school friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a group they called the Rollin' Stones but left before they cut their first album to return to art school.
The next year, Dick and Phil May started the Pretty Things with whom he stayed until 1969 after the release of the now critically acclaimed but initially failed rock opera "S.F. Sorrow".
Taylor went on to produce, most notably the debut albu...
On March 23, Procol Harum released an eight-disc box set chronicling the band's history both in the studio and live.
The one person who has been there for that entire history is lead singer Gary Brooker. Brooker and Robin Trower came from the band the Paramounts, who had a couple of minor hits in Britain in the early-60's before forming Procul Harum in 1966.
The new band had a major international hit with their first single, "A...
This time, we go back to 2012 for an archive interview with Tommy Roe.
Tommy was one of the rare artists who was able to keep his songs in the top ten for most of the 60's, from 1962's "Sheila" through the late-60's and early-70's with "Dizzy" and "Jam Up and Jelly Tight".
Roe also toured twice with the Beatles, once in the U.K. and once in the U.S.
Rachael Sage is a true Renaissance woman of the arts. Over her lifeshe has danced with the New York City ballet, taught herself piano, painted, acted, started her own record company and become a successful singer-songwriter.
Since 1996, she has released fifteen full length albums and EPs including her LP of music for dance, Choreographic, and her new EP of holiday music, Joy!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Glenn Hughes has had a long and very active career in music, first with the British group Trapeze and, starting in 1973, as a member of Deep Purple Mk. III and IV.
It was with Deep Purple that he sang and played bass on the albums Burn, Stormbringer, Come Taste the Band and the live set, Made in Europe.
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Paula Cole started her career in the clubs around her native Boston before being asked to join Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour. Her exposure from that tour and her first album, Harbinger, got her signed to Warner Brothers where she released This Fire which went on to be nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys along with six other categories including Producer of the Year.
Cole has just released her new album, Ballads, wh...
According to Rolling Stone, Carl Palmer is one of the ten best drummers in music.
He started his career in the late-60's with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster before forming Emerson, Lake and Palmer with the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake. Together, they created a rare mix of rock and classical music that was a cornerstone in the progressive ...
Ross the Boss Friedman has been a mainstay of the music business for over forty years. In 1973, he was a founding member of the punk icons The Dictators and, in 1980, he started the hard rock band Manowar. Plus, he's been involved in recordings for a wide variety of other artists over the years.
We talk with Ross on the forming of both bands, his work with Bruce ...
Singer and guitarist Tommy Victor got his start in music working at CBGB in New York as a sound engineer and, in 1986, got together with a fellow employee, Mike Kirkland, and ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons to form Prong.
Prong released their debut EP, Primitive Origins in 1987 and full LP, Force Fed, in 1989 before signing a deal with Epic Records where they record...
Jett Williams was born just five days after her father, Hank Williams died at the age of 29. Her birth mother gave her up for adoption and it wasn't until the early-80's that she researched her heritage and found out her father was a country icon.
After a court battle to be accepted as one of William's true heirs, she joined forces with her brother, Hank William...
Killer Queen have never recorded an album, yet they have fans around the world for their spot on tribute to the music of Queen.
Patrick Myers has fronted the band since it was formed by students at a London university just weeks before the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991. Within two years, they were on London's West End with their show and, since, have played in...
Peter Cetera was one of the three main voices of Chicago, along with Robert Lamm and Terry Kath, from their beginnings until the album Chicago 17 and singing such favorites as 25 or 6 to 4, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Call on Me, If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I'm Sorry and You're the Inspiration but, in 1985, disagreements with the band and management over allowing time for him to pursue a solo car...
The British heavy metal band Diamond Head has had a major influence on the world of metal music over the last forty years.
Formed in 1976, the band released their first two albums independently in the early 80's before singing with MCA Records. That early music found its way to the ears of groups like Metallica and Megadeth with the former covering a number of D...
For our fortieth episode, we go back four years to a 2013 interview with classic rock drummer Carmine Appice.
Carmine, along with his brother Vinnie, are two of the strongest drummers in rock music. His long history has taken him through Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Beck, Bogert & Appice, KGB and other groups along with playing in the recording and touring bands of suc...
Melissa Manchester has had a tremendous career as a singer-songwriter, scoring numerous hits and working with the best in the business.
Four years ago, she ventured out on her own, running an Indiegogo campaign to finance her new album, You Gotta Love the Life. Now, she is using Indiegogo again for a new set, The Gents, a companion to her 1989 album Tribute but, ...
Terry Ilous and Patt Fontaine came to America from their native France in the mid-80's where they put together the rockers XYZ. Over the next six years, the band would release two studio albums, break up and eventually reform with two more albums coming out in the mid-2000's.
In 2010, Ilous filled in for Jack Russell in Great White and, a year later, was made th...
This week, we celebrate the upcoming second anniversary of the VVN Music Podcast by going back to our very first episode with John Lodge of the Moody Blues.
For those that may have missed it at the time, we recorded the interview just as John was about to release his first solo album in 38 years called 10,000 Light Years Away.
George Frayne has been playing music for fifty years, 46 years of which have been under the name of Commander Cody. With his band, the Lost Planet Airmen, he has recorded a long line of both studio and live albums that combine such diverse genres as rock, rockabilly, country, gospel, R&B and country swing.
Commander Cody recently released a brand new album, "Liv...
This week, we go back to 2012 for an interview with Freddy Cannon.
At the time, Cannon was promoting his memoir, "Where the Action Is!", a no holds barred look at his career and the music business.
Our conversation moved from where Cannon feels he should be placed in the world of rock music, his family and wife and how they fi...
Michael Schenker returns to the VVN Music Podcast for the second time in a year with another live album.
Last June, we talked with him about the live set with his band Temple of Rock, On a Mission, Live in Madrid.
This time around, it's Michael Schenker Fest: Live in Japan which celebrates the music of the Michael Schenker ...
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