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  • The Al Anderson Interview Set II

    The Al Anderson Interview Set II
    Mar 1 2025

    Decorated musician talks about playing with English bands Free and Traffic which ultimately led him to England, Island Records and Bob Marley.
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    1 h et 3 min
  • The Flow $trow Interview

    The Flow $trow Interview
    Feb 28 2025

    Poet and lyricist talks about the tours he has been on and how he wants to make an impact through his music.

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    37 min
  • The Al Anderson Interview

    The Al Anderson Interview
    Feb 20 2025

    Guitarist with Bob Marley talks about his relationship with Bill Graham as a teenager causing havoc at the Fillmore West and being taught slide guitar by Duane Allman and Johnny Winter.
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    1 h et 1 min
  • The Jerry Pompili Interview

    The Jerry Pompili Interview
    Feb 20 2025
    "Rock Medicine"Bill had this amazing ability to pick people. As long as I knew him he always chose people for specific things they were able to do.He would always say, "don't ever think we're in show business. We're not in show business, we're in the business of public assembly. We put asses into seats, and we do it better than anybody."I was really good at dealing with people, especially crowds. I also had this ability to anticipate problems before they arose. I had a good "shit hit the fan"' mentality too. We were doing a whole bunch of shows in the 70's at Winterland which held a little over 5,000 people. We always had problems at the shows with drugs and alcohol. It was a finite number of problems and depended on the kind of show you had. The heavier the show the more problems you tended to have. Every once and awhile we would do a show at The Cow Palace. The Cow Palace was three times the size of Winterland, but the funny think I noticed almost from the start, was that we didn't have three times the number of problems. We had nine times the number of problems. It became a geometric progression with medical type problems. Bill booked this show at Kezar Stadium with Led Zeppelin in 1973. This capacity was 50,000. I'm running the numbers in my head and I'm thinking, "oh shit, this could be a really big problem."I went into Bill's office. Usually when I went into Bill with an idea the first thing he would say is "how much will it cost," unless it involved the safety of the audience.I went into him and gave him all these numbers and said, "what can we do?" He picked up the phone and called Dave Smith at The Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic and says, "I'm going to send my guy over to you to explain what we need." He never asked me how much it would cost. David Smith asked two of his doctors, Skip Gay and Darryl Inaba, and they put together the whole "rock medicine thing." Setting up places to handle medical type problems that arise at shows, people freaking out, nodding out, or overdosing or drunk and throwing up. Prior to rock medicine, when there was a situation, it was either call an ambulance or call the cops. If it was just someone freaking out, take three or four of the staff and just sit on him.I'm just the guy who came up with the idea, that's the anticipation thing."
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    49 min
  • The Bee Getz Interview

    The Bee Getz Interview
    Feb 19 2025

    Examining the Upful Life with a decorated music journalist.

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    50 min
  • The Babatunde Lea Interview

    The Babatunde Lea Interview
    Feb 18 2025

    Legendary drummer and percussionist talks about the rhythms of diaspora brought to the west by his ancestors and how he has continued to ingrain those patterns in his own musical communities.

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    1 h et 22 min
  • The Eric Nakanishi Interview

    The Eric Nakanishi Interview
    Feb 14 2025

    Stellar alto saxophonist talks about how he learned to hear music and what his Tucson jazz experience has been like. Safe travels in your next journey.

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    11 min
  • The Wreckless Interview

    The Wreckless Interview
    Feb 14 2025

    Frontman Fritz Fayman talks about his band and how they are evolving in an ever-changing musical landscape.

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    48 min