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🎙Audio Autopsy, 1980: Linda Ronstadt, "Mad Love," and Her New Wave Hired Gun, The Cretones' Mark Goldenberg
From fronting early Eagles to topping pop charts with bold ballads & rockers, Linda signals this hard left toward New Wave with Mad Love, but hires a…
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Brad Kyle
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Dan Pal
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Audio Autopsy, 1973: Bonnie Raitt, "Takin' My Time" LP: Collab with Andres of The Vinyl Room
When Andy told me he loved Bonnie's 3rd album, I had to try and arrange a collab of some sort! I loved Bonnie, in real time, from her 1971 start (I was…
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Andres
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Audio Autopsy, 1971: Who Was Arnold Corns & Why Did David Bowie Produce His Single?
While we're at it, who on earth was Freddy Burretti, and why should we care? A pretty cool single I picked up in a record store's import section in 1974…
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Audio Autopsy, 1972-'85🌈Chris Rainbow, Alan Parsons' One-Man Beach Boys
Rainbow had a fan in Brian Wilson, his inspiration. Chris worked with Alan Parsons, Camel & others, and even created & sang jingles for the BBC! His was…
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Brad Kyle
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Mark Edward Randall
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Audio Autopsy, 2013: One Direction No One Expected: The Blondie & Undertones Medley For Charity
To the hipper-than-thou, kindly adjust your "cool quotient" to allow for the following several moments where a billion-selling teen-pop group is…
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Audio Autopsy, 1967:🎵Victor Garber & The Sugar Shoppe: Actor, 75, Had a '60s Folk-Pop Start🎶
He's excelled on the stage, and on screens big and small. But, before all that, he was a '60s solo folk singer, and was in a folk group who broke into…
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Audio Autopsy, 1981👟Sneaker: 2 Albums, 1 Hit + Steely Dan Guitarist, Jeff Baxter, Producing
They took their name from a Steely Dan song, covered one of their songs, and even had their guitarist produce their only two albums! Pretzel logic that…
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Audio Autopsy: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Power Classic Rock Into New Millennium
Anachronism: "A chronological inconsistency, or the act of placing something in the wrong time period." Rarely does a rock act have their pic accompany…
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Brad Kyle
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Christopher Bradley
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Audio Autopsy: Michael Zager Boogies From Late '60s Rock to '70s Disco🕺"Let's All Chant"💃
The rare career move across decades from a ten-piece rock band with a female lead singer to a hit-making career producing disco records makes this New…
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Brad Kyle
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The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s)
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Audio Autopsy, 1988🎸Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child: The Beatles Influenced Album We Didn't See Coming
Phil Keaggy & band wanted to re-create the sound of albums from the mid-'60s à la The Beatles, using only vintage guitars played through vintage amps…
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Audio Autopsy, 1968: The Flirtations, "Nothing But a Heartache"💔Songwriters Wayne Bickerton & Tony Waddington
They wrote one song that floundered, so they re-purposed one of its hooks, and re-cast their musical net into the high Cs (and B-sharps) & came up with…
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Audio Autopsy, 1979: The Creative Birth of Hit-Songwriter, Desmond Child, on Capitol Records
🌈Livin' on a Flair: The "male Diane Warren" has given hard rock a desperately-needed melodic sheen, which has resulted in re-shaped careers, while…
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