Dick Taylor of the Rollin' Stones & the Pretty Things
The VVN Music Interviews
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.
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Gary Brooker of Procol Harum
The VVN Music Interviews
The VVN Music Interview with Gary Brooker of Procol Harum on their brand new box set and on the band's history.
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Tommy Roe (2012)
The VVN Music Interviews
This time, we go back to 2012 for an archive interview with Tommy Roe.
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Rachael Sage
The VVN Music Interviews
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.
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Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple & Black Country Communion
The VVN Music Interviews
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 where he sang and played bass on the albums Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste the Band.
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Paula Cole
The VVN Music Interviews
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, , which contains twenty songs from the Great American Songbook along with the world of Americana.
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Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Asia
The VVN Music Interviews
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 rock movement. After Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Carl was a founding member of Asia before striking out on his own with his own band. He is currently on tour with Yes and Todd Rundgren on the Yestival tour, fronting...
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Ross the Boss of The Dictators and Manowar
The VVN Music Interviews
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 Springsteen, how he managed to get Orson Welles on two Manowar albums, his work ethic and his induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal History.
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Tommy Victor of Prong & Danzig
The VVN Music Interviews
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.
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Jett Williams on Her Father Hank Williams
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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 Williams, Jr., to assemble , a sixteen-disc box set that contained 72 15-minute radio programs that Williams recorded for WSM in Nashville. Jett is also a country performer in her own right with her latest being the 2017 set...
info_outlineMelissa 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, this time, concentrating on the great male singers of the last 70 years such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and Johnny Mathis.
Manchester sees the Indiegogo route as a way to not only finance the various facets of the album making process but, also, as a way to work with her many fans or, as she calls them, Fanchesters.
The contribute to Melissa's new project, go to https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/melissa-manchester-the-fellas-music#/