Earl Slick Interview – A bit of a trade off between me and Earl Slick [Listen 33:00 min]
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S02 Ep12 (Part 1 of 2) - A bit of a trade off between me and Earl Slick
Interview Date: June 7, 2012 @7pm EDT
Special Guest: Earl Slick - is one of the most in-demand and top guitarists living today; the "who's who" in music ask for him by name, and you should know him too.
You might have come across him for playing on albums like "Young Americans," " Station to Station," and "Reality" for David Bowie or for playing on "Double Fantasy," "Season of Glass," and "Milk and Honey" for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He has multiple side projects like Phantom, Rocker and Slick, New York Dolls, Ian Hunter, Robert Smith, plus 8 solo albums under his belt and much, much more. In this podcast we talk about where he got the name "Earl Slick," how he got started, some of the great bands he has put together and what it was like playing on "David Live," "Station to Station," and "Young Americans."
Coolest Names in Music
Rock’n’Roll names can come real fast, and are about as easy as venerial disease to get rid of. The fact of the matter is, true nicknames are invariably given to you by someone else, but sometimes nicknames in music come from ulterior motives (from record producers to increase sales). The best ones are earned.
Some of the things that determine a good name is; it needs to be catchy and memorable, it has to mean something that represents that person (onomatopoeias often help) and, of corse, it has to rock!
This is a tight race, and could go on forever, but these are some of the coolest names in history according to GTV.
Engelbert Humperdinck
(born Arnold George Dorsey) - Although this is not a competition, he still wins with the coolest and most unforgettable stage name ever. Named after a 19th-century opera composer, Humperdinck is famous for songs like "Release Me," "The Last Waltz," and "A Man Without Love."
Season 1 Episode 4 (1 of 2): I’m livin’ on a Chinese Rock
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If Marijuana means you’re mellow and chilled, and Cocaine means you’re jumpy and corporate, then heroin means you’re in for the long haul. Drugs have been a big part of the music scene right from the beginning, and no other drug represents “Suffering for the arts” more than Heroin. Heroin has been both demonized and glorified in the music media and it’s easy to see why. With artists like Iggy Pop, Martin Gore and Lou Reed walking around somehow being able to travel through the abyss and come out the other end. It’s not hard to see why someone might attribute the drugs that their favourite artist takes being at least a factor in what made them stronger, more creative or having lived a more interesting life than the rest of us. The draw for drugs like heroin seems to be a romantic one; one that has the unwritten promise of becoming a ‘troubled artistic genius’ if you just do it the right way. An idea that a zillion of the greatest artists in rock ’n’ roll have signed up for, just to be paid