Tag: Kevin Goff
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Episode 599: ’80s Classic Rock – Steve Winwood, Beach Boys, Roy Orbison
Patrick Foster is out this week, so Rob Gates and Kevin Goff join Jim to talk about classic rock artists and how they responded to the industry in the ’80s. Today, we talk about three legacy artists who made big comebacks in the MTV decade: Steve Winwood (formerly of Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith), the Beach Boys (who scored a No. 1 single in the ’80s) and Roy Orbison (who had a bittersweet ’80s revival).
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Episode 522: 2018 Favorites – Frank Turner, Laura Veirs
Today’s listener favorites from 2018: Keith Jacobsen of Grand Rapids MI loves Frank Turner’s “Be More Kind.” And Kevin Goff of Leesburg VA is a big fan of Laura Veirs’ “The Lookout.”
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Episode 258: Greatest Hits – French Horn
Why do we mock the french horn? Learn the origin in this classic episode, as First Anniversary Week continues.
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Episode 127: Perfect Pop – The Pretenders, B-52’s
It’s a backyard Zima party! And yet we talk about perfect pop songs from the pre-brewed citrus beverage era. Kevin Goff picks the Pretenders. Bill Horne favors the B-52’s. Cheers!
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Episode 126: U2 in concert
Our friend Brett Motiff went to see U2 in D.C. And Bill Horne saw U2 at Bonnaroo. And Kevin Goff was about to see U2 in New York. We talk to all of them, as part of our weeklong deck party in the suburbs.
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Episode 112: Robyn Hitchcock takes your tweets
Our friend Dan Gursky joins the show to discuss a recent Robyn Hitchcock concert he attended, in which the singer took requests via Twitter. (Dan also wrote about the experience at SuburbsPod.com.)
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Episode 93: Overplayed songs (‘Freee Birrddd!’)
Can you get sick of a great song? We put that question to our listeners, and they offered up several examples.
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Episode 59: Music we try to get our kids to listen to
What parents don’t try to get the kids to like their music? Sometimes it works, but not usually. Friends Kevin Goff and Dan Gursky join the show and discuss this phenomenon with Jim & Patrick.
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Episode 58: The Bangles
The only CD our friend Dan Gursky owns is a bargain-bin Bangles greatest hits. We discuss. That’s a show.
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Episode 57: The Athens scene
Few music scenes seemed as vibrant as Athens GA in the 1980s. Friend Kevin Goff talks about his experiences there, plus the whole gang discusses the documentary “Athens GA Inside/Out” and some of the great bands that emerged from that college town.