Tag: Mike Wagner
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Episode 1207: Guest Episode – Concrete Blonde, an Appreciation
Mike Wagner and Jim Petrillo (aka Echo Park Jimmy, aka EPJ) fill in for Jim & Patrick today and discuss the career of Los Angeles rock band Concrete Blonde.
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Episode 1146: Marvin Gaye – ‘What’s Going On’
Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, gets to pick the topic. We discuss what some consider the greatest album of all time: Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
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Episode 1064: Black Crowes’ Steve Gorman – Interview
We talk with Steve Gorman, former drummer for the Black Crowes and author of the memoir “Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes.” Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, set up the interview and joins the conversation.
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Episode 1055: Pete Townshend and The Who, 1980-82
Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, picks the topic. We discuss Pete Townshend’s output in the early ’80s: two solo albums (“Empty Glass” and “All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”) and two albums with The Who (“Face Dances” and “It’s Hard.”)
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Episode 972: Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’ – An Interview with the Producer and Engineer
An interview with Ken Caillat, producer, and Hernan Rojas, engineer, on the making of Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk.” Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, arranged this Zoom conversation, with Mike in Houston, Ken in Los Angeles and Hernan in Chile.
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Episode 886: 1987 – Prince, U2, R.E.M., Replacements
Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, picks the topic. We discuss great albums of 1987, including U2’s “The Joshua Tree,” R.E.M.’s “Document,” Prince’s “Sign o’ the Times” and the Replacements’ “Pleased to Meet Me.”
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Episode 862: Guest Episode – Stevie Wonder’s Great Albums
Stevie Wonder just turned 70 years old. And so we feature a guest host episode in which Mike Wagner and Nick Scalera examine his great run of four albums in the ’70s: “Talking Book,” “Innervisions,” “Fulfillingness’ First Finale” and “Songs in the Key of Life.”
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Episode 844: Guest Episode – The Beatles – ‘Let it Be’
Mike Wagner and Nick Scalera fill in for Jim and Patrick today. They discuss the Beatles’ “Let it Be,” celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Episode 826: Follow-up Albums – Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Peter Gabriel, Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen
Mike Wagner, a patron of the pod, picks the topic. We talk about albums that followed big hit records, including works by Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Beastie Boys and Peter Gabriel.
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Episode 723: The Replacements and Remixes
Podcast patron Mike Wagner gets to pick the topic. We talk about the recent Replacements’ recent reissue “Dead Man’s Pop,” which includes new mixes of the album “Don’t Tell a Soul.” And we talk about remixes in general.