• Interviewing the Legends: Rock Stars & Celebs

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Interviewing the Legends: Rock Stars & Celebs

By: Rock Raymond
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  • INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS is devoted to promoting musicians worldwide. We spotlight exclusive in-depth interviews with both legendary and up and coming music artists and celebrities. We also feature the movers and shakers of the music and publishing industries.

    WHERE HAVE ALL THE ROCK STARS GONE?

    Rock and Roll, the Blues, and Jazz are America’s contribution to the arts, so why are we not fighting to preserve our own musical legacy and culture?

    With roots from the early blues pioneers, the longevity of rock and roll is second to none. But strangely enough, those legendary rock heroes that we were so accustomed to hearing every time we turned our radios on, had mysteriously vanished from the mainstream. The music of the 1960s, 70s, and even the 80s was an important juncture in all of our lives. So many of us timeline life’s precious moments with the music we remember, when the music was so great, when the music mattered. The baby boomer generation is financially imperative to many, yet many of its entertainment standards have been renounced.

    One day, the plug was pulled on those legendary music artists. Hackers began stealing music across the internet. Online music stores popularized cheap digital singles and neglected to promote full-length albums. Radio stations changed formats to accommodate talk show radio jocks, while rappers and electronic dance music menaced the airwaves. Notorious record companies began folding in droves. Record companies and radio stations that were once owned and operated by visionaries, were now run by accountants and lawyers, and the music world began promoting untalented wannabes. The economy plummeted, and radio stations became more concerned about how many consecutive commercials they could run instead of providing quality radio programming and entertainment value. Radio stations became corporate machines leaving no room for innovation. Throughout the 2000s, recording studios and live performances began using an audio processor called “Auto-Tune” to disguise off-key inaccuracies in vocal tracks. The device allowed virtually anyone without music skills to become a singer and new waves of mainstream radio stars were instantly fabricated. The business of music became stronger and more important than the art of music.

    For more than a decade, I’ve been on a rock and roll pilgrimage to help promote and save the greatest music the world has ever known. Before the internet and Napster, virtuoso musicians traditionally introduced their music by way of mainstream radio stations while anxious music enthusiasts hurried to their favorite record stores and purchased a copy of the artist’s latest release. Talk radio wasn’t popular because there was way too much great music to play over the airwaves. Advertisers didn’t rule the airwaves, the music did. Rock legends toured the world to promote their latest albums and prices of concert tickets were extremely affordable. Proficient musicians, singers, and songwriters are what made the music so great.

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  • Oscar Fuentes Bills & Sepand Samzadeh of 'Days Between Stations' Talk New Album!

    Oscar Fuentes Bills & Sepand Samzadeh of 'Days Between Stations' Talk New Album!
    Nov 2 2024

    ART ROCK/POST PROG GROUP ‘DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS’ RELEASING NEW ALBUM ‘PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES’

    ZOOM EXCLUSIVE WITH OSCAR FUENTES BILLS & SEPAND SAMZADEH MUSIC VIDEO “SEEDS” OUT NOW!

    Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.

    Days Between Stations are releasing their fourth album, “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For A Film),” on November 29. Recently released is the music video “Seeds.”

    The music video for “Seeds” features artist Jean-Paul Bourdier BOO DWA at work, altering landscapes, coloring bodies, marking up film frames, playing with manufactured items to see how they influence visuals.

    “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For Film)” is the result of DBS founding members keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills and guitarist Sepand Samzadeh working on the music for a documentary film about Jean-Paul Bourdier, himself, in the mid-2010s. As the music reached completion, the group was offered the opportunity to release their music as a “proper” album. Sepand says, “Jean Paul’s artwork was our muse, and we scored the music to pictures and to existing films.”

    Pink Floyd backup vocalist Durga McBroom sings on “Being,” which will be released as a video. The album is dedicated to the memory of "Big" Bill Kaylor who engineered early sessions of “Perpetual Motion Machines” and worked on the group’s second album, “In Extremis.”

    The band has a history of music in films-dating back to “Radio Song” (from the debut album) licensed in the independent film “Young, Single & Angry” in 2006 and then in 2023 in “Paul & Trisha: The Art of Fluidity,” now featured on Apple Movies.

    PLEASE WELCOME SEPAND SAMZADEH AND OSCAR FUENTES BILLS OF ART-ROCK/POST-PROG GROUP/ DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …

    PREORDER

    THE NEW ALBUM

    BY

    DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS

    entitled

    PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES

    (MUSIC FOR A FILM)

    Album official release date Nov. 29th

    first music video “Seeds” is out now!

    Pre-Order CD or vinyl at

    www.daysbetweenstations.com/product-category/perpetual-motion-machines/

    FOR MORE INFORMATION

    ABOUT

    DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS

    VISIT

    https://www.daysbetweenstations.com/

    Official website

    https://www.facebook.com/DaysBetweenStations

    Facebook

    https://www.youtube.com/user/DBSMusicOfficial

    YouTube

    https://www.instagram.com/daysbetweenstationsband/

    Instagram

    https://daysbetweenstations.bandcamp.com/

    Bandcamp

    DISCOGRAPHY

    2007: Days Between Stations

    2013: In Extremis

    2020: Giants

    2024: Perpetual Motion Machines

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Adrian Jones of Prog/Grunge/Rock/ 'Nine Stones Close' Talks New Album!

    Adrian Jones of Prog/Grunge/Rock/ 'Nine Stones Close' Talks New Album!
    Oct 29 2024

    PROG ROCK GROUP ‘NINE STONES CLOSE’ RELEASING NEW ALBUM ‘ADVENTURES IN ANHEDONIA’ EXCLUSIVE ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT WITH BAND LEADER ADRIAN JONES

    LIVE FROM SWITZERLAND ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO

    Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.

    International Progressive Rock band Nine Stones Close, with members from the UK, Ireland, Switzerland and the Netherlands, will release their second album of the year, “Adventures in Anhedonia,” on November 07, 2024, via FREIA Music. This new release follows “Diurnal,” which garnered critical acclaim upon its release in June.

    “Adventures in Anhedonia” is a deeply personal album, lyrically reflecting on the mental health and well-being of individuals, based on the personal experiences and traumas of guitarist Adrian Jones. Adrian shares: “It really reflects what’s been happening to me over the past years, the effect it’s had on me, and how I have tried to deal with some of it.”

    Musically, the album takes a distinct direction from “Diurnal,” capturing the emotional weight of the lyrical themes while still maintaining the signature Nine Stones Close sound.

    The band has also revealed the album’s cover artwork, another stunning piece by long-time visual collaborator Antonios Seijas.

    PLEASE WELCOME ADRIAN JONES OF PROG ROCK GROUP NINE STONES CLOSE TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …

    PREORDER

    THE BRAND-NEW ALBUM

    BY

    NINE STONES CLOSE

    entitled

    Adventures in Anhedonia

    Officially release date November 07th

    Pre-orders for the album are open at https://9stonesclose.com/shop/

    and digital at https://ninestonesclose.bandcamp.com/.../adventures-in

    ALSO

    PURCHASE

    DIURNAL

    BY NINE STONES CLOSE

    available at amazon.com

    FOR MORE INFORMATION

    ABOUT

    NINE STONES CLOSE

    VISIT

    https://9stonesclose.com/

    Official website

    https://www.facebook.com/ninestonescloseband/

    Facebook

    https://www.instagram.com/ninestonesclosemusic/

    Instagram

    https://ninestonesclose.bandcamp.com/

    Bandcamp

    https://www.youtube.com/@ninestonesclose/featured

    YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/@ninestonesclose/featured

    Twitter

    NINE STONES CLOSE

    DISCOGRAPHY

    2008 : St Lo4

    2010 : Traces

    2011 Falling to Pieces EP

    2012 : One Eye on the Sunrise

    2015 : Leaves

    2024 Diurnal

    2024 Adventures in Anhedonia

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    48 mins
  • Prog Legend Neal Morse Talks New Album w/The Resonance Exclusive!

    Prog Legend Neal Morse Talks New Album w/The Resonance Exclusive!
    Oct 12 2024
    NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE ANNOUNCE NEW RELEASE ‘NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER' AND LAUNCH FIRST SINGLE “ALL THE RAGE’ EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO! Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho. Neal Morse is an American singer, musician and composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1992, he formed the progressive rock band Spock's Beard with his brother Alan, he joined Dream Theater's co-founder and then drummer Mike Portnoy, formed the super-group Transatlantic. In 2002, Neal Morse became a born-again Christian, left Spock's Beard and began a Christian rock solo career, releasing many progressive rocks concept albums about his new religious faith, He continued to play with Transatlantic and formed three new bands with Portnoy, Yellow Matter Custard, Flying Colors and The Neal Morse Band. One of his most recent projects included two critically acclaimed solo releases with D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings. Throughout his long career, Neal Morse has often been a musical collaborator, usually with some of the greatest prog musicians across the world. This time, Morse has brought that collaborative spirit closer to home. The new album by Neal Morse & The Resonance – entitled ‘No Hill for A Climber’ will be released November 8th, 2024, and the title is taken from a resonant line in Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead. PLEASE WELCOME AMERICAN SINGER,SONGWRITER,MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST NEAL MORSE TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS … PREORDER NO HILL FOR A CLIMBER BY NEAL MORSE AND THE RESONANCE OFFICALLY REALEASED NOVEMBER 8TH Pre-order now here: https://nealmorse.lnk.to/NoHillForAClimber To coincide with the announcement, the track ‘All The Rage’ has been launched with a brand new video. Watch it now here: https://youtu.be/BSXjvdHqADk?si=F_0g0Inzs48UoJvy “Awesome album! I can safely say this will be a fave of the year for me!” – Mike Portnoy Faithful to any Neal Morse prog album, ‘No Hill For A Climber’ features two epics (the 28 minute ‘No Hill For A Climber’ and ‘Eternity In Your Eyes’, which clocks in at 22 minutes) as well as three shorter songs: ‘Ever Interceding’, ‘All The Rage’ and ‘Thief’. The latter, Morse admits, is his current favorite: “It’s so different… it’s in all these different sections, and I’m really happy with the way each part has come out. It’s pretty crazy. There’s even a really cool King Crimson-style instrumental bit in the middle that Chris Riley originally came up with at the Radiant School a couple of years ago.” For all of these reasons, Morse believes that the whole album is unique, but notes that “if I was going to compare its structure to an album I've done in the past, it might be along the lines of ‘Bridge Across Forever’ or Spock's Beard’s ‘V’; it’s not that it sounds at all like those albums, it’s just structurally similar. It has voices and playing styles and soundscapes that many people will have never heard before! Everyone you work with changes you a little bit, so even sound a little different on this one, but I hope that everyone will love it!” FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NEAL MORSE & RADIANT RECORDS VISIT https://nealmorse.com/ Official website https://nealmorse.com/morsefest-2024-2025/ Morsefest official website https://www.facebook.com/nealmorse/ Facebook https://x.com/nealmorse Twitter https://www.instagram.com/neal_morse_official Instagram https://www.youtube.com/user/NealMorseMusic/featured YouTube TOUR DATES Moresefest November 8, 2024 - November 9, 2024 White House, TN Morsefest 2024 USA @ New Life Fellowship November 15, 2024 - November 16, 2024 Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Morsefest 2024 EU @ De Boerderij January 17, 2025 - January 18, 2025 Brentwood, London, UK Morsefest 2025 UK @ Trinity Church NEAL MORSE Discography With Spock's Beard Main article: Spock's Beard § Discography The Light (1995) Beware of Darkness (1996) The Kindness of Strangers (1998) Day for Night (1999) V (2000) Snow (2002) Singer-songwriter albums Neal Morse (1999) It's Not Too Late (2002) Songs from the Highway (2007) Songs from November (2014) Life & Times (2018) Late Bloomer (2024) Neal Morse & The Resonance No Hill for a Climber (2024) Prog albums Testimony (2003) One (2004) ? (2005) Sola Scriptura (2007) Lifeline (2008) Testimony 2 (2011) Momentum (2012) Jesus Christ the Exorcist (2019) Sola Gratia (2020) The Dreamer: Joseph, Part One (2023) The Restoration: Joseph, Part Two (2024) Worship albums Lead Me Lord (Worship Sessions Volume 1) (2005) God Won't Give Up (2005) Send the Fire (Worship Sessions Volume 2) (2006) Secret Place (Worship Sessions Volume 3) (2008) The River (Worship Sessions Volume 4) (2009) Mighty to Save (Worship Sessions Volume 5) (2010) Get in the Boat (2013) To God Be the Glory (2016) Last Minute Christmas Album (2020) With Transatlantic Main article: ...
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