Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Rick Derringer

He was only 17. And we didn’t know the McCoys didn’t play on their hit single. As far as “Hang on Sloopy”… It was one of those songs like “Louie Louie” in that it was perceived to have a dirty underpinning, not that we could decipher it. But “Hang on Sloopy” was a giant hit, […]

Billy Joel

We tend to think life has an on/off switch. You’re either alive or your dead. But it rarely goes down that way. We thought our classic rock stars were forever. Until they weren’t. They were going to go on tour, maybe walking and playing a bit more slowly, singing in a lower key, but they’d […]

Bad Company-2-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday May 24th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Dave Dederer-This Week’s Podcast

Dave Dederer was the guitarist in the Presidents of the United States of America. It’s the thirtieth anniversary of their major label debut. Hear the story of how an indie band made its own record, got signed by a major, had huge hits and then broke up.   Apple:     https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/760575d0-acc4-4b6f-855d-ecfe55d12d66/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-dave-dederer