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Peter Wolf-This Week’s Podcast

Peter Wolf has a new book, “Waiting on the Moon,” and we dive into the tales of the artists, poets, drifters, grifters and goddesses he writes about. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-wolf/id1316200737?i=1000710409924       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/0e9ff436-3f2e-4002-9ca1-6a281b0dfe6c/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-peter-wolf  

Re-Rick Derringer

Rick Derringer played lead guitar on Under My Wheels by Alice Cooper back in 1971. I was producer. We were children. I wasn’t yet 22 and he was turning 23 as were most of the band. We were recording in Chicago at RCA Mid-America Studios, 1 N. Wacker Dr, in studio B. Brian Christian was […]

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 […]