HBO Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgR9W13B98w This is a must-see, even though I waited a year to watch it. I’d been to the Stax museum in Memphis. And I’m the kind of person who pores over the exhibits, reads all the cards, digests the information. Furthermore, I know the records. How much more was there to learn? Well, […]

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  

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 […]

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, […]