26 APR 2024 · Author Joel Selvin talks about his new book Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon. Jim Gordon has been called the greatest rock drummer of all time by the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his “big fill”—the mathematically precise clatter that exploded like detonating fireworks on his drum breaks. And as best-selling author and award-winning journalist Joel Selvin reveals, the story of Jim Gordon is the most brilliant, turbulent, and wrenching rock opera ever. The very chemicals in his brain that gifted him also destroyed him. His head crowded with a hellish gang of voices screaming at him, demanding obedience, Gordon descended from the absolute heights of the rock world—playing with the most famous musicians of his generation—to working with a Santa Monica dive-bar band for $30 a night. And then he committed the most shocking crime in rock history. With full cooperation from the late Gordon's family, and based on his trademark extensive, detailed research, Joel Selvin’s account is at once an epic journey through an artist’s monumental musical contributions, a rollicking history of rock drumming, and a terrifying downward spiral into unimaginable madness that Gordon fought a valiant but losing battle against. One of the great untold stories of rock is finally being told. https://www.amazon.com/Drums-Demons-Tragic-Journey-Gordon/dp/1635768993   https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aIHh3DwJ4coua93fbXSYs?si=a86192e0ee4c475c https://www.joelselvin.com/ ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com   The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

19 APR 2024 · This episode’s guest is author Steven Blush. His book American Hairmetal: Can’t Get Enough has just been released. This is an expanded edition of the book originally released by Feral House in 2006. Interest in hair metal is as strong as it was over three decades ago. In the summer of 2022 Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard went out on a stadium tour with Poison, and Joan Jett as supporting acts. The tour brought in $173.5 million, making it the highest-grossing tour of either band’s career. In 2016, Guns N’ Roses launched their Not In This Lifetime...Tour. The tour was 2016's highest-earning per-city global concert tour and the fourth-highest-grossing overall that year. In 2017, the tour ranked as the second highest-grossing worldwide tour and the band continued to bring in huge numbers through 2023.  American Hairmetal: Can’t Get Enough features hundreds of photographs of bands including Poison, Cinderella, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Ratt, and Stryper. Wild quotes from the major players of the era including David Lee Roth, Jon Bon Jovi, Sebastian Bach, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Bret Michaels, Don Dokken, and many of the era’s unsung heroes. This expanded edition includes more photos, more quotes, and a new introduction by Chip Z’Nuff of Enuff Z’Nuff and an interview with Rik Fox of WASP. Steven Blush is an author, journalist, and filmmaker who is best known for his 2006 book American Hardcore and the movie of the same name. He’s the founder of Seconds magazine and has written articles for many magazines including Vice, SPIN, Kerrang! and the Village Voice. https://www.amazon.com/American-Hair-Metal-Cant-Enough/dp/1627311483/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1O4K9G26DZI8T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.C3YSlAwt-sbzU8xxvOVUnsiTcjqFYK9ZyEL4-rQLwUGYWzCmhLN4A0cGL9bBvRur5QjtHmP_YTbf34uhrm8v5spYxIN7cd0Mrb8Z6FzlKtw.5i5_VdZrbKGs6FUB_Oq2cOzKoOV6bt52w6Cd8Mlh8pw&dib_tag=se&keywords=steven+blush+american+hair+metal+can%27t+get+enough&qid=1713483602&s=books&sprefix=steven+blush+american+hair+metal+can%27t+get+enough%2Cstripbooks%2C80&sr=1-1 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LdvNO8jyFzDetX4KUACAs?si=f13facd60b284274  https://stevenblush.com/ ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

15 APR 2024 · Writer/musician S.W. Lauden is this episode's guest to talk about a limited-edition vinyl LP compilation and oral history book called Generation Blue. The album and book explore the Hollywood Geek Rock scene of the '90s and early 2000s, featuring key bands Nerf Herder, The Rentals, Ozma, Baby Lemonade, Psoma, and Weezer who released their triple-platinum Blue Album 30 years ago this spring.  Previewed by the hit indie single “Where The Hell Is She,” a lost Geek Rock nugget by the band Shufflepuck, the album features eleven rare or exclusive vintage tracks while the book tells the story of the scene in the words of those who were there—including Lauden who played drums for the band Ridel High.  https://bigstirrecords.com/the-generation-blue-project ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock   https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com   The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

13 APR 2024 · Author Geoff Harkness returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book 40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart. U2 had been on a decade-long run of hits when they released their album Pop in 1997. That included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band’s Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold-out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be U2’s worst-selling album, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname “Flop Mart” in the press. The Pop era was left behind, but many U2 fans never forgot what Bono once called the “best thing we've ever done.” 40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes readers into the studio and onto the stage during U2’s most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album. 40-Foot Lemon follows U2 around the globe on PopMart, the biggest tour in rock history, and featuring the world’s largest TV screen, a 10-story golden arch, a sofa-sized olive on a 100-foot martini stick, and a giant lemon disco ball that did all sorts of tricks. When it was working. PopMart struggled to fill seats in the U.S., but it shattered records in Europe and South America, playing to packed stadiums and making history from Sarajevo to Santiago. 40-Foot Lemon is the definitive account of U2 at their most interesting. https://www.amazon.com/40-Foot-Lemon-Complete-Story-PopMart/dp/B0CTPY88LY   https://open.spotify.com/album/5mojJwWgWNJcY3odUGgQc3?si=CjVDdS8VSbu8QsYnujzc8w https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556169692238 ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

10 APR 2024 · Cam Cobb is the author of Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence - the biography on the legendary '60s cult musician known for his time in era-defining bands Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Moby Grape. While celebrated by the likes of Tom Waits, Beck, and Robert Plant, Spence's life was sadly plagued by substance abuse, erratic behavior, and poor mental health. Spence’s story is the story of the 60s and one that has never been told in full until now. Weighted Down is a first-hand narrative of Skip Spence, told by his friends, bandmates, and family, and includes a trove of never-before-seen photographs. Cobb joins the podcast to tell us about this captivating story of Spence. Purchase a copy of https://www.amazon.com/Weighted-Down-Complicated-Life-Spence/dp/191317218X https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MAJzEYph4etZJbpcFpSkd?si=8cf3d30277cc46c4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABGTwxtyzIw (left off of 1996 X-Files tribute album Songs In The Key Of X) ---------- https://www.bookedonrock.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

8 APR 2024 · Author Thomas "Nordy" Nordwall opens a window to the ways of the road and the extreme lengths Grateful Dead fans will go to, just to get that miracle ticket and be at one more Grateful Dead gig! His book Tour Head: "I Was an Acid-Fueled Teenage Dead Fiend!" is a humorous, yet unflinching look at a life spent in pursuit of a musical dream. Told from the perspective of someone who is not a musician in a traveling band, just a rabid fan, so obsessed that depression would set in if a few shows were missed! https://www.amazon.com/Tour-Head-Fueled-Teenage-Fiend/dp/1737668009 https://deadtourhead.com/ https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XsUQbGsfJJXBtdBsqJMwQ?si=a181c06451474bee   ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com  The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

5 APR 2024 · It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more.  Our guest is award-winning filmmaker and Amazon # bestselling author Staci Layne Wilson. Stacy has written, produced, and hosted three entertainment talk shows online: This Week In Movies, Inside Horror, and Dread Central Live. She has been featured on the BBC, Bravo, Reelz, MTV, CNN, and many more as a film historian and author. She’s recently released the book titled Amplified Adventures: A Traveler’s Guide to Rock Music’s Hallowed Halls: A Rock & Roll Nightmares B-Sides Book. This comes soon after two new books from her Rock & Roll Nightmares series were released at the start of 2024. We talk about that series, our favorite horror films, and the films Staci has produced and directed including 2020’s The Ventures: Stars on Guitars, a documentary about the hugely influential instrumental group dating back to the early 60s - The Ventures. Staci is the daughter of guitarist and founding member Don Wilson.  https://www.stacilaynewilson.com/ ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock   https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com   The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

3 APR 2024 · Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists. Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Robertson includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford. In this episode, Robertson gives us the stories behind Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Little Richard, Gram Parsons, and John Hartford. https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Poets-Guitars-Thirteen-Outsiders/dp/1771960728 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2j0Ml6L8nxqrmNT1f12oV9?si=f85ee89028d74ef1 Follow Ray Robertson: https://www.facebook.com/p/Ray-Robertson-100029907926085/ https://www.instagram.com/raycharlesrobertson/?hl=en ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock   https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

29 MAR 2024 · Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock ‘n’ roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes. In his new book Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock, David Hamilton Golland unearths the band’s true and complete biography, based on over a decade of interviews and thousands of sources. When Steve Perry joined jazz-blues progressive rock band Journey in 1977, they saw a rise to the top, and their 1981 album Escape hit #1. But Perry’s quest for control led to Journey’s demise. They lost their record contract and much of their audience. After the unlikely comeback of “Don’t Stop Believin’” in movies, television, and sports stadiums, a new generation discovered Journey. A professional historian, Golland dispels rehashed myths and also shows how race in popular music contributed to their breakout success. As the economy collapsed and as people abandoned the spirit of Woodstock in the late 70s, Journey used the rhythm of soul and Motown to inspire hope in primarily white teenagers’ lives. Decades later, the band and their signature song remain classics, and now, with singer Arnel Pineda, they are again a fixture in major stadiums worldwide. http://www.journeyhistorybook.com/ https://www.davidgolland.com/Golland/journeybook.htm https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2EvjYjvdUC4jZMtsfH89OH?si=20a59cacd1d54080 ---------- https://www.bookedonrock.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA

27 MAR 2024 · Author Gillian G. Gaar is this episode's guest to talk about her brand-new book Springsteen @ 75. Through 75 career releases, performances, and accolades, this book covers it all including Bruce’s childhood in New Jersey and his time in early garage bands, The Castiles and Steel Mill. All 20 studio albums are covered along with a selection of his greatest singles. Also included are Bruce’s relationships with notable bandmates Steven Van Zandt and the late Clarence Clemons, his legendary concerts, his relationship with his wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa, his awards, and much more. Get ready for a discussion of the man who, coming up on his 75th birthday, is still "The Boss" after all these years! https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Springsteen-at-Gillian-Gaar/dp/0760381100    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6A1zFdwbAIH4LXCXHt2ICY?si=d4cbcb9e275e42f8    Follow Gilliaan G. Gaar on https://www.facebook.com/GillianGaarWriter/ & https://twitter.com/GillianGaar ----------   https://www.bookedonrock.com/   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqUFiA-IGq97wkB5FEJB4Q   Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.instagram.com/bookedonrockpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@bookedonrock https://twitter.com/bookedonrock   https://www.indiebound.org/indie-store-finder   Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com   The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by https://www.crowander.com/ / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA