Today's Guest: Today’s Guest: Peter Mills, author, "The Monkees, Head, and the 60s" Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with PETER MILLS by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of teenyboppers daydreaming of meeting Davy Jones in the next life… in the NEW new... Continue Reading →
1276 Rockabye Baby with music from Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Van Halen? VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lisa Roth, co-creator, creative director, Rockabye Baby Music Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Lisa Roth by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of five-year-old musicians whose parents think they might be starting a little too late in the biz to ever... Continue Reading →
Heart’s Ann Wilson on Nancy, songs and Mr. T! 1985 INTERVIEW
(Editor's Note: This interview, which I conducted with Heart lead singer Ann Wilson, goes all the way back to August 23, 1985. It is a deep dive into her life and the band's career up to that date, including a fun sidebar at the end in which she dissembles some of the band's biggest... Continue Reading →
Volare! Back to swingin’ school with Bobby Rydell (High)! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with singer Bobby Rydell by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of men of a certain age who wish they had spent months of their formative years dancing with Ann-Margaret… in the NEW new media capital of the... Continue Reading →
1252 For The Captain and Tennille, one’s love wasn’t enough! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Toni Tennille, singer, The Captain and Tennille, author, Toni Tennille: A Memoir Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Toni Tennille by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of pop stars who won’t believe that drug and alcohol abuse is not... Continue Reading →
Shawn Mullins returns with songs of love and protest! VIDEO INTERVIEW, LIVE PERFORMANCE
Today's Guest: Shawn Mullins, singer, songwriter, "My Stupid Heart," "Lullabye" Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Shawn Mullins by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of Shawn Mullins fans who don’t think there is anything wrong with the man’s heart… in the... Continue Reading →
1233 Two minutes with Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen, 1983! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Rick Nielsen, lead guitarist for Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick live in concert on the German rock music TV show "RockPalast," 1983 In a telephone interview before Cheap Trick's December 4, 1983 concert at the Tampa Jai-Alai, google-eyed lead guitarist Rick Nielsen talked to me about the effect of the band's grueling schedule... Continue Reading →
The Beach Boys soul, Carl Wilson, remembered in bio! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Kent Crowley, author, The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson biography, Long Promised Road Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Kent Crowley by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who can’t surf but always envision themselves hanging 10 while singing... Continue Reading →
Called to recharge AC/DC, Brian Johnson found the switch! PHONE INTERVIEW
(NOTE FROM MR. MEDIA: I recorded this interview with AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson on November 26, 1983 for a St. Petersburg Times print interview [published December 4, 1983] when I was the pop music writer for the newspaper. You can read the story below; the conversation itself is not my best work, although... Continue Reading →
RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan: Talking with tour manager about fateful night! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Mark Proct, former tour manager, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Fabulous Thunderbirds, author, Home Today, Gone Tomorrow: Snapshots from 40 Years on the Road – Austin and Back Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Mark Proct by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before... Continue Reading →