Today's Guest: Peter Salett, composer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Keeping the Faith Today is a big day for my guest, Peter Salett: his new album, In the Ocean of the Stars was released this very day. Peter, if you don’t know him, is an accomplished musician whose career has been pumped up in recent... Continue Reading →
Legs McNeil on The Ramones, Spin, Hollywood porno and more! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Legs McNeil, author, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, I Slept with Joey Ramone When Spin magazine started, its staff included two fascinating characters. First was Bob Guccione, Jr., the magazine’s founder and namesake son of the publisher of Penthouse. And then there was Spin’s senior editor, Legs McNeil. Legs McNeil!?!... Continue Reading →
Lee Greenwood lends his music to vets’ cause! INTERVIEW
(NOTE: This interview with country singer, conducted by Bob Andelman, was first published on October 11, 1985.) Tonight at 8 in the USF Sun Dome, country singer Lee Greenwood will perform his first of 12 nationwide concerts in support of the Coors Veterans’ Memorial Scholarship Fund, Fifty cents will be donated to the fund... Continue Reading →
57 Magazine founder Bob Guccione Jr. on birth of Spin! INTERVIEW
Originally Published October 14, 1996 Bob Guccione Jr. has come a long way in 11 years as editor and publisher of Spin magazine. A decade ago, he oversaw every word, every photo before it saw print, spending more time as editor than publisher. "Today," he says, "I'm in the happy position of being a publisher... Continue Reading →