The VVN Music Interviews

Dick Taylor started his career with school friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a group they called the Rollin' Stones but left before they cut their first album to return to art school.  

The n…

On March 23, Procol Harum released an eight-disc box set chronicling the band's history both in the studio and live. 

The one person who has been there for that entire history is lead singer Gary Bro…

This time, we go back to 2012 for an archive interview with Tommy Roe. Tommy was one of the rare artists who was able to keep his songs in the top ten for most of the 60's, from 1962's "Sheila" thro…

Rachael Sage is a true Renaissance woman of the arts. Over her lifeshe has danced with the New York City ballet, taught herself piano, painted, acted, started her own record company and become a succ…

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Glenn Hughes has had a long and very active career in music, first with the British group Trapeze and, starting in 1973, as a member of Deep Purple Mk. III and IV.

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Paula Cole started her career in the clubs around her native Boston before being asked to join Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour.  Her exposure from that tour and her first album, Harbinger, got her …

According to Rolling Stone, Carl Palmer is one of the ten best drummers in music.  

He started his career in the late-60's with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster before forming Emers…

Ross the Boss Friedman has been a mainstay of the music business for over forty years. In 1973, he was a founding member of the punk icons The Dictators and, in 1980, he started the hard rock band Ma…

Singer and guitarist Tommy Victor got his start in music working at CBGB in New York as a sound engineer and, in 1986, got together with a fellow employee, Mike Kirkland, and ex-Swans drummer Ted Par…

Jett Williams was born just five days after her father, Hank Williams died at the age of 29.  Her birth mother gave her up for adoption and it wasn't until the early-80's that she researched her heri…

Killer Queen have never recorded an album, yet they have fans around the world for their spot on tribute to the music of Queen.

Patrick Myers has fronted the band since it was formed by students at a…

Peter Cetera was one of the three main voices of Chicago, along with Robert Lamm and Terry Kath, from their beginnings until the album Chicago 17 and singing such favorites as 25 or 6 to 4, Feelin' S…

The British heavy metal band Diamond Head has had a major influence on the world of metal music over the last forty years. 

Formed in 1976, the band released their first two albums independently in t…

For our fortieth episode, we go back four years to a 2013 interview with classic rock drummer Carmine Appice. 

Carmine, along with his brother Vinnie, are two of the strongest drummers in rock music.…

Melissa Manchester has had a tremendous career as a singer-songwriter, scoring numerous hits and working with the best in the business. 

Four years ago, she ventured out on her own, running an Indieg…

Terry Ilous and Patt Fontaine came to America from their native France in the mid-80's where they put together the rockers XYZ. Over the next six years, the band would release two studio albums, brea…

This week, we celebrate the upcoming second anniversary of the VVN Music Podcast by going back to our very first episode with John Lodge of the Moody Blues. 

For those that may have missed it at the …

George Frayne has been playing music for fifty years, 46 years of which have been under the name of Commander Cody.  With his band, the Lost Planet Airmen, he has recorded a long line of both studio …

This week, we go back to 2012 for an interview with Freddy Cannon.

At the time, Cannon was promoting his memoir, "Where the Action Is!", a no holds barred look at his career and the music business.

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Michael Schenker returns to the VVN Music Podcast for the second time in a year with another live album.   Last June, we talked with him about the live set with his band Temple of Rock, On a Mission…