Episodes
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Put Your Needle On A Groove (Episode 24)
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Fred opens the podcast with a potential guest named John Mellencamp who may come on and talk about his paintings. This leads into other artists who do painting as a side hobby. LA Lloyd takes you through the biggest albums for the first week of a new decade 40 years ago. Fred talks about his transfer from Detroit to Houston and lets just say there are some crabs involved. While in Fort Worth, TX, Fred sees Prince opening for Rick James and understands the feeling of being a minority. Finally, we close on a bittersweet note as Fred and Lloyd talk about the biggest albums at the end of 1980 including John Lennon's Double Fantasy which was the #1 album on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart. This was only days after John was murdered in New York City.
Recommended Music:
Intro: Fleetwood Mac “Tusk”
Middle: ZZ Top “I’m bad I’m nationwide”
End: John Lennon “Just like starting over”
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
David Cahn - Snow At The Shining Hotel (Episode 23)
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
Sunday Jan 05, 2020
David Cahn was Fred Meyers regional boss at Warner Bros. In this episode, David takes LA Lloyd and Fred on a trip from his first week on the job at a promotional meeting with all the record reps at the Stanley Hotel, where The Shining was filmed.
David is asked who is the most obnoxious member of The Eagles. Also, why did Freddie Mercury not have any dental work? Who were the Hit Men in regards to music and why were they so territorial? What was the secret to making Richard Pryor a household name when his comedy albums were full of explicit language?
Recommended Music:
Intro: Eagles "Old 55"
Middle: Bruce Springsteen "Roselita" (Come out Tonight)
End: Neil Young "Comes a Time"
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Tom Petty And Jon Scott (Episode 22)
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Jon Scott was a Promotion Man that was with Tom Petty from the beginning that led to a 40-year friendship. Fred Meyers and LA Lloyd talk with Jon as he tells stories of getting fired for believing in an unknown artist named Johnny Cougar. After he gets let go from MCA Records, he is hired by ABC Records and it was déjà vu with another unknown artist named Tom Petty. After Tom’s untimely death, Jon wrote all of these great stories in the book “Tom Petty and Me,” which you can win an autographed copy. We will give you a secret word towards the end of this Podcast. Once you hear it, email your entry to mailto: Fredsmeyers@gmail.com and we will pick 5 random winners.
Recommended Music:
ZZ Top: "My Head's Mississippi"
John Cougar Mellencamp: "Tonight" / "Ain't Even Done With The Night"
Monday Dec 23, 2019
2020 Tours (Episode 21)
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
2020 Tours are shaping up to be the biggest in many years. Fred and Lloyd talk about the confirmed shows with Motley Crue and Def Leppard, Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker tour, Doobies back with Michael McDonald first time in 25 years, Alanis Morissette’s 25th Anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, Eagles perform Hotel California album in its entirety, Rage Against the Machine, MC50, ZZ Top, David Lee Roth in Vegas and tours with KISS End of The Road, and the guys wrap up voting on hopeful tours that will happen...or definitely won’t happen.
Recommended Music:
Motley Crue: "Girls Girls Girls"
Black Crowes: "Shake Your Money Maker"
Alanis Morissette: "Jagged Little Pill"
Kiss: "Detroit Rock City"
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (Episode 20)
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Lines On The Back Of Your Stockings (Episode 19)
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Madonna Doesn't Send Fruitcakes (Episode 18)
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
1979 (Episode 17)
Monday Nov 25, 2019
Monday Nov 25, 2019
This episode we talk about 1979 and the Romantics, The Knack, Elvis Costello, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Clash, The B'52's, Ambrosia and ZZ Top.
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Promotion Woman (Episode 16)
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Sultans of Swing (Episode 15)
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Monday Nov 11, 2019
The boys talk about the Grammy nominations of MC5, Todd Rundgren, Doobie Bros that Fred had worked with along with Pat Benatar, Kraftwork, T Rex and others.
In the box that Fred would get every week he recalls getting two debut albums and both albums go on to platinum status and set up the careers of Dire Straits and Rickie Lee Jones.
Fred shares some of the strategy of why some songs are released when they are and how the record company looks at the competition. How they choose a lead single and a follow up single.
Fred talks about the Warner Music office’s in New York that he had visited recently.
Recommended Music:
Intro: Dire Straits “Sultan’s of swing”
Middle: Rickie Lee Jones “Chuckies in love”
Middle: Rickie Lee Jones “Last chance Texaco”
End: Dire Straits “Money for nothing”