995 The Mountain - Interviews & Performances

Occasionally on The Mountain, we have an opportunity to talk to some of the greats of music. So here are some of our best interviews with a few live studio performances in the mix as well. CHECK BACK as we will add more as we discover them in our audio vaults... ENJOY!

Coming soon: Melissa Etheridge, Arlo Guthrie, Jon Anderson (Yes)

[ Click on the musician's name to go to their Interview & Performance page ]

Joe Satriani

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: April 3, 2008

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an American guitarist and former guitar instructor. Influenced heavily by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, Satriani often incorporates a warm sound of guitar with a dominant blues and rock tone. Since 1990, he has used his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is widely sold in stores. Satch has 14 Grammy nominations. His current album "Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock" was released on March 31, 2008 and prompted this interview...

David Bowie

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: Sept 2003

David Bowie (David Robert Jones) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. He is also a film and stage actor, music video director, and visual artist. His hits include "Heroes", "Let's Dance", and "Space Oddity" (Major Tom). Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

Graham Nash

Interviewer Mike Casey
Date: September 26, 2003

Graham Nash is an English-born singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions, first in the hugely successful UK pop group The Hollies (Bus Stop, On a Carousel, The Air that I Breathe) and later in legendary folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash wrote many of their most famous songs, including "Teach Your Children", "Our House" and "Marrakesh Express".

Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: September 25, 2005

Roger McGuinn (James Joseph McGuinn III) is a popular rock American singer-songwriter and guitarist of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' hit records, the pioneering folk rock band of the 1960s, contributing much to the band's unique sound. Their many hits included "Mr Tamborine Man", "Eight Miles High" and "Turn Turn Turn". The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues)

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: April 6, 2004

The Moody Blues are a progessive rock band originally from Birmingham, England. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their seminal 1967 album, Days of Future Passed. The band has had numerous hit albums in the UK, U.S., and worldwide (Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon), and has seen several musicians come and go. They remain active with members Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge and a 2008 USA Spring Tour announced.

Ray Manzarek (The Doors)

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: June 2004

Raymond Manzarek (or Manczarek) of Chicago is an American musician, singer, producer, movie director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st century (renamed Riders on the Storm) since 2001. Ray and Jim Morrison (Doors lead singer) met at film school at UCLA. Since The Doors had no bass player, Ray played both the keyboards and the bass music line with his left hand on the newly invented Fender Rhodes Piano Bass. (Ray is wearing the sunglasses in the picture)

Firefall

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: April 24, 2003

Firefall was a rock band that formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1975. It was founded by Rick Roberts, who had been in the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Jock Bartley, who had been Tommy Bolin's replacement in Zephyr. The band's biggest hit single, "You Are the Woman", peaked at #9 on the Billboard charts. Other hits include "Just Remember I Love You" (#11 in 1977), "Strange Way" (#11 in 1978), and "Staying with It" from 1981, with female vocalist Lisa Nemzo.

Elvis Costello

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: July 16, 2003

Elvis Costello is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres with his band, The Attractions, before establishing himself as a unique and original voice in the 1980s. Costello's lyrics are typically verbose, literate and steeped in wordplay, and his music has been wildly diverse, drawing on dozens of genres.

Randy Newman

Interviewer: Mike Casey
Date: August 20, 2003

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an Academy Award- winning American songwriter, arranger, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores including Ragtime, The Natural, Toy Story, Meet the Parents and Seabiscuit. He also scored four other Pixar films: A Bugs Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Cars. He has won a number of awards including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award of the recording academy. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.