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Grand Funk Railroad's Don Brewer (2004)

Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 2004

Grand Funk sticksman Don Brewer talks about mega-hit 'We're An American Band', choosing cover versions, and being produced by Todd Rundgren and Frank Zappa.

File format: mp3; file size: 10.2mb, interview length: 22' 11" sound quality: * (phoner)

Deep Purple #2 (1990)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, Fall 1990

Bassman Glover on his musical roots, and the early days; Blackmore on Ian Gillan and more...

Roger Glover: File format: mp3; file size: 75.1mb, interview length: 1h 22' 03" sound quality: ** Ritchie Blackmore: File format: mp3; file size: 69mb, interview length: 1h 15' 24" sound quality: **

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath: Ozzy Osbourne (1997)

Interview by David Stubbs, Rock's Backpages Audio, October 1997

The Ozzmeister effs and blinds his way through subjects ranging from the death of Princess Diana to the myth of Sabbath's Satanism and the US religious backlash, via a detailed description of his substance abuse and much more.

File format: mp3; file size: 62.6mb, interview length: 1h 08' 22" sound quality: ****

Anthrax's Scott Ian Spins Tales From the Thrash Side

Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 5 November 2014

LIKE MANY MEN currently in their mid-to-late forties, Anthrax co-founder/rhythm guitarist Scott Ian was a huge, practically obsessive KISS fan growing up. ...

Mahogany Rush: And This Little Piggy Took Too Much Acid

Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 25 June 1977

If we tell you that Frank Marino of Mahogany Rush took 1500 trips in a month, you won't be surprised that the tale he tells ...

Twisted Sister: Local Heroes in Warpaint Make Good

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, March 1984

OUT IN THE endless flatlands of Long Island's Suffolk County, where the traffic-clogged main streets are lined with every necessity for fast-food living and drive-in ...

Korn: Meet The Sickest Band In The World

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, July 2002

Why is this man laughing? Because he's sold 15 million albums, dissected 5000 corpses and forged an army of metal zombies in his own image. ...

Motörhead: The Unholy Three

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 3 March 1979

THE MOTÖRHEAD GUIDE TO YOUTH AND FITNESS. BY GIOVANNI DADOMO (92 IN THE BODY OF A 103 YEAR OLD) ...

GBH, Haircut 100, Judas Priest, Metallica, Musical Youth: Metallica: Taking the Mick

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990

He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, ...

Poison: Scarred but Smarter

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 31 October 1991

With their devils, of more accurately CC DeVille, exorcised, POISON are ready to add thoroughbred musicianship to mass popularity. With a new guitarist, Richie Kotzen, ...

Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore: Ritchie Blackmore: Wailing over the Purple Rainbow

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, 1978

WHILE RITCHIE Blackmore’s Baroque-tinged shred solos make him the in-vitro father of today’s progressive- and classical-metal movement (just ask Yngwie), his foot-stomping power chords in ...

Mötley Crüe: Decade of Dickheadedness

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991

Grand old dames of Heavy Metal MÖTLEY CRÜE have just signed a record deal worth a cool £35 million. Not bad for a band that ...

Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982

"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...

Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age: Queens of the Stone Age make an offer you can't refuse

Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 29 July 2000

"SOME OF YOU DRUGGERS, SOME OF YOU SOBER PEOPLE, SOME OF YOU SEX FIENDS, SOME OF YOU VIRGINS. COME TO OUR CLIQUE. YOU JOIN THE ...

Judas Priest, Scorpions, The: Judas Priest, Scorpions: Purity & Power

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1984

Total, Unswerving Devotion to Heavy Metal Form: Judas Priest and the Scorpions ...