The David Clayton-Thomas Interview
Canadian singer songwriter talks about going to the states with John Lee Hooker and joining Blood Sweat & Tears
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Jake Feinberg Show
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On The Jake Feinberg Show (radio) and in Facebook Lives, Jake Feinberg has now conducted over 2,000 interviews with “The Cats”—popular musicians across the spectrum from rock to jazz, R&B to folk, pop to country, bluegrass to fusion. Jake’s unique interviewing style puts musicians at their ease and inspires them to reflect candidly on topics familiar or unexpected.
The Cats tell little stories, muse about life, uncover aspects of the music business, dig deep into overcoming adversity, revel in camaraderie, and open their souls. You will never see musicians in the same light again....
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The Shannon McNally Interview
Gifted singer songwriter talks about being an independent musician with a bent towards social justice
Sep 05, 2020•57 min
The Galt MacDermot Interview
My dad was an ambassador to Victoria, South Africa. When I was 15 years old we were at the bottom of Africa, there were a few mines there. Enough that they had mine workers and the mine workers always danced when they were off. The miners were from all over Africa so there were all different types of music. I started to go out to these mines to watch the people dance and to hear the music. I had never heard music quite like that before. I was a jazz fan in Montreal. My dad worked there for four ...
Sep 05, 2020•50 min
The David T. Walker Interview
Legendary studio guitarist talks about his experiences playing on the chitlin circuit and working his way into the west coast studio scene with Barry White
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Leslie Mendelson Interview
Singer songwriter talks about playing Grateful Dead music growing up in Long Island, busking on the streets and becoming a TRI All-Star.
Sep 05, 2020•37 min
The Louis-Virie Blache Interview
Cosmic musician talks about defying the laws of gravity and entering the intergalactic
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 8 min
The Greg Errico Interview Set II
Sly and the Family Stone , Humanity , Victor Pantoja , Jerry Garcia , Tim Bogert , Bobby Cochran , Don't Let Go , Joe Zawinul The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The Greg Errico Interview
To believe that you were part of real movement towards social progress is validation to some. For those who were actively involved in cultivating the spirits of the change is magical. When the involvement is through rhythm then the spirit transcends. My guest today came from one of the greatest regional hotbeds of local music - the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the drummer for Sly Stone and the Family which fashioned multiethnic multiracial bi-gender members intent of exposing the city by the b...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 8 min
The Wavy Gravy Interview Set IV
Don’t Give Me No Sugar Cubes When I started touring, Bill Cosby took over my room above the Gaslight. I was at The Village Gate opening up for Coleman Hawkins doing standup. Bob Dylan said, “You gotta come to the Gaslight.” He kicked Cosby out of the room to give it back to me. Cosby thought anytime I would offer him a drink it was filled with LSD. He was certain that everything that I touched turned into LSD. Who else thought that was Jose Feliciano. “Don’t give me no sugar cubes,” he used t...
Sep 04, 2020•53 min
The Wavy Gravy Interview Set III
Beat Generation Jazz Poetry It was John Mitchell, the owner of Gaslight Cafe, wanting to make more money. I read my poetry at the Gaslight and became the poetry director along with John Brent. I suggested to John Mitchell, “Hey, why don’t we try a little folk music, between poetry.” He said, “Mr. Romney, I’ve made all my money with poetry!” I answered, “C’mon. John, let’s just try it.” It was a smash. I remember when Bob Dylan came down into the Gaslight. He was wearing Woody Guthrie’s unde...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min
The Wavy Gravy Interview Set II
The “Jerry Area” We introduced Hippies to granola at Woodstock. They had never seen it before, and we brought it to them in little Dixie cups. It was unheard of. Some people had heard of Muesli, but barely. We made the granola in our free kitchen Tom Donahue, the father of FM radio, was putting together this sequel to Woodstock, Medicine Ball Caravan. Warner Brothers was desperate to do a sequel to Woodstock. The idea was to have a caravan of buses driving across the free world and stopping hi...
Sep 04, 2020•43 min
The Wavy Gravy Interview
Gravity Will Get You Smiling A clown is a poet and also an orangutan. I first started being a clown back in the ancient times, forty-odd years ago when we came to Berkeley. Some doctors at The Oakland Children’s Hospital knocked on my door and wanted me to go and cheer up kids. I wasn’t sure, but someone handed me a red rubber nose and I was invisible. I’ve never taken it off. I’m the guy that ties balloons to the barbed wire. I’ve been arrested as a clown with my giant shoes on. They chased ...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Ken Babbs Interview Set IV
Never Eat When You’re Angry When we met at Stanford, right from the get-go, Kesey and I were making tapes together. We’d sit there in the dark, get high, and rap with microphones into a reel-to-reel tape recorder, doing these off-the-wall, off-the-cuff stories, plots, and situations. We were both good at making stuff up on the spot. Kesey was an absolute genius at it; I would fill in a lot. Actual novels, making up the characters and the dialogue. We’d pull out the tape recorder and we never kn...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Ken Babbs Interview Set III
Early Acid Heads When Kesey went to jail in 1967, it was right at the beginning of the year. 67 was the Summer of Love. We were all still in the Bay Area, but things were changing by then. The word was out, the publicity was in, about San Francisco. It was attracting more and more people. The flower children were followed quickly by the sharks. It was not the kind of place we wanted to be around anymore. We wanted to get away, and a lot of the early acid heads did the same thing. They went un...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr
The Ken Babbs Interview Part II
His Shoes and a Note Fourteen of us got busted at Ken Kesey’s house for pot. We went to court, and our lawyer made a deal where we all got off except Ken. The reason was that Neal Cassady had already been busted twice for felonies. In California if he went down for another felony, he’d be in jail for another ten or fifteen years. So they made the deal that Ken would take the rap and the rest of us would go free. When it came time for Kesey to show up in court and get his conviction, he didn’t ...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Ken Babbs Interview
The Wave Just Happened In 1966 acid had really come on in San Francisco. It was different from anywhere else, as we found out. San Francisco people weren’t tied into the big LA money, record business, movie business. People were doing on their own all kinds of things we were doing during the Acid Tests in terms of dance and filmmaking and music and art. We’d rent these halls and bring people together. It got so big that in January 1966 we had the Trips Festival in San Francisco at The Longshor...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 8 min
The Bill Cosby Interview
Entertainers need to be aware of what's happening all around them. The great entertainers are aware of all the best that's around them. The best education, the best food and of coarse the best music. The kind of music that comes from your soul- or maybe even deeper. Jimmy Smith laying on his B-3 or Willie Bobo playing congas in in Spanish Harlem. Monk Montgomery extending a hand while Big Black played the African room. My guest today is a great entertainer. He is a comic, a purveyor of Social Is...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 37 min
The George Marsh Interview
Inner Drumming and Swing. Here's the all the mavericks out there! JF
Sep 04, 2020•2 hr 21 min
The Candido Camero Interview
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1921, Candido "officially" moved to New York in 1952 and is the first musician to bring the bongo into a North America musical setting. Today he continues to dazzle audiences all over the world and will be inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa, Oklahoma next week.
Sep 04, 2020•44 min
The Big Black Interview
On a breezy monsoon driven afternoon in the Old Pueblo I spend some time talking to "Black." I have been courting him in recent months because of his candor and ability to tell the stories of African Americans who kept rhythm alive stateside. Brew a few pots for this one. Cheif Bey , Danny Ray , Georgia , Dizzy Gillespie , Coons , Jass , David Axelrod , Message To Our Ancestors , Paul Butterfield The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 20 min
The Max Bennett Interview
Charlie Parker , Joe Sample , Tom Scott , Court and Spark , The Baked Potato , Frank Rosolino , Small Town in Iowa , South Side of Chicago , Stan Kenton , The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 04, 2020•57 min
The Ralph Penland Interview
he was a great person and a great drummer James Gadson
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The Cris Jacobs Interview Set II
Gratitude is attitude from this modern day bandleader. Trying to create within the confines of no road map and societal dysfunction. The truth reveals itself.....
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 12 min
The Stu Gardner Interview
Very often the sweetest moments in music history occur through a confluence of self expression. You have to have something to say. And it has to be a message that is sustained and built through other human beings. The late sixties and early seventies was one of those sweet moments in music history. You had a generation of African Americans coning of age on the left coast who were raised in households that taught them to be proud of their heritage. Some of these individuals came from the gulf coa...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 17 min
The Toshiko Akiyoshi Interview
wow!!! what a treat that was! i have known Toshiko since she was at Schillinger House in Boston in the mid-’50s but i still learned a lot from this interview! it was fabulous! thank you so much, Jake! Valerie Bishop
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The Scott Law Interview
Inspiring discussion about finding a consistent yogic state during Covid, how a musician must be adaptable during this time and still connect with people through music.
Sep 03, 2020•57 min
The Donald Dean Interview
Legendary drummer talks about working with Jimmy Smith and Carmell Jones.
Sep 03, 2020•44 min
The Neil Seidel Interview
Listening to your interview and your statement regarding them as THE world music group. Yes, they were the first (and I was there in the 70s in Marin County). Please listen to Ancient Future and their album “Planet Passion” and you will hear the new sound of east meets west. Peace Jeffrey Buchanan
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 20 min
The Mike Wofford Interview
Joe Pass , Hermosa Beach , John Guerin , Strawberry Wine , Mannekind , Gary Barone The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 03, 2020•54 min
The Melvin Seals Interview
My guest today was rooted in his gospel upbringing. Yet in a different period in our history when church music overlapped with soul and rnb my guest was in the right place with the right sound. Originally discovered by Elvin Bishop my guest generated interest in the bay area as a Hammond B-3 specialist that could enhance the sound in country, acid rock, swing, jazz vocals. Still it was the gospel organ that drew John Kahn to my guest. The Jerry Garcia Band was at a point musically where they had...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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