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Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

For Those About To Read & Rock...Join host Eric Senich for deep dive discussions of the greatest artists, albums, songs and moments in rock history with the authors who"ve written all about them and those who were there when it all happened! WEBSITE: www.BOOKEDONROCK.com

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95:02

Unlocking The Mysteries Behind The Beatles' Iconic...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/06/06

Musician, producer, engineer, and author Jerry Hammack is a first-time guest. He’s on the show to talk about his new book The Beatles’ Recording Techniques. Step back in time to the iconic EMI Recording Studios in London during the revolutionary 60s where legendary music acts like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and countless others crafted their timeless sound.The Beatles’ Recording Techniques was meticulously researched by Hammack, and offers an intimate understanding of the innovative recording

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81:57

50 Years Of Van Halen Unleashed [Episode 200]

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2024/05/28

Author Martin Popoff is the author of Van Halen at 50. To mark the band’s 50th anniversary, Martin has curated 50 significant milestones from the band’s history starting with their formation in 1974 up through the passing of Edward Van Halen in 2020. It comes in a hardcover with stunning and candid offstage photography, and images of memorabilia, including gig posters, vinyl record sleeves, ticket stubs, advertisements, and a gatefold Van Halen timeline. Added to the 50 milestones are sidebars

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73:41

Daydream Believers: The Kaleidoscopic Journey of The...

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2024/05/22

Monkees historian Eric Lefcowitz is a first-time guest. He is the author of Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band. Originally published in 2013, he’s got an updated version of the book he’ll tell us about. The Monkees had everything—a popular TV show, hit records, and adoring fans. Everything but control over their careers. Lefcowitz chronicles the kaleidoscopic journey of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, following each of the four Monkees, together and apart,

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69:26

When Doves Cry - Celebrating 40 Years of Prince's...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/05/16

This June marks the 40th anniversary of Prince’s Purple Rain album and film. To commemorate the anniversary, Motorbooks has released the book Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years. Authoritatively written and including rare photography and memorabilia, this beautiful slipcased hardcover is the only illustrated gift book to examine Prince’s most iconic album and film, Purple Rain. The album has gone on to sell 25 million copies and counting.In Prince and Purple Rain, Andrea Swensson, a Minneapolis-based

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58:49

Rock Chronicles: Joe Matera Unveils the Backstage and...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/05/08

Joe Matera is a returning guest to the podcast. Joe has a brand new book titled Louder Than Words: Beyond The Backstage Pass. This is a follow-up to 2021’s Backstage Pass: The Grit and the Glamour. Joe holds a unique position as a music journalist who is also a professional musician. It’s allowed him access to areas where music journalists aren’t able to.In this, his second book, Joe traces his childhood influences and meets the musicians who changed his life from heroes such as Janne Schaffer, who

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81:44

Unearthing Abandoned Albums & Favorite Reads with...

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2024/05/01

It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. The guest in this episode is Keith R. Higgons. He’s the host of the Abandoned Albums podcast, one of my favorites. Keith is a die-hard classic rock fan and is a great interviewer. He’s genuinely curious about the guests he has on and it shows.We’ll talk about the podcast and it turns out that Keith is a big reader and he’s got some great books we’ll talk about including a new book out

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60:21

Rhythms to Ruin: The Shocking Downfall of Rock's...

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2024/04/26

Author Joel Selvin talks about his new book Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon. Jim Gordon has been called the greatest rock drummer of all time by the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his “big fill”—the

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64:31

Back To The Big Hair & Epic Riffs: Why 80s Hair Metal...

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2024/04/19

This episode’s guest is author Steven Blush. His book American Hairmetal: Can’t Get Enough has just been released. This is an expanded edition of the book originally released by Feral House in 2006.Interest in hair metal is as strong as it was over three decades ago. In the summer of 2022 Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard went out on a stadium tour with Poison, and Joan Jett as supporting acts. The tour brought in $173.5 million, making it the highest-grossing tour of either band’s career. In 2016, Guns

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43:59

The Hollywood Geek Rock Scene Of The 90s & 2000s...

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2024/04/15

Writer/musician S.W. Lauden is this episode's guest to talk about a limited-edition vinyl LP compilation and oral history book called Generation Blue. The album and book explore the Hollywood Geek Rock scene of the '90s and early 2000s, featuring key bands Nerf Herder, The Rentals, Ozma, Baby Lemonade, Psoma, and Weezer who released their triple-platinum Blue Album 30 years ago this spring. Previewed by the hit indie single “Where The Hell Is She,” a lost Geek Rock nugget by the band Shufflepuck,

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70:22

U2's 'Pop' - A Lemon Or Overlooked Gem? [Episode 192]

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2024/04/13

Author Geoff Harkness returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book 40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart. U2 had been on a decade-long run of hits when they released their album Pop in 1997. That included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band’s Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold-out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be U2’s worst-selling album, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled

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50:07

The Complicated Life Of Skip Spence (Jefferson...

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2024/04/10

Cam Cobb is the author of Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence - the biography on the legendary '60s cult musician known for his time in era-defining bands Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Moby Grape. While celebrated by the likes of Tom Waits, Beck, and Robert Plant, Spence's life was sadly plagued by substance abuse, erratic behavior, and poor mental health. Spence’s story is the story of the 60s and one that has never been told in full until now. Weighted Down

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74:07

"I Was An Acid-Fueled Teenage Dead Fiend!" [Episode 190]

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2024/04/08

Author Thomas "Nordy" Nordwall opens a window to the ways of the road and the extreme lengths Grateful Dead fans will go to, just to get that miracle ticket and be at one more Grateful Dead gig! His book Tour Head: "I Was an Acid-Fueled Teenage Dead Fiend!" is a humorous, yet unflinching look at a life spent in pursuit of a musical dream. Told from the perspective of someone who is not a musician in a traveling band, just a rabid fan, so obsessed that depression would set in if a few shows were

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29:38

Rock & Roll Nightmares Come True with...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/04/05

It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. Our guest is award-winning filmmaker and Amazon # bestselling author Staci Layne Wilson.Stacy has written, produced, and hosted three entertainment talk shows online: This Week In Movies, Inside Horror, and Dread Central Live. She has been featured on the BBC, Bravo, Reelz, MTV, CNN, and many more as a film historian and author. She’s recently released the book titled Amplified

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55:14

The Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music [Episode 188]

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2024/04/03

Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country’s most inimitable artists.Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the “greater or lesser heat” with which each musician shaped their genre while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Robertson includes essays

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98:03

Journey's Rise, Fall, and Return [Episode 187]

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/29

Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock ‘n’ roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes. David Hamilton Golland unearths the band’s true and complete biography, based on over a decade of interviews and thousands of sources.When Steve Perry joined jazz-blues progressive rock band Journey in 1977, they saw a rise to the top, and their 1981 album Escape hit #1. But

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55:28

Bruce Springsteen: Still "The Boss" After All These...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/27

Author Gillian G. Gaar is this episode's guest to talk about her brand-new book Springsteen @ 75. Through 75 career releases, performances, and accolades, this book covers it all including Bruce’s childhood in New Jersey and his time in early garage bands, The Castiles and Steel Mill. All 20 studio albums are covered along with a selection of his greatest singles. Also included are Bruce’s relationships with notable bandmates Steven Van Zandt and the late Clarence Clemons, his legendary concerts,

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81:52

The Enduring Power Of AC/DC with Author Chris Sutton...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/23

Author Chris Sutton has a new book as part of the Sonicbond On Track series called AC/DC: Every Album, Every Song. One of the greatest bands in rock history, AC/DC has released eighteen studio albums, two soundtrack albums, three live albums, and 57 singles. They’ve sold over 200 million albums worldwide and their 1980 album Back In Black became the second biggest-selling album in history with 50 million copies sold worldwide. Sutton not only gives an analysis of every track on every studio album

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91:11

A "Red" Hot Discussion Of Sammy Hagar, Van Halen &...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/20

It’s another chapter in The Dialogue Series - A chill ‘n chat with authors, fellow podcasters, musicians, and more. Our guests are Darin Bristow and Brent Kinnaird, the hosts of the podcast devoted to Sammy Hagar called The Bogus Otis Show: 9 Degrees of Sammy Hagar.The guys fill us in on how they got the podcast started, what’s behind that name Bogus Otis, and what it was like having Sammy Hagar himself appear on the podcast. We discuss Sammy’s career from Montrose, to his first solo run, his

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59:47

Ratt's World Infestation with Author Greg Prato...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/07

Author Greg Prato is back and this time he’s gonna tell us about his brand new book World Infestation: The Ratt Story. Greg recounts Ratt's entire tale – from their beginnings as a band slugging it out on the Sunset Strip, to it's rise to fame, the breakups, the tragedy, the lawsuits that take us right up to today. This book tells the Ratt story through interviews Greg has conducted over the years with several being exclusive for this book. He also includes quotes from one of the last interviews

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60:33

Alex Van Halen's Autobiography 'Brothers': A...

Booked On Rock with Eric Senich ·

2024/03/02

Since his brother Edward’s passing on October 6th, 2020, Alex Van Halen has remained mostly silent. Aside from brief statements to commemorate his younger brother’s birthday and his passing posted to social media, we have yet to see or hear Alex speak. Instead, he’s decided to break his silence with his autobiography Brothers due out on October 22nd. I’ve asked two special guests to join the podcast to discuss Alex's upcoming book - Greg Renoff and Chris Gill. Greg Renoff is the author of the

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