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When we asked this week's guest, Grammy Award winning fiddler/singer/songwriter Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers) to choose a record to discuss, he went with an album that captured his imagination as a young up-and-coming Louisiana musician and has mystified him ever since: Pink Floyd's fascinating 1971 release, 'Meddle'.
"And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the Sun"

Songs discussed in this episode: One Of These Days (8-Bit Version) - 8 Bit Songs; The Bathtub (Live) - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra & Lost Bayou Ramblers; Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd; Les Beaux Jours, Rêve du Troubadour (feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum), Le Cas de Marguerite (feat. Bombino, Leyla McCalla) - Louis Michot; One Of These Days, A Pillow Of Winds, Fearless - Pink Floyd; In My Life - The Beatles; San Tropez - Pink Floyd; Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground; Seamus - Pink Floyd; Mountain Jam (Live) - Allman Brothers Band; Echoes, Time, Echoes - Pink Floyd; Amourette (feat. Quintron) - Louis Michot

Setting attack strategies for 2024, determining which NPR Tiny Desk performance has the Biggest Riff Energy, remembering a truly terrifying childhood friend, analyzing the potential riff energy of rap music, raging against leeches and vultures of the touring world, first ever on-air fistfight story, and more!

Album of discussion:

Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma (2018)

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Seattle singer/songwriter Scott Yoder took a break from his seemingly non-stop touring to sit down and discuss British folk singer Al Stewart and his beautifully enigmatic 1975 album 'Modern Times'. 
"I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
Carried along by their call
Seeking for a way to enlighten
Searching for the sense of it all"

Songs discussed in this episode: Pink Panther Theme (Live 1978 WKQX Studios, Chicago) - Al Stewart; Love Theme From How's It Gonna End, You'll Never Know - Scott Yoder; Year Of The Cat, You Should Have Listened To Al, Time Passages - Al Stewart; Cosmic Dancer - T-Rex; West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys; Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John; Down To The Waterline - Dire Straits; Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project; Carol, Sirens Of Titan, What's Going On, Not The One - Al Stewart; Queen Bitch - David Bowie; Next Time - Al Stewart; Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil; Life And Life Only - Al Stewart (with Richard Thompson); Apple Cider Re-Constitution - Al Stewart; The Star Of The County Down - Graham Johnson & Ann Murray; The Dark and The Rolling Sea, Modern Times - Al Stewart; Finale From How's It Gonna End, Silver Screen Starlet - Scott Yoder

After two music book episodes, RSD Goes To The Movies, pointing our lens at two rock documentaries, each told from inside two different psychedelically-incinded music scenes. 

Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo is here with Rob Hatch-Miller (Other Music) to discuss C.B. Stockfleth's film, The Elephant 6 Recording Co., but first, director Roddy Bogawa talks about the film he made with the late Storm Thorgerson (of Hipgnosis) called Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. 

Plus the return of RSD co-founder Carrie Colliton, back in Raleigh, NC, after running the RSD Summer Camp in New Orleans. Go to RecordStoreDay.com for the latest information about RSD.

Written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. 

Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. 

This episode is dedicated to the late Jerry Moss (1935-2023), who passed away on August 15 at the age of 88. Moss was the co-founder, with friend of the show Herb Alpert, of A&M Records.

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Bart, Justina, and John talk about 2 new documentaries centering on Pink Floyd. The first is "Squaring the Circle (the story of hipgnosis)," a film by Anton Corbijn about the legendary company that made some of the most iconic album covers but started by working with Pink Floyd. The second, "Have you Got it Yet? The Story of Syd Barett and Pink Floyd," was made by one of the founders of Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson and Rody Bogawa. Storm started the film years ago and passed away in 2013. Bogawa picked it up and finished it.

You might have heard that Bob Dylan, RHCP, Neil Young and even David Guetta have sold the rights to their music to companies like Hipgnosis for obscene sums of money. What does this mean? Why do artists do that? Did Tony really make three puns despite not being a rock music fan?

Chuck, Srikeit and Tony get together to talk about this new trend (artists selling music, that is - not Tony making rock puns) and the conversation gradually steers to what it means for the future of music, art and life itself.

Referenced in the episode - Ted Gioia's predictions on the future of music.

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/12-predictions-for-the-future-of

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Special Guests Seth Berg and Adam Parsons

The music press has been filled with headlines over the past couple of years about companies like Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, Round Hill and others making moves to acquire the rights to some very big artists for huge amounts of money. Bob Dylan reportedly received $400M for his, other deals were even bigger. But what is the story behind these deals and why are they happening now. Ace is joined this week by frequent contributor and publishing expert Seth Berg as well as Ace's long time business partner (and artist management expert) Adam Parsons. Enjoy!

This week Ace and his team sit down for a chat with famed album cover artist Ioannis. His work has adorned the covers of scores of bands including Sepultura, Dream Theater, Uriah Heep, Styx, The Allman Brothers and so many more! He has also penned a great book with heralded music journalist Martin Poppoff that was all about album covers. He has great stories... tune in for the first part of two.

Grammy-winning hitmaker Nile Rodgers and legendary manager Merck Mercuriadis join Simon and Brian onstage at the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall during the 2019 Meltdown festival. The pair share insights into the art and business of songwriting through their work together on the Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, and Nile takes up his guitar to demonstrate how he wrote classic hits for artists like Sister Sledge, Diana Ross and David Bowie. Nile was also the guest for episode 123 of this podcast.

For their first episode of 2016, the Poster Boys depart from the world of one-sheets for a quick spin around some of music’s most visually engaging album covers courtesy of the design powerhouse Hipgnosis. From Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Brandon and Sam explore the prolific career of a small design studio working out of London’s Tin Pan Alley from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. They cap things off with a return to the world of film, where they open up the Flat File and find a surprising amount of unused work for Ron Howard’s 1984 comedy, Splash.

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Music selections: “Bass on Titles” opening theme, “The Song Remains the Same” and “The Rain Song” from Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, “Pigs (Part 1)” from Animals by Pink Floyd, “Love Came for Me’ by Rita Coolidge from the Splash Motion Picture Soundtrack, 10cc - “I’m Not in Love” from The Original Soundtrack by 10cc.

Follow Brandon Schaefer at @seekandspeak, and Sam Smith at @samsmyth.

Special thanks to producer Adrian Cobb and to our presenting partner, AIGA’s Eye on Design blog.