Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Dan Bern: (laughs) I guess I feel like if you need advice, then maybe you’re in the wrong field, you know? Because if you’re going to do it, then you don’t need any advice–you’ll do it despite what anybody says. I heard more people saying, […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Hi, George. George Thorogood: Mike, always a pleasure. Where are you located? MR: Iowa. GT: Iowa, the home of Bob Feller. MR: Nice! GT: …and Johnny Carson, and Harmon Killebrew… MR: …and don’t forget The Donna Reed Show. GT: Oh yeah, although, it was really shot in Burbank, but that’s okay. MR: So, your […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Hey, considering the career you’ve had, I wanted to ask you what advice you have for new artists? George Thorogood: Stay away from fried food and stay out of Italian cars. MR: (laughs) Alright, that works. GT: That’s about the only advice I can give you. MR: Is there anything that you’re utilizing […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Musically speaking, what advice do you have for new artists? Chris Valen: Find a way to keep connected with your art, to keep challenging yourself and growing artistically, to keep looking in the mirror and smiling, to keep love in your heart and to keep hanging in there. Everything else will follow, and […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Chris, your new album is titled “Fables for Fighters.” Is that how you see this assembly of songs? Chris Velan: I do, at least on some level. For the most part, they were written during a time when I was out on the road a lot, touring for my previous album, “Solidago.” I […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Randy Montana: Just keep after it. The best advice I ever got — and this was a long time ago — was “put your blinders on.” Have that tunnel vision. It’s like I was saying earlier, you can only do what you can do. You […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: You know, I usually ask this at the end of interviews, but let me ask you right now: what is your advice for new artists? Gavin DeGraw: My advice is to accept the environment for what it is, and get into if for the right reasons. Then, you’ll be able to deal with […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Thanks for the interview, Randy. Randy Montana: Thanks for having me. MR: First of all, how did you get signed? RM: Well, you know, I’d been playing in a band in college and we were going around doing a lot of fraternity parties in the Southeast. That’s kind of where the bug really […]
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