Welcome to the new video edition of the show.

Mention the name Chris Slade and people automatically think of AC/DC "The Razors Edge" and Thunderstruck" those incredible performances at Monsters of Rock Donnington and the biggest outdoor festival ever held in Moscow. There is though so much more to Chris's life in music from Manfred Mann's Earth Band , Frankie Miller, Uriah Heep, Gary Numan, Dave Gilmour , The Firm Gary Moore and that was all before we get to AC/DC. Chris joined me to look back at his life in music and we look back across 7 decades in the business he is great company has many tales to tell.

On this video edition of the show we talk to a Drum legend "Carmine Appice" who's career has spanned 7 decades from the 60's with Vanilla Fudge and then Cactus to his time with Rod Stewart he's sat alongside and played with rock and blues greatest performers.

This year he is back with Cactus and "Temple of Blues" a mammoth collaborative project that includes Joe Bonamassa , Pat Travers, Ted Nugent , Doug Aldrich, Rudy Sarzo, Billy Sheehan, Steve Stevens. Dug Pinnick, Warren Haynes and more .

Carmine joins me from home in NYC we look at the origins of the band , working with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewert lots of great stories and anecdotes from Carmine's 7 decades in the business.

Joining us on this video edition of the show two former members of Megadeth the Grammy award winning Dave Ellefson and Jeff Young we look back at the 80's when Megadeth were head to head with Metallica and Anthrax and Jeff joined for "So Far So Good So What" the tours around the world and appearing at Monsters of Rock in 1988 along with Guns + Roses" and headliners Iron Maiden .

Then we come up to date looking at the "Kings of Thrash" project and what it's future is.

They are bona fide heavy metal legends , Anvil have been around for 50 years since Rob and Lip's got together and they began their journey to take on the world with their own distinctive brand of heavy metal which influenced the generation that included Metallica. Then came the movie "The Story Of Anvil" and overnight they became what they always wanted to be global rock stars and here we are in 2024 and they are still flying high album 20 is coming this month and on this video edition we catch up with Lip's to talk about the history and to look ahead to the new album , as ever he is great entertainment.

Welcome to the new edition of the show and what is the biggest show we have produced coming up over the next 2 hours we talk to Canadian metal legends Anvil, Lips joins us to look ahead to the new album "The One and Only" and we go back to look at "Anvil The Story of Anvil" and whats ahead of the band.

Robin McAulay has one of the biggest voices in rock his career goes back over 40 years and right at the beginning there was "Grand Prix" the melodic rock band who came very close to the big time the song that nearly delivered it was "Keep on Believing" , plus we talk about perhaps the most controversial cover version ever recorded "The Far Corporations" version of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" .

Nina Digregorio joins us to talk about her career including the "Femmes of Rock" plus the year it took for her to perfect her version of Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption"

Welcome back and here is a sneak preview of what is coming next on "The Classic Rock Podcast" as we introduce you to the extraordinary talents of Nina Digregorio who literally stopped traffic with her version of Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" check it out here and the interview clip with Nina.

Welcome to the brand new edition of the show along with all the usual features, the album anniversary, the news and on this day 50 years ago in this edition we hear the story of the man Rolling Stone called "Heavy Metals Greatest Survivor" and for good reason as just over a year ago Blaze Bayley suffered a near fatal heart attack 12 months on he's back on the road the best album he's done since the heady days of Wolfsbane back in the late 80's it's called "Circle of Stone" It's also the 30th anniversary of him joining Iron Maiden we will talk about his time with Maiden in the 90's and from those days in the 80's when they were discovered by legendary producer Rick Rubin for Def Jam .

Lots of great tales and anecdotes and great music to go with it !

Welcome to this special video edition of the show and coming up joining me from home in LA is Billy Morrison ex of the Cult and for the last 14 years with Billy Idol's playing alongside Steve Stevens.

He has got together with an "A" list of friends to put together the new album "The Morrison Project" Featuring guest performances by Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, DMC, Al Jourgensen, Steve Vai, Steve Stevens, Linda Perry, Tommy Clufetos, John 5 and more. Billy looks back on a career in music as well as being an accomplished artist, actor, presenter and producer and best friend of Ozzy.

It all started for him back in the late 70's in London where he was growing up .