This week on SlapperCast: a quick review of 2019 plus a few more hints about our plans for 2020. Also, a discussion about the art of stage presence and audience engagement, with kudos to Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze and Mojo Nixon

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox, iHeartRadio, Castro, and pretty much everywhere else you find podcasts.

Show notes

• Glenn Tilbrook: One for the Road — documentary about Glen Tilbrook’s 2001 solo tour in a mobile home
• Mojo Nixon Live at The Cattle Club, Sacremento, CA, December 7, 1990 — with Houston’s Pete Gordon on piano

Photo by Christopher Willis.

This week on SlapperCast, Patrick and Chad shower praise upon their old friend and Houston drumming legend Keith York, who filled in for Mike this past weekend in Longview, TX, and Little Rock, AR.

This week on SlapperCast: A highly caffeinated discussion of imaginary musical collaborations (and some real ones) between legendary musicians.

Show notes

• BlackHouse Cigars
• Rebel Meets Rebel — David Allen Coe & Pantera
• Creed Shreds
• Somebody to Love — George Michael & Queen
• Stewart Copeland’s Approach To A Backbeat
• Across the River — Peter Gabriel & Stuart Copeland
• Don’t Box Me In — Stuart Copeland & Stan Ridgway
• Animal Logic – Stuart Copeland, Stanley Clarke & Deborah Holland
• Bombs Away — Gizmodrome (Adrian Belew & Stuart Copeland)
• Elephant Talk — Gizmodrome (Adrian Belew & Stuart Copeland)
• Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain goes for a swim during the middle bit of Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• John Lennon talking about collaborating with David Bowie
• Heroes (David Bowie) — David Byrne & Choir Choir
• David Byrne inducts David Bowie into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Steam magazine

This week on SlapperCast, we explore bands we dislike, bands we once disliked but came to appreciate later, and bands we used to like but lost interest in.

Discussed: Anthrax, KISS, Poison, Rush, Triumph, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, the Who, Duran Duran, the Smiths, Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Cream, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Motörhead, et al.

Also: more on the perils of smartphone addiction and how it can disrupt creativity, as well as the essential exchange of energy between performer and audience.

• The Fire That Inspired ‘Smoke on The Water’
• Johnny Marr describes how he wrote How Soon is Now
• “How Soon Is Now?” – The B-Side That Defined The Smiths
• Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook (full talk)