Danny Hutton and Three Dog Night Continue to Bring Harmony and Super Sonic Joy to the World

BY MIKE METTLER — FEBRUARY 24, 2016

It takes a special breed to put down serious roots in Laurel Canyon, California — and that’s exactly what Three Dog Night vocalist Danny Hutton did more than four decades ago. “I bought my house from Alice Cooper in 1977 or ’78, and Micky Dolenz [of The Monkees] lived next door,” […]

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Stereo Is Father to the Surround: Al Kooper on Mixing Super Session and Blood, Sweat & Tears in 5.1

BY MIKE METTLER — MARCH 2, 2015

Al Kooper has been a mastermind behind the board of many a storied session over his half-century career (for artists such as Mike Bloomfield, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Tubes, to name but a few), but his prowess as a multichannel mixmaster has been largely […]

Harmonic Converger: Graham Nash Unveils a Life Full of Wild Tales

BY MIKE METTLER

“Music is astounding, isn’t it?” Graham Nash is genuinely enamored with the wonders of sound — and so am I. There’s always a special twinkle in his eye whenever we get together to talk about the indelible music he’s made since the early 1960s, the new music he’s planning to make next, […]