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,” […]

By |February 24th, 2016|The SoundBard Interview|Comments Off on Danny Hutton and Three Dog Night Continue to Bring Harmony and Super Sonic Joy to the World

America Bandmates Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell Venture Down the Remastered Highway

BY MIKE METTLER — SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Harmony (/ˈhärmənē/, noun): 1. The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect. 2. A relationship where various components exist together without destroying one another; agreement or concord. See also: America.

If there’s one band from the ’70s that epitomizes the literal definition of the […]

By |September 10th, 2015|The SoundBard Interview|Comments Off on America Bandmates Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell Venture Down the Remastered Highway

Dave Edmunds Provides More Than Just a Few Seconds of Pleasure With His All-Instrumental Rags & Classics

BY MIKE METTLER — JULY 15, 2015

Leave it to Dave Edmunds to always want to take things a little bit left of center. “I’ve never liked listening to albums, and I’ve never liked making them,” admits the Welsh-born guitarist and producer known for his modern rockabilly sensibilities (see Rockpile’s Seconds of Pleasure and solo hits like […]

By |July 15th, 2015|The SoundBard Interview|Comments Off on Dave Edmunds Provides More Than Just a Few Seconds of Pleasure With His All-Instrumental Rags & Classics

Brian Wilson Feels No Pressure When Creating His Sonically Beautiful Pocket Symphonies

BY MIKE METTLER — MAY 13, 2015

How does he do it? How does the eternal Beach Boy Brian Wilson keep composing all-new harmonically gorgeous and sonically seductive pocket symphonies (as he likes to call them), 50-plus years into his career? The answer, he says, is quite simple: “I know in my head — in […]

By |May 13th, 2015|The SoundBard Interview|Comments Off on Brian Wilson Feels No Pressure When Creating His Sonically Beautiful Pocket Symphonies

Tiers of Actual Sighs: Richard X. Heyman Puts The X in Songwriting & Pop Rocking Excellence

BY MIKE METTLER

Richard X. Heyman is a rock & roll lifer. I first became exposed to his indelible brand of garage pop on his 1990 solo album Living Room!! (Cypress), instantly falling for the hooks of “Union County Line” and “Local Paper.” (And, yes, I do have it on vinyl, folks.) Soon thereafter, I learned […]