After almost a half century on the road, what happens when a band has too much time on its hands? For Styx guitarist and founder James Young, it was a "mirror, mirror on the wall" chat and a time to make history answering all of the hard questions Nestor ever had since he saw them on the Cornerstone tour in February 1980.
Continuing our Teacher Appreciation Month with an homage to Miss Carolyn Houk, the best reading teacher ever! And you'll get some awesome Jinokoya music and tales of the Far East in this one from Melissa Houk...
Before the death of the guitarist virtuoso, Van Halen historian Greg Renoff discussed his journey in writing about how four kids from Southern California got signed and became the biggest rock band in the world. Little dreamers, indeed...
The last remaining member of Styx that Nestor has never chatted with joined him during the downtime of humanity to talk about singing for the first time and drumming for a long time with his Chicago elders. Oh, and...
Sometimes we are at the intersection of where sports and music meet. Dummer Slim Jim Phantom of Stray Cats had a Zoom game slated with Drew Carey and joined Nestor to discuss great music and how much we loved the baseball dice board game as kids.
After a different kind of meltdown against the Tennessee Titans, Luke Jones and Nestor look for the "leadership council" in Ravens locker room as undefeated Steelers await for Thanksgiving dinner.
