Behind The Song: Classic Rock Chronicles

In this bonus episode of the Behind The Song podcast, Janda is joined by her boss at The Drive in Chicago, Keith Hastings, for a deep dive into great songs that missed the original album cut but found their audience later through B-sides, box sets, soundtracks, and reissues.
Along the way, they cover tracks by Led Zeppelin, The Who, Journey, The Police, Pearl Jam, Don Henley, and Fleetwood Mac.
They also touch on how album-era formats like vinyl, 45s, and CDs shaped tracklists, and how streaming and digital reissues have given these songs new life and a new audience!

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In this Halloween bonus episode of Behind the Song, Janda discusses Charles Manson’s failed dream of rock stardom before the notorious 1969 murders with Behind The Song producer, Christian Lane. After befriending Beach Boy Dennis Wilson in 1968, Manson and his followers moved into Wilson’s home and met other elite rock stars and music business movers and shakers: Neil Young, producer Terry Melcher, and Sly Stone among them, all of whom rejected or avoided him. Listen to the unbelievable list of people this real life boogeyman briefly rubbed elbows with in this episode of the Behind The Song podcast.
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In this episode of Behind The Song, Janda goes deeper into Pearl Jam’s “Black,” the heartbreak anthem that became a hit without ever being a single. Hear why Pearl Jam didn’t want anyone but the fans to visualize what or who the song was about, a choice that set the tone for their entire career.

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He once sang for eighty thousand fans as the voice of Led Zeppelin. Now in his late 70s, Robert Plant is playing centuries-old songs and loving every minute of it.
In this episode of Behind The Song, Janda skips the hits to trace Plant’s musical path. From a planned career in accounting to what happened after Led Zeppelin disbanded, everything led to his latest chapter, the collective project Saving Grace. It’s the story of a rock legend who would rather keep walking forward than stand still in a museum.

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In the new episode of the Behind The Song podcast, Janda chats with Steve Vai about gearing up to tour once again with BEAT, performing the music of King Crimson with Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Terry Bozzio. He spoke about what it takes to play this level of “high information music,” his time as a teenager working for Frank Zappa, and what’s next musically for him and this supergroup!

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