In this episode, host Dave Gebroe talks with the epitome of DIY punk spirit (who can also write a pop hook like the best of ‘em), the great Mark Robinson (of Unrest, Grenadine, Air Miami, Flint Flon, Uncomfortable Police, et al), and together they discuss Billy Joel’s entire recorded output with commentary, stories, and star ratings for every release. If you’re a long-time listener, then you know that Dave has harbored a long-time hatred of Billy Joel…so why the sudden turnaround in taste? Discograffiti’s Mark Robinson Tackles Billy Joel (But Only Metaphorically) Series dissects every last release Billy Joel’s ever had a hand in creating. Part 1 tackles his turmoil-ridden ancient history, including early bands The Hassles and Attila, plus his debut LP, Cold Spring Harbor.

In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with legendary Gold Star engineer Larry Levine, the man responsible, side by side with The Wrecking Crew, for building Phil Spector’s ”Wall of Sound”. His peak accomplishments include “Be My Baby”, “Summertime Blues”, “River Deep, Mountain High”, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”, “He’s A Rebel”, ”Then He Kissed Me”, A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector, Pet Sounds, Smile, and so many others.

In this episode, Graham Nash discusses David Crosby’s classic solo debut If I Could Only Remember My Name with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Wild Tales: The Graham Nash Interview Series tackles every last release the great Graham Nash ever had a hand in creating, including CSN/Y, C&N, and his solo career, detailing a history almost too wild to be believed.

In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with re-issue genius Bob Irwin. Bob and his wife Mary started the Sundazed Music label in 1989. Bob discusses his relationship with Pet Sounds, its standing in the pantheon no matter how many times you’ve heard it, its importance and influence on music in general, and the wonders of a technology with inherent, imposed limitations.

Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “Caroline, No” with commentary and stories. Discograffiti’s Pet Sounds Deep-Dive Series stands as a unique combination of factual obsession and personal connection, and there’s nothing else quite like it. This is the final episode.

In this episode, Dave Gebroe interviews our brother podcast 1001 Album Complaints’ host Rob Kassees as he walks us through the process of creating and releasing your own album, something he’s done many times over by this point

In this episode, Discograffiti presents Part 3 of Chuck’s chat with Tony Asher, Brian Wilson’s lyrical collaborator on Pet Sounds. This is easily the best, most honest and unguarded Tony Asher interview in existence.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with Dr. Paul Tanner, inventor (with Bob Whitsell) of the Electro-Theremin, which he also famously played on three Beach Boys tracks: “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” “Good Vibrations,” and “Wild Honey.” Paul passed away a few years later in 2013, which makes this posthumously released “Chuck Chat” yet another priceless buried treasure.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” and “Pet Sounds” with commentary and stories.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, author Lewis Shiner discusses his epic, 868-page, music-based novel Outside The Gates Of Eden, which follows a series of characters from 1965 to the present day. Lewis describes it as a ”War & Peace for the Woodstock Generation,” and I believe it is an absolute masterpiece, one of the 10 best books I’ve ever read in my life.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, we feature the next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series. It’s Chuck’s chat with Larry Knechtel, the Wrecking Crew keyboard player and bassist who—along with Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys—has worked with Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, The Mamas & The Papas, The Monkees, The Doors, The Byrds, The Grass Roots, Elvis Presley, Jerry Garcia, and Billy Joel. He also was a key member of the band Bread.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Graham Nash reviews and discusses the “Ohio” single, CSNY’s 1970 tour, and their first break-up (of many) with commentary and stories.

Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives.  In this episode, Beach Boys author Chuck Granata reviews and discusses Pet Sounds’ “I Know There’s An Answer” (originally written as ”Hang On To Your Ego”) and “Here Today,” with commentary and stories.

The Wrecking Crew’s Don Randi is interviewed about working with Brian Wilson on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds LP.

Jackass’s Wee Man rates and discusses every single Ozzy-era Black Sabbath album.

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with David Wild, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. His published books include Seinfeld: The Totally Unauthorized Tribute (1998), And the Grammy Goes To...: The Official Story of Music's Most Coveted Award (2007), He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond (2009), and others. Wild hosted the Bravo television series Musicians, and has written for the Grammy Awards since 2001, becoming a producer for the show in 2016. In 2022, his Naked Lunch podcast debuted, featuring a wide range of guests, including Graham Nash, Susanna Hoffs, Keanu Reeves with his band Dogstar, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Kimmel, and many more.      Here’s just a few of the many things that David discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:   Why Pet Sounds is perfect; Tony Asher’s incredibly commendable side gig; The reliance on Brian’s inner child to produce greatness; And what Brian Wilson revealed as his favorite Beach Boys record to David.   There’ll be a short sneak peak running publicly for free, but the entirety of this podcast will only be accessible on the Major Tier of Discograffiti’s Patreon. Don’t miss it, or you’ll only be getting part of the story. Get it as a one-off, or better yet just subscribe…and then we’ll all have world peace.   Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier & up)   Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti   Subscribe to Discograffiti's Patreon and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week!) of must-hear binge-listening. It’s completely free to be a basic member, $1 to get your backstage pass, $5/month for the weekly Sunday show by & for our community, $10 for weekly early release, ad-free, super-extended Director's Cuts of the main show plus access to half our Patreon episode archive, & $20 for Discograffiti’s weekly bonus episodes and access to our entire Patreon episode archive. There are now over 300 Patreon episodes.

Jackass’s Jason “Wee Man” Acuna is such an Ozzy fan, he crossed the ocean to see the Back To The Beginning gig before even having a ticket. (He made it in, Thank God.) The biggest little metalhead on the planet joins Discograffiti in paying tribute to the all-time greatest metal band in a whipcrack-fast three-part series that’ll school you in how metal got started. And to sweeten the pot, we’re only covering the Ozzy era.   Here are just a few of the many things that Wee Man discusses with Discograffiti in Part 2 of this podcast:   The Black Sabbath track that Billy Corgan credited with inventing grunge; The reason Sabbath downtuned their guitars further on Master Of Reality, and the sub-genres that wound up creating; How Tony Iommi’s “Sweet Leaf” coughing was captured; The secret messages planted throughout Vol. 4’s songs and packaging, not to mention its initial jettisoned title; And an in-depth deep dive on every song off Master Of Reality, Vol. 4, and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!   Listen: linktr.ee/discograffiti   I support a wife and a six-year-old son with Discograffiti as my sole source of income.    The Director’s Cut of this episode is ad-free and features 10 additional minutes of essential material. Support Discograffiti by opting for this clearly superior version.   Either subscribe to Discograffiti’s Patreon at the Lieutenant or Major Tier, or just grab the episode as a one-off at the same link.   The Director’s Cut: Patreon.com/Discograffiti   Art: Bex Boyd   #blacksabbath #weeman #jackass #heavymetal #metal #ozzyosbourne #rock #tonyiommi #music #hardrock #rocknroll #metalhead #ozzy #prestonlacy #geezerbutler #doommetal #johnnyknoxville #billward #dio #billybarty #blacksabbathfans #spinaltap #guitarist #heavymetalmusic #metalmusic #stonerrock #discograffiti #metalmachinemuzak #soldiersofsound #andyourdreamscometrue 

The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Chuck’s chat with Tom Frangione, who’s been part of the official Beatles Channel on SiriusXM since its launch in 2017, serving as their ’Resident Beatles Expert’. Above all else, this is hands-down the funniest interview of Chuck’s series.

Jackass’s Jason “Wee Man” Acuna joins Discograffiti in paying tribute to the all-time greatest metal band in a whipcrack-fast three-part series that’ll school you in how metal got started. And to sweeten the pot, we’re only covering the Ozzy era.

<p>The Wrecking Crew is to the Sixties what The Immediate Family are to the Seventies, so it’s no accident that music doc director extraordinaire Denny Tedesco tackled both groups of studio musicians in equally fascinating documentaries.  While we’re on the topic of Graham Nash, The Immediate Family became Crosby &amp; Nash’s touring ensemble, nicknamed The Mighty Jitters on the road for reasons we won’t go into here. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s just a few of the many things that Denny discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:</p><p><br /></p><ul><li>How Denny’s relationship with his father (Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco) changed after his cancer diagnosis; </li><li>The ways in which his newest doc <em>The Immediate Family</em> differs from his first, <em>The Wrecking Crew;</em></li><li>The cold, hard realities of making an independent film;</li><li>The toxic relationship between Hal Blaine and Carole Kaye;</li><li>His incredible upcoming music doc projects;</li><li>And our mutual dream doc project.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p>There’ll be a short sneak peak running publicly for free, but the entirety of this podcast will only be accessible on the Major Tier of Discograffiti’s Patreon. Don’t miss it, or you’ll only be getting part of the story. Get it as a one-off, or better yet just subscribe…and then we’ll all have world peace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Full Episode: Patreon.com/Discograffiti (available on the Major Tier &amp; up)</p><p><br /></p><p>Free Sneak Peek: linktr.ee/discograffiti</p><p><br /></p><p>Subscribe to Discograffiti's Patreon and receive a ceaseless barrage (4 shows a week!) of must-hear binge-listening. It’s completely free to be a basic member, $1 to get your backstage pass, $5/month for the weekly Sunday show by &amp; for our community, $10 for weekly early release, ad-free, super-extended Director's Cuts of the main show plus access to half our Patreon episode archive, &amp; $20 for Discograffiti’s weekly bonus episodes and access to our entire Patreon episode archive. There are now over 300 Patreon episodes.</p><p><br /></p><p>CONNECT</p><p>Join our Soldiers of Sound Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839109176272153</p><p>Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Discograffiti</p><p>Podfollow:<a href="https://podfollow.com/1592182331" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ⁠⁠https://podfollow.com/1592182331⁠⁠</a></p><p>YouTube Channel:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyaQCdvDelj5EiKj6IRLhw" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyaQCdvDelj5EiKj6IRLhw</a></p><p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discograffitipod/</p><p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discograffiti/</p><p>Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/Discograffiti" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://twitter.com/Discograffiti</a></p><p>Order the Digital version of the METAL MACHINE MUZAK 2xLP (feat. Lou Barlow, Cory Hanson, Mark Robinson, &amp; W. Cullen Hart):<a href="http://www.patreon.com/discograffiti/shop/197404" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> www.patreon.com/discograffiti/shop/197404</a></p><p>Order the $11 Digital version of the MMM 2xLP on Bandcamp:<a href="https://discograffiti.bandcamp.com/album/metal-machine-muzak" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://discograffiti.bandcamp.com/album/meta