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The Rock Geeks

Phil Greenwood and Julian Gallagher

21 episodes

2 months ago

The Rock Geeks are two northern blokes and lifelong best mates, Phil and Julian, taking a monthly deep dive into the albums that have shaped their worlds and expanded their minds, exploring who created them and how they were made in the finest detail possible.

Each episode will take you into the recording studio and not only show you the gear that was used by the band and the studio engineers but also show you how the gear was used to produce their masterworks. Phil and Julian also discuss each album track by track, exchanging views and opinions on the musical and lyrical content, while exploring the social and cultural landscape into which the albums were released; and if the artwork is often your favourite part of an album, then you are not alone! If you've ever wondered what the controls on Angus Young's Marshall amp were set to, who painted the cover art for Weezer's Pinkerton or how many fascist dictators are referenced in Manic Street Preacher's The Holy Bible then The Rock Geeks can help.

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The Rock Geeks are two northern blokes and lifelong best mates, Phil and Julian, taking a monthly deep dive into the albums that have shaped their worlds and expanded their minds, exploring who created them and how they were made in the finest detail possible.

Each episode will take you into the recording studio and not only show you the gear that was used by the band and the studio engineers but also show you how the gear was used to produce their masterworks. Phil and Julian also discuss each album track by track, exchanging views and opinions on the musical and lyrical content, while exploring the social and cultural landscape into which the albums were released; and if the artwork is often your favourite part of an album, then you are not alone! If you've ever wondered what the controls on Angus Young's Marshall amp were set to, who painted the cover art for Weezer's Pinkerton or how many fascist dictators are referenced in Manic Street Preacher's The Holy Bible then The Rock Geeks can help.

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Episodes (20/21)

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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT3 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

In the final part of The Rock Geeks Pink Floyd oddysey, Phil and Julian chat about all things Abbey Road, from the origins of the world's first and most famous recording studio to the recording of Dark Side of the Moon.

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2 months ago

1 hour 27 minutes 33 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT2 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

In part two of The Rock Geeks exploration of Pink Floyd's most famous work, Phil and Julian get stuck into the gear the band used to record the album - and what a lot of gear there is! From the traditional tools of the rock n roll trade to innovative, futuristic, pieces of kit, PInk Floyd used it all and to great effect. Discover just how much equipment they had at their disposal in our deepest, geekiest, dive yet.

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3 months ago

3 hours 15 minutes 53 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT1 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

Phil and Julian return from an unscheduled break to finally discuss Pink Floyd's gazillion selling album Dark Side of the Moon. Who is the real genius behind the album? Which band member is the most over rated? Whose contribution elevates the album into the soulful and spiritual realm? How iconic is the album cover actually? The Rock Geeks offer their throwaway opinions to all these questions and more!

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4 months ago

2 hours 5 minutes 34 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP9 PT2 - Dust by Screaming Trees.

In the second part of The Rock Geeks close inspection of Dust by Screaming Trees, Phil and Julian continue their chat about the band's gear before getting stuck into the studios visited by Screaming Trees during the recording process. Not ones to shy away from a good old philosophical debate Phil and Julian discuss whether or not the SSL sound actually exists, which takes them on an unexpected detour, starting at The Hit Factory NYC and finishing at Phil Collins. Finally, Phil talks Julian's ear off again about compression, specifically how mix engineering legend Andy Wallace used it to such great effect on the 120 million albums sold on which he is credited.

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1 year ago

2 hours 27 minutes 25 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP9 PT1 - Dust by Screaming Trees.

On episode one of their two part investigation into one of the most criminally overlooked albums of the 90s, Dust by Screaming Trees, Phil and Julian kick things off with some correspondence from American artist Mark Danielson, who painted the cover art for the album. Danielson writes about the inspiration behind the enigmatic image that makes Dust one of the most complete albums of the era, sending Phil on a voyage of discovery into the world of art history. Later Phil and Julian swap notes in their track by track analysis before getting stuck into the gear that the band was using around the time of Dust's recording.

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1 year ago

2 hours 28 minutes 55 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP8 PT 2 The Doors by The Doors

In part 2 of the Rock Geeks' investigation into The Doors' eponymous debut album, Phil and Julian have a chat about the artwork and make the startling discovery that it's possible to be a pacifist in the US Army and that John Densmore has an unexpected link to the band's logo. Then the chat turns to the music, which turns out to be a bit of a rollercoaster ride in terms of quality control. Sorry die hard Doors fans, but if you search deep within your hearts you'll find that half of this album is a bit pants. The good news is that the other half is an iconic, era defining, work of genius!

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1 year ago

1 hour 29 minutes 7 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP8 PT1 - The Doors by The Doors

Groovy baby! On episode 8 of The Rock Geeks podcast Phil and Julian get their 60s vibe on as they focus their attentions on The Doors' eponymous debut album. Join them as they take a trip to the legendary Sunset Sound Recorders where they marvel at what engineer Bruce Botnik was able to achieve with the available technology of the time and, despite being woefully under-qualified, Phil delivers a physics lesson in standing waves to Julian who was, we're sure, delighted. Later the discussion turns to the band's equipment, which was, it turns out, pretty much bank rolled by Mr and Mrs Krieger. Far out, maaaaaaan...

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1 year ago

2 hours 18 minutes 17 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT3. Magnus Sveningsson of The Cardigans.

On this special episode of The Rock Geeks Phil and Julian chat to Magnus Sveningsson, founding member of and bassist with The Cardigans, about the band's masterwork, Long Gone Before Daylight. Magnus shares his memories of the recording of the album and talks about how the songs and the process, as testing as it was sometimes, ultimately helped to heal the band individually and collectively. Also, he very kindly did his bit for the rock geek in all of us by contacting Cardigans guitarist Peter Svensson in order to procure some seriously geeky info about the guitars and amps used in the recording of the album, which we hugely appreciated. Finally, Magnus gives us a definitive answer as to whether or not there will be a new Cardigans album arriving in the near future.

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1 year ago

1 hour 28 minutes 59 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT2 - Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans

In part 2 of episode 7 of the Rock Geeks podcast, Phil and Julian continue their fine tooth combing of Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans. Phil, loses his mind trying to identify a synthesizer and a bass drum and Julian discovers his new favourite instrument - the pump organ. If you thought that Lovefool was all that The Cardigans had to offer then we hope that maybe our in-depth track by track chat will give you cause to investigate the band's later output, and perhaps reappraise your position. Finally, we end the epsiode with some very exciting news...

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1 year ago

2 hours 3 minutes 7 seconds

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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT1 - Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans

On episode 7 of The Rock Geeks podcast, Phil and Julian get stuck into one of the most criminally overlooked albums of the 2000s, Long Gone Before Daytlight by The Cardigans. The album took 10 months to record with the band visiting 8 different recording studios scattered across Europe, initially in an attempt to escape the Swedish winter, and, whether they knew it or not at the time, the long journey would eventually result in their masterpiece. In the absence of any seriously solid leads for this episode Phil gets out the pin board and the red string and tries to connect the dots of the case while pronouncing every Swedish name and place name incorrectly (apologies people of Sweden!). Thankfully, there is one key piece of evidence to work with. A studio diary...

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1 year ago

2 hours 23 minutes 8 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 6 Part 2 - Dirt by Alice In Chains

In part two of The Rock Geeks podcast all about the biblically apocalyptic Dirt by Alice In Chains, Julian marvels at Mike Starr's bass rig, Sean Kinney's drum kit is found hanging on a wall and each track gets a good poke and prod to see what makes it tick.

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1 year ago

1 hour 30 minutes 14 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 6 Part 1 - Dirt by Alice In Chains

On episode 6 of The Rock Geeks podcast Phil and Julian get stuck into one of the greatest albums of the 90s, Dirt by Alice In Chains. In part one they discuss in some depth the recording techniques employed by producer Dave Jerden in the making of this absolute behemoth of an album, talk about Jerry Cantrell's unique choice of guitar as well as his quite extensive guitar rig and Phil discovers a new brand of bass guitar that nobody else has ever heard of. Ever.

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1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes 35 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 5 - If You Want Blood, You've Got It by AC/DC

On episode 5 of The Rock Geeks Phil reminisces about rocking out at the back of the bus with his Walkman on, loud, having his teenage mind blown by Angus Young's guitar playing, while Julian remembers first seeing the album cover for If You Want Blood... aged 5 and being very concerned for Angus Young's wellbeing... Also in this episode, we discuss one of Scotland's legendary music venues, The Glasgow Apollo (where most of If You Want Blood... was recorded) and get all geeky about the gear that was used, with Phil going above and beyond in the drums department for a change. Finally, we also examine some of Bon Scott's lyrical choices while using the phrase 'of its time' more than usual.

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2 years ago

2 hours 23 minutes 28 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 4 Part 2 - The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers

In part two of The Rock Geeks' long and often uncomfortable look at one of rock's darker albums, Phil and Julian pick up where they left off in part one with a track by track analysis of The Holy Bible, then draw their conclusions (spoiler alert: it's a work of genius), before moving onto chat about the iconic art work, by British artist Jenny Saville, that adorns the album's cover.

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2 years ago

1 hour 43 minutes 17 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 4 Part 1 - The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible is a tough listen but an ultimately rewarding one. While researching this album, Phil listened to part or all of The Holy Bible every day for about a month and came off worse than Morgan Spurlock but, paradoxically, felt more enriched for it. Amongst many other points of conversation, in part one of episode four we talk about why Manic Street Preachers chose to record the album at a £50 per day studio in the red light district of Cardiff, how that studio was responible for the austere, unforgiving and in your face sound that The Holy Bible is renowned for and then get stuck into analysing the album track by track.

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2 years ago

1 hour 52 minutes 50 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 3 Part 2 - Master Of Puppets by Metallica

On part two of The Rock Geeks deep dive into Metallica's genre defining third album, Master Of Puppets, Phil and Julian explore the gear that the band used to record the album with and find out that much of the internet is mistaken about which guitar James Hetfield used to record his parts. They also discuss the conception and creation of the iconic art-work that graces the front cover of the album and, with much respect, talk about Cliff Burton, his influence on the band and his untimely death.

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2 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 3 Part 1 - Master Of Puppets by Metallica

Metallica's Master Of Puppets is possibly the thrash metal genre's most defining album and although Julian took to it like a heavy metal duck to water, Phil was a little more reticent, mainly because his dad introduced him to it. Not cool. On part one of this episode of The Rock Geeks Phil and Julian discuss Making Love and Music at Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen's Sweet Silence Studios, talk about James Hetfield's phenomenal songwriting and arranging chops and find out what the recording of Master Of Puppets had in common with the recording of The Chipmunks.

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2 years ago

1 hour 47 minutes 10 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Episode 2 Part 2 - Pinkerton by Weezer

Weezer's second album Pinkerton is quite difficult to talk about. This is The Rock Geek's second attempt at making sense of this hugely polarising album and we're still not sure we've got to the bottom of things! In part two of this two part episode we get all geeky about the gear that the band were using in the studio to create their proto-emo masterpiece, chat about the distinctive artwork that graces the front cover of the album and discuss how opinions on Pinkerton have changed since its release.

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2 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 6 seconds

The Rock Geeks

The Rock Geeks Episode 2 Part 1 - Pinkerton by Weezer

Weezer's second album Pinkerton is quite difficult to talk about. This is The Rock Geek's second attempt at making sense of this hugely polarising album and we're still not sure we've got to the bottom of things! In part one of this two part episode we try to get to grips with Pinkerton's stop/start recording schedule, beginning in New York and ending in LA, via Boston and Havard, and chat about how Rivers Cuomo's experiences on the road touring The Blue Album led to some of the most simultaneously beautifully tender and serial killeresque lyrics ever penned.

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2 years ago

1 hour 51 minutes 46 seconds

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The Rock Geeks Pilot Episode 1 - Iron Maiden

Phil and Julian, AKA The Rock Geeks, got together last year to see about recording a podcast, to figure out how the whole podcasting thing works and, most importantly, whether or not it would be fun to do. This debut 'pilot' episode is the result of that process. It's not perfect, but it did turn out to be lots of fun and Phil and Julian learned a lot from the experience about how to produce better future podcasts.

In this first episode of The Rock Geeks, Phil and Julian take a deep dive into Iron Maiden's eponymous debut album in which, amongst other things, they discuss Ian Gillan's recording studio, disinterested record producers, dodgy heavy metal lyrics and getting booted out of the band for liking Queen and The Eagles a little too much.

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2 years ago

2 hours 27 minutes 28 seconds