interview Archive
20 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Todd Cochran: And I worked with John Handy, who was on Columbia. To digress a bit back to your earlier question, which is still going around […]
19 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 1)
Earlier this year, I spent a delightful and fascinating afternoon in conversation with Todd Cochran, aka Bayeté. His 1972 album Worlds Around the Sun has just gotten the deluxe reissue […]
07 Jul 2014
The Universe of Captain Sensible, Part One
This feature is now serving as the basis of a longer, more in-depth discussion of the album in a chapter of Bill Kopp’s upcoming book, What’s the Big Idea: 30 […]
04 Jul 2014
Keith Allison: Man of Action (Part Five / conclusion)
Continued from Part Four… Bill Kopp: You first rose to fame as a cast member on Where the Action Is. Can you tell me how you got that gig? Keith […]
03 Jul 2014
Keith Allison: Man of Action (Part Four)
continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: A guy I vaguely know put together some unauthorized DVDs of It’s Happening episodes. He sent me copies and I reviewed them. The next […]
02 Jul 2014
Keith Allison: Man of Action (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: I ought to know the answer to this, but did any of your solo singles or the In Action album make a dent on […]
01 Jul 2014
Keith Allison: Man of Action (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: You cut a couple singles with Mark Lindsay and Steve Alaimo as The Unknowns… Keith Allison: Mark and I, of course, were signed to […]
30 Jun 2014
Keith Allison: Man of Action (Part One)
Calling singer-songwriter-actor-musician Keith Allison a Zelig of rock music is a bit wide of the mark, but the Texas-born Allison does seem to have shown up at key points in […]
25 Jun 2014
Art is Long, Car Rides are Short: The Keith Emerson Interview
At age 69, keyboard legend and virtuoso Keith Emerson has slowed down his pace, but ever so slightly. He no longer tours on a level commensurate with his 70s work […]
20 Jun 2014
A Chat with Larry Coryell, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: In the entry on you in the Music Hound Jazz book, the reviewer makes the points that your back catalog is in shameful disarray, […]