That time Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano told me she was a huge Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson fan

I interviewed Johnette Napolitano for the first time back in 1990, when Concrete Blonde was touring behind its third album, Bloodletting.

Maybe now the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will finally induct guitar legend Rick Derringer

Can you freakin’ believe it? Late guitar legend Rick Derringer has not even been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

Nothing says heavy-metal at Halloween like Iron Maiden’s mascot Eddie the Head comin’ at ya with a fearsome grimace.

Local Celtic- and bluegrass-tinged pop-rockers the Clumsy Lovers recently issued their second CD on the hugely successful Nettwerk Records.

The last time I interviewed Steve Vai he was preparing to go out on the road with Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen as part of the G3 Tour.

The were known as the Angels in their native Australia, but here in Canada they were always Angel City, and man were they great. AC/DC great.

I interviewed Joe Gooch three years after he replaced Alvin Lee as the guitarist-vocalist for legendary blues-rock band Ten Years After.

I was surfing YouTube last night and discovered a concert video from 1978 of Ronnie Montrose when he was touring behind his album Open Fire.

I interviewed Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola back in 2006, when the Boston alt-metal band was touring behind its fifth studio album, IV.

I thought it might be coolly Canadian if Mahogany Rush opened for Rush when they got here. What a (double) rush that would be, right?

I interviewed Montoya back in 2003, when he was heading to Vancouver for a coheadlining show with Tommy Castro at the Yale Hotel.

If you’d asked me which Canuck rocker I’d most want to see on New Year’s Eve in 1989, Kim Mitchell would have surely been in the running.

I did my first interview with Pete Yorn back in January of 2007, when he was touring behind his third studio album, Nightcrawler.