The Road to Rock Podcast

Are you ready to take a walk down Penny Lane and flashback to Yesterday? Come Together and join The Magical Mystery Tour as Beatles Mania takes over The Road To Rock this week!
May Pang is an American artist and former music executive from New York who worked for John Lennon from The Beatles and Yoko Ono as their personal assistant.
When John and Yoko separated in 1973, May and John began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months.
John later referred to their time together as his "Lost Weekend".
In 1975 John and Yoko Ono rekindled their relationship and remained together till John's death in 1980.
Recently May has hit the news as she and Paul McCartney's sister, Ruth McCartney, are bringing to life and immersive NFT experience of 15 unseen photographs that May took of John on the rooftop of Record Plant Studios in New York.
These photographs were meant to be the original artwork for his iconic Walls and Bridges album and have never before been shared with the public until now!
This has been made possible with Oasis Digital Studios and a preview of the collection is available now at www.oasis digital studios.com/nft-marketplace.
For those wondering what NFT's are, they’re non fungible tokens bought and sold online... A digital asset that represents a real world object.
They allow the buyer to own the original object and they contain built in authentication which serves as proof of ownership.
NFT’s are becoming an increasingly popular way to buy and sell digital artwork with £123 million being spent on NFT’s since November of 2017.
Last week I sat down with May to find out why it’s time to release these unseen photos of John and why in the format of NFT’s.
She talks about how she and John first meet, their creative relationship together, and she reveals who was actually her favourite Beatle!
To see mays photography and artwork visit her website http:/maypang.com

Dhani and Tao from The Treatment join Elysa to talk about line up changes in the band over the years, what it's like supporting Steel Panther, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue and Kiss, their experiences of touring America, Japan and Europe and why their new album, 'Waiting For Good Luck' is their strongest album yet.
http://thetreatmentofficial

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
May 2021 see the return of music festivals, rock concerts and global tours!
As most of the UK is spending New Year in Tier 4 lockdowns, I have no idea how this will happen but as Limp Bizkit and some bloke called George once said... We gotta have faith!
This weeks episode of The Road To Rock is with a man who has toured the world and played more concerts and festivals than Steven Tyler can shake his microphone stand at.
Jim Kirkpatrick is the lead guitarist with British melodic rock band FM and has been part of the band since 2008.
FM was born in the summer of 1984 when Steve Overland and his brother Chris formed the band. Over the years they toured with the likes of Foreigner, Saxon, Thin Lizzy and Bon Jovi, have headlined their own tours in the UK and globally and in May of 2020, released their 12th studio album called Synchronised.
Aside from playing in FM, Jim performs with former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden and also tours with Rhino's Revenge, a band fronted by Status Quo bass player John 'Rhino' Edwards.
Somehow in the midst of this manic work schedule, Jim found the time to release his own solo album, Ballad Of A Prodigal Son, back in September.
I caught up with Jim a few weeks ago to chat about how the release went, how he joined FM, how they almost got stuck in Australia for the pandemic and what happened when he played the main stage of Download Festival for the first time....
https://www.jimkirkpatrick.com/

Calling all fans of Reef, Skindred, Andy Taylor (formally of Duran Duran) and Michael Munroe (formally of Hanoi Rocks)... This week's guest on The Road to Rock is Seven Webster, the man who manages those artists and more.
Seven is the manager and owner of 7PM Management, a company which has launched the careers of many musicians through a whole host of music genres.
From world renowned dance music DJ's Carl Cox and Sasha to the likes of Dido and hit producers Stonebridge... Seven has worked with an impressive range of artists and now boasts a healthy roster of rock music clients.
He's worked in a variety of areas in the music industry including publishing, sales, event management and also as a musician himself.
He's the man behind the Global Rock Summit Music Expo in LA and was responsible for booking bands for the early Hard Rock Hell festivals.
Remember the time Twisted Sister played at Butlins? That was thanks to Seven!
I caught up with Seven a few weeks ago when he was working from home.
He told me how he's seen a different side of Covid-19 and lockdown as his partner Katy is on the front line for the NHS in London, and has been working grueling shifts all through the pandemic.
We chatted about how two of his artists, Reef and Andy Taylor, have worked together during the lockdown and what happened when Skindred and Reef had to cancel their Drive in Concerts back in August this year.
https://7pmmanagement.com/

Warning - This interview contains sensitive content some listeners may find upsetting.
This week on The Road To Rock it gives me great pleasure to welcome another of Wales' finest rock music exports - Those Damn Crows.
They've played the likes of Download Festival, Ramblin Man, Steelhouse Festival and Planet Rockstock and their latest album proved they're a force to be reckoned with when it entered the UK Music charts at Number 3 earlier this year.
Those Damn Crows are a hard hitting five piece rock band, formed in Bridgend in 2014.
The band consists of Shane Greenhall on Vocals, Ian 'Shiner' Thomas and David Winchurch on guitars, Lloyd Wood on Bass and Ronnie Huxford on drums.
This week I caught up with Ronnie to find out how things have been going for the band since they released Point Of No Return, in February.
We discussed the stories behind two of the albums biggest tracks, 'Never Win' and 'Who Did It.'
Ronnie explains the bands mixed reactions to 'Never Win' and describes how the track was recorded in one take.
He also talks about how the media's reaction to a spate of local tragedies in Bridgend inspired the song 'Who Did it.'
Ronnie pays tribute to the two teachers that introduced him to music and encouraged him to follow his passion, and even tracked him down at his workplace to give him a talking to when he quit the music industry.
He tells us how the band wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the support of family and and friends and how their hugely popular track 'Blink Of An Eye' brought the boys together to form Those Damn Crows.
http://thosedamncrows.com/
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