Donald Gibson caught up with Eric Clapton biographer and friend Chris Welch for a Something Else! Sitdown.

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I’m trying to remember when it was. It was definitely during a pop-music fad that involved a lot of synthesizers and other electrical accoutrements. Maybe it was the New Wave era … or maybe when The Prodigy hit it big. All I know is that I caught this interview withRead More

Huge in their mother land of Australia, but virtually unknown elsewhere, the Master’s Apprentices simply lacked the promotion muscle to obtain the universal visibility they so richly deserved. Founded in 1965, the band began life playing bluesy beat music in the vein of the Rolling Stones, the Animals and theRead More