Posts From Greg Brodsky

Greg Brodsky

Greg Brodsky

Greg Brodsky, the founder and principal of Best Classic Bands, grew up listening to pop hits on New York’s Top 40 77WABC and later rock on the free-form station WNEW-FM. At Colgate University, he wrote music reviews, was a DJ at the school radio station and ran the campus record store. Greg’s first job was at business magazine Record World as assistant chart editor before moving to the writing side. He later worked for RCA Records, Atlantic Records, Warner Bros., Madison Square Garden and ESPN. Greg formed Best Classic Bands in 2015 when he recognized an opportunity to create a site devoted to the artists, music and pop culture of the classic rock era that so many still enjoy. He drives the company’s strategic development and has interviewed such great musicians as Burton Cummings, Ian Anderson, Nancy Wilson, and Jon Anderson, and behind-the-scenes legends like photographers Elliott Landy and Henry Diltz.

Stevie Nicks’ ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and That Chugging Guitar

The third single of her 1981 solo debut, Bella Donna, features many top-notch musicians though none stands out more than Waddy Wachtel and his chugging guitar.

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The Doobie Brothers’ ‘China Grove’: Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics

The band’s Tom Johnston credits the lyrics’ imagery to a fellow musician for helping start “the thinking process with this wacky sheriff, samurai swords, and all that.”

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Mark Lindsay, Hal Blaine and the Raiders’ #1 Hit, ‘Indian Reservation’

Our interview with the star about the legendary drummer who made magic happen at the recording session and the single’s unusual path to success.

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Creedence: ‘Green River’—Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics

John Fogerty’s lyrics have a creative imagery and he has a unique way of pronouncing them. You’ve sung along dozens of times but do you know the words?

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10cc Co-Founder Graham Gouldman Interview: Tour, Those Hits

Our conversation with the legendary songwriter on the eve of the band’s first U.S. concerts in decades

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Kinky Friedman, Musician and Raconteur Known For Satire, Dies

The satirist, whose onetime band was called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue

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When Jeff Beck Previewed a New Album at Electric Lady Studios

The guitar great played and talked about his forthcoming LP at a private listening party at the Greenwich Village studio of another guitar legend

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Tributes to Willie Mays, Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid’

He was long considered baseball’s unofficial Greatest Living Player

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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary: 2017 Review

Celebrating 40 years, the band performed a career-spanning, polished set to their adoring fans, which highlighted their remarkable musicianship

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‘Brats’ Film Review: Andrew McCarthy Revisits The Brat Pack

A 1985 New York magazine cover story coined the phrase. “I felt like I had lost control of the narrative of my career”

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