Rock and Roll Tales

Song stories, artist origins, and bizarre shit from the rock and roll history books…

The Kaiser Gets Umlauts of Trouble (a.k.a. The Time a German Producer Gave His Buddies Acid and Made a Classic Krautrock Record Without Telling Them)

March 21, 2024
How Eddie Money Was Almost the Next Janis Joplin

March 17, 2024
What’s the Deal with Auld Lang Syne?

December 30, 2023
Football Players Rapping About Being Football Players in the 1980s

December 4, 2023
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins–The Father of Shock Rock…and 57 Children

October 30, 2023
Iron Butterfly, O.J. Simpson, and the Vanishing of Phillip Taylor Kramer

October 30, 2023
Mass Murder, Skyjacking, and the Autumn Equinox–The Story Behind “Dancing in the Moonlight”

September 22, 2023
Chevy Chase on Acid…Probably

April 28, 2023
How Eric Clapton’s Drummer Stole “Layla” from His Girlfriend and Killed His Mother With a Hammer

March 16, 2023