Twisted Sister' Jay Jay French

Another sad day as the rock world bids goodbye to one of the great drummers of the last generation Chris Slade player professionally for over 63 years with some of the biggest names in music including Dave Gilmour, Jimmy page and Paul Rodgers in the Firm, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann and of course AC/DC as they returned to global stardom with Razors Edge and he was the man on the drum stool for Thunderstruck as Chris steps away from music to concentrate on his health and well being we go back to revisit some of the great stories from his incredible career so listen in and watch one of the great drummers of the last 60 years in the video below.

Welcome back and cominy up Jay Jay French joins us from the Twisted Sister camp ahead of the tour and we talk about the new line up will Dee Snider return and what to expect from Sebastian Bach, plus Don Dokken recalls epic nights at The Starwood Club where all sorts of debauchery went on during the 80's we hear about Paul Rodgers joining Hillbilly Vegas and we look back at one of the great bands fromLA in the 80's who came close to breaking big but missed out Doug Aldrich remembers life with Lion

On this edition of the show we begin a look back at the greatest ever debut albums in rock history and the album that held the title of the greatest selling debut album of all time from its release in fall of 1977 up until the end of 2008 was Boston's self titled debut album.On the show we go back to the very beginnings when Barry Goudreau was putting a band together at college and they needed a keyboard player and strolling in came Tom Scholz and the rest as they say well that's history , join us as Barry recounts how they went from playing bars and small clubs to MSG in a year .

Taken from the upcoming show with Jay Jay French we look back at the day The Beatles finally broke America this was a few months before the infamous appearance on Ed Sullivan show it was New Years Eve 1963 the man on the mic was legendary DJ Cousin Brucie from New York and here is the story of how it happened.Jay Jay French went on to become one of the original members of Twisted Sister in the early 70's and we look at their rise to stardom and what is happening now on the run up to the new tour this September that is all on the new edition of "The Rock'n'Blues Experience" that you can find on the website this week and youtube and Facebook

From the upcoming show Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister talking about New York life in67 when he met The Who in central park and what John Entwhistle did when he saw Roger Daltry credit on a song he had written

From the upcoming show with Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister here is a clip with Jay Jay recounting the funniest review of the band he ever saw in print and the alternative view on what his career high point was and yes it is very funny.Look out for the full edition of the show coming soon www.therocknbluesexperience.com

The Rock'n'Blues Experience with Tim Caple and on this edition of the show Colin Blunstone on of the most recognisable voices in music and the voice of rock hall of fame band The Zombies joins me to look back over his 7 decade career in music we go back to how it all started back in the late 50's how The Zombies became one of the biggest bands out of England at the time and how Rod Argent came up with "She's Not There" and why the break up happened coming full circle back to today and how Colin still remains in significant demand around the World and is still recording .

This is the Audio edition of the new show with Jon Davison from "Yes" ahead of the release of Aurora we look at the new album and a musical journey that began in Laguna Beach and those early days of bands with best friend Taylor Hawkins and how he became part of prog rocks longest running and most successful bands.

Welcome to the Video edition of "The Rock'n'Blues Experience Jon Davison of "YES" joins us on the show today as we look ahead to the release of the bands 24th studio album "Aurora" and we look back on Jon's musical life journey from the day when hearing "Rush" Exit Stage Left for the first time was a life changing moment and those early days of musical discovery alongside his best friend Taylor Hawkins.

Part one of a 2 part edition with legendary Rainbow, MSG,Alcatrazz front man Graham Bonnet and today we start right at the beginning when Graham first found out he had a voice and a booming one at that, his career was stop start before a Bee Gee saw him singing live and his career then began to take firm shape , huge hits with "The Marbles" followed before a fallow period and then a call to ask if he would like to audition for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow "Who ? came the reply never heard of them " was his reply before he boarded a plane to head off for an audition.Also on tis show George Lynch and Leo Lyons from Ten Years After