Speaker 1: Taking a Walk.
Speaker 2: So this is Buzznight here. I host the Taking a
Speaker 2: Walk podcast And one of the things I love being
Speaker 2: able to do is to find podcasts or YouTube channels
Speaker 2: that are doing amazing things you and the audience might
Speaker 2: like to check out. And there's one that I recently
Speaker 2: have discovered that's been toiling away on YouTube and building
Speaker 2: massive audience there, and it's called the Professor of Rock.
Speaker 2: And I'm here to speak to the Professor of Rock,
Speaker 2: Adam Reader right now. Hello, Adam, how are you good?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome? Thank you. And the cool part about
Speaker 2: what you've built on your YouTube channel, the Professor of
Speaker 2: Rock YouTube channel is it is now turned into a
Speaker 2: podcast for everybody to consume. Part of the Gamut network,
Speaker 2: which is run by the fine folks at Hubbard and
Speaker 2: Hubbard has connected us so we're able to kind of
Speaker 2: do this little little segment here. So for those that
Speaker 2: don't know what you have built and what you do
Speaker 2: on the Professor of Rock channel and now the Professor
Speaker 2: of Rock podcast, tell us what it's all about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the podcast is really really the YouTube channel
Speaker 1: as a podcast a little bit different, you know, because
Speaker 1: it is a podcast, but I've really told the story
Speaker 1: over the last ten years of the greatest artists and
Speaker 1: greatest songs in history. Mostly focused on classic rock, but
Speaker 1: I've focused really on all music, rock, pop, and soul
Speaker 1: from really from the fifties to now, and mostly focused
Speaker 1: you know, sixties, seventies, and eighties, but also into the
Speaker 1: nineties and newer stuff. And I've interviewed, have the opportunity
Speaker 1: interview I think were eight hundred and something artists now.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have an interview later today with Bill Sismick,
Speaker 1: the producer of many of the Eagles' finest albums. And
Speaker 1: it's been just an incredible opportunity to spend, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple hours with my heroes that my dad introduced
Speaker 1: me to their music when I was a kid, and
Speaker 1: that's really where this all spawned from. Buzz Is my
Speaker 1: father and I. You know, we had a relationship was
Speaker 1: here and there his vaults. I guess when I was
Speaker 1: growing up as a teenager. We were kind of button heads.
Speaker 1: But the two things we had in common were baseball
Speaker 1: and music, especially music, and he raised me on rock
Speaker 1: and roll. He loved the Beatles, he loved Modestown, he
Speaker 1: loved Creeden's Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills and Nash, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, he was a painting contractor and
Speaker 1: he would drive around. I'd drive around with him and
Speaker 1: his old Ford pickup, and you know, he would do
Speaker 1: different jobs around. Grew up in a small town in Idaho,
Speaker 1: the potato capital of the world, actually Black Fan, Idaho.
Speaker 1: And in that small town, my window to the world
Speaker 1: was music. It was, you know, first it was listening
Speaker 1: to the top forty cant down with Casey case him
Speaker 1: every every week, didn't miss a week, wrote them all
Speaker 1: down in my notebook. And then you know, MTV once
Speaker 1: we got it later on, we were a little behind
Speaker 1: the times. They're in a small town. But really my
Speaker 1: dad turned me onto it into to vinyl in eight tracks,
Speaker 1: and that's how I learned about music. But he also
Speaker 1: loved Zeppelin and Sabbath, and he loved some of the
Speaker 1: heavier bands in the seventies. And so, you know, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite stories of tells there was a kid
Speaker 1: on the playground that was kind of picking on me, saying,
Speaker 1: you know, my dad could beat up your dad. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, my dad listens led Zeppelin, and your
Speaker 1: dad listens to Conway Twitty, so you know. And so
Speaker 1: my dad raised me on Zeppelin and all that good stuff,
Speaker 1: and he told me the stories behind the songs, the
Speaker 1: stories that he knew, and man, it just fascinated me.
Speaker 1: And so I would go and study these artists and
Speaker 1: these stories, and I now ask them about these things.
Speaker 1: But the thing that fascinated me the most was that
Speaker 1: my dad told me stories about his connection to the songs,
Speaker 1: his memories, and I would get a look into his life,
Speaker 1: him growing up, who he was when he was my age.
Speaker 1: And and you know, he passed away about six years ago.
Speaker 1: And man, that music that means more and more every
Speaker 1: day to me because of the memories that I share
Speaker 1: with my dad, and they've just become magical memories because
Speaker 1: of that connection with him. And so I feel like,
Speaker 1: in a way, I'm keeping you know, his spirit alive,
Speaker 1: and keeping the music alive and introducing it hopefully to
Speaker 1: new audiences. My kids, I've raised them on radio, as
Speaker 1: I say, raised on radio, raised on the oldies, but goodies,
Speaker 1: and and so that's essentially what this is. You know,
Speaker 1: the story of rock and roll song by song. I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell those stories from the artists. You know
Speaker 1: from perspective, but also share some of my personal memories
Speaker 1: in my dad's memories, and then have other the viewers.
Speaker 1: I'm really standing for the fan.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I just if Alice Cooper's tour bus broke down in
Speaker 1: front of your house and he didn't have sales service,
Speaker 1: what would you ask him if you had him in
Speaker 1: your front room for an hour? And that is how
Speaker 1: I've always approached every interview, and so that's essentially the
Speaker 1: goal and what I've always tried to do.
Speaker 2: I love that that's at the heart of what I
Speaker 2: certainly believe with the Taking a Walk podcast, being able
Speaker 2: to get to the heart of the music, what it
Speaker 2: means to us and keeping those stories alive. So I
Speaker 2: urged the audience to check out The Professor of Rock
Speaker 2: and you could find it everywhere you get your podcasts,
Speaker 2: and also check out the Professor of Rock on the
Speaker 2: YouTube channel. And I know you also have a lot
Speaker 2: of behind the scenes stuff available for subscribers further. Do
Speaker 2: you want to just talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we do. We have. I actually do a
Speaker 1: live stream every week with somebody outside of music athletes.
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to be interviewing no mar Garcia Para,
Speaker 1: you know, former short stuff for the Red Sox and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and many other teams. But yeah, that's an example.
Speaker 1: CEOs from large companies, Brandon Fugel who has the Skinwalker
Speaker 1: ranch the TV show, and I like to interview them
Speaker 1: because they share their perspective on music and how it's
Speaker 1: shaped their life because obviously in sports and entertainment in business,
Speaker 1: music is such a huge part of that as well.
Speaker 1: And then of course I share outtakes from interviews, things
Speaker 1: that you won't see anywhere else. And sometimes I ask
Speaker 1: some questions outside of the interview, as the interviews beginning
Speaker 1: or is this ending? And I shared a lot of that,
Speaker 1: and so it's insight that you wouldn't find on YouTube
Speaker 1: or the podcast necessarily.
Speaker 2: Thanks Adam, and I urged the audience to check out
Speaker 2: the Professor of Rock