Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. Buzz Night the host of the Taking
Speaker 1: a Walk podcast.
Speaker 2: And one of the things I love doing is discovering
Speaker 2: new podcast especially music podcast And there's a great one
Speaker 2: that started as a YouTube channel, still is a YouTube channel,
Speaker 2: and now it's a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's called The Professor of Rock.
Speaker 2: And we're here to talk to Adam Reader, the professor himself.
Speaker 2: Hey Adam, Hey, how's going It's going great. I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you this question. Yeah, with all the many
Speaker 2: interviews you have done, I think you've done into eight
Speaker 2: hundred of them. I think as the Professor of Rock,
Speaker 2: is there one takeaway that you find from musicians that
Speaker 2: kind of gives insight into what their creative process is
Speaker 2: all about?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, one thing that I have found that
Speaker 3: has been common with most of the artists that I've interviewed,
Speaker 3: especially the older uh, the old school uh or the ogs.
Speaker 3: I guess if you would call them the you know,
Speaker 3: I man, I had three hours with Leman Dozer from
Speaker 3: Holland Dozer to Holland that wrote all the great motown
Speaker 3: songs for the Four Tops and the Supremes and Martha
Speaker 3: and the Van Del's and uh. And then you know,
Speaker 3: I love interviewing like songwriters like Berry Man and Cynthia
Speaker 3: While who wrote You've Lost that love and feeling and
Speaker 3: on Broadway and uh, and then you know Brian Wilson,
Speaker 3: one of my heroes.
Speaker 1: Uh, Beach Boys, genius.
Speaker 3: Uh. A lot of these artists, they they didn't have
Speaker 3: a plan B. You know, they didn't have a plan B.
Speaker 3: They wanted to do music and that was it. And that,
Speaker 3: I mean, it was it was a music or bust.
Speaker 3: And I really respect that because, I mean I grew
Speaker 3: up in a in a small town where education was
Speaker 3: really important and and it was like, you got to
Speaker 3: go get your degree. You gotta go do this, You
Speaker 3: got to get your mortgage and your two point five
Speaker 3: kids and and live that that life that that to traditional,
Speaker 3: your traditional life. And uh, it was kind of pushed
Speaker 3: onto us that you've got to go do this. This
Speaker 3: is this is the path you have to go get
Speaker 3: a degree. And and uh, these artists they didn't follow
Speaker 3: that path. They they didn't care. You know, they they
Speaker 3: had a guitar in their hand from the age of six,
Speaker 3: you know, like Neil Sean from Journey or Steve Lucather
Speaker 3: from Toto, and and you know that was their craft
Speaker 3: and they were they were going to make it in
Speaker 3: music or they were going to starve. And and I
Speaker 3: really think that's an incredible mentality because they they were
Speaker 3: just driven by their art. They were driven by writing
Speaker 3: and crafting and creating music. And I really respect that drive.
Speaker 3: And so that that's one thing that I've I've found
Speaker 3: in common.
Speaker 1: And I mean, if you were.
Speaker 3: If I go speak at you know, schools and colleges,
Speaker 3: and you know, if I were to tell a high
Speaker 3: school I've mentioned this before, people are a little shocked.
Speaker 3: You can't say that, you know, you can't say just
Speaker 3: go after with everything you have. But really they did.
Speaker 3: They didn't have a plan B. It was like they
Speaker 3: were going to make it music and that was that.
Speaker 1: So that's great.
Speaker 2: I have discovered the same thing from talking to so
Speaker 2: many folks, and it's a great lesson to be learned.
Speaker 2: If you really believe in something and believe in yourself,
Speaker 2: then take that no plan B approach for sure.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Adam Reid to the Professor of Rock.
Speaker 2: Check out the podcast on all the platforms, Apple and
Speaker 2: Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts, and coming up
Speaker 2: on a future episode of Taking a Walk Adam and
Speaker 2: I are going to talk about the amazing Led Zeppelin documentary,
Speaker 2: which I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm going to look forward to that.
Speaker 1: Thanks Adam, thank you.