Ages Of Rock Podcast

Ages Of Rock Podcast is three friends talking about rock and roll with almost no distance between them and the subject. Bill Algee, Dennis Talbott and Allen Tate open each episode with the same promise, that the show will be intriguing, funny and occasionally highly opinionated, and then proceed to demonstrate all three. The pace is quick. Sentences get interrupted, restarted, and abandoned. That looseness is the point rather than a flaw, because the show is built on the assumption that everyone listening already owns the same records. Episodes take a few recognizable shapes. There are ranking shows, like a top-ten of Ace Frehley songs where one host admits to writing down every co-writer while another confesses his list moved around two or three times before he committed. There are review episodes, including a discussion of the Back to the Beginning tribute concert that doubled as a farewell to Ozzy Osbourne. There are what the hosts call rock potpourri shows, loose catch-ups on whatever is happening, from a Rush reunion with a new drummer to a long-promised Vinnie Vincent record nobody expects to arrive. And there are interviews, such as the conversation with Rich Kosak of Mr. Speed about running a tribute band for more than thirty years and watching members come and go. Lineup changes and authenticity are a standing argument here. So is the question of whether a band's newest album is ever as good as its catalog, a claim the hosts treat with open skepticism. Their evidence is usually fan memory rather than criticism, which keeps the conversation grounded in specifics: a solo that sounded different from the usual ones, a bass line doubling a guitar part, a concert somebody was actually at. They will happily admit defeat too, as when a name-that-guitarist quiz humbled one of them at five correct out of twenty. Episodes arrive when they arrive, and the hosts talk openly about trying to manage one show a month. The sign-off never changes: a reminder that you are never too old to rock. Anyone looking for tidy segments and clean audio should look elsewhere. Anyone who has ever spent an evening arguing over which era of a band was the real one will recognize this immediately.