Featured Episodes

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DRUMMING LEGEND ROD MORGENSTEIN JOINS ALL ACCESS LIVE WITH KEVIN RANKIN

Rod can be summed up in the following passage from a cover story in Modern Drummer Magazine: “You can see it in his face; Rod Morgenstein loves what he does for a living. Get him talking about drums and you’ll see those eyes start to crinkle as a warm, sincere smile spreads over his face. Get him behind a set of drums, and the same enthusiasm is evident in the way that he tears into the kit as though he’s been waiting for weeks to get at it. That’s not to imply that his playing is uncontrolled, because he is definitely in charge of everything that is happening on the drum set. It’s just to say that you never get the sense that Morgenstein has lost any of the initial excitement about the drums that makes people become drummers to begin with.”
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ALL ACCESS LIVE with KIP WINGER

After establishing his hugely successful, eponymous band — which sold millions of albums and charted six Top‐40 radio singles — Kip started writing and producing music without limits. "It was incredibly freeing to connect to music without any preconceived ideas about what it needed to be or what niche it needed to fill". It is in Kip's solo work (This Conversation seems like a Dream, Songs from the Ocean Floor, From the Moon to the Sun) that he has been able to exercise the breadth of his talents as a composer. Kip has forged an ongoing relationship with the Nashville Symphony, his hometown orchestra since settling in Music City in 2002. The ensemble’s music director Giancarlo Guerrero persuaded Winger to write his first symphony, Atonement, which the Nashville Symphony premiered in March 2022. His newly commissioned violin concerto will premiere in May 2025 and shortly after, the Nashville Symphony will release a CD of these two pieces on Naxos.
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ELTON JOHN’S MATT BISSONETTE JOINS ALL ACCESS LIVE

In 2003, Matt Bissonette reunited with his brother to back Ringo Starr on a US tour. In 2004, Matt played with vocalist Boz Scaggs on Scaggs' Greatest Hits Live CD and DVD. In 2000 Bissonette became the bass player for Rick Springfield, while singing in his own band 3The Squirts” with guitarist George Bernhardt and drummer Rodger Carter. Springfield and Bissonette collaborated on 3 albums Venus in Overdrive, Songs For The End Of The World and Rocket Science. Bissonette is currently the bass player for Elton John, replacing the late Bob Birch.