Legendary Mountain Drummer Corky Laing Chats About Latest Release 'Finnish Sessions'

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.Corky Laing is best known as the drummer of the legendary bands Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and over the years, he has played, recorded and written with the who’s-who of rock. Apart from a six-year period in the 90s, when he worked as VP of A&R at Polygram Canada, he has been performing and making music constantly since 1965. He has received multiple gold records, several Juno Awards and was given the Bonzo Bash Legend Award in 2014.Corky's album, the Toledo Session was released on CD in late 2019 and re-released on vinyl in 2020. The album contains nine new original tracks and the excitement brought on by the new repertoire is reminiscent of the classic Mountain albums, Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride.Since 2015 Corky has been touring the world celebrating the musical legacy of Mountain.Corky’s latest release is entitled FINNISH SESSIONS recorded at E-studio in Finland in April. The album features Michael Monroe (harmonica) and Ian Hunter (keyboards) as special guests.Tuija Takala, PhD is a widely published academic author with over 70 international articles, and 16 books and edited collections to her name published by, among others, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer and Routledge. Since 2012, Tuija has been working closely with Corky as his manager and partner.Please welcome Corky Laing legendary drummer known as a longtime member of pioneering American Hard Rock Band Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and Author/Manager Tuija Takala PhD to Interviewing the Legends … PURCHASE THE LATEST RELEASEBY CORKY LAING‘FINNISH SESSIONS’With special guestsIan Hunter (Mott the Hoople)Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks)At amazon.com ALSOPURCHASETOLEDO SESSIONSBY CORKY LAINGAmazon.com ANDCORKY LAING’SAUTOBIOGRAPHY‘LETTERS TO SARAH’At amazon.comLetters to Sarah is a rock autobiography with a difference. In addition to the exceptionally honest and endearing voice of Corky chronicling the ups and downs of his life, there are excerpts from dozens of letters (out of the c. 200) that Corky wrote to his mother, Sarah, between the years 1963 and 1997. She had saved them all. The letters were a way for Corky, away on the road for years on end, to keep in touch with his roots and also, to make sense of his life. This continues in Letters to Sarah, as Corky relives the first 50 years of his life, up until his mother’s passing in 1998. FOR MORE INFORMATIONABOUTCORKY LAINGVISITwww.corkylaingworks.comOfficial websitewww.facebook.com/corkylaingFacebookwww.instagram.com/corkylaingInstagramhttps://playinggodrocks.tumblr.com/tuija_bioTuija Takala  2023 TOUR DATESCorky Laing & the Bobos (Conny Bloom, Maria Hänninen, John Vihervä & Harri Väyrynen)5/16/2023 Odal Rock Club, Austvatn, Norway5/17/2023 Melodybox, Stockholm, Sweden5/18/2023 Backstage Rock Bar, Trollhättan, Sweden5/19/2023 Bomber Bar, Motala, Sweden5/20/2023 Rockland, Sala, SwedenCorky Laing's Mountain8/31-9/3/2023 Nene Valley Rock Festival, Peterborough, UK DiscographyWith MountainStudio albumsClimbing! (1970)Nantucket Sleighride (1971)Flowers of Evil (1971; partially live)Avalanche (1974)Go for Your Life (1985)Man's World (1996)Mystic Fire (2002)Masters of War (2007) Live albumsMountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972)Eruption (2004)Compilation albumsThe Best of Mountain (1973)Over the Top (2001) West, Bruce and Laing1972 – Why Dontcha1973 – Whatever Turns You On1974 – Live 'n' Kickin' With Leslie West1975 – The Great Fatsby1976 – The Leslie West Band2005 – Guitarded With Bartholomew plus III1965 – "She's Mine" / "You're Not There"1967 – "When I Fall in Love" With Cork1999 – Speed of THought2003 – Out There As Corky Laing1977 – Making It On The Streets2019 – Toledo SessionsFinnish Sessions (2022) With Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and Felix Pappalardi1999 – The Secret Sessions[ With The Mix1980 – American Glue With The Perfect Child2013 – Playing God As Corky Laing's Mountain2017 – Live in Melle2019 - Live At Howard's Club HGuest appearances1969 – David Rea – Maverick Child, drums1971 – David Rea – By the Grace of God, drums1972 – Bobby Keys – Bobby Keys, drums1976 – Bo Diddley – The 20th Anniversary of Rock N' Roll, congas1987 – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers, percussion1991 – Men Without Hats – Sideways, on "I Am the Walrus", drumsOther2004: Jason Hartless Jr. – First Division2012: Corky Laing and The Memory Thieves – House of Thieves2018: Pompeii – The Secret Sessions   Support us on PayPal!