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The Rock Geeks
by Phil Greenwood and Julian Gallagher
The Rock Geeks are two northern blokes and lifelong best mates, Phil and Julian, taking a monthly deep dive into the albums that have shaped their worlds and expanded their minds, exploring who created them and how they were made in the finest detail possible. Each episode will take you into the recording studio and not only show you the gear that was used by the band and the studio engineers but also show you how the gear was used to produce their masterworks. Phil and Julian also discuss each album track by track, exchanging views and opinions on the musical and lyrical content, while exploring the social and cultural landscape into which the albums were released; and if the artwork is often your favourite part of an album, then you are not alone! If you've ever wondered what the controls on Angus Young's Marshall amp were set to, who painted the cover art for Weezer's Pinkerton or how many fascist dictators are referenced in Manic Street Preacher's The Holy Bib
Episodes
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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT3 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
In the final part of The Rock Geeks Pink Floyd oddysey, Phil and Julian chat about all things Abbey Road, from the origins of the world's first and most famous recording studio to the recording of Dark Side of the Moon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT2 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
In part two of The Rock Geeks exploration of Pink Floyd's most famous work, Phil and Julian get stuck into the gear the band used to record the album - and what a lot of gear there is! From the traditional tools of the rock n roll trade to innovative, futuristic, pieces of kit, PInk Floyd used it...
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The Rock Geeks EP10 PT1 - Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Phil and Julian return from an unscheduled break to finally discuss Pink Floyd's gazillion selling album Dark Side of the Moon. Who is the real genius behind the album? Which band member is the most over rated? Whose contribution elevates the album into the soulful and spiritual realm? How iconic...
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The Rock Geeks EP9 PT2 - Dust by Screaming Trees.
In the second part of The Rock Geeks close inspection of Dust by Screaming Trees, Phil and Julian continue their chat about the band's gear before getting stuck into the studios visited by Screaming Trees during the recording process. Not ones to shy away from a good old philosophical debate Phil...
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The Rock Geeks EP9 PT1 - Dust by Screaming Trees.
On episode one of their two part investigation into one of the most criminally overlooked albums of the 90s, Dust by Screaming Trees, Phil and Julian kick things off with some correspondence from American artist Mark Danielson, who painted the cover art for the album. Danielson writes about the...
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The Rock Geeks EP8 PT 2 The Doors by The Doors
In part 2 of the Rock Geeks' investigation into The Doors' eponymous debut album, Phil and Julian have a chat about the artwork and make the startling discovery that it's possible to be a pacifist in the US Army and that John Densmore has an unexpected link to the band's logo. Then the chat turns...
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The Rock Geeks EP8 PT1 - The Doors by The Doors
Groovy baby! On episode 8 of The Rock Geeks podcast Phil and Julian get their 60s vibe on as they focus their attentions on The Doors' eponymous debut album. Join them as they take a trip to the legendary Sunset Sound Recorders where they marvel at what engineer Bruce Botnik was able to achieve...
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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT3. Magnus Sveningsson of The Cardigans.
On this special episode of The Rock Geeks Phil and Julian chat to Magnus Sveningsson, founding member of and bassist with The Cardigans, about the band's masterwork, Long Gone Before Daylight. Magnus shares his memories of the recording of the album and talks about how the songs and the process…
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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT2 - Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans
In part 2 of episode 7 of the Rock Geeks podcast, Phil and Julian continue their fine tooth combing of Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans. Phil, loses his mind trying to identify a synthesizer and a bass drum and Julian discovers his new favourite instrument - the pump organ. If you…
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The Rock Geeks EP7 PT1 - Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans
On episode 7 of The Rock Geeks podcast, Phil and Julian get stuck into one of the most criminally overlooked albums of the 2000s, Long Gone Before Daytlight by The Cardigans. The album took 10 months to record with the band visiting 8 different recording studios scattered across Europe, initially...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 6 Part 2 - Dirt by Alice In Chains
In part two of The Rock Geeks podcast all about the biblically apocalyptic Dirt by Alice In Chains, Julian marvels at Mike Starr's bass rig, Sean Kinney's drum kit is found hanging on a wall and each track gets a good poke and prod to see what makes it tick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 6 Part 1 - Dirt by Alice In Chains
On episode 6 of The Rock Geeks podcast Phil and Julian get stuck into one of the greatest albums of the 90s, Dirt by Alice In Chains. In part one they discuss in some depth the recording techniques employed by producer Dave Jerden in the making of this absolute behemoth of an album, talk about...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 5 - If You Want Blood, You've Got It by AC/DC
On episode 5 of The Rock Geeks Phil reminisces about rocking out at the back of the bus with his Walkman on, loud, having his teenage mind blown by Angus Young's guitar playing, while Julian remembers first seeing the album cover for If You Want Blood... aged 5 and being very concerned for Angus...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 4 Part 2 - The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
In part two of The Rock Geeks' long and often uncomfortable look at one of rock's darker albums, Phil and Julian pick up where they left off in part one with a track by track analysis of The Holy Bible, then draw their conclusions (spoiler alert: it's a work of genius), before moving onto chat...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 4 Part 1 - The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible is a tough listen but an ultimately rewarding one. While researching this album, Phil listened to part or all of The Holy Bible every day for about a month and came off worse than Morgan Spurlock but, paradoxically, felt more enriched for it. Amongst many...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 3 Part 2 - Master Of Puppets by Metallica
On part two of The Rock Geeks deep dive into Metallica's genre defining third album, Master Of Puppets, Phil and Julian explore the gear that the band used to record the album with and find out that much of the internet is mistaken about which guitar James Hetfield used to record his parts. They...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 3 Part 1 - Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Metallica's Master Of Puppets is possibly the thrash metal genre's most defining album and although Julian took to it like a heavy metal duck to water, Phil was a little more reticent, mainly because his dad introduced him to it. Not cool. On part one of this episode of The Rock Geeks Phil and...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 2 Part 2 - Pinkerton by Weezer
Weezer's second album Pinkerton is quite difficult to talk about. This is The Rock Geek's second attempt at making sense of this hugely polarising album and we're still not sure we've got to the bottom of things! In part two of this two part episode we get all geeky about the gear that the band...
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The Rock Geeks Episode 2 Part 1 - Pinkerton by Weezer
Weezer's second album Pinkerton is quite difficult to talk about. This is The Rock Geek's second attempt at making sense of this hugely polarising album and we're still not sure we've got to the bottom of things! In part one of this two part episode we try to get to grips with Pinkerton's...
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The Rock Geeks Pilot Episode 1 - Iron Maiden
Phil and Julian, AKA The Rock Geeks, got together last year to see about recording a podcast, to figure out how the whole podcasting thing works and, most importantly, whether or not it would be fun to do. This debut 'pilot' episode is the result of that process. It's not perfect, but it did turn...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Rock Geeks are two northern blokes and lifelong best mates, Phil and Julian, taking a monthly deep dive into the albums that have shaped their worlds and expanded their minds, exploring who created them and how they were made in the finest detail possible.
Each episode will take you into the recording studio and not only show you the gear that was used by the band and the studio engineers but also show you how the gear was used to produce their masterworks. Phil and Julian also discuss each album track by track, exchanging views and opinions on the musical and lyrical content, while exploring the social and cultural landscape into which the albums were released; and if the artwork is often your favourite part of an album, then you are not alone! If you've ever wondered what the controls on Angus Young's Marshall amp were set to, who painted the cover art for Weezer's Pinkerton or how many fascist dictators are referenced in Manic Street Preacher's The Holy Bib
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Phil Greenwood and Julian Gallagher
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How many episodes does The Rock Geeks have?
The Rock Geeks currently has 21 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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The Rock Geeks are two northern blokes and lifelong best mates, Phil and Julian, taking a monthly deep dive into the albums that have shaped their worlds and expanded their minds, exploring who created them and how they were made in the finest detail possible. Each episode will take you into the...
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The Rock Geeks is created and hosted by Phil Greenwood and Julian Gallagher.
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