Chuck Shute Podcast

John Norum is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.  He is most known for being the guitarist in Europe but also spent time with both the band Dokken & Don Dokken solo.  He also has maintained a successful solo career as a singer and guitarist.  His latest solo album "Gone to Stay" is available now.  We discuss the new album, future music with Europe, working Don Dokken, almost joining UFO and more! 00:00 - Intro00:41 - John's Voice & Singing 03:11 - Early Musical Days 05:46 - Phoenix Connections 07:30 - Touring Plans & Live Shows 11:58 - Face The Truth Revisited 13:40 - Norma & Hollywood 16:40 - Solo Albums & Record Labels  18:30 - Leaving Europe in the 80s 22:30 - Working with Don Dokken 25:25 - Flirting with Joining U.F.O. 29:15 - New Europe Album & Tour 30:43 - Solo Music Videos 33:54 - Starving Children Charity35:30 - Outro John Norum website:https://johnnorum.se/Europe band website;https://www.europetheband.com/Unicef website:https://www.unicefusa.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Carla Harvey is a musician, actress, artist and grief counselor.  Heidi Shepherd is a musician and actress. Together, they are the co-lead singers of the band Butcher Babies.  The band has a new single out now "Best Friend" - a cover of the Saweetie song.  There is more music coming soon, as well as upcoming shows and new music videos.  We discuss all of this plus the history of the band, the band's wine, Guns 'N Roses and more! 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:37 - Recent Tour 0:03:35 - New Single  "Best Friend" 0:08:15 - Heidi's Family 0:09:27 - Best Friend Music Video 0:12:10 - Making Music Independently 0:13:25 - Butcher Babies Wine & Desert Rock Winery 0:15:13 - Cutting Out Hard Drugs & Less Partying 0:19:25 - Paris Hilton & Kim Kardashian & Strawberry Cocaine0:21:01 - Carla Quitting Playboy to Work at a Funeral Home 0:25:02 - Grief Counseling & Helping People with Music 0:26:35 - Playboy Company & Playboy Mansion 0:31:05 - Formation of Butcher Babies & Tribute to Plasmatics 0:33:58 - Not Putting Value in The Hate 0:36:20 - Early Shows in L.A. & Punk Rock Antics 0:42:01 - Band Blows Up & Early Tours 0:46:02 - Band Arguments & Touring with Other Bands 0:50:07 - Acting 0:54:00 - New Album, Music Videos & Singles & Art 0:56:15 - Guns 'N Roses 0:58:10 - St. Jude's Children's Hospital And Pitbulls & Addicts 0:59:45 - Outro Butcher Babies website:https://butcherbabies.com/Carla Harvey website:https://www.carlaharvey.com/St. Jude's Children's Hospital website:https://www.stjude.org/Pitbulls & Addicts website:https://www.pitbullsandaddicts.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Tripp Eisen is a guitarist & songwriter, formerly with the bands Static-X, Dope & Murderdolls. He is currently with Teeze/Roughhouse, Face Without Fear, and his new band, Project-X that will do Static-X material. He is very open in this interview about his legal issues, his feelings towards his ex-bandmates, his current musical projects and more. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:43 - Tripp's Background 0:02:25 -Joining Teeze/Roughhouse 0:04:31 - Producer Max Norman 0:05:20 - Popularity of Roughhouse 0:07:10 - Bands in the 90s 0:08:10 - Audition with Marilyn Manson 0:10:40 - Mistakes w/ Roughhouse & Musical Styles0:12:35 - Stuffed Doll & Trent Reznor 0:14:10 - Halloween & Manson Show 0:16:15 - Dope Formation & Gap Between Bands 0:18:35 - Dope Launch & Touring, & Broken Foot 0:23:16 - Joining Static-X & Murderdolls &  Leaving Dope 0:31:05 - Static-X, Touring, Girls Backstage & Rockstar Life 0:32:35 - Irresponsible Behavior, Arrest & Remorse0:40:12 - Prison Experience 0:44:10 - Learning Experience & Preventing Mistakes 0:47:27 - Working Through Guilt & Moving Past Incident  0:51:10 - Hiatus from Music & Keeping Low Profile 0:54:35 - Rebuilding & Offers to Rejoin Dope & Static-X0:59:30 - Songwriting Disputes with Static-X 1:05:14 - Tripp's Version of Static-X Called Project-X 1:13:30 - Inspiring Other Musicians & Drugs & Alcohol1:15:18 - Rock To Recovery 1:16:40 - Website, Social Media & Podcast 1:19:15 - Outro Face Without Fear Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/facewithoutfear/Rock to Recovery website:https://rocktorecovery.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Adam Ferrara is a comedian, actor and podcaster. He had recurring roles on Rescue Me & Nurse Jackie and was also the co-host of the American version of Top Gear for seven seasons.  His latest comedy special “It’s Scary in Here” is available now for free on YouTube. We discuss all this in the interview plus where he got his work ethic, living with Kevin James, why performing at the roasts is difficult and more! 00:00 - Intro00:42 - Adam's Studio 01:47 - Beatles & Music Fan 02:50 - Pete Townshend & Writing Bits 06:10 - Work Ethic, Job Experiences & Learning 10:03 - Playing in a Band & Early Stand Up 12:45 - Colin Quinn & Writing to Understand 13:22 - Riffing and in the Zone 15:26 - George Carlin & Chris Rush 16:40 - Picking Up Headliners & Grinding 19:30 - Last Day Job 23:10 - Working with Kevin James 24:20 - Joe Namath 25:28 - Tea Leoni, Michael Tucci & Acting 29:43 - Criminal Minds & Crying 30:30 - Dennis Leary & Rescue Me 32:10 - Rescue Me & PC Culture 33:25 - Nurse Jackie 34:53 - Italian Family, Sopranos & Edie Falco 36:15 - East Coast, West Coast & Woke Culture 40:20 - Adjusting Sets For Different Cities 41:28 - The Roasts 42:58 - Pushing Past Fear & Channeling Energy44:15 - Top Gear & Driving Cars 50:30 - Adam's Dad, Derek Luke & Humanity 54:01 - When The Work Takes on a Bigger Life 56:38 - Leary Firefighter Fund 57:18 - Outro Adam Ferrara website:https://www.adamferrara.com/Leary Firefighter Fund website:https://learyfirefighters.org/grant/Chuck Shute website:https://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Michael Crain is a guitarist, singer, producer and songwriter best known as the guitarist of the bands Kill the Capulets, Retox & Dead Cross. He joined Dead Cross with Justin Pearson, Mike Patton & Dave Lombardo. The band has new album out now, simply titled “Dead Cross 2.”  We discuss the new music, Michael’s cancer battle, Mike Patton’s burnout & more! 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Dead Cross Genre 02:15 - Mike Patton & Songwriting 04:25 - Dave Lombardo & Band Formation 09:47 - Mike Patton Burnt Out 13:02 - Other Projects for Michael 13:58 - Songs on New Album 14:40 - Ross Robinson & Producers17:17 - Beating Cancer & Inspiration 25:05 - Touring, Making Records & Band Life 28:05 - Dogs & Charity 29:01 - Outro Dead Cross website:https://deadcross.bandcamp.com/Humane Society website:https://www.humanesociety.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Derek Day & Franco Gravante are the singer and bass player of the hard rock band Classless Act. The band recently opened shows on the Stadium Tour alongside Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett. They have an album out now titled “Welcome to the Show” and an acoustic EP coming out soon as well as a club tour. We discuss all this in the interview along with how the band formed, the advice they got from the stadium bands and more!  00:00 - Intro 00:37 - Band Introductions & Instruments 01:20 - Next Tour & Stadium Tour 02:43 - Origin of Band & Chemistry 04:05 - New Album "Welcome to the Show" 04:45 - Band Early Days 06:40 - Up & Coming Bands & LA Scene 08:04 - Acoustic Album 09:26 - Writing Music 11:18 - "On My Phone" & Technology 12:35 - Negativity on Social Media 14:12 - Vince Neil, Tommy Lee & Bob Rock 16:03 - Advice From Stadium Tour Bands 18:20 - Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show 20:42 - DMC of Run DMC 21:09 - Big Stars, Kindness & Alice Cooper 22:55 - Upcoming Shows 24:28 - The Innocent Project 25:07 - Outro Classless Act website:https://classlessact.com/The Innocent Project website:https://innocenceproject.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Tiffany is a singer, songwriter, actress & former teen icon. Her 1987 cover “I Think We’re Alone Now” knocked Michael Jackson off the #1 spot on the charts. She has a new album coming out called “Shadows” that features members of L.A. Guns. We discuss the new album, her old manager/producer George Tobin, her Behind the Music episode, her thoughts on Britney Spears and more! 00:00 - Intro00:53 - Current Band, Tour & Record 02:01 - Inspiration Behind New Album 03:33 - "Bed of Nails" Song & Backstory07:57 - Growing Up Musically 09:28 - "I Like the Rain" Single & Struggling 12:58 - Tenacity, Resiliency & Dad's Spirit 16:21 - First Time Singing & Early Career 21:45 - Manger George Tobin & Writing Songs 24:30 - "Color of Silence" Album & Breakout 25:15 - Behind the Music & Music Business 27:47 - Britney Spears 29:38 - Children's Miracle Network & Jackets 31:15 - Outro Tiffany website:https://tiffanytunes.com/Children's Miracle Network website:https://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Rob Benedict is an actor/musician and Stephen Norton is a drummer. Together they make up half of the indie rock band Louden Swain.  The band has new album out on November 11th called “Feelings & Such” that they are here to discuss. Plus playing the Supernatural conventions, music videos, songwriting and Rob’s role in “Waiting.” 00:41 - Stephen's Background & Meeting Rob 02:46 - Rob's Path to Music 05:40 - Louden Swain's Influences 07:27 - "Guilty One" & Work Permits 10:02 - Arrests & D.U.I.'s 13:15 - Lyrics, Oasis & Band Fights 15:40 - Personal Struggles & Supporting Each Other 18:15 - "Sleepyhead" & Song Collaborations 19:27 - "Wine & Roses" Song 20:11 - "That's the Rub" Song & Music Video 23:14 - "Gamma Ray" Music Video & Margot Robbie 24:28 - Actors & Directors Helping with Music Videos 25:46 - Song in Jenna Fischer Movie & Other Movies 27:06 - Band Names & Origin 28:50 - Covers Vs Originals & Signing Actors 30:55 - Upcoming Shows, Viper Room & Mini Tours32:55 - Waiting Movie 35:30 - American Stroke Association 37:33 - Outro Louden Swain website:https://www.loudenswain.com/American Stroke Association  website:https://www.stroke.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Greg Graffin is a musician, author and professor of evolutionary biology.  He is best known for being the singer of Bad Religion, a punk rock band he started in 1980 at age 15. His latest book “Punk Paradox” is a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution. We discuss some of the topics of the book including his parents divorce, staying off drugs, hair metal, selling out and his final conclusion of what he’s learned looking back on his life. 00:00 - Intro01:02 - Punk Paradox Book Title04:02 - Memories & Reflecting in Book 05:16 - Kid With Wooden Leg 06:43 - Parents Divorce 08:40 - Gravitating Towards Music 09:55 - Simon & Garfunkel 12:42 - Kids Finding Their Path 16:06 - Staying Off Drugs 18:08 - Impersonations & Tom Snyder 20:32 - Hair Metal & Style 22:05 - Selling Out 23:50 - Conclusion of the Book 26:00 - Local Food Bank 27:10 - OutroBad Religion website:https://badreligion.com/Find Your Local Food Bankhttps://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbankChuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Cody Jasper is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.  He was previously the singer for the band Moon Fever, where he had millions of streams and opened for Buckcherry, Shooter Jennings, Eric gales, and filter. He is now a solo artist and has new album out called “Ministry of Madness.”  We discuss the new album, leaving Moon Fever, his new record label, getting a blue tick and more! 00:00 - Intro00:29 - Abbey Road Studios 01:53 - Set List & Upcoming Record 02:25 - New Record Label 03:35 - Warren Haynes 04:25 - Moon Fever 06:30 - Cocaine Song & Sobriety 07:55 - Other Moon Fever Songs 08:45 - New Solo Stuff 10:36 - Dancing with Depression 14:10 - Eclectic Mix of Songs & Production 22:25 - Hiring a PR Agent & Getting Press 24:30 - Blue Tick & Follow Backs 26:25 - Big Shows & Practicing 27:35 - Living In Texas & Big Cities 29:40 - Upcoming Shows & Projects 31:50 - Freedom Music Project 33:10 - Outro Cody Jasper website:https://codyjasper.com/Freedom Music Project website:https://thefreedominmusicproject.com/index.htmlChuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!