No Sleep 'til Sudbury with Brent Jensen

Author and music critic Brent Jensen hosts a wide range of music fans from all walks of life to discuss their special playlists and the stories behind them.

No Sleep 'til Sudbury with Brent Jensen is a music podcast hosted by Brent Jensen, with 296 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Brent Jensen hosts No Sleep 'til Sudbury with Brent Jensen, a music show with 296 episodes published.

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  NSTS Episode 296 - UK Author Tom Doyle

  Aug 11, 202621 min

  Mojo and Q magazine writer Tom Doyle has written a new book called Ringo: A Fab Life, and this week he joins me to talk about it. In the book, Tom recounts Ringo's unusual path into The Beatles, but he also sheds light on the many other lives of Richard 'Ringo' Starkey, including the fact that he was also a furniture designer at one time, and that he had Frank Sinatra record a playfully rewritten version of "The Lady Is A Tramp" specifically for his girlfriend as a birthday gift. The book is a fascinating, entertaining read, as is Tom himself during our interview. Fantastic chap.

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  Episode 295 - The Return of Guitarist Sean Kelly

  Jul 7, 202641 min

  My pal Sean Kelly wears a few different hats. He's primarily known as a Juno-nominated guitarist who's played with Nelly Furtado, Lee Aaron, Coney Hatch, Helix, and several other acts. He's also a music teacher, and the author of three books. He joins me today to talk about his newest work, the upcoming book entitled Battle Axes: A Hard Rockin' History of Pointy Guitars. The book examines the cultural and musical evolution of those wildly shaped guitars we've all seen, beginning with Gibson Flying Vs and Explorers, and progressing through later models produced by Hamer, Jackson, Charvel, Dean, and others. Throughout the book, Sean talks to some of the guitarists who helped put these companies on the map - Def Leppard's Phil Collen, GN'R's Gilby Clarke, Triumph's Rik Emmett, Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French, and even Metal Method's Doug Marks! Let the guitar geekery begin.

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  NSTS Episode 294 - Singer Jen Mack

  May 26, 202641 min

  One July evening in northern Ontario back in 1994, I had a very unusual liaison with a person from the United States who would appear and then disappear within a span of about 12 hours, never to be heard from again. Until she reappeared on the No Sleep 'til Sudbury podcast almost 32 years later.

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  NSTS Episode 293 - Famous Lost Words Co-host Tom Jokic

  Apr 20, 202632 min

  After listening to last month's NSTS episode featuring the guitarists who auditioned to replace Ace Frehley in KISS, friend of the show and co-host of the Famous Lost Words podcast Tom Jokic dropped by the NSTS studios with a list of other interesting musical substitutions, featuring artists like Dave Grohl, Stevie Nicks, Lenny Kravitz, and The Doors. According to Tom, Eddie Van Halen asked a well-known female singer to join the band before they asked Sammy Hagar, who was asked by The Grateful Dead to replace Jerry Garcia(!). Lots of interesting discussion in this episode.

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  NSTS Episode 292 - What If Richie Sambora Replaced Ace Frehley in KISS?

  Mar 16, 202616 min

  When Ace Frehley left KISS in 1982, a lot of guitar players lined up to take his place. Many of them, upon not getting the gig, went on to do great things. Two of those guitarists were Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and Slash from Guns N' Roses. And, Eddie Van Halen was also rumoured to be in the mix. This week on the show I consider the ramifications of all of this - rock history as we know it would be significantly different. Sambora joining KISS would have prevented Bon Jovi from becoming Bon Jovi, and "Sweet Child o' Mine" could have been a KISS song. All of the bizarre possibilities involving these guitarists and others who auditioned are considered in this episode.

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