This week it’s my pleasure to welcome my pal, ex-Spoons and Honeymoon Suite keys player Rob Preuss back to the show. Rob called in from his home in Queens, NY with a playlist that has a special meaning to him.

As always, Rob brings impressive insights and great stories to the conversation, including his interaction with Ted Templeman during the recording of Honeymoon Suite’s Racing After Midnight album, the time when Doobie Brothers’ Michael McDonald hummed melody ideas into his ear, and how having less can be so much more.    

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Lots of musical things happened in 1981. One of those things was Rush’s release of their most popular record, Moving Pictures. Just a few years before that, they were almost dropped from their record label.

This week on NSTS we look at the leadup to the Moving Pictures album, how it came together. and all of the amazing intricacies that went into it – including the physical impacts Tom Sawyer’s drum tracks had on Neil Peart, who the people are on the album cover, and what the triple entendre (not just double) cover artwork really means and who was behind it.  

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So much great stuff happened at the beginning of the 80s that I just had to continue going through it this week on NSTS.

In 1981 MTV changed the musical landscape forever, Blondie helped to bring rap into the mainstream spotlight with Rapture, and Ozzy bit the heads off of two doves in a meeting with record executives, kicking off a long list of misdeeds that would include biting the head off of a bat, snorting ants, urinating on the Alamo, and so much more. And it’s all right here on this week’s show, check it out.  

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John, Bon, and Bonzo: we lost three rock icons in the year 1980. Former Beatle John Lennon, AC/DC singer Bon Scott, and Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham all departed in the same year. 

This week on NSTS we continue our look at 1980, focusing on these three figures – shedding light on a new theory of how Scott may have really died, the bizarre backstory of Lennon killer Mark David Chapman, and why Bonzo’s headmaster said he would either be a garbage man or a millionaire.   

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