In the Studio with Redbeard

In the Studio with Redbeard is a North American radio program hosted by Dallas, Texas rock and roll disc jockey Redbeard.

The show is a talk with music program which usually looks at the making of some of the greatest albums recorded in rock and roll history although sometimes it would spotlight on the history of rock and roll bands. Redbeard interviews the artists or members of the bands who created many of the classic albums in rock history.

The show first went on the air in July, 1988 and broadcasted by rock stations who were under The Album Network umbrella but then aired by SFX affiliates and still airs on radio stations in the US today.

Artists and albums featured over the years

• AC/DC - High Voltage/Let There Be Rock, Highway to Hell and Back in Black. Interviews were with Angus Young and Malcolm Young. Back in Black had interviews with the Young brothers and Brian Johnson
• Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife, Reckless, So Far So Good and Anthology.
• Aerosmith - Aerosmith/Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic, Rocks and Get a Grip. Interviews with Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler.
• Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore East and Eat a Peach. Interviews with Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts.
• Bad Company - Bad Company, Straight Shooter, Desolation Angels and The Original Bad Company Anthology. The first album and Straight Shooter featured interviews with Simon Kirke and Mick Ralphs. Desolation Angels, The Original Bad Company Anthology and subsequent anniversary specials of the first two albums also included interviews with Paul Rodgers.
• The Beatles - The White Album (2-part episode), best of The Beatles. Both featured interviews with Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath/Paranoid/ Master of Reality/Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (would be re-aired as Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978). Interviews with Ozzy Osbourne.
• Boston - Boston, Don't Look Back and Third Stage. These episodes all had interviews with Tom Scholz except for Boston's debut which had Scholz and Brad Delp interviewed.
• The Cars - The Cars and Candy-O. Both featured interviews with Ric Ocasek and Greg Hawkes was also interviewed for Candy-O.
• Eric Clapton - 24 Nights (2-part episode). Features interview with Clapton.
• Alice Cooper - Love it to Death/Killer, Billion Dollar Babies
• Cream - Disraeli Gears/Wheels of Fire (interview with Jack Bruce) and Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6 2005 (interviews with Bruce and Eric Clapton)
• Deep Purple - Machine Head. Features interviews with Ian Gillan and Ian Paice.
• Dire Straits - Dire Straits and Brothers In Arms. Featured interviews with Mark Knopfler.
• The Doors - The Doors, Strange Days and L.A. Woman. All interviews with Ray Manzarek
• Eagles - Eagles (featured interviews with Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner) and Hotel California had interviews with (Frey plus Joe Walsh and Don Henley)
• Emerson Lake and Palmer - Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery. All featured interviews with Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer
• Foreigner - Foreigner, Double Vision and Foreigner 4. All included interviews with Mick Jones and Lou Gramm except Double Vision just featured Jones.
• Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!. Interviews with Frampton.
• Genesis - Duke/Abacab(one episode), Genesis and We Can't Dance. All episode featured interviews with Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford. Tony Banks was also interviewed for latter two albums.
• David Gilmour - On an Island. Interviews with Gilmour.
• Heart - Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen/Dog and Butterfly (one episode). Both featured interviews with Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson.
• Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland. Featured interviews with Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and John McDermott.
• Jethro Tull - Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. All featured interviews with Ian Anderson.
• Journey - Infinity (featured interviews with Steve Perry, Gregg Rolie and Neal Schon), Escape (interviews with Perry, Schon and Jonathan Cain) and Time X 3 (2-part episode) (featured interviews with Cain, Perry, Rolie and Schon).
• Kansas - Leftoverture (featured interviews with Phil Ehart, Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren), Point of Know Return (featured interviews with Livgren and Ehart) and Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection 1974-2004 (2-part episode) (featured interviews with Ehart, Livgren, Walsh plus Rich Williams and Robbie Steinhardt).
• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin IV. All featured interviews with Jimmy Page and/or Robert Plant.
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd, Second Helping, Street Survivors and The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd (2-part episode). All episodes had interviews with Gary Rossington, Ed King(frst two titles and Essential) and Leon Wilkeson.
• Metallica - Metallica. Includes interviews with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
• Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams, Young Hearts - Complete Greatest Hits. All features interviews with Steve Miller.
• Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent/Free For All/Cat Scratch Fever (one episode). Interviews with Nugent.
• Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz/Diary of a Madman (one episode), No More Tears, Prince of Darkness
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall (2-part episode), A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Shine On (2-part episode) and The Division Bell (2-part episode). All episodes featured interviews with David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason while Rick Wright also appears on episodes for Wish, Momentary Lapse and Division Bell. Waters was not interviewed for Momentary Lapse, Shine On and The Division Bell.
• The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta and Synchronicity. Both episodes has interviews with Stewart Copeland whilst Synchronicity episode featured additional interviews with Sting. On later airings of Zenyatta Mondatta episode, Ghost in the Machine was also spotlighted.
• Queen - A Night at the Opera, News of the World and The Game. All three episodes featured interviews with Brian May whilst May was joined by Roger Taylor on A Night at the Opera and The Game episodes.
• Rush - Moving Pictures, Signals/Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows/Hold Your Fire, Permanent Waves/Power Windows and Counterparts. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were interviewed for Moving Pictures, Power Windows/Hold Your Fire and Permanent Waves/Hold Your Fire episodes. Lifeson was interviewed for Counterparts. Neil Peart was interviewed for Signals/Grace Under Pressure episode.
• Bob Seger - Live Bullet, Night Moves, Stranger in Town, Against the Wind, Greatest Hits (2-part episode) and Greatest Hits 2 (2-part episode. All features interviews with Seger.
• Billy Squier - Don't Say No
• Styx - The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight and Paradise Theatre. All episodes features interviews with Dennis DeYoung and James "J.Y." Young. Tommy Shaw was also interviewed for The Grand Illusion.
• Supertramp - Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America. Both episodes features interviews with former member Roger Hodgson.
• Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs.
• U2 - Rattle and Hum, The Best of U2. Interviews with Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton.
• Van Halen - Van Halen featured interviews with Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony. Women and Children First/Fair Warning (one episode) and 1984 featured interviews with Anthony, A. Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen. 5150 featured interviews with Sammy Hagar. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge featured interviews with Van Halen brothers, Anthony and Hagar.
• The Who - Tommy (2-part episode), Live at Leeds, Who's Next, Quadrophenia (2-part episode) and Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (2-part episode, later re-aired as Ultimate Collection). All episodes featured inetrviews with Pete Townshend. John Entwistle also was interviewed for Leeds, Who's Next and Maximum R & B episodes and Roger Daltrey appeared on the Maximum R & B episode.