• Music,  Nostalgia,  Pop Culture,  Society

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 145 – Peace, Love, and Milli Vanilli

    In Episode 145 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast: Mark Lindsay and Eloy Escagedo start the show off with the anniversaries of the release of 2 pivotal record albums – The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Eagles’ self-titled debut album. The conversation goes in a few interesting directions as the hosts discuss their first exposure to those groups and their music. The discussion slowly transitions from rip-off bands to the evolution of rock in American music history. Could there ever be another sonic explosion of musical greatness like that which occurred in the era from the 1950s until the 1970s? Then, the scandal that was Milli Vanilli…

  • Inspiration,  Music,  Nostalgia,  Pop Culture

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 99 – 99 Ways From Sunday

    In Episode 99 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast, Eloy Escagedo and Mark Lindsay talk about the mental images that pop into your mind when you hear a group or musician’s music. Love them or hate them, performers like Mick Jagger, MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli, or Mark Knopfler make you think of certain scenes or pictures, and in some cases the images are not good! Then the duo get into the behind-the-scenes drama that a lot of groups go through. Some of that drama breaks up the group, and some of it makes them write some of their best music. Why is that the case? The pair discuss it. We record…