Great Moments in Vinyl on WGN Radio
October 22, 2019. Excerpt from our live interview on WGN Radio with Nick Digilio. Promoting our tribute to Stevie Wonder. Featuring Phillip Armstrong, Eric Tre’von, and William Lindsey Cochran.
Great Moments in Vinyl on WGN Radio
January 12, 2019. Excerpt from live interview, performance, and streaming video on WGN Radio with Roe Conn. Promoting our tribute to The Beatles with Strings. Featuring Phil Angotti, Jim Ryan, Philip Roach, Myra Hinrichs, Gerle Tumur, Jennifer Baker-Mills, and William Lindsey Cochran.
Full interview in the audio link. Click the image below to view video footage of our second segment.
Great Moments in Vinyl on WGN Radio
June 29, 2018. Live interview on WGN Radio with Roe Conn. Featuring Judith Weirauch and William Lindsey Cochran. Band rehearsal recording clips also featured Scott Tipping, Alton Smith, Philip Roach, Jonathan Reed, and William Lindsey Cochran.
Great Moments in Vinyl in New City
May 18, 2018
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These are tough times for bands. It’s increasingly difficult to get people to come out to hear original music; and yet there’s something kind of déclassé—even camp—about tribute bands that keeps them from serious consideration. While audiences seem wary about risking an evening on the unproven new material of even the most established ensemble, they seem even more averse to paying a hefty cover to hear a ragtag collection of R.E.M. and Prince’s greatest hits.
With that in mind, the strategy adopted by the band Great Moments in Vinyl is ingenious: it doesn’t cover songs—it covers albums. If there’s a point on which otherwise contentious music critics agree, it’s that the classic LPs of the past six decades aren’t just happenstance collections of successful songs, they’re cohesive statements that provide both singular artistic vision and attendant catharsis. It’s the reason you can’t just jumble up the song order on “Sgt. Pepper” or “Exile On Main Street;” they’re strategically programmed to lead you through a singular experience and deposit you on the other side, at least marginally altered.
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I recently dropped in on a Great Moments in Vinyl gig at Martyrs’, when the band was slamming its way through Led Zeppelin’s “Physical Graffiti.” Martyrs’ is a fairly large club, and not only was the floor packed, the mood was jubilant.
[An excerpt from Robert Rodi's review in New City of our Led Zeppelin/Physical Graffiti tribute.]
Great Moments in Vinyl/WGN Radio broadcast from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
March, 5, 2018. The touring exhibition, Saturday Night Live: The Experience, opened in Chicago this past weekend. WGN radio personality Roe Conn will be promoting it with a live broadcast from the replica of the SNL set featuring Chicago’s storytelling tribute band Great Moments in Vinyl as the house band throughout the four-hour radio show.
Click the top image to view the complete photo gallery. Performance video below.
Great Moments in Vinyl on WGN Radio
January 12, 2018. Live interview and performance on WGN Radio with Roe Conn (and Richard Roeper). Promoting our tribute to two Jimi Hendrix albums: Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As LoveFeaturing Bill Grady, Jonathan Reed, and William Lindsey Cochran.
Great Moments in Vinyl in The Illinois Entertainer
February 4, 2016
Publisher, author, and media critic for The Illinois Entertainer Rick Kaempfer put a few questions to Great Moments in Vinyl founder William Lindsey Cochran (aka Bill Cochran). Make the jump here for the full interview.
Header photo by Bob Kessler