Mike Post started out as a studio guitarist, recording on hits such as Sunny and Cher's "I Got You Babe." As a producer, he won a Grammy for "Classical Gas" in 1968 and worked with artists ranging from Sammy Davis Jr., to Dolly Parton (on her smash 9 to 5 album), to Van Halen.
But Mike is best known as the preeminent television composer of his generation. Often in conjunction with his longtime composing partner, the late Pete Carpenter, Mike crafted thematic earworms that reside in the collective consciousness. The A-Team, Doogie Howser, Quantum Leap, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, The Greatest American Hero, and the entire Law & Order Franchise represent just a slice of a body of work comprising thousands of hours of television music.
Mike discusses his decades spanning career, and he and Joe recall the unusual way they became friends.
RIP: Steve Albini (Roland)
309: King Coffey (Butthole Surfers)
308: Guy Picciotto (Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Happy Go Licky, etc.)
307: Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White, etc.)
306: Teresa Esguerra (Prism Bitch, Built to Spill)
305: Marnie Stern
RIP: Jeremiah Green
304: Patricia Brennan
RIP: Viola Smith
303: Nate Smith
302: Rick Allen (Def Leppard)
RIP: Mimi Parker (Low)
RIP: DH Peligro (Dead Kennedys)
301: Questlove
300: Joe Wong Interviewed by Jon Wurster
RIP: Gabe Serbian
RIP: Howard Grimes, RIP
299: Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four)
298: Cindy Blackman Santana
297: Alan Braufman
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