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.
261: Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, XTC, Paul McCartney, etc.)
260: Billy Conway (Morphine, Jeffrey Foucault, etc.)
259: Kid Congo (The Pink Monkey Birds, The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
258: Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Black Pus)
257: John Congleton (the pAper ChAse, Music Producer)
256: Meg Remy (U.S. Girls)
255: Britt Walford (Slint, The Breeders, Languid and Flaccid)
254: Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso)
253: Rick Smith (Torche)
252: Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
251: Andrya Ambro (Gold Dime, Talk Normal)
250: Billy Martin (illy B; Medeski, Martin & Wood; John Zorn; Bob Moses, etc.)
249: Matt Sharp (The Rentals, Weezer)
248: Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top, The Moving Sidewalks)
247: Mike Bordin (Faith No More, Ozzy Osborne)
246: Chad Clark (Beauty Pill, Smart Went Crazy)
245: Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rocket Juice & the Moon, Atoms for Peace)
244: Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In, De Facto, etc.)
243: Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman)
242: Sean Tillmann (Har Mar Superstar, Heart Bones)
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