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.
BNS: Mimi Parker Revisited (Low)
205: Tucker Rule (Thursday)
204: Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone LIVE (The Zombies)
203: Ian Mackaye Pt. 2 (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens, etc.)
202: Ian MacKaye Pt. 1 (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens, etc.)
201: Brooks Headley (Born Against, Oldest, Universal Order of Armageddon, etc.)
200: Episode 200 Spectacular!
199: Larry Herweg (Pelican, INTRCPTR)
BNS: John Good (Drum Workshop)
198: Zach Lind (Jimmy Eat World)
197: Mona Tavakoli (Raining Jane, Jason Mraz, Ebi)
196: Budgie (The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees, The Creatures, John Grant, etc.)
BNS: Steve Gadd Revisited
BNS: Bill Cardwell (C&C Drum Company)
195: Bryan St. Pere (Hum)
194: Jason Gerken (Shiner, Molly McGuire, Season of Risk, Birth Defects, etc.)
193: Nabil Ayers (The Lemons, The Long Winters, 4AD, Sonic Boom)
192: Kevin Haskins (Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, etc.)
191: Aaron Sterling (John Mayer, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Liz Phair, etc.)
190: Parker Kindred (Joan As Police Woman, Jeff Buckley, Amen Dunes, etc.)
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