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.
189: Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Marianne Faithfull, Bat for Lashes, Cold Specks, etc.)
BNS: Rob Ellis on Addiction and Recovery
BNS: Steven Drozd Revisited
188: Brendan Buckley (Shakira, Volumen Cero, JJ Lin, Teagan and Sara, etc.)
187: Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, UK, Genesis, Bruford)
186: Rat Scabies (The Damned)
185: Fay Milton (Savages, 180dB)
184: Mick "Woody" Woodmansey (David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, U-Boat, Holy Holy)
BNS: Tessa Pollitt (The Slits)
183: Nate Wood (Kneebody, Four)
182: Ryan Pope (The Get Up Kids)
181: Alan Cage (Quicksand, Seaweed)
180: Adam Topol (Jack Johnson, Culver City Dub Collective, etc.)
179: Matt Helders (The Arctic Monkeys, Iggy Pop)
178: Geoff Mann and Marcos Garcia (Here Lies Man, Antibalas)
177: Lucky Lehrer (Circle Jerks)
176: Dean "Clean" Sabatino (The Dead Milkmen, I Think Like Midnight)
BNS: Dale Crover Returns!
175: Tony Hajjar (At The Drive-In, Sparta, Gone is Gone)
174: Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson, Beastie Boys)
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