You can certainly be forgiven if all you know about today’s guest is that he was the "Bourgeois" in Bourgeois Tagg and they had that great song “I Don’t Mind At All”. Surprisingly, Brent Bourgeois is fine with that too. In fact, he gets much more excited these days talking about his work behind the mixing board than those days spent in front of it.
His career has taken more turns than Lombard Street and in doing so, has intersected with an odd variety of fame. How odd? Well, allow me to name-drop: Julian Lennon, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael W Smith, Christine McVie, Johnny Carson and Todd Rundgren. We spend a good bit of time on the latter as Brent offers up his reverence while also reinforcing Todd’s rather indifferent studio reputation. It’s a laugh out loud moment for sure!
In fact, we laugh a lot on this episode and also get serious for just a few minutes with his faith. Brent’s soul searching journey is different than you might expect and I for one find his perspective fascinating.
And last but not least is the music. I hope you enjoy rediscovering those mid 80’s collaborations with Larry Tagg as well as his sadly overlooked solo work of the 90’s.
Episode 385 - Tony James of Generation X/Sigue Sigue Sputnik/Sisters of Mercy/Carbon Silicon
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Episode 384 - Guy Chadwick of the House of Love
Book Club - Martin Popoff author of Bowie@75
Episode 383 - Richard James Burgess
Book Club - Brian J. Kramp author of This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick
Episode 382 - Howard Jones
Book Club - Mitchell Cohen author of Looking for the Magic: New York City, The ’70s and the Rise of Arista Records
Episode 381 - Jon King of Gang of Four
Episode 380 - Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow
Bonus - INXS Talk on Rock in Retrospect
Episode 379 - Stephen Street
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Episode 378 - St. Paul Peterson of Morris Day and the Time/The Family/Solo
Episode 377 - Steve Lillywhite pt.2
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Episode 376 - Paul Humphries of OMD and Mary Fahl of October Project/Solo
Episode 375 - Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music
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