Billy Sheehan of The Winery Dogs joins Eric in conversation. We talk about his earliest years of playing bass and his influences. We talk about his offer to join Van Halen in the very early 80s, his years with David Lee Roth, the successes and pressures with Mr Big, and his relationships with his Winery Dogs bandmates, Richie Kotzen and Mike Portnoy.  And we focus quite a bit on their new record, Hot Streak.

Alex Skolnick of Testament joins Eric in conversation. We talk about the early years of playing and his influences including Ozzy and KISS – does he like The Elder?  We talk about Testament, performing with Ozzy and Geezer Butler, his friendship with Living Colour, his prolific jazz trio, his world music projects and finally his connecting with Mike Portnoy, Dave Ellefson to work on his latest project, Metal Allegiance.

Martin Barre formerly of Jethro Tull joins Eric in conversation. We talk about the early years of Jethro Tull, the band’s final days, his early days in the British music scene, his relationship with Ian Anderson, his first steps into solo work in terms of songwriting, lyric writing and touring, his friend Willy Porter (another recent guest) and finally his latest solo album, Back To Steel.

Michael Sweet of Stryper joins Eric in conversation. We talk about the early days of Stryper, some of his childhood guitar heroes and influences, the classic days of To Hell With The Devil, his solo career, songwriting and the unique spot that Stryper inhabits in the music world in terms of music and message.  We also learn about the next Sweet & Lynch album and hear stories behind some of the songs on the new Stryper record, Fallen.