Greg Brodsky, Author at Best Classic Bands

FEATURES: Spotlight Feature

A Tribute to a Loyal Reader Who We Nicknamed ‘The Grim Reaper’

For years, Best Classic Bands reader Ric Allen Niedzinski would message us with news of a musician’s death.

FEATURES: Spotlight Feature

Dana Petty is Selling Her 1965 Ford Mustang Bought By Her Husband, Tom Petty—Exclusive

In this exclusive interview, Dana Petty shares the story of her “incredible surprise” when the red convertible rolled up their driveway one Christmas morning

FEATURES: Through The Lens

Woodstock ’69 Through the Lens of Photographer Henry Diltz

He shares his story of the weeks leading up to the legendary festival and of the event itself. “I had the Golden Pass. I was working for the producer.”

FEATURES: Interviews

Ian Anderson on the Past, Present and Future of Jethro Tull

We talked to the legend about the new album, RökFlöte, the demand that Tull faced in its first decade with the constant cycle of writing, recording and touring, and his own mortality

REVIEWS: Live Shows

Review: Doobie Brothers 2024 Tour With Opener Steve Winwood

Three of rock’s most unique and standout vocalists are on the same bill

The Scene: How the Song Came to Be

10cc “I’m Not in Love”: Well, My High School Self Was, Actually

Best Classic Bands’ founder tells how the hit song always brings him back to the spring of his senior year, and how five decades later he got its co-writer, Graham Gouldman, to tell him how it came to be.

FEATURES: Perfect Rock Songs

The Doobie Brothers’ ‘China Grove’: Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics

The band’s Tom Johnston credits the lyrics’ imagery to a fellow musician for helping start “the thinking process with this wacky sheriff, samurai swords, and all that.”