When I heard that Izzy Zaidman, former lead guitar player for Wayne “The Train” Hancock was starting a new band, I was conflicted. Izzy was fired from Hancock’s band for assaulting steel guitar player Tony Locke, and when I spoke with Hancock in August, he said Izzy had been “black balled from the scene.” BUT, [...]
Well tonight is a pretty big night in podcast land. First I am happy to announce that one of my favorite podcasters, Tim Pop of Tim Pop Live is debuting a spanking new podcast tonight called Rebel Rouser Country. It is going to air weekly on realpunkradio.com, Tuesdays at 7 PM EST. And for his [...]
It was one of those times when I had to reach over and pinch myself: here I was interviewing none other than Wayne “The Train” Hancock. It went down behind The Mesa Theater in Grand Junction, CO on 7-12-09 as part of Johny Wrong’s First Annual Hootenanny (to read the review of the show click [...]
Okay first the bad news. For those that did not catch wind of this yet, last week there was some drama in Wayne “The Train” Hancock’s band. Long story short, Wayne’s guitarist Izzy Zaidman assaulted his steel player, Tony Locke, and Tony Locke was hurt really bad. Izzy was kicked out of the band, Tony [...]
