154 - Jim Peterik Performs His Platinum Hits and Shares the Stories Behind Them

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Playing and deconstructing several of his hit songs for you, JIM PETERIK — who you might know from such radio smashes as Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” 38 Special’s “Hold On Loosely,” and Ides of March’s “Vehicle” (a number one song Peterik wrote when he was just 18) — is on the show! He’s one of rock’s most successful songwriters. Today, we’re “flyin’ the ‘copter” over to Peterik’s Chicago-area recording studio to play guitars with the legendary rocker and find out how he used his immense talents as a tunesmith to forge a spectacularly successful career. ALSO: On the show with Jim is Ides of March founding member LARRY MILLAS. This episode is presented by TASCAM and the new TASCAM MIXCAST 4 podcast workstation. No Guitar Is Safe is hosted and created by Jude Gold.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:07.0	Wow, have I got a treat for y'all today playing his hit songs, and he has many hit songs,
0:18.0	and demonstrating them and showing you how he created them and telling you the stories behind them is one of America's most successful rock and roll tune smiths and hit makers we're talking about Jim Peterick he's on the show we're going to his badass studio just outside of Chicago and I'm going to jam a little bit with him very very cool hang
0:38.7	and it's brought to you by Tascam and the new MixCast 4 this thing is the coolest
0:43.8	podcast workstation you could probably ever dream up it's got four dual XLR
0:48.2	inputs for mics and line level things and plugging guitars or drum machines or
0:52.8	microphones in there effects pedals, pedals, modelers.
0:55.0	You can do everything live. All kinds of pro features. Easy plug and play means you can pull the
1:00.0	mix cast right out of the box, plug it in, start recording. You'll be recording or streaming in a matter of minutes.
1:05.0	You can record directly to an SD card or to your favorite software or your hard drive. You can even record multi-track files on the SD card and edit them together later.
1:14.5	This thing is just built for the current era.
1:17.1	It's got built-in effects processing and allows you to use EQ, compression, reverb, etc.
1:22.2	It's got these cool sound pads where you can add samples and tap them on the fly like a radio
1:27.2	DJ. You can use USB inputs,
1:29.9	smartphone, or Bluetooth channels play along to your favorite songs. It's really convenient if
1:34.5	somebody calls in and you want to have their phone record straight into the MixCast 4.
1:39.3	Lightweight, portable, they can go anywhere you can. I love this thing. Everything you could need for a podcast
1:45.9	workstation. So yeah, today we're going to go to Jim Pedrick's awesome studio just outside of Chicago.
1:52.4	It's a really nice place. And Jim Pedrick, man, he's had hit songs since he was 19 years old.
1:57.7	He wrote a number one hit song called Vehicle with the Iads of March came out in
2:01.7	1970, wrote that when he was 18. Of course you might know him from Eye of the Tiger, one of the
2:06.7	biggest FM rock radio hits of the past few decades. He's written with 38 special, you know,
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