What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll.

The guitar duo Rodrigo I Gabriela went from headbanging in Mexico to busking in Dublin

to playing festivals for hundreds of thousands around the world.

I'm Greg Kott from the Chicago Tribune.

And I'm Jim Deeregatus from W be Z and Columbia College.

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriella Quintaro talk about their career and play some brand new songs.

Then Greg takes a trip to the desert island

that's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions

and this week Jim we have a great show in that we have

Rodrigo E Gabriella in probably the most non-traditional venue that we have ever recorded

a band in. This is very close to the roots of this Mexican duo. They were street buskers and I remember seeing groups like the violent fembs and in Milwaukee, you know, coming up on the street corners or Billy Braggots out by Southwest doing his thing with an acoustic guitar, but never in a barrel house.

You know, buy our sponsor Goose Island Beer where this wonderful brew is being aged.

A testament to our professionalism that we were not distracted by that ocean of beer. We're going to get

to that in a minute but first some music news. happiness. That's the Everly brothers with their first big hit,

Bye-By Love.

We need to pay tribute to the great Phil Everly,

the younger brother in that duo,

who died on January 3rd at the age of 74. I think it's safe to say rock and roll wouldn't be what

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