Ep333: Michael Des Barres - The Detective & Swan Song Years
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Actor, Musician, Gentleman Michael Des Barres joins us to talk about his epic career, focusing on the band Detective and their involvement on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.
Topics include:
- The Documentary "Who Do You Want Me To Be?"
- Perspective on the Detective years
- "A Million-Dollar Drum sound" – The cost of recording Detective
- Memories of recording Detective album
- Vanity labels – Purple Records & Swan Song
- Meeting the Beatles
- The conclusion of Silverhead
- Michael's charm that opens doors
- Listening to Detective in modern day
- Michael's quality that he brings to music and acting
- Detective being courted by other labels
- Silverhead meets Led Zeppelin
- The transformation of Led Zeppelin of the mid 1970s
- Led Zeppelin playing the LA Forum
- Being inspired by Robert Plant
- Michael's personality and making people feel special
- Did John Bonham play on Detective recordings?
- Michael's memories of Peter Grant
- Release timing of Detective's debut LP
- Recording "Takes One to Know One"
- Swan Song starting to fall apart
- Was there a moment he recognized Detective was finished?
- Memories of Detective "Live at Atlantic Studios"
- Michael's favourite version of "Obsession"
- Would Michael consider selling his publishing?
- Michael sharing the story of joining Power Station
- Memories of playing Live Aid
- The new reissue of Detective LP in RSD
- What does Michael want his legacy to be?
- Wrapping up the interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you guys. This is Michael Debar. I've had such a great time on the vinyl guide. What a wonderful |
| 0:05.5 | interview. I've done over a million interviews in my career. This was absolutely one of the best. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm very grateful to you guys. Keep listening. Over and out, MDB, wishing you the best of everything. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, thank you, Michael. And hey, everyone, welcome to episode 333 of the |
| 0:22.2 | Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. And today, we have the 26th Marquis |
| 0:28.2 | DeBar himself, Mr. Michael DeBar, who you likely know from many TV and movie appearances, |
| 0:34.6 | but he's also a rock star himself, originally in Silverhead, but also |
| 0:38.9 | power station, checkered past, and today we are going to deep dive into his time with Detective, |
| 0:45.3 | one of the few bands signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label. And today we're going to talk |
| 0:50.7 | to Michael all about that period of time, forming Detective, |
| 1:01.3 | meeting up with Led Zeppelin, signing up with Swan Song, making at the time what was the most expensive album to date, |
| 1:06.7 | the release, the breakup, the reissue of Detective for Record Store Day, and much, much more. |
| 1:15.4 | And if you enjoy this podcast, there is an extended version of this interview at patrion.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:17.3 | Supporters of this podcast get access to lots of extra goodies all the time, including |
| 1:22.4 | early extended and commercial free versions of these interviews. |
| 1:26.5 | So go up there now, patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:30.3 | Support the show. |
| 1:31.4 | Let me know if you'd like me to spend the money on records, beer, or burritos, and enjoy |
| 1:35.5 | all the extras, including an extended interview with Michael DeBar at patreon.com |
| 1:41.1 | slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:43.9 | And today, being episode 333 means there are 332 other episodes featuring great guests |
| 1:51.7 | you can listen to any time, including Robbie Krieger of the Doors, episode 306 of the |
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