The plot thickens as we sift through the pages of the 1980 John & Yoko Playboy Interview. Is this truly a rock confessional from a music legend returning to the public eye? Or is it a smoke and mirrors show from two marketing savvy gurus on a fresh press tour for their new album? Your rock n roll detectives are here to figure it out. 

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We discuss the legendary 1980 tell all interview that John and Yoko gave Playboy just 2 months before John's death. 

In the midst of a cross Canada Rock n Roll tour for the history books, James takes a minute to record a pod in the Hamilton Ontario green room over some pita bread and local pilsner. 

It's the morning after the election and we are all deciding where to go next, both as a podcast and as a society. We have finished our journey through Neil Young's albums (the best ones) and are on the bridge headed somewhere new. The destination is uncertain but we will get to the other side, one way or another, hand in hand, one step at a time.

Well, it's definitely better to burn out than to fade away when it comes to our Neil Young album ranking extravaganza. Our journey through the past may end here at "Rust Never Sleeps", but ol' Neil's still flying down the road like the hurricane that he is. Long may your run, Neil. Long may you run.

This is a pretty totemic episode. We welcome back IWOL alumni Alex Bleeker to plug his new book "Taste In Music", eulogize and rank Phil Lesh and discuss Neil Young's "Comes a Time". There's a little controversy mixed in too....don't miss this one. 

As our Neil Young campaign nears its end we saddle up the palomino and mosy into American Stars and Bars. We've also had just about enough of the league of technical music villains and their attempted coup d'etat of classic rock, so we're fighting back.

Neil's living on the dock and Stills is scuba diving off the deep end and getting high on his own nitrogen supply. You guessed it folks...we've made it to "Long May You Run" by The Stills Young Band. 

An atmospheric river is hitting the BC coast this weekend so we talk and rank Neil Young's "Zuma" before the apocalypse hits and the internet goes down. 

Neil Young’s Zuma feels like a musical equivalent of Ed Harris’s character in The Rock—both driven by conflict, intensity, and moments of raw emotion that seem to surge from a place of deep conviction. If Brigadier General Francis Hummel had a soundtrack to his brooding, morally complicated mission, it could very well be Zuma—an album that balances aggression, reflection, and the restless search for meaning.

Johnny is in Vancouver, crashing on James's couch. Before settling in for a double feature of Days of Thunder and The Rock, they take a moment to discuss Neil Young's On The Beach, exploring themes of isolation and disillusionment in what many consider his best album.

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We take a quick breather from our Neil Young deep dive to discuss Rick Beato's encyclopedic, Charlie Rose style interview with System of a Down producer Rick Rubin. It's a Sunday slice folks. Happy Thanksgiving.

Luke is back and, just like the album, we come back around and do Tonight's The Night for a second time. What the hell. Round of drinks for the bar. Shine a little light on that palm tree.

James is still live from Valencia and the boys discuss Neil's oft forgotten loose and live album "Time Fades Away". We've finally arrived in the ditch.

James is on tour at the moment so we thought we'd take a Wednesday off and drop what is known as an IWOL "all timer". It is somewhat relevant though as we have been discussing The Byrds. Even though this episode is called "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" it's really just us trying to figure out who the hell is in The Byrds for an hour. 

A sweet side note is that my (Johnny) grandfather died the day this was recorded and the hilarity of this episode really lifted my spirits on a very sad day. 

Back to your regularly scheduled programming come Sunday. 

While James searches for Duende in Spain, we talk and rank Neil's biggest record, "Harvest"

It's Wednesday and we're getting nostalgic as hell.

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"I'd just like to say before I start that it's one of the pleasures of my life to be on the podcast with these people tonight"

It's Neil fever baby.

It is Wednesday people and we're starting our Journey Through The Past by ranking Neil Young's eponymous LP.

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Buffalo Springfield are good?

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IWOL classic. Possibly our favourite episode in about 3 years.

We have a wonderful conversation with Will and Lucky, from Third Man Records Band, "Hotline T.N.T. It's a Raiders of the Lost Ark scene over there.

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It's Sunday folks - James is still keyed up on Oasis and we rank Noel Gallagher. 

D' You Know What I Mean?

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A Sunday Slice o' Life. We catch up with Johnny's and on his current recording project with Sam Blasucci - while James has been watching episodes of "Classic Albums," and is obsessing about the theme song again.

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The Vancouver Canucks, The Byrds, Gene Clark, 70s sun baked cinema, Robert Altman, Doucette, Loverboy, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Bruce Fairbairn, Bob Rock etc...

Anything can, and will, happen when Stranglehold comes on the show. One of our fave episodes in a while. 

Sam is recording at Johnny's compound, they took time out of their exhaustive schedule to talk to about all things music. So, The Beatles.

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Ever wanted to listen to people talk about the Music of Badfinger and not stray deeply into the tragedy of their lives ? This my be the episode for you.

The continuing story of Ringo and Charlie. 

We also discuss CCR's recent unexpected surge in popularity. Are they the Ultimate Summer Band?

Peace and Love.

Still Olympic obsessed. Still Drum obsessed. We rank Charlie Watts and Ringo Star, in an attempt to get a full sense of why this drumming "pact of restraint" has yielded the two biggest bands in the universe has ever seen.

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The evidence is clear, so let Johnny break is down for you.

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"Those that fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."

Are we as musicians just a reliving the life of a member of The Beatles from some stage in their life?

And we watch some Olympics. 

We're joined by friend of the pod Maxton Hunter to discuss Sitars and working at ParSonics Studio with none other than audio engineer legend Alan Parsons.

Maxton also challenges Johnny to a Beatles one second challenges.

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A classic Sunday Slice of life - just trying to figure out the future of culture and what not.

...You have nothing to lose but the pockets that bind you.

In an IWOL exclusive we are joined by drummers and all around beautiful people, Noah Bond (Cut Worms) and Christopher Icasiano (Fleet Foxes), representing and defending all drummers worldwide for their crimes against soundchecks. 

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Happy Sunday! There is a new Giles Martin in town and he won't rest until John Lennon's legacy is destroyed. The lads listen to the latest act of Beatlesy historical revisionism, as Sean Lennon decides remix "Mind Games."

Prepared to get fired up.

James' very own hit making beat combo @yukon Blonde is storming the @impossiblewayoflife airwaves for a full-on Band Takeover episode. As we gear up for our cross-Canada tour, performing our power pop long player, “Friendship & Rock ’n’ Roll,” the whole gang piles into the green room to swap road stories, map out the long drives ahead, and crack open our hopes, fears, and daydreams for the shows to come. It’s the sound of a band in motion, revved up, restless, and ready to roll.

Come see us at a venue near you, we will be happy to have you!  Peace and Love!

Drummers beware - this episode might not be for you.

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Classic episode. Good Drummer? We make the necessary adjustments to the categories to be able to rank drummers, then test it out on Grohl.

We are joined by Nick and Will from Flyte, two of the most Beatlesy guys we know, to try and guess The Rolling Stone "Top 100 Best Beatles Solo Songs List.

Good times all the way.  

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It's a bluesy slice of life folks.

Summer is here and the time is right to go ranking Paul Simon - cue bad fashion scores.

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we were really tired.

We catch up with friend of the pod Paige Stark to talk about her new E.P "Good at Love." We also break down the idea of what it means to be an "Alternative" artist in 2024.

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The fellas' catch up before Johnny's big solo show in Vancouver

It's Paul's birthday so we listen and react to the new Wings live album "One Hand Clapping." And have a nice chat about the idea of urgency, danger and rock and roll within the rock revivalism today.

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We get together and discuss the references seeping out of the sleeve of the newest record from Heritage Revivalist Juggernauts - The Lemon Twigs. 

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The Byrds are good? Are they underrated? Overrated? Dated? Too hippie? Is this the cool side of the strip or is that over where Arthur Lee and Jim Morrison hang out? And how does this all relate to Oasis? We're trying to figure it all out. 

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Johnny is back from Italy and James is poolside in Mexico. We swap some IWOL travel horror stories and talk about Mexican cover bands.

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Happy Sunday Folks! On the eve of James' birthday, the fellas decide to get a little existential.

Too Much Perspective.

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Happy Sunday Folks!