Classic Rock Album Olympics
Hosted by Gary Wenstrup and Robert Rodriguez · Evergreen Podcasts
4.7from 29 ratings
- 35
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 29
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Classic Rock Album Olympics
The CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM OLYMPICS is a podcast celebrating the most popular albums of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In each episode music historians Gary Wenstrup and Robert Rodriguez will pull a classic rock album off the shelf and discuss which songs earn our gold, silver and bronze medals. It's a fun, insightful and passionate journey through some of the greatest albums of all-time. Let the games begin!
- Publisher
- Evergreen Podcasts
- Category
- music · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 35 episodes have a transcript.
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L.A. Woman by The Doors...Episode #33
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] John was a jazz drummer. And Jim, a non-musician who saw himself as a poet, left out of, you'd mentioned they met at UCLA. They were both, both Ray and Jim were going to film school. A wholly different artistic path than the one they ended up on, right? So creative souls that were looking for an outlet and some kind of path to education. produce art through. Jim, at heart, going back to his teen years at least, was constantly writing poetry. And in fact, they would tap his old notebooks when they were crafting albums in the studio. So for short on material, what's in Jim's notebooks that we could turn into a song? […]
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Gary Wenstrup and Robert Rodriguez host the show. Published by Evergreen Podcasts.
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