The LA Lloyd Podcast

Slash is writing music he can’t play…yet. His latest obsession is pedal steel, an instrument that has one of rock’s most celebrated guitarists feeling like a beginner again. Slash tells LA Lloyd about an overwhelming first lesson with Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, the practice that followed, and bringing that new sound onto Flying Blind, the new album from Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators. He also takes us inside life at producer Elvis Baskette’s house while making the record, explains why he wants imperfections left in the music, and reveals the alternate ending to the animated “Flying Blind” video. Hit play for the full conversation with Slash on The LA Lloyd Podcast.

Three years ago, Catch Your Breath was watching “Dial Tone” begin to change everything. Now Josh Mowery returns to the Rock 30 with LA Lloyd to talk about what happened after the breakthrough—and what success doesn’t fix. Josh opens up about broken relationships becoming songs, why the people who inspired some of them probably aren’t showing up at his concerts, and the obsession that can keep him in the vocal booth for hours chasing something more important than perfection: making people feel what he’s singing. They also get into the new album Not Broken Enough, why “Red Alert” was recorded four different times, the darker side of “Control,” and what the band has learned while chasing this dream together. And when Lloyd asks what would remain if the streams, charts and big rooms disappeared tomorrow, Josh’s answer has nothing to do with music industry success. It’s about the life he found along the way.

Getting older doesn't mean getting quieter. Chris Jericho returns for his seventh conversation with LA Lloyd, and this one goes somewhere neither of them necessarily expected. What begins with a look back at the years it took Jericho to truly find his voice in Fozzy becomes a much more personal conversation about age, ambition, and refusing to let other people decide when it's time for you to stop. Jericho talks about why success was never one final destination, the importance of continuing to take chances, and why failure isn't really failure if you're willing to try. Along the way, he and Lloyd discover some common ground: they're both still doing what they love at a point in life when the world sometimes expects you to start slowing down. It's a conversation about music and Fozzy, but underneath it all, it's about something bigger—staying curious, staying hungry, and not letting age write the ending for you.

Years before the record deal, Olive Vox were a young Texas band playing KLBJ SXSW showcases and getting featured on Armadillo Nation. LA Lloyd knew them then. Now they’re signed to Big Machine Rock, touring with the Toadies and releasing their new EP, Trace It Back. Olive Vox joins LA on the Rock 30 for a full-circle conversation about brothers growing into equals, finding each member’s voice inside the band, learning to put more truth into their songs, hearing themselves on the radio for the first time, and what it means when people like Matt Pinfield start championing your music. And after watching their journey from those early Austin days, LA asks the question at the heart of this conversation: How close is the life you’re living right now to what you dreamed about when all of this started? Sometimes you’re so busy chasing the dream, you don’t realize you’re already standing inside part of it.

Years ago, Lemmy gave Airbourne advice they never forgot: stay true to who you are and don’t let the music business change you. Nearly two decades after their last Rock 30 appearance, brothers Joel and Ryan O’Keeffe reconnect with LA Lloyd backstage in Pamplona, Spain, just after opening for Judas Priest. They share how Lemmy’s words still follow them into the studio today, why they sometimes ask themselves, “Would Lemmy sing that?”, and how that connection helped shape “Alive After Death (Last Plane Out).” The conversation also takes in Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, more than twenty years together as brothers in Airbourne, the next generation discovering rock and roll—and the words that seemed to sum up the entire night: “We’re still here.”