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The John Batchelor ShowARTEMIS 2 RISKS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN SPACE Colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com. Bob Zimmerman urges NASA to fly Artemis 2 unmanned due to unresolved Orion heat shield damage, arguing safety should trump beating China. He also dismisses conce
ARTEMIS 2 RISKS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN SPACE Colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com. Bob Zimmerman urges NASA to fly Artemis 2 unmanned due to unresolved Orion heat shield damage, arguing safety should trump beating China. He also dismisses concerns about lunar methane contamination and highlights a new study suggesting ice caps could allow liquid water lakes to exist on Mars. NUMBER 161953
2026-01-0909 minThe John Batchelor ShowARTEMIS 2 RISKS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN SPACE Colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com. Bob Zimmerman urges NASA to fly Artemis 2 unmanned due to unresolved Orion heat shield damage, arguing safety should trump beating China. He also dismisses conce
ARTEMIS 2 RISKS AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN SPACE Colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com. Bob Zimmerman urges NASA to fly Artemis 2 unmanned due to unresolved Orion heat shield damage, arguing safety should trump beating China. He also dismisses concerns about lunar methane contamination and highlights a new study suggesting ice caps could allow liquid water lakes to exist on Mars. NUMBER 161953
2026-01-0909 min
The John Batchelor ShowPREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY ICE CAPS MAY SHIELD LIQUID LAKES ON MARS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Bob Zimmerman reviews a new computer model suggesting that liquid water lakes could survive on Mars if protected by a cap of ice. While surface water usually sublimaPREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY ICE CAPS MAY SHIELD LIQUID LAKES ON MARS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Bob Zimmerman reviews a new computer model suggesting that liquid water lakes could survive on Mars if protected by a cap of ice. While surface water usually sublimates in the thin atmosphere, this ice barrier might explain the existence of Martian geological water features.1917
2026-01-0801 min
The John Batchelor ShowGuest: Bob Zimmerman. The global launch industry achieved record numbers led by SpaceX, which Zimmerman argues has effectively become the true American space program by launching 90% of all payload mass and funding its own Mars ambitions through Starlink
Guest: Bob Zimmerman. The global launch industry achieved record numbers led by SpaceX, which Zimmerman argues has effectively become the true American space program by launching 90% of all payload mass and funding its own Mars ambitions through Starlink revenue. While China utilizes state-supervised pseudo-capitalism to keep pace, the commercial sector is booming with competitors like Rocket Lab and multiple companies developing private space stations, creating a new market for orbital debris cleanup services.1941
2026-01-0714 min
The Space Show by Dr. David LivingstonThe Space Show welcome Bob Zimmerman on space policy, news and more. A must listen to progam.Brief SummaryOur main program focus was on space exploration, where participants discussed various aspects including NASA’s role, commercial space initiatives, and the future of human spaceflight, with particular emphasis on SpaceX’s development timeline and capabilities. The conversation concluded with discussions about space markets, orbital data centers, and the broader implications of space exploration on American society and politics. The Space Show Wisdom Team including myself, guest Bob Zimmerman, Marshall Martin, Phil Swan, Dr. Doug Plata, John Hunt and Zoom phone caller Daniel. Note that in this program I experimented with various Zoom speaker layout posi...
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Foos Files: A Foo Fighters Podcast023 | Dave Grohl and Tower Records: A history (w/ Bob Zimmerman)Follow Foos Files on Instagram and Threads.--SummaryBefore his ascent to rock stardom, Dave Grohl was a store clerk at the iconic Tower Records.It was during a stint in the Washington DC store that he and Tower Records stalwart Bob Zimmerman crossed paths for the first time.The pair became reacquainted when Bob relocated to run Tower’s Seattle store in the early 1990s.With Tower Records an integral part of America’s music culture, Bob had a ringside seat during Nirvana’s peak years...
2025-08-271h 03
The Space Show by Dr. David LivingstonRobert (Bob) Zimmerman on NASA, budgets, Starship, developing a space industry, Trump vs. Musk & so much more!Meeting SummaryThe main portion of the meeting focused on space policy and technology, including debates about SpaceX's role in the U.S. space program, the feasibility of reusable rocket technology, and comparisons between U.S. and Chinese space capabilities. The discussion concluded with conversations about NASA's future, recent rocket nozzle issues, and Relativity Space’s new leadership, with participants exploring a range of strategic and technical considerations for the future of the space industry.I introduced our Tuesday evening guest, Robert (Bob) Zimmerman, who noted the 15th anniversary of his website Behind the Black an...
2025-07-021h 56
The Restaurant Dealmaker ShowBob House | President, Co-Star’s Business for Sale marketplace | Ep#37🎙The Restaurant Dealmaker Show🎙Ep#37 of The Restaurant Dealmaker Show🎙
BOB HOUSE
President, Co-Star’s Business for Sale marketplace
BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com and FindaFranchise.com
Robert (Bob) A. House, President of Business for Sale, joined the Company in 2012 and leads CoStar’s business for sale marketplace websites including BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com and FindaFranchise.com. These websites represent the largest database of business for sale listings in the country. Previously, Mr. House served as Director of Product Management for AllBusiness.com, a business resource website owned by Dun & Bradstreet. Prior to that, he served in digital marketing and pro...
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2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 100 Greg Wallis (Tacoma, Hawaii, Boston, Chicago)Send us a textWhen Greg Wallis was hired at Tower Tacoma by Dave Coker, Greg had never heard of Tower Records. It was simply the big, new record store to move into his town. When Coker left to open and run the Seattle U District store, Rob Bruce came up from Anaheim CA to be General Manager. By this time, Greg was the buyer for all sections of music except for Classical Music. Soon after, Assistant Manger Bob Akin went to Sacramento to join the Advertising Department and Greg was promoted to Assistant Manager.
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The RAVIN' RADIO Show and BLUES & ALL THAT JAZZ with Boomer BobRR_042 11/02/23 RAVIN' RADIO with Boomer Bob2:00:04 PM | 3:34 | Chico Hamilton | Conquistadores '74 | Chico the Master (feat. Lowell T. George & Little Feat) | 1973 | Stax | | 2:03:34 PM | 6:00 | The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra | Don't Let Me Get in Your Way | Live at the Freight 10/14/23 | | | | 2:07:10 PM | 2:32 | Camper Van Beethoven | Take the Skinheads Bowling | Telephone Free Landslide Victory | 1985 | Cooking Vinyl | Rock | 2:09:36 PM | 3:44 | Lucinda Williams | Changed the Locks | Lucinda Williams | 2014 | Lucinda Williams Music | Rock | 2:13:09 PM | 7:40 | Elton John | Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Live At Wembley / 1975 | Captain Fantastic (Deluxe Edition) | 1975 | Universal Music | | 2:25:15 PM | 29:30 | Hot Tuna | True Religion | Hot Tuna | 1985 | Relix | Rock | 2:32:01 PM | 2:58 | The Ethiopians | Train To Skaville (Original Version) | Freedom Train | 2...
2024-05-292h 002500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 80 Michael SolomonSend us a textMTSNot the company, the man. Michael T Solomon sits down with “2500 DelMonte Street” to discuss it all; his time with Russ & Doris, Tower Records, Bud Martin, Sunday school with Stan Goman, chauffeuring The Rolling Stones around town before their show in Sacramento, starting out at the Tower Drug Store, working at Watt Ave, Columbus & Bay and Berkeley, working as Tower legal counsel, presentations at the Tower Annual Conference, taking on the CEO position, scouting locations in Russia, South America, Canada, the end at Tow...
2024-01-231h 172500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 79 Darrin Roberts (Editor "All Things Must Pass" Tower Documentary & "Thriller 40")Send us a textDarrin Roberts grew up in Southern California with a “Kevin Arnold-Wonder Years” type upbringing. After a neighbor suggested his mother take her 3 year old to a recently released “war movie”, he became obsessed with all things cinema. After getting his degree at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts he began working on a series of music film projects as both a camera operator and a film editor. In May of 2014 an Oscar winning producer suggested he meet with Colin Hanks and Sean Stuart regarding a documentar...
2024-01-161h 532500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 78 Marty Bender Sobolewski (Tower Sunset, Cashbox Magazine, KROQ, WWWM, WFBQ, Radio Consultant)Send us a text“I knew quite a bit about [Tower]. I knew Sunset was the mecca. So I just popped in one day and that’s how it all started” says this week’s guest Marty Bender Sobolweski. From his earliest memory of his grandmother pulling out a record player to his mother coming home from her temp job at Capitol Records in Cleveland with a box of free records, Marty has been a life long music fanatic. An early record store job at Ohio’s Audio Buff Records (which sold a lot more...
2024-01-091h 162500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 77 Cathi Ronnenburg (Cherry Hill NJ, Burlington MA, Nanuet, Carle Place, Paramus NJ)Send us a textOur guest this week, Cathi Ronnenburg, remembers being on the phone with the Manager of a neighboring location when men in black suits swarmed her store. No, it wasn’t a Tower Records she was running at the time, but being busted by the FBI for the bootleg albums she and her company were selling is a pretty exciting start to record retail and Cathi’s professional story in general. Cathi followed that up working for Strawberries, owned by the infamous Morris Levy and run for a short time...
2024-01-021h 142500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 76 Jason Sumney (4th & Broadway, Regional Office, Lincoln Center)Send us a textNot many people are “One Degree of Separation” from Kevin Bacon, but this week’s guest, Jason Sumney is. Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, the son of a rabid record collector, Jason started his retail music career while in HIgh School at National Record Mart, a locally based, national chain that at its peak had 175 stores in 30 states. Knowing all of the latest releases and the camaraderie he felt with his fellow employees made working in a record store the perfect job for Jason. It was after meeting someone...
2023-12-051h 062500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 75 Rob Chapman (Navarre, MCA, Sanctuary, Author)Send us a textRob Chapman likes The Rolling Stones. Wait…check that. Rob Chapman loooooves The Rolling Stones. Not only that, but he regularly corresponds with a couple of the guys in the band. Several years ago Rob wrote a book about a very interesting period in the band’s history, Ron Wood and Keith Richards’ side project The New Barbarians. Rob went deep on this project and the result is the book “New Barbarians: Outlaws, Gunslingers and Guitars”. So what does this have to do with Tower Records, you’re asking?
2023-11-281h 282500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 74 Bob Zimmerman (DC, Seattle, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, NYC)Send us a textBob worked for Tower Records 18.5 years. Washington DC, Seattle, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and Lincoln Center NYC. He loved working for Tower so much, he made a podcast about it. After multiple requests, he’s being interviewed for his story today. Our guest host/interviewer needs no introduction; that’s why we’re not going to tell you who it is unless you listen. In keeping with previous, lengthy Thanksgiving week episodes, today’s podcast is as long as the Taylor Swift movie, with just as ma...
2023-11-212h 372500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 73 Betsy Altomare (Night Manager Tower Records Sunset)Send us a text“The goal was to work at a record store and then everybody eventually wanted to work for a label. I envied the label guys and then I went and married one.” If the name Betsy Altomare sounds a bit familiar, there’s a reason for that. Back on episode number 33 we interviewed her husband Keith Altomare, who told us how he and Betsy met while she was the Night Manager at Tower Records Sunset in Los Angeles. Today we get to hear Betsy’s side of this story. Before si...
2023-11-1455 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 72 Mike Pompei (Tower Records, Posters & Advertising)Send us a textMike Pompei grew up in a big Italian family just outside of Buffalo NY. His family was very musical and it seemed to rub off on Mike, who currently plays wineries and breweries throughout Sacramento. At the age of 12, just as his generation of pop music was becoming a priority, the Pompei family moved to the sunny enviorns of Sacramento, California. Following in his older brother’s footsteps, Mike eventually went on to work at Tower Records Watt Avenue where Ken Sockolov was the Store Manager. Alternating between wor...
2023-11-071h 072500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 71 Christina Sharpe (NYC: East Harlem, Village, Lincoln Center)Send us a textChristina Sharpe grew up in New York City, mostly on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Growing up in a household where music was always being played and appreciated, Christina took her love of jazz and soul music and added twists of Duran Duran, Level 42 and early 80’s East Coast Hip Hop to her repertoire.Christina started her Tower career at the 85th & 3rd Avenue location with General Manager Mike Tannen. From there she worked at 4th & Broadway and ultimately finished her time with Tower at the Lincoln Center store in 2006....
2023-10-311h 002500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 70 Joe Medwick (SF, LA, NYC, TVID & More)Send us a textWhen The Beatles hit America, it came at about the perfect time for Joe Medwick. Just months earlier, when he was 7 years old, his father had passed away, a crushing moment in young Joe’s life. But it wasn’t as though The Beatles were his introduction to music. Joe had older brothers and sisters with album collections he borrowed and pored over. Joe says he felt like music being a central part of his life was preordained. Playing in bands at a very young age and listening to a...
2023-10-241h 282500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 69 Rob Tolleson (New Orleans, Dallas)Send us a textIn the middle of a very long shift, working to get the brand new Dallas, TX store open, Rob Tolleson had no idea why Kevin Cassidy wanted to go out for coffee with him. “I thought I was in trouble” was his first thought. When Cassidy asked if Rob had ever considered working in management, Tolleson told him that he had not for the simple fact that he hadn’t been on the sales floor in years. Cassidy responded that he had seen that Rob could work with everybody in the store, which was th...
2023-10-171h 132500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 68 Charles R. Cross (Author, Publisher, Customer)Send us a textCharles R. Cross isn’t our typical guest on 2500 DelMonte Street. He never ran a Tower store…never worked in a Tower store. But he had a lot of business and personal relationships with Tower Records, as well as being a steady customer. In the parking lot of the Tower Records at 5th & Mercer in Seattle, weeks before the release date, Charley first heard Nirvana’s “Nevermind” given to him on a Maxell XL II 90 by the store’s GM. Ten years later Charley would write and release what many consider to be the definiti...
2023-10-101h 282500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 67 Jim Barber (DC, NE Philly, King of Prussia)Send us a textJim Barber had a 19-year career with Tower Records. Starting in 1987, Jim worked in the Classical Department in Washington DC with Rob Bruce as the store’s General Manager. After only a year on the job, Tower decided to open a location in Tyson’s Corner VA and Jim was one of three employees to transfer to help get the new suburban location and its first-time General Manager, George Scarlett, up and running. Jim remembers his interview for Tyson’s Corner taking place outside the store, in the hallways of The Shops at 2000 Pennsy...
2023-10-031h 122500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 66 Miguel Ortuno (North Central Region Events Coordinator)Send us a textGrowing up in the suburbs of Chicago and a fan of female pop vocalists, Miguel Ortuno made his way to the then-new Tower Records store in Bloomingdale, IL to purchase his very first CD, “The Bodyguard” soundtrack featuring his favorite female singer, Whitney Houston. It wasn’t long after that Miguel applied for a job, was hired, and worked at the Bloomingdale location. Running the register, helping customers, and putting away product was a regular part of the job. But Miguel saw other opportunities at Tower. He became a Super...
2023-09-1938 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 65 Geoff Mayfield (Billboard Magazine)Send us a textGeoff Mayfield has had a long and illustrious career in the music business. Starting as an Editor for a Columbus, OH music magazine called “Focus”, it wasn’t long before Geoff found himself behind the microphone at WBBY jazz radio. Geoff’s background in both music journalism and radio stood out to an executive at Camelot Music, the mall-based music retailer based out of Canton, OH, and soon he found himself working at Camelot’s corporate offices. It was at Camelot that Geoff first became aware of Tower Records as...
2023-09-121h 532500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 64 Mike Redmond (Marina Del Ray, DC, Rockville MD)Send us a textWith a father who was primarily a jazz drummer, but would play all kinds of local pickup gigs (and still plays today at 87 years young) music came naturally to a blooming Mike Redmond. So it’s no surprise an early career in music retail came naturally to young Mike. Starting in Sherman Oaks under the tutelage of Dave Montes, Redmond found himself early on working for Craig Martin in Marina Del Rey. Working in a Supervisor role, then Video Sales Manager, and ultimately Record Sales Manager Mike was promoted to the position of Ge...
2023-09-051h 042500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 63 Scott Edward Phelps (Nashville & Annapolis)Send us a text“My interactions with the ‘higher ups’ after I moved to Annapolis largely consisted of [them saying] ‘When are you going to stop doing this?’ and me saying ‘You hired me to do the job, either fire me or shut the hell up ’ ” Scott Edward Phelps had an interesting journey at Tower Records. Moving to Nashville with his bandmates to strike out for a career in music, Scott concentrated on songwriting when half the band left Nashville when fame and fortune didn’t materialize. Though Scott had songs recorded and released, he al...
2023-08-291h 032500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 62 John Correa (TVID & Store Services)Send us a textIf you worked in a Tower Records store or at the corporate offices in Sacramento and had issues with a computer, chances are you probably talked to our guest this week, John Correa. Leaving his life as a member of a local Break Dance crew, John started working for Tower at the TVID warehouse in 1988. John’s first professional endeavor working a tech job was when he started doing data entry at TVID in 1990. From there, John’s landlord told him about a new department starting up to help...
2023-08-2257 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 61 Jen Gies (Clark Street Chicago, Nashville, Corporate Marketing)Send us a textThis week’s episode takes us away from the coasts and back into the heartland. Jen Gies is originally from Chicago and it was at Tower Records on Clark Street where she began her career with the company, hired in as a Holiday temp employee. As luck would have it, her first day working at Tower happened to be the same her favorite band was doing an in-store launch for their second album. Starting in the classical department, she moved into the Jazz Department when a spot opened.It...
2023-08-151h 062500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 60 Don Erwin (Tower Posters, California Posters)Send us a textDon Erwin started with Tower in 1972 and was a Manager for Tower Posters from 1973-1978. He worked for Dick Harris whose MTS Inc’s employee number was 1. Dick, Don and MTS eventually got smart and spun off Tower Posters' success by becoming California Posters, later CP Rock, one of the country’s premier distributors of counterculture posters. At one point California Posters sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of poster merchandise to most of Tower’s competition.And the paraphernalia business was like printing cash. Being flown to NYC an...
2023-08-081h 312500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 59 Travis Michael Anderson (Austin, TX and Seattle)Send us a textTravis Michael Anderson grew up in Yakima, WA more than 2 hours from Seattle. A classical brass player, Travis moved to the Bellevue WA area and applied to Tower Records Bellevue. He was turned down because he didn’t have enough retail experience. For the same reason he was turned down at Barnes & Noble and ended up working for Wherehouse Records. After dealing with Wherehouse's bankruptcy horrors and now having experience under his belt, he was hired at Barnes & Noble in Bellevue to work in their music department.A move to...
2023-08-011h 132500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 58 Tim Wessman (Art Department SF & NYC)Send us a textWhen Tim Wessman started working at Tower, it was never previously on his radar. Tim was immediately impressed by the level of devotion his co-workers had for music. He felt an immediate fit when he started working for Tower. With no portfolio he interviewed for the Artist position at the Berkley Video store and he was hired by Sue Peterson on the strength of his interview. At the end of 1990, Tim took a weekend trip to NYC and loved it so much that two months later he transferred to...
2023-07-251h 012500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 57 Greg Harrington (Burlington, Boston, Cambridge MA)Send us a text“College Boy” Greg Harrington started working at Tower Records Burlington MA and did so well on his first day of register, they threw him back in receiving to do pricing. Not the usual path to working in the receiving department, but our guest this week didn’t have a conventional career at Tower Records.Burlington MA, the big store on Boston’s Newbury Street and the Cambridge store were all part of Greg Harrington’s Tower journey. But in between all of that were stints at The Bos...
2023-07-181h 292500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 56 Pam Hopson (Payroll/Personnel)Send us a textPam Hopson first began working for Tower Records/MTS Inc. in 1976. But unlike many, Pam had to pay to get the job. One of the employment agencies Russ Solomon used back in the early days charged the employee and not just a little bit. Pam paid $400 in 1976 ($2,137 in 2023 dollars) to get a job doing what she did best at the time; running business machines, particularly a 10-key. Starting in the office with just 24 other employees Pam started in Sales Audit and then transferred to the Payroll Department.As...
2023-06-2749 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 55 John Fonvielle (Washington DC, Cherry Hill NJ, Paramus NJ)Send us a text
2023-06-201h 072500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 54 Charlie Clendenin (BMG Distribution)Send us a text
2023-06-131h 152500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 53 Russ Eisenman (Tower.com, Chief Marketing Officer Tower Records)Send us a textAs a 13 year old from Southern California Russ Eisenman listened to KROQ, stole quarters from his step-father’s nightstand and went to Tower Records in Campbell to buy cassettes recommended to him by one of the store’s clerks. This opened up Russ’ depth and knowledge of popular music.Many years later Russ Eisenman started with Tower Records working at Tower.com . By 2002 Russ was Tower's Chief Marketing Officer. And that clerk from the Campbell store? He rose to Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Universal Music Group, as Rus...
2023-06-061h 102500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 52 Bill Duffy (Philly, Nanuet, Midwest Regional, VP North American Operations)Send us a textBill Duffy was from a particular generation of Tower Store Managers; started in the mid 80’s to early 90’s, spent 15-20 years with the company and was still looked upon as a “newbie”. But Bill broke that mold big time to both the joy and concern of the seasoned and hardened Tower Managers and Regionals. Bill was a General Manager for only 6 years before being promoted into a Regional Manager capacity; light speed in Tower’s culture. And two years later to be promoted to Vice Presid...
2023-05-3058 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 51 One Year Anniversary with Stan Goman (COO of Tower Records)Send us a textIt’s our one year Anniversary and we’ve got former Tower Records COO Stan Goman back to answer listener submitted questions! It's a lively episode and Stan tells us his favorite episode of “2500 DelMonte Street”, Stan’s Desert Island Discs, Tower’s funniest in store, Stan’s going away party from the Sunset store, his time as a Country Music Association Board member and what he said that pissed off Clint Black, Frannie Marsalis’ almost forgotten role in the company, battles between Russ & Bud, Stan’s reaction to the “Art Gods” film, the Tower...
2023-05-231h 182500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 50 Billy DePasquale (4th & Broadway, Lincoln Center, WEA Distribution)Send us a textImagine working in the largest, most prestigious record store in Manhattan in the 1980’s. Now imagine doing that twice. Today’s guest, Billy DePasquale started his record retail career at the largest record store in Manhattan, Sam Goody in Rockefeller Center, in September of 1980. Tower Records wouldn’t land in Manhattan for another 3 years. One event that stands out during his time at Sam Goody is the day after John Lennon was murdered and the lines to get into the store to buy John Lennon and Beatles records.Billy...
2023-05-1656 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 49 Arthur Moorhead (Columbus & Bay, ECM, Rhino & Nonesuch Records)Send us a textWas Arthur Moorhead the greatest jazz buyer that ever worked at Tower Records? Stan Goman believes that is the case. Growing up in Arizona, Arthur became a proficient trombone player and obsessed with jazz, movie soundtracks and orchestral music. By his own admission he was almost completely ignorant of pop music, except The Beatles. As a young teenager, his weekends consisted of hopping on a bus with a friend and making the rounds of Arizona record storeslooking for records. Eventually he worked for a local record store called Recordland in Phoenix and Mesa...
2023-05-091h 062500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 48 Jay Gilbert (Tower Portland & "Your Morning Coffee" Newsletter & PodcastSend us a textJay Gilbert started his Tower career working at Tower Portland with legends like Rick Briare and Tim Cressinger. Prior to Tower, Jay worked at Rising Sun Records in Salem Oregon. That record store experience laid the foundation for a career in the music business that anyone could be jealous of.After working for Tower Records, Jay worked with both MCA and Sony calling on Tower Records as his National account. Jay tells us about calling on the folks at corporate and who he still considers a good friend...
2023-05-021h 002500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 47 Howard Cespedes (Mountain View & NYC 4th & Broadway)Send us a textHoward Cespedes worked at seven Tower Records locations during his 19-year career. He's best known for his three stints at the Mountain View CA store and his five year tenure at the 4th & Broadway location in Manhattan.Born on Guam and growing up in Northern California, Howard was a life-long jazz fan, starting with his father’s Duke Ellington recordings he discovered. His first time shopping at Tower Watt Avenue, he was taken by the jazz section size and got lost in it.St...
2023-04-2551 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 46 Dan Navarro (Westwood)Send us a textDan Navarro has had a long & fruitful career in the recording industry. He released 13 albums as part of the duo Lowen & Navarro and was frequently featured on Adult Alternative radio. He recently released his solo album “Horizon Line” featuring a who’s who of LA studio talent. As a bilingual singer and voice actor he’s sang in Oscar winners “Encanto”, “Coco” and “Happy Feet”. He co-wrote Pat Benatar’s hit song “We Belong”, in an era when people actually bought albums and 45 rpm singles. And he’s currently out on tour about to make a major East Coast t...
2023-04-111h 172500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 45 Kevin Ertell (Las Vegas, Panorama City, Sherman Oaks, IT, Tysons Corner, SVP of Tower.com)Send us a textThe last time Kevin Ertell saw Russ Solomon, at the premiere of “All Things Must Pass”, Russ walked up to him and the first thing out of his mouth was, “Kevin! Can you believe what those fuckers have done to our website!?” During his time as SVP of Tower.com, Kevin spent many an afternoon in Russ Solomon’s office while Russ peppered him with questions about online retailing from a recent article he had read. It was time that Kevin cherished. Kevin had a wide and varied career at T...
2023-04-041h 022500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records044 Jackson Griffith (Stockton, Las Vegas, PULSE! Magazine)Send us a text“That was the first time that music really hit me on an emotional level” says this week’s guest, Jackson Griffith, when discussing the first time he heard The Beach Boys. Jackson came from a broken home and a friend of his mother gave him a transistor radio where he first discovered & loved early Motown and the 60’s girl groups. It was at his first concert in 1969 that he heard a band, Santana, two months before their debut album was released.Jackson tried for a long time to get a jo...
2023-03-281h 112500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 43 Carl Michelakos (16th & Bway, MCA Distribution, Bayside Distribution)Send us a text“This is the worst handwriting I’ve ever seen” is a pretty common refrain this week’s guest has heard throughout his career in the music business. His standard reply was “Are you hiring me for my handwriting or are you hiring me for my music knowledge?” After you listen to this episode, you’ll agree that Carl Michelakos was continually hired for his dizzyingly precise music expertise. His recall of songs, artists, dates and chart positions is downright academic.Carl started with Tower Records in 1968, but was shopping in the record departm...
2023-03-211h 132500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 42 Shauna Pompei (Sr. VP of Human Resources)Send us a textBorn in Roseville, CA Shauna Pompei grew up in a house with a mother who dreamt of becoming an opera singer. The house was always full of music, mostly easy listening and movie soundtracks played on the family’s living room console. Shauna’s mother could be heard singing in their house regularly. When The Beach Boys and The Beatles hit, Shauna found herself and her music.Like a number of women that went on to head up departments at MTS, Inc, Shauna was sent to Tower’s small...
2023-03-141h 002500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 41 Phil Myers (Sac, NYC, Chicago & Regional Director)Send us a textWhen Phil Myers started working at the TRIP warehouse during the 1986 holidays, he was taken by the sight of Earl Martis driving a forklift around the facility. Earl had a Miller Light in one hand and a Tiparillo in his mouth. Making sure to work hard, unlike some of his colleagues, Phil had every expectation to stay on when the holidays were over. Nonetheless, he was laid off from his temporary assignment by Earl Martis.A couple of years later Phil found himself in NYC and his brother...
2023-03-071h 012500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 40 Ray Edwards (National Classical Merchandise Manager)Send us a textRay Edwards Classical music journey started in the 3rd grade through a friend’s mother who was a Classical violinist. Ray enjoyed the music education he received in school and went to college interested in Music Education, but suddenly stopped that program and took a job at Penn Records at 18th & Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Ray would later work at H. Royer Smith Records, the oldest record store in Philadelphia (opened in 1908). In the early 1970’s when a friend headed west to San Francisco, word came back that Ray had to move out ther...
2023-02-281h 032500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 39 Ryan Bland (Loss Prevention Lincoln Center NYC)Send us a text“Hey, you don’t remember me but you caught me stealing CDs at Tower Records once” is the kind of remark a singer remembers after stepping off stage following an energetic, raucous performance; and that’s exactly what happened to Ryan Bland. Growing up in Beaumont, Texas Ryan Bland dreamt of life in the big city. As an African American kid into New Wave music and Prince, he didn’t fit into the all black high school he attended where he acquired a unique music related nickname.
2023-02-211h 022500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 38 Randi Morton Swindel (Bay Area, NYC, NE Regional Mgr)Send us a text“When Russ found out I was on the union side? He literally came up to me and went for my throat”Randi Morton Swindel was working at Columbus & Bay when that store took a union vote in the mid 1970’s and the union lost. And despite being opposite Russ Solomon, Randi Morton Swindel proved to be one of Russ’ all time favorite employees. This week on “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” we talk with Randi, who was born in San Francisco and...
2023-02-141h 032500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 37 John Thrasher (Bay Area, VP of Tower Video)Send us a textBorn in Bakersfield, CA and attending college in Berkley, John Thrasher got the bug to work in College Radio with a regular show on KPFA. Older than the average Tower employee when he started, John’s first day on the job was the week John Lennon was killed. He remembers that his first weeks on the job the store was getting rid of 8 Track tapes and wouldn’t buy records from MCA as there was a dispute between MCA and Tower at the time. Hired by Randi Morton (later...
2023-02-071h 292500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 36 Craig Martin (Sac, London, Marina Del Ray)Send us a text“You can’t fire me!” Was it an inside joke this week’s guest shared with friends and confidants or was it a statement of fact, out there in the open? Craig Martin, son of Tower Records CFO Walter “Bud” Martin started working at the 16th & Broadway store in the summer of 1975 at age 15 with Carl Michelakos as the store’s General Manager. As a young man he got turned on to a variety of jazz guitar players and went down that road learning all that he could...
2023-01-311h 042500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 35 Bob Kaufman (Gen Mgr Asian Development & SVP Business Development and International Franchising)Send us a textGrowing up in Encinco CA and regularly shopping the Sherman Oaks Tower Records, Bob Kaufman had a fake i.d. as an underage teenager. It wasn’t to buy beer, but to sneak into the local clubs to see his favorite touring bands play. Booking concerts at University of California Santa Barbara as well as doing air shifts on the college radio station, Bob knew he had to one day work in the work in the music business. So where did he start out? Where thousands of music and...
2023-01-241h 012500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 34 Despina Panagoulias (Tyson's Corner, Alexandria, Rockville, Mid-Atlantic PD & TD)Send us a textBorn in New York City to Greek parents, Despina “Debbie” Panagoulias eventually moved to Greece because her father, Alkis Panagoulias was a national Celebrity as the Manager of the Greek National Soccer team (think Bill Belichick). Growing up, it was her Mother’s love of American culture and that introduced Despina into popular music. At age 15 Despina and her family moved to the Washington DC area as her father took a job as he head coach of the United States men’s national soccer team and was later...
2023-01-171h 062500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 33 Keith Altomare (IRS Records, Rhino Records)Send us a textImagine growing up in a little town in New Jersey, sharing Beatles albums with your older sister while your Mom is listening to Frank Sinatra and Herb Albert all the time. You find your place in the world being “the music guy” at school. Fold that into time working at the College radio station and then an entry level job at an upstart indie label called IRS Records where your first day on the job the Go Go’s debut album hits #1 on the Album Chart. Later that week th...
2023-01-1054 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 32 Julie Bianucci (Travel & Meetings Department Manager)Send us a textThis week’s guest, Julie Bianucci, was only 18 years old, far away from her hometown of Lake Tahoe, NV and fresh out of secretarial school when she went to interview for a job at a company she’d never heard of, MTS, Inc. For over 10 years Julie was Tony Valerie’s Executive Secretary. In addition to telling us about Tony Valerio as a boss and a person, she walks us through the Accounts Payable process for those who want to know. Following Stan Goman’s initiativ...
2023-01-0352 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 31 Jon Kerlikowske (Arizona, Nashville)Send us a textJoining Tower Records in 1978 Jon Kerlikowske spent 14 years working and running stores like Tempe, Christown and Mesa (plus one year working for Handleman) before leaving for the bright lights of Nashville, TN. Jon talks about the charm of running a store in Nashville where the country singers were real people you would see around town, bumping into them in the Grocery store or the local movie theatre. In Nashville the yearly focus appeared to be on the week long Fan Fair (now known as...
2022-12-2756 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 30 Rudy Danzinger (Tower Books, Tower Outlet)Send us a textGrowing up in the 1930’s in Cincinnati OH, Rudy Danzinger’s parents weren’t music listeners. Lionel Hampton was Rudy’s first major exposure to music and because of that single live performance he became a fan of big band music. Moving to California, Rudy took a job as manager of a local record store, Marin Music, in Mill Valley CA. Rudy innovated early on; soliciting record orders from the area businesses as well as hooking up a speaker near the store’s front door causing customers to come in off...
2022-12-2053 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 29 Mike Farrace (PULSE! Magazine)Send us a textBefore he started working for Tower Records Watt Avenue in 1975, today’s guest Mike Farrace had already run a Sacramento music magazine called “Rock & Roll News”. Following three years working at Tower Records Watt Avenue under Store Manager Mike Koontz, Farrace started working for Tower Advertising. Mike tells us all about his time as Northwest Advertising Ad Manager, chasing down labels and blank tape companies for advertising dollars. Yet the whole time he was in Advertising, Farrace was thinking about starting up a Music Magazine that would be a Tower...
2022-12-131h 032500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 28 Brandi Merolla (Art Dept #125 Village NYC) Plus A Tribute To Patti DrosinsSend us a textBorn to a single, loving, hippie mother and possessing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers, Brandi Merolla didn’t recognize the brightly lit storefront at 4th & Broadway. She was on her way home in the fall of 1983 when she came upon this neon temple. As she walked up to open the door, she saw a sign that said “HELP WANTED”. Brandi asked for an application and when the clerk at the Info Desk saw her resume and her art background she told Brandi “Why don’t you apply f...
2022-12-061h 062500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 27 Dave Mulholland (Seattle/Austin)Send us a textDave Muholland grew up greatly influenced by the musical taste of his older sister as well as the music he was hearing in Northern Virginia record stores like Penguin Feather and Kemp Mill Records. In fact, he spent so much time hanging out at Penguin Feather while he was under 18, he got a job cutting lawns and cleaning up the parking lot and received his payment in records. Dave’s English teacher in High School was Virginia Grohl, mother of a drummer who eventually moved to the Seattle area...
2022-11-291h 162500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 26 George Scarlett (Record Division/Retail Ops)Send us a text“If you don’t have the product customer’s want, but you have a lot of the product customer’s don’t want, why bother opening your doors?” was a line that this week’s guest, George Scarlett, wrote in one of his famous memos to the field. That single sentence stuck with me throughout my time at Tower and in various situations in other jobs. With one simple sentence, George summed up what every Tower Management team should have been trying to accomplish in properly ordering the correct product mix for their store. ...
2022-11-222h 422500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 25 Jerry Pompei (Sac, CVRR, Tower Video, A-Team)Send us a textJerry Pompei got turned onto music partially because he had two older brothers that worked for Tower Records; Tom and Mike Pompei. Promo albums came home regularly and Jerry took the time to listen to what his brothers were leaving behind. Shortly after he turned 18, Jerry started working at the Tower Broadway location in Sacramento. Jerry jokes with us that he holds the record for having had the most bosses and it’s true he worked in a lot of different stores and departments; Broadway Records, CVRR, Watt Ave...
2022-11-151h 082500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 24 Carla Henson (Main Office, TRIP, Bayside)Send us a textIn 1971 Carla Henson went to interview for a Summer job at the Tower Records headquarters in Sacramento. She got the job and she stayed with it for the better part of 30 years. Her original workplace was at a desk in between Walter “Bud” Martin and Russ Solomon. Later, Carla worked for John Schier, Stan Goman and Chris Hopson. When she started with the company, there were only 5 people working at the Main Office. Carla Henson had a hell of a ride and a front row seat to the genesis...
2022-11-081h 032500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 23 Jon Burk (Capitol/CEMA Distribution) Phila, NYC, Boston, LASend us a textJon Burk grew up in South New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. In the mid 70’s he was a teenage Beatles fanatic and all he wanted to do as a young man was work in a record store. Jon never worked at Tower Records, but he did put in his time, working several years for the Listening Booth record chain where he specialized in doing displays, i.e. visual merchandising. He made his move to the distribution side after banning the local CEMA Distribution merchandiser for pro...
2022-11-011h 052500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 22 Tom Rule (Sac, Bay Area, Nashville, Ann Arbor, Chicago)Send us a text“It was better than going to college. I wouldn’t have traded it for anything,” is how this week’s guest, Tom Rule, describes his 20-year tenure with Tower Records. Tom started his career at a small indie record store in California called Condor Records. As it happened, his first day on the job was the day Elvis Presley died and for a while he didn’t understand why everyone was calling the store with questions about Elvis Presley records. Twenty years with Tower included sti...
2022-10-2555 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 21 Monica Ricardez (West Covina, Mexico City, National Latin Music Coordinator)Send us a textBorn in Mexico City, raised in Chicago and moved to California at age 12, Monica Ricardez started her career with Tower Records as a clerk in West Covina. She got a call two days after submitting her application and filling out Bob Fetter’s famous 2 page music quiz. Rotating between the record floor and the Classical Department, Monica also worked in the unique position known as Label Auditor doing inventories for specific record distributors before Tower had computerized inventory tools. Leaving Tower and moving to Mexico City to open a business with a fr...
2022-10-181h 082500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 20 Mark Ryan (Tower Canada)Send us a textThis week’s guest, Mark Ryan, is Canadian. Don’t let that stop you from listening. Mark was on site the very first day of building the Tower Records store in Toronto, ON and he was the last person to lock the doors six years later. “To this day, it’s still the best job I ever had. It was a dream job”. On this episode of the “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” podcast, Mark fills in all the spaces in between. Mark talks to us about...
2022-10-111h 082500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 19 Dave Coker (Sac, LA, Seattle)Send us a textThis week’s guest, Dave Coker, was shopping at the original Tower Records location in Sacramento when he was 10 years old. When he started working at the Tower Broadway store in 1968, the San Francisco Tower store had just opened and soon the world of music retail would open itself up to Coker Dave. Going to College and doing Military service while working on and off for Tower in 1973, Dave was riding his bike down the street when Russ Solomon flagged him down and asked him if he wanted to go to a ne...
2022-10-041h 002500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 18 Sharon Vitro (Boston, Nanuet, Sunset)Send us a textThis week’s guest has an extensive music retail resume. Prior to working at Tower Records Sharon Vitro worked for Record Town, a New England music retailer for six years. She ran stores in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts before quitting over a ridiculous corporate policy. The next day Sharon was working at Tower Records on 360 Newbury Street where she worked for 5 years, briefly with Greg Wallis and then with Robert Stapleton. Leaving Boston, she worked for Tower throughout the country with a who’s who of some of Tow...
2022-09-2759 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 17 Clint Johns (Tower Magazines)Send us a textIf you had to bet which employee of Tower Records had visited the Playboy Mansion the most, who would you bet on? Russ Solomon? Robert Stapleton? Stan Goman? Robert Stapleton? Bob Feterl? If I could place an actual wager on this bet in Vegas, I’d take my life savings and bet it was Robert Stapleton. But I’d be very wrong and very poor. Clint Johns visited the Playboy Mansion more than any other Tower Records employee, visiting 2-3 times a year and he even once lost track of one of hi...
2022-09-201h 022500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 16 Kevin Cassidy (Bay Area, SW Regional, Exec VP Retail Ops)Send us a text“He was the most important factor in any type of music education I had” says this week’s guest Kevin Cassidy in reference to his father. Kevin grew up on the streets of Philadelphia and pretty quickly grew into a jazz-loving, doo-wop appreciating, Beatles album buying, James Brown revering pre-teen and teenager. As a teenager Kevin quickly found a double date to a Blind Faith/Frank Zappa concert wasn’t the best way to score with the ladies (“You’ll never take me out again”), but it laid the groundwork to Mr. Cassidy’s exploration of...
2022-09-131h 152500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 15 Wendy Powell (Executive Asst. to Stan Goman)Send us a text“It was all music, all the time” is the way our guest this week, Wendy Powell, describes growing up in a family where her father was a musician traveling around the country playing in a variety of bands and styles. That love of all things music led to Wendy working at Tower Records in Stockton, CA. Her first meeting with her boss from the future, Stan Goman, consisted of him telling her to get her receiving department cleaned up. From there, Wendy wanted to hit the bright lights of NYC. Instead she en...
2022-09-0656 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 14 Zev Feldman (Resonance Records, Blue Note, Jazz Detective)Send us a text“I don’t think I ever recovered from Tower going away” Zev Feldman tells us towards the end of this episode.If you worked at Tower Records on the East Coast, you most certainly worked with Zev Feldman. Starting as a salesman for Polygram Distribution, young Zev covered Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. A visit from Zev Feldman was full of energy, enthusiasm and a pure music fan’s zeal. Later Zev had a stint with Rhino Records as the Northeastern Classical & Jazz Sales ManagerWhen Tower Re...
2022-08-3059 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 13 Keith Cahoon Pt. 2 (Tower Japan)Send us a textYou’ve gotten the call to go to Japan and run Tower Records Asian Operations…now what? In part two of our podcast interview with Keith Cahoon, he takes us through his journey navigating the record business in a place that originally didn't want Tower Records to succeed. In fact, initially, many of the major Japanese record companies would not sell to Tower Records. But that didn’t deter Keith Cahoon and his team (after taking over from Mark Viducich & Stan Barton) from moving forward and building one of the largest retail b...
2022-08-2359 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 12 Keith Cahoon Pt. 1 (Tower Japan)Send us a textWhen you're a carpenter and it's getting into the rainy/cold season, what do you do for employment? If you're Keith Cahoon, you apply for a job at Tower Records, which you expect to last for a total of 3 months. Working at Tower, then leaving, then getting hired back and then leaving again was a regular occurrence for Keith. Staying with Tower Records provided Keith an opportunity of a lifetime, though he didn't know it right away. Keiths first seven years with Tower were in the US. Seemingly out of...
2022-08-1644 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 11 Rick Dorsey (LA: West Covina, Westwood)Send us a textRick Dorsey is a 20 year Tower Records veteran. Starting his career in West Covina in 1986, Dorsey also worked at, and then in May of 1992 (the first day of the LA riots) ran, the Westwood, Los Angeles store until 1995. Rick ultimately went back to West Covina where he worked until 2006 when Tower Records went out of business. But long before he worked for Tower, Rick had the bug of being a major music fan. His older sister brought home records by The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Ramones and she turned Ri...
2022-08-091h 092500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 10 Suzy Leydenfrost (Village, Video East Coast Reg Mgr, Lincoln Center)Send us a textIn 1984 Suzy Leydonfrost was attending the School of Visual Arts in NYC, when she decided that scene wasn’t for her. A friend who had a job at Tower Records in the Village told her she’d get her a job interview. What happened during that interview was pretty outlandish, but Suzy got the job and her journey with Tower Records began. In this episode of “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower Records” Suzy Leydonfrost describes the energy of mid 80’s Manhattan as well as her ascent with Tower Recor...
2022-08-0251 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 9 Robert Stapleton (Sunset, El Toro, Boston, Corporate)Send us a textOnce Upon A Time In Hollywood, a young man named Robert Stapleton applied for a job at Tower Records at the age of 15. He got the gig and he worked at the landmark Sunset Strip Store from 1970-1979. He was later store Manager of El Toro, CA and in the late 80’s ran the store on Newbury Street in Boston, as well as being the New England Regional Manager. He ended his career in 2001 as National Director of Field Marketing. In his 31 years with Tower Records, Robert Stapleton saw and did a lo...
2022-07-261h 112500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 8 Terri Williams (Tower Advertising)Send us a textTerri Williams started working at Tower owned Central Valley Record Racks in 1975 at 15 years old. In 1978 when she talked about going to College, Russ Solomon told her “Stick with us, kid. I’ll make you a star!” Terri was hired by Chris Hopson in the newly formed Tower Advertising Department. For the next 32 years she helped Chris Hopson and Tower Records establish a first rate Advertising Department. In 1982 Terri became the New York City Regional Marketing Manager, working to help establish Tower 4th & Broadway a full year before the store opened. Terri th...
2022-07-191h 042500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp.7 Tim Devin (Mt View, DC, Paramus, Village, Lincoln Ctr, NY Regional)Send us a textTim Devin started working record retail in the Bay Area for Wherehouse Records. On new release dates, he would have to drive to the Tower Records Campbell store on his lunch hour to pick up New Releases as Wherehouse wouldn’t receive theirs until 4 or 5 days later. Finally realizing he needed to be working for Tower, he applied at Tower Records Mountain View where he was hired by Assistant Manager Barbara Williamson. Tim transferred to the Washington DC store shortly after Mountain View Store Manager Kevin Ferreter moved to DC and ent...
2022-07-121h 092500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 6 Dalia Goldgor (Rockville, Alexandria, DC, Event Coordinator)Send us a textFor someone who spent two years campaigning for a minimum wage job at Tower Records Rockville, Dalia Goldgor ended up with quite a career with the company. In this episode, we talk with Dalia about the role music played in her early life, surrounded by Ukrainian and Russian family members singing folks songs at dinner parties, her much older brother turning an 8 year old Dalia onto The Smiths, Queen and Blondie, our shared love of Prince, managing her first store at Tower Records Alexandria and the night Dave Grohl forgot his wallet while w...
2022-07-051h 022500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 5 Erik Flannigan (Writer, Archivist, Music Manager)Send us a textErik Flannigan is a writer, music archivist and Manager currently based out of Los Angeles. He started shopping at Tower Records in Tacoma, WA thanks to a yearly Gift Certificate a relative would send him each Christmas. He worked at Tower Records Tacoma for one year with Jeff Prey as GM and Tony Siegel as Assistant Manager. He would go on to be Editor of Backstreets Magazine and a staff member of Seattle's legendary music paper, The Rocket. Flannigan left Seattle for LA in 1992 and was on the forefront of web b...
2022-06-2854 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 4 Joel Abramson (Sunset, Israel, Corporate)Send us a textJoel Abramson had a unique & varied career with Tower Records. A native New Yorker, he found his calling in the City of the Angels, helped open up Tower Internationally by laying claim to Israel and finished his career at the Corporate Office in Sacramento as Director of Purchasing. Joel talks to us about the cocky (his words) first interview with Bob Delanoy, working in the Sunset store when some mornings there were more rock stars than staff on the sales floor, the trials and tribulations of Tower Israel and why in t...
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OpiumHet gesprek - Bob Zimmerman (17 juni 2022)Presentator Hans Schiffers in gesprek met componist en arrangeur Bob Zimmerman.
Opium soot de stembussen vrijdag 17 juni voor de stemweek van de Filmmuziek top 50. Om Radio 4-luisteraars nog van tips te voorzien, op welke filmmuziek men op de valreep moet gaan stemmen, heeft Opium (film)componist en arrangeur Bob Zimmerman uitgenodigd.
Zimmerman componeerde de filmscores van 'De Avonden', 'Tirza' en 'Süskind' van regisseur Rudolf van den Berg en documentaires a's 'De nieuwe wildernis' en 'Holland: Natuur in de Delta'. Ook maakte hij arrangementen voor Holland Symfonia en Variété Symphonique met Loes Luca en F...
2022-06-1753 min2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 3 Diane Rea (Beaverton OR, San Francisco)Send us a textDiane Rea started out as a teenager with Tower Records in Oregon, but that wasn’t her first experience working in professional entertainment. Diane talks to us about her time at the Beaverton, OR store and what the phrase “Manager’s Meeting” meant, her move to San Francisco’s Columbus & Bay store after a disastrous interview with Ken Sockolov, and why ending her career at the Market & Noe store was a perfect ending to her Tower Records career.
2022-06-141h 022500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 2 Stan Goman Part 2Send us a textIn this second interview with former Tower Records COO Stan Goman, he tells us about his transition from the field to the Main Office, his relationship with Russ Solomon, why Tower Records never opened stores in Florida, did Apple Computers approach Tower Records to sell the new iMacs in 1998, how fancy restaurants chosen by the record labels didn’t impress him and how he dealt with his departure from Tower Records when he was let go at the end. All this and more in this episode of “2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower...
2022-06-071h 082500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsEp. 1 Stan Goman Part 1Send us a textFormer Tower Records Chief Operating Officer Stan Goman talks about the early days working at Tower Drugstore up to his time running stores in Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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2500 DelMonte Street: The Oral History of Tower RecordsSneak Peak: Welcome to "2500 DelMonte St: The Oral History of Tower Records"Send us a textIn this episode your host, Bob Zimmerman, details the reasons behind launching a weekly podcast exploring the ins & outs of the World's greatest Record Store chain, Tower Records.
2022-05-1405 min
BartholomewtownThe Year in Space, with Bob Zimmerman (Behind the Black)Send us a textBill Bartholomew welcomes nationally renowned space and science journalist Bob Zimmerman, publisher of Behind the Black, for a discussion on the major developments in commercial space in 2021. Support the show
2021-11-1926 min
De componistenkamerBob ZimmermanComponist en arrangeur Bob Zimmerman opent de deur van zijn werkkamer. Hier staat zijn dierbare vleugel, een oude dame die het nodige heeft meegemaakt. Een piepklein borstbeeldje van Ludwig van Beethoven staat niet ver van de lessenaar, want zijn liefde voor Beethoven is sinds zijn jeugd onverminderd groot. In al zijn werk zit wel ergens een hint naar Beethoven. Het is niet te doen om hier een lijst te noteren met alle werken en arrangementen die de 72-jarige Bob Zimmerman tot nu toe in zijn leven heeft geschreven. Om toch een idee te geven: filmmuziek schreef hij onder andere bij...
2021-10-2334 min
A Trophy Life: The Naismith Trophy PodcastEmory University's Men's Head Coach: Jason ZimmermanThis week, join Bob Rathbun as he chats with Emory's Men’s Head basketball Coach Jason Zimmerman! Jason is a three-time winner of the Atlanta Tipoff Club’s Whack Hyder Men’s Georgia Collegiate Coach of the Year!WANT TO SUPPORT A TROPHY LIFE?Leave a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your feedback only helps make the show better, and we appreciate your support!For more information about the Naismith Trophy Award, visit our home on the web.http://naismithtrophy.com/This Episod...
2021-10-0119 min
BartholomewtownBob Zimmerman (Space and Science Journalist, "Behind The Black")Send us a textBill Bartholomew welcomes Bob Zimmerman, the person behind the website Behind The Black for a conversation on all things space. How might the 2020 elections impact space exploration and technology? What are some of the key issues and projects the U.S. is involved in the space exploration and technology sectors?FOLLOW: twitter.com/billbartholomewSUPPRT: venmo @billbartholomew | paypal.me/billbartholomew | Patreon.com/bartholomewtown Support the show
2020-10-2332 min
Bucky's BunkerBob Zimmerman, PGAWelcome to another addition of Bucky’s Bunker on our Miami Valley Golf Podcast!
The purpose of these podcasts is to record stories of our game’s rich history, interview interesting people and share information to help all of us enjoy this wonderful sport just a little bit more.
In this Podcast we interview legendary area golfer, Bob Zimmerman, PGA and welcome back to our area.
2020-06-1746 min
The Bob Johnston PodcastCEO of St. Louis Blues (Stanley Cup Holders) – Chris ZimmermanSt. Louis Blues CEO, Chris Zimmerman, discusses what lessons in storytelling, trust and how you behave can be gleaned from running a sports team (Tim cut his teeth in advertising and c-level roles at Nike and Saatchi & Saatchi). We also cover the amazing ‘story’ of how the Blues came all the way from last place and won the Stanley Cup, his time as a player and coach at the collegiate level, the importance of being coachable regardless of your stage of career, why today's pro athlete is a "specialist," how Chris re-engaged Tiger Woods while at Nike...and much more...
2020-06-0853 min
Molten Sulfur PodcastBob Bartlett‘Ice captain’ Bob Bartlett was a fearless navigator and explorer – and makes a terrific NPC!
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2020-01-2805 min