{"id":14908,"date":"2021-03-25T20:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2021-03-25T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:42:50","slug":"twisted-sister-founding-member-and-music-executive-jay-jay-french-delves-into-podcasting-with-the-jay-jay-french-connection-beyond-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/03\/25\/twisted-sister-founding-member-and-music-executive-jay-jay-french-delves-into-podcasting-with-the-jay-jay-french-connection-beyond-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Sister Founding Member and Music Executive Jay Jay French Delves into Podcasting with \u201cThe Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond the Music\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the nearly 50 years since founding heavy metal institution&nbsp;<strong>Twisted Sister<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>John \u201cJay Jay\u201d French<\/strong>&nbsp;has sold over 20 million records, collected 37 gold and platinum albums, headlined many of the world&#8217;s largest music festivals in 38 countries, and now is now adding podcasting to his resume with&nbsp;<strong>The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond the Music<\/strong>.<br><em>\u201cWhat makes my podcast stand out is the close personal relationships that I have with most of my guests,\u201d<\/em><strong>French<\/strong>&nbsp;says.&nbsp;<em>\u201cThis allows them a kind of safety&nbsp;zone where they will tell me stories and experiences that you just won&#8217;t hear anywhere else.\u201d<\/em><br>On&nbsp;<strong>The Jay Jay French Connection<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>French<\/strong>&nbsp;brings an enormous&nbsp;wealth of knowledge&nbsp;that stretches beyond music business. His natural curiosity results in wide-ranging conversations with a variety of well-known musicians, authors, actors, wrestler\/musicians, managers, celebrity chefs, TV and movie directors and writers.<br>New episodes of&nbsp;<strong>The Jay Jay French Connection<\/strong>&nbsp;are available every Tuesday on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001KRJbTGmlKCZ3MMdNat1rm3b1mroA582BZZ3Lfi4bDTsA4mF1uur2gcgnSxGI-K8RaLwUY6i5Ro8nUPLwg70qVMa5-AtBtH8DX8nQtMXY6oehQklusUQiNQNUsCOFM0vwg0wTbhl_EReRs9dDABLXTejPtOy5hXXTvG9GCOC428Ez9ncwmWAgYg==&amp;c=w9RWMe7-wNiBCXimbqJV3AoV9duwM9hDpd7W-FwpAAtgaBltQvwFGw==&amp;ch=P_MrhG3ycIjlIN862MYEU2-jNHwbje2GwGgzXGodBSzYEff9O7FfPw==\">Spotify<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001KRJbTGmlKCZ3MMdNat1rm3b1mroA582BZZ3Lfi4bDTsA4mF1uur2gcgnSxGI-K8RaNV_6ChI5N3QLJiNgyIYH_TEW63rQvyhS7rB3ZHUIGoUZSp0JKsdTgOeIvQydT__3DQWHAMcQdU6oBA_eWwrUkMBBtPWIBSdp_IndmQigQTHGTJST6Rw5qxXj4FCk1axkmmMrAIuxVj3PbMwJo9zyQJoy9VVnqfEkNAWvn5-tGhx7PP2rh7dTswH_zZwUwVO&amp;c=w9RWMe7-wNiBCXimbqJV3AoV9duwM9hDpd7W-FwpAAtgaBltQvwFGw==&amp;ch=P_MrhG3ycIjlIN862MYEU2-jNHwbje2GwGgzXGodBSzYEff9O7FfPw==\">Apple Music<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001KRJbTGmlKCZ3MMdNat1rm3b1mroA582BZZ3Lfi4bDTsA4mF1uur2gcgnSxGI-K8R1xv98NZldY8G6X75YUmAVrmq-oMV9C7XjjvglSnmpNRG84A2v5iXy3BsfUnweBuXCJGSWZWa7SM7Tz5Mf6F25K_2n21Ukv4BAxzIEZDkPKwHOymBqtEF8XUE3VvDjhSdHTDLJF1hPijLDWbjV9VRNBFoyCXyGZsNW_7dm2kfTOdifesHNZcmEIK056WvuuQm&amp;c=w9RWMe7-wNiBCXimbqJV3AoV9duwM9hDpd7W-FwpAAtgaBltQvwFGw==&amp;ch=P_MrhG3ycIjlIN862MYEU2-jNHwbje2GwGgzXGodBSzYEff9O7FfPw==\">PodcastOne<\/a>. Upcoming guests include guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Steve Vai<\/strong>, DJ&nbsp;<strong>Eddie Trunk<\/strong>, actor&nbsp;<strong>Michael Imperioli<\/strong>, guiatarist&nbsp;<strong>Eddie Ojeda<\/strong>, legendary manager&nbsp;<strong>Doc McGhee<\/strong>, music industry veteran&nbsp;<strong>Dorothy Carvello<\/strong>, radio\/podcast personality&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Harbinger<\/strong>, guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Joe Bonamassa<\/strong>, producer&nbsp;<strong>Eddie Kramer<\/strong>&nbsp;and talent manager&nbsp;<strong>Shep Gordon<\/strong>.<br>Highlights of previous episodes have included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Drummer&nbsp;<strong>Mike Portnoy<\/strong>&nbsp;discussing replacing&nbsp;<strong>AJ Pero<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Twisted Sister&nbsp;<\/strong>and his never-ending list of projects.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Rob Halford<\/strong>&nbsp;revealing information on his new autobiography and what scared him the most about coming out.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Singer\/radio personality&nbsp;<strong>Dee Snider<\/strong>&nbsp;on everything&nbsp;<strong>Twisted Sister<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Nuno Bettencourt<\/strong>&nbsp;telling the story of the story of how Extreme got their name and how his playing has evolved.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Joel Hoekstra<\/strong>&nbsp;about future plans for&nbsp;<strong>Whitesnake<\/strong>, the effect of the pandemic and his own solo projects.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Elliot&nbsp;Easton<\/strong>&nbsp;talking about the death of&nbsp;<strong>Ric Ocasek<\/strong>, the history of the&nbsp;<strong>Cars<\/strong>&nbsp;and his new&nbsp;band&nbsp;<strong>The Empty Hearts<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Beatles<\/strong>&nbsp;book author&nbsp;<strong>Andy Babiuk<\/strong>&nbsp;on the challenge of bringing new stories and never-seen photos of the&nbsp;<strong>Beatles<\/strong>\u2019 recording and performing gear to the millions of&nbsp;<strong>Beatles<\/strong>&nbsp;fanatics worldwide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Filmmaker&nbsp;<strong>Frank Marshall<\/strong>&nbsp;discussing his incredible producer\/director history in Hollywood and his new hot&nbsp;<strong>Bee Gees<\/strong>&nbsp;documentary,&nbsp;<em>How Do You Mend A Broken Heart<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Celebrity chef, music fanatic, guitar player, current managing partner and executive chef at NYC\u2019s number one Steakhouse Porterhouse&nbsp;<strong>Michael Lomonaco<\/strong>&nbsp;recalling how a last&nbsp;minute decision to get his eyeglasses fixed saved him from perishing at his restaurant, Windows On The World, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on 9\/11, and his thoughts on the devastating effect of Covid on the New York restaurant industry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Professional wrestler and vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong>&nbsp;hyping on his upcoming movie, which tells the true story of a local metal band, retired for four decades, who returns to perform at a German metal festival.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Television writer&nbsp;<strong>Brian Koppelman<\/strong>&nbsp;discussing his latest hit show, the Showtime series&nbsp;<em>Billions<\/em>, how he discovered&nbsp;<strong>Tracy Chapman<\/strong>&nbsp;in college and transitioned from record executive to screen writer\/producer\/director.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Singer\/songwriter&nbsp;<strong>Don McLean<\/strong>&nbsp;dishing on the little-known secrets of his massive hit song \u201cAmerican Pie.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Singer&nbsp;<strong>Johnny Lee<\/strong>&nbsp;talking about getting a new record deal at the age of 74, 40 years after his biggest hit, \u201cLookin&#8217; for Love in All the Wrong Places,\u201d and how modern country radio feels about its legends.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Music industry exec&nbsp;<strong>Gary Spivack<\/strong>&nbsp;revealing information on his&nbsp;<em>Long Live Rock<\/em>&nbsp;documentary, a love letter to the contemporary live rock scene, and his belief that it is thriving.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hit songwriter&nbsp;<strong>Nate Cyphert<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>Florida Georgia Line<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cH.O.L.Y.,\u201d among many others) on what it takes to write Grammy winning, multi-platinum hit songs in today\u2019s pop market.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Author&nbsp;<strong>Jenny Boyd<\/strong>&nbsp;on her new book&nbsp;<em>Jennifer Juniper<\/em>, being the muse for&nbsp;<strong>Donovan<\/strong>&#8216;s hit song \u201cJennifer Juniper,\u201d living with the&nbsp;<strong>Beatles<\/strong>&nbsp;in Rishikesh, India,&nbsp;living in London in the \u201cSwinging Sixties,\u201d&nbsp;being married to&nbsp;<strong>Mick Fleetwood<\/strong>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong>&nbsp;and having&nbsp;sister Pattie married to both&nbsp;<strong>George Harrison<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Best-selling British&nbsp;\u201cchick lit\u201d author&nbsp;<strong>Jane Green<\/strong>&nbsp;telling the story of how her professional life and career evolved. All aspiring writers need to hear this one!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>French<\/strong>\u2019s two biggest hits with&nbsp;<strong>Twisted Sister<\/strong>, the rock anthems \u201cWe&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Rock,\u201d have become two of the most licensed songs in the history of heavy metal, appearing in hundreds of TV, radio and internet commercials, movies and TV shows.&nbsp;<strong>French<\/strong>&nbsp;currently oversees all music licensing and all business regarding&nbsp;<strong>Twisted Sister<\/strong>.<br>In addition to his career as a musician, manager, producer and executive producer,&nbsp;<strong>French<\/strong>&nbsp;is a highly sought after keynote speaker, as well contributing writer for business magazine&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001KRJbTGmlKCZ3MMdNat1rm3b1mroA582BZZ3Lfi4bDTsA4mF1uur2gcgnSxGI-K8RSMMiD1VtpjUr0SVSXxCeH7XazZL4glrUn1kH6qqBOgS_Dyw3nyivZMB-9RduDzsVKfOjCx97Siw=&amp;c=w9RWMe7-wNiBCXimbqJV3AoV9duwM9hDpd7W-FwpAAtgaBltQvwFGw==&amp;ch=P_MrhG3ycIjlIN862MYEU2-jNHwbje2GwGgzXGodBSzYEff9O7FfPw==\">Inc.com<\/a>, pens a Beatles column for&nbsp;<em>Goldmine<\/em>&nbsp;called \u201cNow, We&#8217;re Sixty Four\u201d and writes a an audio column for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001KRJbTGmlKCZ3MMdNat1rm3b1mroA582BZZ3Lfi4bDTsA4mF1uur2gcgnSxGI-K8ReX-q7ujWn4jn7jjJ68nh9Z7xVJnlDYfHzKUoFlWySZVubtLFYpeF2enK2WAvGx4Un9if0F8ZpfiXSXJFxP5xRZMMFm4SKfZ_g3NUzPw5YsOySTbfPKyYpBTLFNp3r1Da7-jBDF8oR9tdoKq_byTg68cGsVqVK1eUqoBuWSgEmUKDchSlITUrADRMSgVcHEt9_Aa2YfTyE8dRZsiun1pUQbapJscIbT0k4N2A7t9mG7gnKwQY4Hbjog==&amp;c=w9RWMe7-wNiBCXimbqJV3AoV9duwM9hDpd7W-FwpAAtgaBltQvwFGw==&amp;ch=P_MrhG3ycIjlIN862MYEU2-jNHwbje2GwGgzXGodBSzYEff9O7FfPw==\">Copper<\/a>, an online music and high end audio magazine published through PS Audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nearly 50 years since founding heavy metal institution&nbsp;Twisted Sister,&nbsp;John \u201cJay Jay\u201d French&nbsp;has sold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1542,1541],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-jay-jay-french","tag-twisted-sister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14910,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions\/14910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}