Bob Rock
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Sep 13, 2026
DJHOST
Yeah, justice for all.
DJHOST
They didn't like the production value, which is why they went with Bob Rock
EJGUEST
for the
DJHOST
blackout.
EJGUEST
wasn't it? Well, to be honest with you, the first four records, even though Flemming Rasmussen was the producer, all he was there to do was fucking hit record.
EJGUEST
He didn't really produce anything.
EJGUEST
Bob Rock is the one that got them to say, hey, James, try this.
EJGUEST
Try slow.
Johnny GowdyHOST
She also does a beautiful duet with Lucas Nelson on this beautiful song called Mar Vista.
Johnny GowdyHOST
Anyway, this record is absolutely fantastic and she's a fascinating person, a really cool person that like just being in this small community in Hawaii, she ended up hooking up with Bob Rock to work on some music and of course met Willie Nelson out there and she has really kind of had like a really cool experience introduction into the music business and this record lucky to be is absolutely fantastic all these people have uh have kind of been attracted to her music and all that stuff and been drawn to her because of her amazing talent she's really cool too man we have a really great conversation about growing up in hawaii meeting willie working on music and just kind of like all the different stuff that has brought her to this point how she got here if you will so without further ado please enjoy my conversation with this amazing singer-songwriter lily miola let's get down
Lily MiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a man on a horse with a long bow and arrow.
Lily MiolaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's aiming it straight at my heart.
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Lily MiolaGUEST
Yeah.
Lily MiolaGUEST
And I hadn't written a song ever in my life.
Lily MiolaGUEST
So I had these songs other people were writing for me, and I was working on a record with a producer named Bob Rock.
Johnny GowdyHOST
Yeah, I know Bob Rock.
ChristopherHOST
The band The Paolos came out of Vancouver, built around two guys who would eventually take very different paths.
ChristopherHOST
Paul Hyde was the singer and songwriter, and guitarist Bob Rock.
ChristopherHOST
Now, that name might not immediately jump out to you, but Bob Rock would eventually become one of the biggest rock producers in the business.
ChristopherHOST
He produced Metallica's Black Album, he produced Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood, and he worked with The Cult, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Bryan Adams.
ChristopherHOST
This guy went on to have a huge career behind the mixing console, but years before any of that, Bob Rock was in a band, and that band was The Paolos.
ChristopherHOST
He and Hines started making records together during Vancouver's late 1970s punk and new wave scene.
ChristopherHOST
They called themselves the Paolas, which is either a great name for a rock band or possibly the worst name imaginable if your goal was getting American radio people to like you, because Paola was a term for secretly paying radio stations or DJs to play records.
ChristopherHOST
And according to Bob Rock, that joke did not go over particularly well with the American record company.
Carmine AppiceGUEST
Somewhere I have the whole album on a cassette analog.
Carmine AppiceGUEST
right before Bob rock mixed it in digital.
Carmine AppiceGUEST
It just sounds unbelievable.
Carmine AppiceGUEST
You know, obviously, you know, we should,
MurdockHOST
Pizzagate.
MurdockHOST
Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock, they wanted to record at the studio they liked in Vancouver.
MurdockHOST
So they do this for a bit, this Vancouver thing.
MurdockHOST
yeah and can't yeah yeah and and it was around the corner from this little pizza place called enzo's and at some point it just sounds
Eric JohnsonGUEST
We send it off to him, 'cause really a producer's role is not to, not always physically there.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
I mean, you know, you look at Bob Rock, there's, you have your producer and then you have your engineer.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
The engineer's the guy who sits down and gets the sounds, and he's the one who does all the legwork.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
The producer's saying, "Okay, well, let's throw a AKG 41 on the kick, and let's throw an SM57 on the snare, and try playing it this way.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
We send it off to him, 'cause really a producer's role is not to... not always physically there.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
I mean, you know, you look at Bob Rock, there's, you have your producer, and then you have your engineer.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
The engineer's the guy who sits down and gets the sounds, and he's the one who does all the legwork.
Eric JohnsonGUEST
The producer's saying, "Okay, well, let's throw a AKG 41 on the kick, and let's throw an SM57 on the snare, and try playing it this way.
Jaime St. JamesGUEST
So our first album was recorded by Dieter Dirks in Germany.
Jaime St. JamesGUEST
Our second album was Bruce Fairbairn, Bob Rock and Mike Fraser in Canada.
Jaime St. JamesGUEST
But because of the Without Love album in 1985, we got the KISS tour.
Jaime St. JamesGUEST
So that's when KISS kind of came into our life, really.
Dan FeidenHOST
And so they were able to retain this producer that had worked this like local producer guy.
Dan FeidenHOST
You know, normally Seymour Stein and the record company would probably say, hey, we you know, we want like Tom Rock to produce you guys or somebody or Bob Rock.
Dan FeidenHOST
Sorry.
Dan FeidenHOST
You know, like some big name, like mainline producer of the era.
Martin PopoffGUEST
I just was not a massive fan of it.
Eric SenichHOST
Well, that's Bob Rock who produced it.
Eric SenichHOST
Yeah.
Eric SenichHOST
How much credit does he get or sometimes blame, I guess, for the transformation?
Martin PopoffGUEST
He's helping navigate, uh, you know, the, um, the tensions in the band as well.
Martin PopoffGUEST
Um, the power struggle with Jason, the, the, the bigger power struggle between, uh, Lars and James.
Martin PopoffGUEST
Um, so he's a massive part of this thing, but, um, you know, I don't, I don't particularly like what the outcome was through the, I'll tell you one thing about Bob rock, which I do love, um, is that once you get to load and reload, um, Back Again is the super interesting new ways to produce records.
Martin PopoffGUEST
I love the sounds of those albums.
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