Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard
256 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is a platform, a stage for singers, songwriters and the creative to share their work, backstories and positive words.
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Better Each Day ~ From Rock to Robots with Bruce Hilliard
February 12, 2023 19:41 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MBAlways do your very best to live a life you’re proud of, and if it falls short, have the strength to start over again. I used Better Each Day as my mantra. In the words of 19th century psychologist and pharmacist Emile Coue: “Everyday in every way, I’m getting better and better.” So here’s the spoiler. I moved to Mukilteo WA based on a gut feeling of following my own compass, making new friends and excelling in a career. After 5 years and 8 months I’m graduating from Home Depot Paint Asso...
A Kaleidoscope Heart Christmas Card to My Friends and Listeners 2022 with Bruce Hilliard
December 04, 2022 19:53 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBHey to all the Better Each Day Listeners, this is Bruce and welcome to episode 251. Welcome to the show but most importantly welcome to the first annual year end Christmas party where we feature a special theme. Now keep in mind that I am, and apparently always will be, a hopeless romantic love song writing fool. One thing we can all agree on is that some songs just need to be written. And some people need to be written about. This year the vote was unanimous to introduce some songs you ma...
John Oates on Band Names and Abandoned Luncheonette Plus "To Love Somebody" with Bruce Hilliard
November 12, 2022 21:37 - 23 minutes - 53.6 MBHey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. This is a special episode with the ghost of John Oates past. I was reflecting on a conversation from a while back where we talked about band names, the Beatles and Hall and Oates being two of them, and the famous Abandoned Luncheonette. So here are a couple of covers starting with one from an album called Help! It’s by that band with the name that catches on after a while, the Beatles. I just re...
New "Runaway" Song Plus a Collection of Originals By Request with Bruce Hilliard
November 06, 2022 20:20 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MBHey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. We had a storm here in Mukilteo WA that knocked out our power yesterday. I was reduced to a pencil and an acoustic guitar, two of the best inventions ever. This song was the result. Runaway Thinking again of leaving it all behind Packing my things and wondering why oh why I feel this sometimes You and I will runaway, taking our time, let the whirlwinds blow You and I will runaway, I wanna ru...
Our Mr. Wines Aberdeen High School Music Instructor Passes At Age 97 with Bruce Hilliard
October 30, 2022 17:03 - 26 minutes - 60.1 MBBruce Hilliard speaking. The leaves are falling, times are a-changin’ and I heard Mr. Wines took the coda. My most influential band director Mr. Wines passed away a few days ago. In music, a coda is a passage that brings a piece of music to an end. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section. This guy was an entire opus, an epic rock opera for me and many others. Mr. Wines, one of my personal influences and motivators of my music career, passed last Sunday Octob...
Track 2 Is New From the Easy Tune Oven "Just To Know You" with Bruce Hilliard
October 23, 2022 02:13 - 23 minutes - 53.8 MBThe weather is changing, the leaves are too, here are my songs just for you. Ahh, to be a brilliant master of rhyme. Rhyme’s disease. And now…from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in D minor to my Roses and Strawberry Rain in D major. Roses and Strawberry Rain Just To Know You Sweetest Thing Kerri Pollyanna Endless Rain Thanks for listening!
From the Happenings to Author "Rock and Roll Warrior" with Bruce Hilliard
October 16, 2022 02:04 - 33 minutes - 75.8 MBWhen I was a little kid I watched American Bandstand because I liked the songs Dick Clark and company selected for his top hits it’s what the kids want countdown. Based on what I heard, I walked downtown to Aub Schmidt’s music store with a dollar in coins and bought a 45. Being a fan of vocal harmonies, Beach Boys and Four Seasonsy stuff, I heard this version of “I’ve Got Rhythm” by the Happenings. I had the honor of speaking with David Libert, the baritone and arranger of the Happenings a ...
On a Warm October Night...Some Originals, a New Song and a Cover with Bruce Hilliard
October 09, 2022 01:05 - 23 minutes - 54.3 MBThanks for listening. I've had a few requests for some original music...and maybe a new one. Here it is, Polyanna: Pollyanna You don’t even know me , so how can you show me what to do You don’t even need me, if only for less lonely night You shouldn’t go on thinking we’ll be someday And turn that darkness into day? I don’t know (Chorus) Pollyanna won’t you please come out of the rain You know you’re driving me insane Always looking for a miracle Always searching for revelation...
Return Of Hammered 45s From An Old Box ~ Plus "I'm Going Home" Original with Bruce Hilliard
September 25, 2022 00:00 - 30 minutes - 70.4 MBMe and my buddies from shop class sang this at the junior high talent assembly. Our band was the Beach Balls, vetoed by the elder teacher with glitzy cat-eye glasses that hovered over the production and basically censored our really good work. The word “balls” was too radical so I suggested instead of Beach Balls, how about the Sons of the Beaches? “Sons”?, “beaches”?”...nothing satanic there! We settled for the Leech Boys. My first memories were of 78 rpms with about 25% of the Mom/Dad rec...
45s From An Old Box ~ Hits Recorded From Random Hammered Records with Bruce Hilliard
September 18, 2022 02:21 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MBHey everyone and we have a surprise in store for us. I, while looking through my memorabilia for a Johnny Quest outdoor horizons adventure club card (made that up) I ran across an old brown box full of 45s. So, randomly, here are ten or eleven 45 r.p.m. records played on a 1972 turntable I found while looking for my retainer. I was into Santana/Page/Hendrix for guitar inspiration but for melodies and vocals, this apparently was what I was listening to as a young teen. I think these are th...
We Don't Smoke, We Don't Chew, We're the Class of '72 ~ Originals with Bruce Hilliard
September 13, 2022 18:49 - 29 minutes - 66.6 MBWe don’t smoke and we don’t chew, we’re the class of ‘72. I was honored to play at an Aberdeen High School class reunion 1972 and had a great time and I’m not surprised. The acoustics in the party venue well…as big boomy rooms go, the sound wasn’t optimum so to those who couldn’t hear the troubadour, this is for you.
Aberdeen High School Class of 1972 Tribute with Bruce Hilliard
September 03, 2022 23:54 - 21 minutes - 49.6 MBHey everyone! And welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show…the show that features recording artists and their work. That’s what we usually do but this episode is all about a party I’ll be playing in a week. It’s taking me back home to Aberdeen Washington or Warshington for the washing impaired. Aberdeen, the town that put the Gator on the Animal House movie via Bill Murray who watched in person our hometown ritual dance, the Gator, performed at the Rocker by our beer soaked Schmeng...
Tommi Tikka Speaks Up For Born Free Climate Change with Bruce Hilliard
August 06, 2022 02:58 - 31 minutes - 72.2 MBHey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s guest Tommi Tikka with a message to go to the Born Free Foundation and he and several generous and concerned musicians have donated time and music to the cause…cause that’s what we do. Please kick back and listen to our chat and music from the Born Free climate change project. Born Free Climate Change Contributions Welcome Here!
"From Womb To Tomb" Band Lillian Axe Songwriter and Guitarist Steve Blaze with Bruce Hilliard
July 31, 2022 00:30 - 34 minutes - 62.9 MBHey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s most excellent guest Steve Blaze, lead guitarist in of one of the hottest rock bands I’ve heard in years, Lillian Axe. Their latest album From Womb To Tomb will be released on CD on August 19 by Global Rock Records. This is the band’s first new album in ten years and it comes ahead of their first UK headline dates in 29 years. Coming up, a few cuts from the LP written by our guest Steve Blaze and a chat with Steve!
Uncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards--Guitarist/Songwriter Silvano Ancelotti with Bruce Hilliard
July 21, 2022 23:27 - 27 minutes - 63.4 MBHey it's Bruce and come see me in concert at the Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett WA on Saturday July 23rd (that’s 2022) at 8:00. And please welcome today’s guest Silvano Ancelotti…From Italy, its Uncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards and some of the best Irish pub music you’ll ever hear. Folk/Rock music, spiced up with Irish Trad! Based in the north of Italy (weird, innit?) and made up of lads who, in one way or another, lived or spent too much time in Ireland! Too rock for the Folk...
The Zombies 7/15 At The Historic Everett Theater Chat with Colin Blunstone with Bruce Hilliard
July 14, 2022 19:21 - 29 minutes - 68.1 MBIt’s a Thursday edition of the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show and here’s the reason. The Zombies are in town. Live at the Historic Everett Theater tomorrow night at 7:00 PM, tickets are still available. And next week Saturday July 23rd I’ll be at Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett…two blocks away from the Zombies’ show the week prior so you can hang at the park for a week and just walk to my show. Here’s a conversation from last September (when we first warned the village folk that th...
Asher Laub and His Journey To Boldly Go Where No Other Fiddler Has Gone with Bruce Hilliard
July 02, 2022 18:38 - 30 minutes - 69.4 MBAsher began classical violin training at the tender age of 2 and had already performed with the Buffalo philharmonic by age 13. Asher’s expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to a career as a soloist in demand, performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden, Carnegie, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continents. Asher has also been featured on PBS, and has made headlines on CNN, WABC, and NBC and many other major news sources. Asher is known for break...
Have You Used the Internet Dating Apps? with Bruce Hilliard
June 19, 2022 23:46 - 26 minutes - 61.6 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Flood Dud, yes me, to talk about blind dates. You can say what you want about them, or even worse….go on one. This can be a marathon event to locate someone you like but with the right amount of perseverance I’ll be finding a mate. There’s no better defining moment between artificial intelligence, in this case the dating app on my iPhone, compared humanoids, in particular your friends that know what you like, than the blind ...
Quiet Riot's Chuck Wright: New Solo Project "Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky" with Bruce Hilliard
May 28, 2022 20:44 - 37 minutes - 84.8 MBChuck Wright is today’s guest. When Chuck is not fighting crime by night, he is best known as the bassist from Quiet Riot! Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Chuck Wright, to talk about his new and first solo album, or project as he refers to it, Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky. Chuck is proud and excited to release his debut solo album, Sheltering Sky, on Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records, on May 20. The album features guest appearances by several of Wr...
James Carr Rides Again with the James Carr Band and "Goddess Reborn" with Bruce Hilliard
May 21, 2022 20:56 - 23 minutes - 54 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard telling you they tattooed her in darkness. That is a line from Goddess Reborn, a song we’ll hear and hear all about from guest and rockin’ it James Carr. James is the front for the James Carr Band. If you get a chance, check them out. Very good. James Carr plays some kick ass guitar and what a great vocalist! Okay, I’m back with a couple minutes to play this by request. A song I wrote about a promise made by a little girl to a little boy one...
Happy Birthday Hannyta! Now 18 Singer/Songwriter and "Wildflower" Chats with Bruce Hilliard
May 14, 2022 21:37 - 27 minutes - 62.2 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard. I’m here all week, tip your waitresses and for all your painting needs? Welcome to my day gig. Please select a color from your favorite food groups. Raspberry red, avocado or Huskie purple , and how shiny you like your sheen. We have Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and even washingma sheen. It's a DYI project for you alone, “do-yourself-it”, FYI. Today’s guest just turned 18 on Monday May 9th 2022. She is Hungary born and Scotland raised beaut...
Phil Tittle Chats Songwriting, His Lyrics, What It's Like In The Music Business with Bruce Hilliard
May 07, 2022 22:55 - 37 minutes - 86.2 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with guest Phil Tittle. Phil Tittle is a singer-songwriter based out of Pensacola, Florida. His music has traces of blues, country, rock, and singer-songwriter influences that fit nicely into the Americana genre. Phil's first studio album, “All Over the Map” was released in 2019 under his band's name "Colt Weston" and he released "The Roadhouse Hymnals" the following year. Phil now regularly plays solo throughout the SE region under...
Songs About Relationships by Dean Backholm and Bruce Hilliard with host Bruce Hilliard
April 24, 2022 20:03 - 33 minutes - 76.1 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with a warm spring day and actually you don’t need to point out that you’re not “being here” with me. But in spirit with ears to listen and enjoy a few original songs. Many of the Better Each Day shows are musician interviews with the famous or the hopefuls. I love em all but here’s some of the music listeners have been asking for and I’m happy to deliver in under a half hour or you get a free pizza or something of equal value. A true Kodak...
Guitar Talk with Southern Rock's Greg Martin and Two Originals with Bruce Hilliard
April 18, 2022 02:01 - 30 minutes - 70 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, and my guest, guitar man Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters. As I'm looking out my studio window (the studio that’s my kitchen and bedroom too) I see a coyote. I live on the Harbour Pointe Golf Club’s ninth hole where sometimes I see people stopping off in the bushes to drain their veins but other than squirrels and Easter bunnies ya don’t get all that much wildlife. For wildlife I turn to my day gig at the Home Depot paint department,...
Bruce's Dark Songs, a Country Cover and I'm Going Home with Bruce Hilliard
April 10, 2022 02:01 - 20 minutes - 47.4 MBThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, friend of those who want no friends and part-time dressmaker’s dummy. I’d like to thank DJ Richard Dee from Aberdeen radio for that tag and a shoutout to KOSW Ocean Shores for playing my show every Saturday morning. We’re doing a couple of my darker songs, Pawn Shop Boulevard and Endless Rain followed by a country cover and a surprise. Don’t freak out, it’s not a new car. And I’m not depressed about my string of pitiful failures and I’m not...
Bruce's Super Saturday Six Song Set EP and Song Notes Show with Bruce Hilliard
April 03, 2022 00:07 - 28 minutes - 65.6 MBI’m Bruce Hilliard, born in Seattle and raised by wolves and gorillas in a small timber town called Aberdeen Washington. Not Aberdeen Scotland, Maryland, South Dakota or any of the others. The Aberdeen that’s best known for logging, fishing and mills. It has a huge correctional facility, more than their share of the homeless population and dead end thinking…and musicians. There was and always will be music in River City. I’m hopelessly hopeful. I became interested in the singer/songwriter...
Riot Act's Lead Guitarist Rick Ventura ~ The New LP "Closer To The Flame" with Bruce Hilliard
March 26, 2022 22:52 - 30 minutes - 70.3 MBHey hey hello from Better Each Day Land in my newly adopted hometown Mukilteo WA. The highly anticipated debut album from Riot Act, Closer To The Flame, is sure to please fans of the late 70s and early 80s era of Riot as well as fans of classic hard rock everywhere. There are bonus recordings featuring the final ever recordings of their original guitarist Lou Kouvaris, who tragically passed away of Covid 19 in early 2020. The deluxe double album set will be released April 1 on Glob...
Montana Rocks Thank You Bruce Anfinson Sings Scott Builds and Paul Drives with Bruce Hilliard
March 14, 2022 00:57 - 32 minutes - 73.9 MBHello from Mukilteo and hey it’s great to be back home where it’s warm. My buddy Paul from Aberdeen asked me to take a road trip to Helena Montana and I just returned to the warmest place I’ve ever known. My apartment on a St. Patrick’s green golf course. Bruce “The Snow Blower” Hilliard here and not since my winters at WSU have I witnessed cold like Montana cold…four below…bitter fricken fracken cold and in March! I packed lightly and don’t actually own skiing or North Pole exploration gea...
Music From Your Youth Sticks, Dates, Dances and Real Romances by Bruce Hilliard
March 06, 2022 00:30 - 32 minutes - 73.9 MBHello my little belly buttons and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Hilliard, the best looking face you’ll ever hear. This is the podcast where musicians talk about their music and backstories. But due to the influx of comments and suggestions for more tales with tunes and not so many interviews with top notch celebrity rock stars, here’s a story about the 60s and 70s dance scene in small town America, Aberdeen and Hoquiam Washington. But this could be anywhere there are...
90th Birthday at the House On Hoo Humper Hill in Aberdeen with Bruce Hilliard
February 26, 2022 20:20 - 28 minutes - 65.5 MBHello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Andrew Hilliard. Andrew came from my grandpa Andy Hilliard. He could chew Copenhagen all day without spitting, put horseradish on everything and drank Listerine. Last week I was invited to a 90th birthday party for a man that was a second dad to me. He was actually my best buddy’s dad, the guy I ran with from first grade into high school and beyond. And when things weren’t good for me at home, I was over at their house bugging...
Kentucky Headhunters' Greg Martin New LP "That's a Fact Jack" with Bruce Hilliard
February 20, 2022 15:36 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBHello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where you can meet today's guest Greg Martin, musician, radio personality and kindred spirit I came to realize as I edited this episode. Greg and I trailed off several times. I kept most of the chat and hope you find it interesting. The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock and Southern rock band consisting of Doug Phelps (lead vocals, bass guitar), Greg Martin (lead guitar, background vocals), and brothers Richard Young (lead an...
Bonham-Bullick's Deborah Bonham Talks New Album and Led Zeppelin with Bruce Hilliard
February 12, 2022 21:17 - 35 minutes - 80.5 MBUK blues/rock band Bonham-Bullick is going to release its self-titled new album on April 29. Bonham-Bullick is Deborah Bonham on vocals and Peter Bullick on lead guitar. Today’s guest is the Bonham half. recording artist Deborah Bonham, who is the sister of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and the aunt of drummer Jason Bonham who is the current drummer for Led Zeppelin. What’s it like being part of the Led Zeppelin family, literally? You’ll hear her being humble and respectful. Th...
Bruce's "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" Beatles' 58th Ed Sulli Anniversary with Bruce Hilliard
February 06, 2022 22:11 - 29 minutes - 68.6 MBHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ share their backstories and their music and any embarrassing moments they care to share. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. The '60s — an era when television was still a modern marvel, and viewers only had a few channels to choose from — TV variety shows were one of the most important influences of pop culture. Thus, Beatles fans were especially eager to show their support for their favorite ...
Mid 60s: A Montage of Memories ~ Story Song...Something Dad Said with Bruce Hilliard
January 29, 2022 22:31 - 29 minutes - 67.2 MBHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. I’ve had the pleasure of producing this show for over five years without the use of sponsors. Why, you ask. Because I’m not selling out for anyone I tell you! That’s why I eat: (multiple ads for 60s food and deodorant). That was Love Potion #9, the home game. I’ve got new songs coming ...
Dale Bozzio Autobiography: Missing Persons, Frank Zappa, Prince & Beyond with Bruce Hilliard
January 23, 2022 03:50 - 29 minutes - 67.4 MBHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. Today's guest, Dale Bozzio is the co-founder and lead singer of Missing Persons, one of the 80s most distinctive bands…set apart by her distinctive, flat out sexy looks that MTV drooled over. A look that led her to the cover of Hustler Magazine. Dale has just released her autobiography, ...
Karen Carpenter's "Echo" Carla Williams and A Tribute To The Carpenters with Bruce Hilliard
January 16, 2022 17:18 - 33 minutes - 76.5 MBHello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here. The opening minute was me inappropriately flirting with today’s guest. Carla Williams wanted to be a country music singer from the beginning. She put her dreams on hold to raise four kids and grow a successful business. Well here we go. Carla morphed into the late Karen Carpenter and now she's back at it…and her forthcoming...
The High School Yearbook Show with Bruce Hilliard
January 09, 2022 07:39 - 27 minutes - 61.9 MBHello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here. It’s heading into even more short days and long nights in Aberdeen. The rain always lives up to its reputation at the foot of a national rain forest that gets up to 150 inches in the west side. Roughly 90% of that crashed down on the kids without their jackets on in the elementary school playgrounds during recess. Since it’s ...
New "Aberdeen" Friends, Auld Lang Syne and Flying Burritos' Chris James with Bruce Hilliard
January 03, 2022 00:36 - 30 minutes - 70.4 MBHello hello and Happy New Year to all. Recently I had the pleasure of talking to a couple of former residents of my childhood home on 10th street in Aberdeen WA. They lived there as kids in the late fifties and moved out when their father died in 1960. For years I wondered what had happened to those kids, roughly my age, that lived there before us. It turns out they used the same rec room for shows and rehearsals as we did years later. There was a room that just called out for audiences and...
Three Dog Xmas Night at the Aberdeen Animal Hospital with Bruce Hilliard
December 23, 2021 19:18 - 29 minutes - 68.6 MBHello hello and Merry Christmas to all. There’s been a generous response from our listeners regarding hometown nostalgia material on the show. Being from middle- everything Aberdeen WA in the early baby boomer years, there are endless small town-everywhere stories for you. I somehow gravitate to stories about my Dad, Dr. Glenn A. Hilliard, DVM. (reverb) Christmas is extra special when your dad is a veterinarian. A vet is the guy you call on Sunday night because your kid, a human kid, has...
Hilliard's Wild Christmas Trees, "Hello", "Snow Angel" and "Happy Christmas" with Bruce Hilliard
December 18, 2021 15:47 - 29 minutes - 67.5 MBHello hello hello and merry Christmas from the corner of Christmas Street and Better Each Day. Come on along and take a walk with me. You're here just in time for an eggnog and my Christmas 2021 song Hello Hello Hello. It's about being committed to the Christmas fruit cake boom boom room for believing in Santa. “I believe in Santa Claus and giving.” Christmas Street can be anywhere, anytime. It doesn’t need to be a street. It can be in a Victorian home or visiting the mother ship. In this...
Hilliard's Wild Christmas Trees, Hello, Snow Angel and Happy Christmas with Bruce Hilliard
December 18, 2021 15:47 - 29 minutes - 67.5 MBHello hello hello and merry Christmas from the corner of Christmas Street and Better Each Day. Come on along and take a walk with me. You're here just in time for an eggnog and my Christmas 2021 song Hello Hello Hello. It's about being committed to the Christmas fruit cake boom boom room for believing in Santa. “I believe in Santa Claus and giving.” Christmas Street can be anywhere, anytime. It doesn’t need to be a street. It can be in a Victorian home or visiting the mother ship. In this st...
Steve March-Torme "I Remember Christmastime" New Song Chat with Bruce Hilliard
December 11, 2021 13:27 - 30 minutes - 69.3 MBHello hello hello and merry Christmas from the groovin’ with the tunes of Rube Tubin and the Rondonnas Better Each Day toy shop. It's a jolly little shop where each Christmas I write a new song for the occasion. It’s a time when I compare my music to the classics like the number one selling single of all time, White Christmas. If that doesn’t humble your inner Irving Berlin I don’t know what will. Or, Little Drummer Boy by Tacoma born Bing Crosby. Coincidentally, I was reflecting back on ch...
Emile Pandolfi ~ New Book, Humor and Some Great Christmas Piano ~ with Bruce Hilliard
December 06, 2021 00:47 - 27 minutes - 64 MBYou’ll discover: How to effectively infuse emotion into mastered techniques. A unique approach to memorizing a new piece– then overcoming stage fright. Life lessons to rekindle lost inspiration. Three necessary ingredients for honing natural aural acumen and play by ear. The beginners course into a commercial music career. You’ve practiced the classics and improved your skill. Now elevate your playing to transcend melody and tell a story that reaches the hearts of your listener...
Aberdeen-Hoquiam Thanksgiving Football Classic Story Of Bruce Hilliard with Bruce Hilliard
November 25, 2021 22:57 - 32 minutes - 74.6 MBWhen I was 2-years-old the Hilliard family, in accordance with my life plan as dictated by me as soon as I was potty trained, moved west from Bellevue, Washington, to a small timber town twenty minutes from the coast. While in Bellevue we lived in a neighborhood that is a chip shot from Microsoft campuses today. Maybe we should have stayed there but we migrated west to a small town called Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen, Washington, is at sea level. This meant, to you inlanders, that when i...
Bruce Hilliard Songs By Request with Host Bruce Hilliard
November 21, 2021 20:45 - 35 minutes - 80.9 MBWelcome times a trillion to the 10th degree. I’m the familiar voice of Bruce Hilliard and today’s show is Bruce Songs By Request. These are selfie recordings, all written, performed, recorded, mixed and blessed with fairy dust by me. Be sure to click in on Thanksgiving: Bruce’s High School Football Adventure this Thanksgiving. It’s a fun look at my childhood, football and the glory days of the Aberdeen/Hoquiam Thanksgiving Football Classic. Don’t miss it. It’s made more headlines than a c...
Yardbirds' Drummer, Author and Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame Jim McCarty with Bruce Hilliard
November 13, 2021 19:50 - 31 minutes - 72.1 MBWelcome to a very special Better Each Day show, with the one and only drummer of one of the original British Invasion bands, a pioneer blues/rock band that gave us Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Couldn’t they get anybody good? And Jimmy Page just prior to forming Led Zeppelin. Well we’re talking about a Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame band that was formed by today’s guest, the drummer of the Yardbirds and author, Jim McCarty. The Yardbirds were part of a mid-60s playlist that, I don’t ...
"Hello" , Four Originals and Bob with Bruce Hilliard
November 08, 2021 00:58 - 30 minutes - 69.7 MBHello hello, can you see me one more time? The words of wisdom that open up any conversation, someone summoning you from the Mother Ship: “Hello, anyone home?” Without ever hearing this song (I’ll play it for you eventually, after I fulfill my lifetime goal of explaining my lyrics)...without even so much as a quick listen on your device to this lovely ditty I threw together, here are a few clips from the four minute song I just mixed this morning. But first: I’ve always found it interestin...
Ian Jones "Evergreens" Part 2, PNW Singer/Songwriter Chats with Bruce Hilliard
October 30, 2021 22:35 - 33 minutes - 75.7 MBIs it us or does this Pacific Northwest child of music sound a touch like Jackson Browne? Singer, songwriter and performing artist Ian Jones is releasing a new EP on October 22nd. Being a Pacific Northwest kinda guy, Ian calls his latest work, Evergreens. That’s fitting for fifty-one-year-old Ian Jones who you’ll hear in this interview is young and ever green, like his music. His EP dropped October 22nd...check it out on your favorite streaming platform.
Ian Jones' "Evergreens" EP Release Part One with Bruce Hilliard
October 18, 2021 01:17 - 30 minutes - 69.5 MBSinger, songwriter and performing artist Ian Jones is releasing a new EP on October 22nd. Being a Pacific Northwest kinda guy, Ian calls his latest work, Evergreens. That’s fitting for fifty-one-year-old Ian Jones who you’ll hear in this interview is young and ever green, like his music. His EP drops October 22nd and in honor of that occasion, Ian and band will be playing at the Tractor in Ballard WA on October 20th...show starts at 8:30. You can pick up a physical copy of the EP and meet ...
Carmine Appice--Drummer, Teacher, Vanilla Fudge and Rod Stewart with Bruce Hilliard
October 11, 2021 02:49 - 26 minutes - 59.6 MBAs drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band‘s 1967 psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing Stoner Rock in the process. The Fudge had no precedent. The band was totally unique. No rock group, up until that point, had ever took poetic license with well known pop tunes like the Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” and “Ticket To Ride,” Curtis Mayfield‘s “People Get Ready,” Sonny & Cher‘s “Bang Bang” Rod Argent‘s song made famous by the Zombies, “She‘s Not Ther...