Legendary Mountain Drummer Corky Laing Chats About Latest Release 'Finnish Sessions'
Corky Laing Legendary Drummer for Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing Exclusive Interview!
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.
Corky Laing is best known as the drummer of the legendary bands Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and over the years, he has played, recorded and written with the who’s-who of rock. Apart from a six-year period in the 90s, when he worked as VP of A&R at Polygram Canada, he has been performing and making music constantly since 1965. He has received multiple gold records, several Juno Awards and was given the Bonzo Bash Legend Award in 2014.
Corky's album, the Toledo Session was released on CD in late 2019 and re-released on vinyl in 2020. The album contains nine new original tracks and the excitement brought on by the new repertoire is reminiscent of the classic Mountain albums, Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride.
Since 2015 Corky has been touring the world celebrating the musical legacy of Mountain.
Corky’s latest release is entitled FINNISH SESSIONS recorded at E-studio in Finland in April. The album features Michael Monroe (harmonica) and Ian Hunter (keyboards) as special guests.
Tuija Takala, PhD is a widely published academic author with over 70 international articles, and 16 books and edited collections to her name published by, among others, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer and Routledge. Since 2012, Tuija has been working closely with Corky as his manager and partner.
Please welcome Corky Laing legendary drummer known as a longtime member of pioneering American Hard Rock Band Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and Author/Manager Tuija Takala PhD to Interviewing the Legends …
PURCHASE
THE LATEST RELEASE
BY CORKY LAING
‘FINNISH SESSIONS’
With special guests
Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)
Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks)
At amazon.com
ALSO
PURCHASE
TOLEDO SESSIONS
BY CORKY LAING
Amazon.com
AND
CORKY LAING’S
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
‘LETTERS TO SARAH’
At amazon.com
Letters to Sarah is a rock autobiography with a difference. In addition to the exceptionally honest and endearing voice of Corky chronicling the ups and downs of his life, there are excerpts from dozens of letters (out of the c. 200) that Corky wrote to his mother, Sarah, between the years 1963 and 1997. She had saved them all. The letters were a way for Corky, away on the road for years on end, to keep in touch with his roots and also, to make sense of his life. This continues in Letters to Sarah, as Corky relives the first 50 years of his life, up until his mother’s passing in 1998.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT
CORKY LAING
VISIT
www.corkylaingworks.com
Official website
www.facebook.com/corkylaing
Facebook
www.instagram.com/corkylaing
Instagram
https://playinggodrocks.tumblr.com/tuija_bio
Tuija Takala
2023 TOUR DATES
Corky Laing & the Bobos (Conny Bloom, Maria Hänninen, John Vihervä & Harri Väyrynen)
5/16/2023 Odal Rock Club, Austvatn, Norway
5/17/2023 Melodybox, Stockholm, Sweden
5/18/2023 Backstage Rock Bar, Trollhättan, Sweden
5/19/2023 Bomber Bar, Motala, Sweden
5/20/2023 Rockland, Sala, Sweden
Corky Laing's Mountain
8/31-9/3/2023 Nene Valley Rock Festival, Peterborough, UK
Discography
With Mountain
Studio albums
Climbing! (1970)
Nantucket Sleighride (1971)
Flowers of Evil (1971; partially live)
Avalanche (1974)
Go for Your Life (1985)
Man's World (1996)
Mystic Fire (2002)
Masters of War (2007)
Live albums
Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972)
Eruption (2004)
Compilation albums
The Best of Mountain (1973)
Over the Top (2001)
West, Bruce and Laing
1972 – Why Dontcha
1973 – Whatever Turns You On
1974 – Live 'n' Kickin'
With Leslie West
1975 – The Great Fatsby
1976 – The Leslie West Band
2005 – Guitarded
With Bartholomew plus III
1965 – "She's Mine" / "You're Not There"
1967 – "When I Fall in Love"
With Cork
1999 – Speed of THought
2003 – Out There
As Corky Laing
1977 – Making It On The Streets
2019 – Toledo Sessions
Finnish Sessions (2022)
With Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and Felix Pappalardi
1999 – The Secret Sessions[
With The Mix
1980 – American Glue
With The Perfect Child
2013 – Playing God
As Corky Laing's Mountain
2017 – Live in Melle
2019 - Live At Howard's Club H
Guest appearances
1969 – David Rea – Maverick Child,
drums
1971 – David Rea – By the Grace of God, drums
1972 – Bobby Keys – Bobby Keys, drums
1976 – Bo Diddley – The 20th Anniversary of Rock N' Roll, congas
1987 – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers, percussion
1991 – Men Without Hats – Sideways, on "I Am the Walrus", drums
Other
2004: Jason Hartless Jr. – First Division
2012: Corky Laing and The Memory Thieves – House of Thieves
2018: Pompeii – The Secret Sessions
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I’m your host Ray Shasho.
Corky Laing is best known as the drummer of the legendary bands Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and over the years, he has played, recorded and written with the who’s-who of rock. Apart from a six-year period in the 90s, when he worked as VP of A&R at Polygram Canada, he has been performing and making music constantly since 1965. He has received multiple gold records, several Juno Awards and was given the Bonzo Bash Legend Award in 2014.
Corky's album, the Toledo Session was released on CD in late 2019 and re-released on vinyl in 2020. The album contains nine new original tracks and the excitement brought on by the new repertoire is reminiscent of the classic Mountain albums, Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride.
Since 2015 Corky has been touring the world celebrating the musical legacy of Mountain.
Corky’s latest release is entitled FINNISH SESSIONS recorded at E-studio in Finland in April. The album features Michael Monroe (harmonica) and Ian Hunter (keyboards) as special guests.
Tuija Takala, PhD is a widely published academic author with over 70 international articles, and 16 books and edited collections to her name published by, among others, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer and Routledge. Since 2012, Tuija has been working closely with Corky as his manager and partner.
Please welcome Corky Laing legendary drummer known as a longtime member of pioneering American Hard Rock Band Mountain and West, Bruce & Laing and Author/Manager Tuija Takala PhD to Interviewing the Legends …
PURCHASE
THE LATEST RELEASE
BY CORKY LAING
‘FINNISH SESSIONS’
With special guests
Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)
Michael Monroe (Hanoi Rocks)
At amazon.com
ALSO
PURCHASE
TOLEDO SESSIONS
BY CORKY LAING
Amazon.com
AND
CORKY LAING’S
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
‘LETTERS TO SARAH’
At amazon.com
Letters to Sarah is a rock autobiography with a difference. In addition to the exceptionally honest and endearing voice of Corky chronicling the ups and downs of his life, there are excerpts from dozens of letters (out of the c. 200) that Corky wrote to his mother, Sarah, between the years 1963 and 1997. She had saved them all. The letters were a way for Corky, away on the road for years on end, to keep in touch with his roots and also, to make sense of his life. This continues in Letters to Sarah, as Corky relives the first 50 years of his life, up until his mother’s passing in 1998.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT
CORKY LAING
VISIT
www.corkylaingworks.com
Official website
www.facebook.com/corkylaing
www.instagram.com/corkylaing
https://playinggodrocks.tumblr.com/tuija_bio
Tuija Takala
2023 TOUR DATES
Corky Laing & the Bobos (Conny Bloom, Maria Hänninen, John Vihervä & Harri Väyrynen)
5/16/2023 Odal Rock Club, Austvatn, Norway
5/17/2023 Melodybox, Stockholm, Sweden
5/18/2023 Backstage Rock Bar, Trollhättan, Sweden
5/19/2023 Bomber Bar, Motala, Sweden
5/20/2023 Rockland, Sala, Sweden
Corky Laing's Mountain
8/31-9/3/2023 Nene Valley Rock Festival, Peterborough, UK
Discography
With Mountain
Studio albums
Climbing! (1970)
Nantucket Sleighride (1971)
Flowers of Evil (1971; partially live)
Avalanche (1974)
Go for Your Life (1985)
Man's World (1996)
Mystic Fire (2002)
Masters of War (2007)
Live albums
Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972)
Eruption (2004)
Compilation albums
The Best of Mountain (1973)
Over the Top (2001)
West, Bruce and Laing
1972 – Why Dontcha
1973 – Whatever Turns You On
1974 – Live 'n' Kickin'
With Leslie West
1975 – The Great Fatsby
1976 – The Leslie West Band
2005 – Guitarded
With Bartholomew plus III
1965 – "She's Mine" / "You're Not There"
1967 – "When I Fall in Love"
With Cork
1999 – Speed of THought
2003 – Out There
As Corky Laing
1977 – Making It On The Streets
2019 – Toledo Sessions
Finnish Sessions (2022)
With Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and Felix Pappalardi
1999 – The Secret Sessions[
With The Mix
1980 – American Glue
With The Perfect Child
2013 – Playing God
As Corky Laing's Mountain
2017 – Live in Melle
2019 - Live At Howard's Club H
Guest appearances
1969 – David Rea – Maverick Child,
drums
1971 – David Rea – By the Grace of God, drums
1972 – Bobby Keys – Bobby Keys, drums
1976 – Bo Diddley – The 20th Anniversary of Rock N' Roll, congas
1987 – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers – Charlie Karp & the Name Droppers, percussion
1991 – Men Without Hats – Sideways, on "I Am the Walrus", drums
Other
2004: Jason Hartless Jr. – First Division
2012: Corky Laing and The Memory Thieves – House of Thieves
2018: Pompeii – The Secret Sessions
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