We sit down and discuss his incredible podcast, #oasis and the #oasisreunion, #nirvana, #ticketmaster, and more!

The incredible Alan Cross has amassed decades of journalistic music experiences, eclipsed only by his extremely deep knowledge of over 100 years of recorded music from the inside out. The Ongoing History of New Music is widely acclaimed as one of the best music series that’s ever existed and you certainly could not grow up in Southern Ontario without knowing the iconic voice and creator behind it. “The Science of Song, How and Why we Make Music” is a fabulous book our guest also authored, and his interviews with just about every iconic musician and band that has ever existed sets him apart from nearly all other journalists in the genre. Currently coming off a set of Salon Talks, he is recharged and ready to keep diving into his newest Podcast: Uncharted, Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. Please allow us to be so lucky to welcome BACK to the show, our very FIRST guest in Season 1: Alan Cross!!

Here we are!! Season 2 Finale! Finally Fearless Fred!! The long-awaited very special episode with the one and only. You know him as the former 102.1 The Edge radio personality who was the voice of Generation X, now hear him in his 8th year with Toronto's Q107. Just before this interview he was set to head to San Diego's Comicon and push his print porveyors of drastic drama's in the cosmic-comic space, most notibly his efforts with Mud79, Dead Romans, Diablo, Assassins Creed, just to name a few. He's a busy man, a lover of the hottest peppers you can find, and his house was most certainly haunted. He's a fantastic human, he can tell a story like no other, and we were blessed to have him join us!

He began his stairway to a career in Music Education at Fanshawe College, eventually leading him to work at MuchMusic. A prominent member and songwriter for the Toronto band New Regime, he's also worked with the Canadian greats such as the Northern Pikes, Corey Hart, some band named RUSH that I’m sure no-one has ever heard of, and even the iconic SLASH from Guns N’ Roses has kissed his presence. He’s recorded albums as a solo artist, as part of bands, and as Soundtracks to television shows, including, of course, his own. However, his love of Temagami and canoes, as well as the hallow synth-pop movement of the 80’s, turned his career in a completely opposite direction. Becoming a hardcore survival expert, a guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures, and a person comfortable in solitude on snowshoes, he brought to the world one of the greatest one-man-show projects on television in the now infamous “Survivorman”. Most recently you will find him with the likes of Slash again, and Billy Gibbons, on Slash’s new Blues Album, as well as his latest endeavour in his own Ancients Call, streaming on all music platforms now. He’s officially played with Slash more times than Corey has been camping, the Harmonica Hounder, Canada’s Chief Scout, and the Survivorman himself: Les Stroud!