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by Christopher Machado
Who Ordered the Pie? is a classic rock music history podcast that explores the hidden stories behind legendary songs and the artists who shaped rock history.Each episode dives deep into rock history, Billboard chart performance, and behind-the-song storytelling, exploring the real-life moments that shaped legendary tracks and classic rock culture.Part narrative storytelling, part music documentary, and part barstool conversation, the show blends classic rock history with craft cocktail culture in a way that feels both nostalgic and fresh.If you love discovering what really happened behind the songs, tracing their rise on the charts, and hearing the stories that shaped music history, pull up a chair. This is your show.
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Send us Fan Mail Some guitarists become legends. Others seem destined for superstardom... until something gets in the way. In this episode of Right Song, Wrong Timing, we're revisiting five incredible guitarists who had the talent, the songs, the look, and the momentum to become some of the biggest rock stars of the 1980s. From Charlie Sexton and Lita Ford to Andy Taylor, Robin George, and Aldo Nova, we'll explore the moments when everything seemed to be falling into place, and the unexpected...
Send us Fan Mail Turn up the radio and roll the windows down. This week on Who Ordered the Pie?, we're reopening five more musical case files featuring FM rock bands that had everything it took to become arena legends. Big guitars. Huge choruses. Arena-ready production. Songs people still crank in the car. So why didn't they become the next Journey, Foreigner, or REO Speedwagon? Join me as we investigate the stories behind Shooting Star, Saga, Red Rider, The Outfield, and Donnie Iris. We'll u...
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard a song and wondered, "How was that band not huge?" In this brand new recurring series, Christopher reopens five musical case files to investigate artists who had the right song, the right sound, and every reason to become major stars, but somehow never reached the level of success they seemed destined for. This episode features The Smithereens' "Blood and Roses," Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday, Someway," Michael Penn's "No Myth," The Plimsouls' "A Million Mi...
Send us Fan Mail Every Fourth of July has a soundtrack. In Episode 37 of Who Ordered the Pie, Christopher explores the stories behind the songs that have become part of America's Independence Day celebrations. Discover the surprising history behind Chicago's "Saturday in the Park," Kim Wilde's "Kids in America," Robert Earl Keen's "The Fourth of July," Robert Vaughn & The Dead River Angels' "4th of July," Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," Pete Droge's "4th of July," ...
Send us Fan Mail This is Part 2 of our two-part series on the Parental Advisory label and the controversy that changed music forever. In Episode 35, we explored Prince's "Darling Nikki," the PMRC, and the infamous Filthy Fifteen. Now the story moves from record stores to Washington, D.C. In 1985, three unlikely allies found themselves defending artistic freedom before the United States Senate: Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Frank Zappa, and John Denver. What followed became one of the most fas...
Send us Fan Mail A simple black-and-white sticker changed music history. The Parental Advisory label became one of the most recognizable symbols in rock and pop culture, appearing on albums by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, and countless others. But where did it come from? In Part One of this special two-part series, we go back to 1985 and the song that started it all: Prince's "Darling Nikki." How did one track from Purple Rain inspire the creation of the PMRC? What wa...
Send us Fan Mail Some songs say it outright. Others make you work for it. In this episode of Who Ordered the Pie?, Christopher explores the lost art of innuendo in rock and pop music. Back when radio stations, television networks, and censors had the power to decide what audiences could hear, songwriters became masters of suggestion, double entendre, and metaphor. From The Rolling Stones battling The Ed Sullivan Show over "Let's Spend the Night Together" to Eric Carmen disguising desire behin...
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Who Ordered the Pie? In Episode 33, Stutter Rock | When the Hook Trips Over Itself, we're exploring some of the most memorable vocal hooks in rock history. From Bachman-Turner Overdrive's accidental chart-topper "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" to Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets," David Bowie's "Changes," The Who's "My Generation," Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," and George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone," we'll uncover how a few repeated syllables became unforget...
Who Ordered the Pie? is a classic rock music history podcast that explores the hidden stories behind legendary songs and the artists who shaped rock history.Each episode dives deep into rock history, Billboard chart performance, and behind-the-song storytelling, exploring the real-life moments that shaped legendary tracks and classic rock culture.Part narrative storytelling, part music documentary, and part barstool conversation, the show blends classic rock history with craft cocktail culture in a way that feels both nostalgic and fresh.If you love discovering what really happened behind the songs, tracing their rise on the charts, and hearing the stories that shaped music history, pull up a chair. This is your show.
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