ROCK AND/OR ROLL

Day 2: Weezer - Pinkerton (1996) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 1: Weezer - Weezer (1994) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was originally released in October 2020, while the podcast was on hiatus, covertly posted to Internet Archive. I'm guessing most of you haven't heard it, so I decided to give it a proper release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chelsea was originally formed in August of 1976 by singer Gene October, guitarist William Broad (later known as Billy Idol), bassist Tony James and drummer John Towe. After the other three left to form Generation X, October kept the band going, cycling through line-up after line-up, releasing som classic punk singles and albums along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Jook were a great band, active for just a few years in the early seventies. They released six singles, including some absolutely classic heavy glam tunes, but no album. For this episode BJ is joined by Ian Kimmet, the band's singer and main songwriter, to discuss why such a killer band failed to thrive, even in the midst of the glam rock explosion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

Originally released July 2018: In a world where producers were greenlighting low budget films to be released directly to video there would be no soundtracks, but there would still be music. There were songs in those movies. Otherwise unreleased songs. Great songs. These are those songs. TONY SCIUTO - OUT OF THE DARKNESS FROM ALL AMERICAN MURDER MARK MANCINA - IT’S NOT OVER YET FROM NIGHT WARS STEP...

Day 12: April Wine - Walking Through Fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 11: April Wine - Animal Grace (1984) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 10: April Wine - Power Play (1982) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 9: April Wine - The Nature of the Beast (1981) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 8: April Wine - Harder...Faster (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 7: April Wine - First Glance (1978) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 6: April Wine - Forever For Now (1976) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 5: April Wine - The Whole World's Goin' Crazy (1976) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 4: April Wine - Stand Back (1975) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 3: April Wine - Electric Jewels (1973) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 2: April Wine - On Record (1972) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 1: April Wine - April Wine (1971) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released October 2014: The Bee Gees were far more than just a disco band, the Gibb brothers were incredibly talented songwriters and musicians who were responsible for some of the most ambitious and effective pop music of the late sixties and early seventies. On this episode BJ attempts to tell the story of the band with words and song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

The very first episode of Rock and/or Roll was released on May 27, 2013. For this episode to commemorate that milestone, BJ takes a look back, plays some favorite clips and songs, and reminisces with old friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry and Dorothy were an HVAC installer and a waitress until they decided they were the reincarnations of Egyptian gods and embarked upon an ill-fated music career. Two albums later one of them was dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pavlov's Dog was a seven piece quasi-prog band from St Louis, managed by a crook, who made a few interesting records before its members scattered. Singer David Surkamp resurfaced in Seattle where he formed an exciting but short-lived band called Hi-Fi with a founding member of Fairport Convention, Ian Matthews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in April 2020: Over the course of just one year, 1974, British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac would go from a career low point, the bottom of the barrel, to suddenly, by years end, transformed, reinvented, and ready to become one of the most successful, top selling acts of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 17: Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will (2003) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 16: "Fleetwood Mac" - Time (1995) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices