Growin' Up Rock

To end our year long series of Van Halen album reviews, the Van Halen albums are getting ranked. We go through all 12 studio albums and share our personal rankings as well as some of the guest and listeners rankings. We hope you enjoy this spirited conversation with our friend Steve Wright from the Podder Than Hell Podcast who gets his redemption after being wronged by Steven during the series. WE...

We invite our friend Phil Shouse from Accept & The Ace Frehley Band to review the Van Halen album A Different Kind Of Truth. It's the bands 12th and final studio album. This album marks the return on record with Van Halen for singer David Lee Roth after a 25 plus years away from the band. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help gro...

In this episode, recorded live from the Kiss Kruise X, We have Tom and Zeus from Shout It Out Loudcast, Steve Wright from Podder than Hell Podcast, Tony from Restrayned and Danny (the better half of the Pooni brothers) joining in on a version of Rock Scattergories and boy was it eventful. Enjoy!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free – Please consider doing one or all of the following to...

Sonny and Steven take a trip down memory lane, and look at 10 rock VHS tapes they still own today and discuss how important videos like these were back in the late 80s and early 90s before the YouTube revolution ever existed.  Want To Help Us Out? It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us: Email us growinuprock@gmail.c...

This week we are joined by special guest Eric Miller from the Pods And Sods Network to review and dig into the somewhat maligned Van Halen 3. Each month in 2021, we will invite a special guest on the show to do a album review for each of the 12 Van Halen studio albums. In December we will release the final album review and a episode where we rank all 12 of those albums. We hope you will join us ea...

In this episode Sonny and special guest Steve Wright from the Podder Than Hell Podcast, are back and fresh off Kiss Kruise X. We go through this years experience and compare it to the Monsters Of Rock Cruises to give you a good idea of the differences and which one may be right for you. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow...

In this episode of When Rock Ruled The Charts, we explore the charts on February 10th, 1978, the day Van Halen's epic debut album was released. What was on the charts at the time? How much different was Van Halen then all the rest of the rock out at that time. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with...

Everyone always talks about the big 4 of thrash and metal but what about the Big 4 of 80s hard rock? In this episode we discuss who should be included in that big 4 of 80s hard rock. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow Us on FaceBo...

This week we are joined by special guest Brad Rusthoven from the Slamfest Podcast to review and dig into Van Halen's Balance album. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Leave Us A Five Star Review in one of the following places: Apple Podcast Podchaser Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact F...

We give you the low down and dirty on the first annual Monsters On The Mountain rock festival 2021 in Pigeon Forge.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Leave Us A Five Star Review in one of the following places: Apple Podcast Podchaser Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and F...

Eclipse from Sweden has a new album and it's great. We go track by track through "Wired" with singer / guitar player Erik Mårtensson. In addition to my interview with Erik, Sonny and I share our own thoughts and opinions on Eclipse's latest album release "Wired". WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect wi...

It's another game show episode, this time with square off in a fun and spirited version of Scattergories. We invite special guest comedian and writer Courtney Cronin-Dold to return to the show and match wits against Zeus from the Shout It Out Loudcast. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Emai...

In this episode we get footloose and fancy free. In a podcast crossover episode we invite Brian Davis from Damn Good Movie Memories podcast to help us review the Original Footloose movie soundtrack. If you go over to the Damn Good Movie Memories podcast you will find a episode that Brian released a few days earlier in which Sonny, Steven, and Brain cover a review of the original 1984 movie blockbu...

Zakk Wylde is a guitar hero of epic proportions. From Ozzy to Black Label Society, Pride And Glory, and Zakk Sabbath as well as countless other guest appearances, Zakk lets loose on the fretboard like an unleashed Wyldeman. In this episode Sonny and I share our love for Zakk Wylde and our favorite Zakk Wylde songs spanning his entire catalog. Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Zakk and...

We talk with Zakk Wylde about the upcoming Black Label Society album release "Doom Crew Inc." Zakk and I talk about everything from his early days with Ozzy and his first gig in front of a large crowd to some of the new tracks on Doom Crew Inc. coming in November. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect w...

We invite our friend Tony Musallam from the California rock band Restrayned to review the Van Halen album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. It's the bands 9th studio album and said to be a return back to the bands hard rock roots. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.c...

We often talk about desert island albums, which for us are albums that contain no skippers. In the worst of the best, we explore albums that are almost perfect but contain one song that just sucks. Even the worst song on an otherwise perfect album can be better than most songs on a good album, but most likely in this episode we won't have any of those. At least not in our opinion, which counts for...

In this episode we get the listeners involved as we discuss possible rock songs that could be used in a commercial to sell product. When the perfect song is combined with the perfect product, stuff gets sold. If you are lucky enough to sell a song to a large company to use in a national TV ad, you could see royalties on that song for years to come. The song often becomes identifiable with that pro...

In this episode we rapid fire a bunch of bands and artist at each other, and discuss what song we think defines that band and why. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchas...

We invite our friend Loose Cannon (LC) from the Cobras And Fire Podcast to tell us how Van Halen OU812 is actually a concept album? Find out the concept in this completely different and fun album review full of plenty of laughs and music. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinupr...

In this bonus episode we recap our adventure in Nashville to participate in ROCKNPOD 2021. Although Growin' Up Rock did not acquire a booth or conduct interviews at ROCKNPOD 2021, we were there in full effect catching up with all of our Podcaster brothers and sisters. Once again Decibel Geek and Chief ROCKNPOD architect Chris Czynszak and his family of support staff did an awesome job, and we will...

Picking up where we left off last week -  In Part 2 of this 2 part episode we look at August 1st, 1985 - 4 Years to the day MTV launched, because we wanted to see the impact it had on the charts. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow...

Remember when rock ruled the charts and you could hear and see it everywhere? In this on-going series, we explore a single date in history to explore the Billboard album charts and take a look at what rock albums were tearing up the charts. In Part 1 of this 2 part episode we look at August 1st, 1981 - The day MTV launched. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one...

We celebrate our 4th Birthday by exploring 4 very different albums all containing 4, Four, or IV in the title. Want to know more? Go Here WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us  Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form  Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On...

In this episode we invite Decibel Geek Co-Host and ROCKNPOD creator Chris Czynszak along with Steve Wright from the Podder Than Hell Podcast to play a little rock album trivia with us. We also get the details on the big Nashville ROCKNPOD 2021 event quickly approaching and what we can expect from that. WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the followi...