The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Episode 20 of Season 5 aired on Rebel Rock Radio on Thursday 19 May at 19h00.  It was great to be back behind the mic after two hectic weeks in Clarens and then Cape Town.   The show kicked off with hair metal heavyweights Slaughter and a track called 'Shake This Place'.  That was the general intention from the start.  From there we checked out the two Mot's, Mötley Crüe and Mott th...

Episode 19 was a ton of fun.  It aired on 12 May 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio and we kicked off with Mel Gibson's son-in-law Kenny Wayne Shepherd and a track called 'Any Way the Wind Blows', that sentiment pretty much guided the show as we moved through Southern Rock with Jimmy Van Zant and Kid Rock all the way through to show closer Cradle of Filth with 'Death Magick For Adepts&ap...

S5E18 went out on Rebel Rock Radio on 5 May 2022.  I was in Clarens on a Guitar Clinic with SA Blues Maestro Dan Patlansky.   The show featured a fair amount of blues as you would expect, 'Hounds Loose' from Dan Patlansky and Rrude Mood' from Stevie Ray Vaughan.   I haven't got a gap to write this one up so I will post it and fix it later.....or not, if anyone cares about these...

Episode 17 of season 5 aired on 28 April 2022.  It seemed to fly by. We started with the one song that is most responsible for The Story of Rock and Roll, 'Detroit Rock City' by Kiss.  This song changed my life, once I heard it on an old black and gold Pye cassette tape in about 1978, I was never the same.  Next up was another band that had a huge influence on me Led Zeppelin with '...

S5E16 aired on 21 Apr 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio.  Load shedding had been suspended so the amount of distraction and chaos was reduced significantly from last week.  We kicked off with a track titled 'Washed Away' by Craig Goldie, and Vinnie Appice of Dio fame's outfit Resurrection Kings.  Sadly we are currently experiencing a lot of Natal being washed away so it's relevant to ou...

S5E15 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 14 April 2022.  It had an unusual start which may have lost a few listeners.  Being a long weekend there was a bit of a party element in the air so we started with about 10 seconds of Pink 'Get This Party Started and then mercifully blasted into 'The Art of Partying' by Municipal Waste.  With that little joke out the way, we settled into so...

Episode 14 of season 5 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 7 April 2022.  For the first time we clocked in with 39 tracks.  The show was light on '70's classic rock, blues and SA content for some reason.   There just seemed not to be enough time.  Things just work out that way sometimes, very little of TSORR is planned.  The show did showcase a track called 'South' of...

Season 5 Episode 13 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 31 Mar 2022.  We kicked off with some ACDC, the title track of their 2016 release Black Ice.  From arguably the biggest rock band in the world we took in 3 lesser-known outfits i.e. Left Lane Cruiser, Monster Truck, and Motor Sister before spending some time with a couple of '70s classics from Rush and Nazareth.  'Zeit', the n...

The Story of Rock and Roll marks the sad passing of Foo Fighters legend Taylor Hawkins with the posting of a Foo Fighters Rock Review recorded a while back.  To Dave, Pat, Chris and Nate, so sorry guys, the world lost an amazing musician.  Tribute to Taylor, we miss you man :-( The Story of Rock and Roll.  TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Episode 12 of Season 5 aired on 24 Mar 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio.   The show kicked off with Saxon and a track off their latest album Carpe Diem called 'All For One'.  Next up Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown with a most excellent track called 'Without You'.  Tyler was widely hailed pre-Covid as the next big thing and there is no doubt he's got a lot to offer, awesome guitari...

Season 5 Episode 11 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 17 Mar at 19h17.  Yep, you read that right, 17 min late because the laptop did an upgrade and reset all the broadcast codes.  We started off with Guns ‘n’ Roses version of The Rolling Stones classic ‘Sympathy For The Devil.  Next up a bit of Airbourne out of Australia.  and a band called Dirty Honey with ‘It's All For Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and...

Episode 10, so we are 20% of the way through Season 5 and 2022.  The show aired on 10 Mar 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio.  It kicked off with what could possibly be one of the greatest show starting songs ever written, a track called 'Invincible', brand new from Eddie Vedder off his Earthling album.  It has an incredibly uplifting feel.  If I were a movie director I would be pulling it into my...

Episode 9 of the 2022 season kicked off at 19h00 on 3 March on Rebel Rock Radio.  We started with ACDC to get the blood pumping and then followed with a fairly laid-back Wolfmother track called 'Mind's Eye'.  The whole show was pretty diverse, and included some heavy moments with Testament and Killswitch Engage then all the way back to the early  1969 ad 1976 for MC5 and UFO respect...

Episode 8 aired on 24 February 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio, earlier that day Vladimir Putins troops marched into Ukraine.  The Doomsday clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight, 20 seconds worse than Iron Maidens apocalyptic 2 Minutes to Midnight.  It was difficult to put it to the back of mind.  We kicked off with Run Like Hell, off Pink Floyd's masterpiece the Wall.  From there we hit Metallica...

Episode 7 of Season 5 aired on 17 February 2022.  We kicked off with a track called 'Bulletproof' of Paul Stanley's second solo album titled Live To Win .  It was topical given the difficult times we are living in, it seems like everyone is going through some serious shit.   We added a bit more inspiration to the airwaves with Billy Squiers' track 'Stronger' off Here...

Episode 6 of season 5 aired on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 10 Feb 2022.  It started off in an uncharacteristically chilled way with Cinderella and a track called 'One For Rock and Roll' off Heartbreak Station .  From there it got a bit heavier and a lot more uptempo with Adrenaline Mob, featuring the phenomenal fretwork of Mike Orlando and then a track called 'Premonition' by...

Episode 5 of Season 5 took to the airwaves on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 3 Feb 2022.  It was thoroughly enjoyable and flowed really nicely.  I felt like I didn't have enough time right from the very start which is unusual and a good sign.   We kicked off with an instrumental track from In Flames called 'Man Made God'.  That early '2000s period was where I fell in love with In...

Episode 4 of Season 5 aired on 27 Jan 2022.  I think I will always consider this the episode I lost control of.  Doing these shows is a bit like doing a gig, you have the songs and the sequence in our head and you play them in a way that seems to fit and sometimes everything flows and one thing leads to a better thing and that to a better thing, and other times everything doesn't seem to fit....

Episode 3 of Season 5 aired at 19h00 on 20 Jan 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio.  We started with a nice little instrumental before diving into the strange waters of Legend of the Seagullmen and their song ' Rise of the Giant'.  Following that we went back to 1989 and took a track off Badlands, a fantastic album released in 1987 by the band of the same name.   That album was the first CD I ever...

Episode 2 of season 5 aired at 19h00 on Rebel Rock radio on Thursday 13 Jan 2022.  It started off disastrously.  Apart from being stung by a wasp minutes before the show, the entire playlist I had planned did not copy across to the database so as George Costanza once said " I got nothing".  I had to do this as a sort of best of TSORR fly by the seat of the pants jol.  Having said all tha...

Welcome to 2022 and Season 5 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Episode 1 kicked off the season live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 6 Jan 2022.  We launched with Prince and the Revolution and 'Let's Go Crazy' off the multi-platinum era defining Purple Rain album.  Then it was time for a bit of positivity with Lit and 'Lovely Day' and we rocked on from there.  I co...

Due to popular demand here is the Zakk Wylde Rock Review that aired on Rebel Rock Radio on 19 Oct 2021.  It was a good look at his work with Ozzy, Black Label Society and his solo stuff.  As always 60 min is a stretch but I think we did the big man justice.   The Story of Rock and Roll.  TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

So that, as they say, is a wrap.  2021 in its P.  Season 4 ended with episode 52 and it aired live on 30 Dec 2021 on Rebel Rock Radio.  It was a wonderful show featuring music released in 2021.   I ran out of time and should definitely have done a 4-hour show.  My biggest disappointment was not having enough time to play the title track from Deangersmith's amazing album Lead Us To Your Taker...

Not sure what to say about this one,   It went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 23 Dec 2021.  I wasn't in a good space at all, I think that you'll hear that, in the words of Simon & Garfunkel "I am distracted and diffused".  I get some mojo back about halfway.  Another factor is that 2021 has been a fantastic year for good music and I have been very busy putting tog...

Episode 50, two to go in Season 4 and we are done.  This episode aired on 16 Dec 2021, Beethovens birthday.  We started with a few minutes of 'Symphony No 9', known as Scherzo before moving on with Deep Purple and Highway Star.  After that is was standard fare with Def Leppard, Metallica, a bit of Megadeth off the Cryptic Writings album, and a track called She-Wolf.  The love affair with...