The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

This show was tough, it went out on 11 Feb 2021 at 7 pm and I had just returned from an overseas trip and was running on very little sleep.  It was put together very quickly and started off fittingly with Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys Are Back In Town'.  After that it was a few more from the 70's in the form of ACDC and Bad Company and we were off into the usual TSORR fare. A highligh...

Details of this episode to follow once I get back to South Africa, but I don't want to disappoint anyone who is expecting it to drop on Friday morning. Artists featured:  Wolf, ACDC, Cirith Ungol, Five Finger Death Punch, Aerosmith, Bullets & Octane, Burn Halo, Skid Row, The Screaming Jets, Jimmy Barnes, Airbourne, Joe Bonamassa, Stone Temple Pilots, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Santana, Thunde...

Hard to believe we are already 4 episodes into 2021, time flies when you are having fun.  This episode aired on 28 Jan 2021 at 7 pm so that's January in its poes :-).  We kicked off with 'Ride the Monkey'by Burning Rain and followed it with Sister Sin out of Gothenburg.  That got the lesser-known stuff out and on your airwaves and then we hit the ACDC and some W.A.S.P.  It was one o...

The thoroughly enjoyable Episode 3 of season 4 went out live at 7 pm on the 21st of January 2021.  It was great right from the start, there were plenty of people tuned in and from Boston’s opening track ‘Don’t Look Back’ all the way through to Parkway Drive it was a cracker.  A listener highlighted the fact that at 21h21 we would be 21 hours, 21 minutes, 21 seconds of the 21st day of the 21st year...

Episode 2 of season 4 aired on 14 January 2021.  I really enjoyed this show, it was a breeze, maybe because for the first time ever we didn't start with a bang.  The chilled sounds of Cold Chisel's 'Way Down' off The Last wave of Summer  was long a long pull of a cold beer after a hard day.  After that, it was all guns blazing for a while.  We checked out Texas Hippie Coalition...

Welcome to Season 4 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Episode one kicked off live at 7 pm on 7 Jan 2021.  It was a great episode, a lot of regular listeners who had missed the show over the festive season were back and that always leads to some good energy.  We kicked off with Axel Rudi Pell and a track called ‘Gunfire’.  That was followed closely by Bad Company and a track called ‘Walk T...

The final episode of season 3 went out fittingly at 7 pm on New Years eve, 31 Dec 2020.  It was a great episode, one of my all-time favourites.  I really enjoyed doing a review of the albums released this year.  The plan was to run through the albums and to throw in some rock classics like Guns ‘n’ Roses with ‘Welcome to the Jungle’, Rainbow with ‘Kill the King’, and Def Leppard with 'Women&a...

Another quick little Festive Season Bonus.  Here is the Metallica Rock Review that I did for Rebel Rock Radio at the tail end of 2020 The Story of Rock and Roll.  TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Merry Christmas to all of you and thank you for the support throughout 2020.  There is no question that it's been tough :-).  The X-mas eve edition of TSORR went on air at 7 pm on 24 Dec 2020.  It wasn't particularly Christmasy as I generally am not overly Christmasy myself and especially when it comes to music.  I wasn't a total grinch though and did play 'Christmas in Hell&ap...

We're close to the end of Season 3 now, episode 18 of 20 aired at 7 pm on 17 Dec 2020.  It was a pretty smooth sailing affair.  Listenership was lower than normal, I suspect because of the festive season.  Low listenership on the night, however, always drives the podcasts which incidentally hit 10 000 this week so thank you all.  I am most appreciative of the support that TSORR is getting and...

Here's a little bonus for frequent listeners of The Story of Rock and Roll.  The Rock Review is a feature I present monthly on day time radio for Rebel Rock Radio.  The RRR presenters take turns to pick an artist and then present a quick one-hour overview of that artist every week which means my turn comes round once a month.   My first one was The Stranglers, then Van Halen (before Eddie pas...

One down 3 to go,  Episode 17 of Season 3 aired at 7 pm on 10 Dec 2020.  It was another technically flawless affair with zero Wi-Fi hassles or presenter bungles.  We kicked off with Dave Lee Roth’s uplifting  ‘Yankee Rose’, the perfect song to get the energy levels up, and followed with a band called Dirty Honey out of L.A.  For the rest, it's pretty standard TSORR fare.  A bit of Punk with T...

Season 3 Episode 16 aired on 3 Dec 2020.  We are in the final stages of Season 3 now so hang in there it’s been a busy year.  This episode is unique in that it is perfect in terms of a live take, there were no drop-outs or Wi-Fi issues and all the levels were fine, no editing needed at all.  Quite amazing really, the traffic on the road was so backed up I literally was left with 5 min to set up an...

S3E15 aired at 7 pm on 26 Nov 2020.  It was pretty painless, to be honest,  we started with Halford and ended with Sixx AM, as usual time flew and many songs ended getting left out.  According to the Rebel Rock Radio app data Asking Alexandria got 4 times more likes than anything else which I was surprised but happy to see.  Other noticeable mentions were John Cougar, Nirvana, Wonderboom, Rose Tat...

S3E14 aired on 19 Nov 2020 at 7 pm live from behind the bar at Planet Rock.  There should be something for everyone here, we kicked off with Metallica and ended with the Foo Fighters.  A bit busy this week so no time for any commentary.  I don’t think anyone is reading it anyway, let me know on The Story Of Rock and Roll Facebook page or e mail me on thestoryofrockandroll1@gmail.com if I’m wrong....

TSORR Season 3 Episode 13 got off to a not so great start on 12 Nov 2020.  It’s funny because I am reading Matthew McConaughey’s book Greenlights and that is exactly what I didn’t get, the show said ‘connected’ but no green light so I had to start again.  You won’t hear that because I have cut it out but I’m just telling you for interest sake and to explain the reference to an aborted start.  Afte...

Episode 12 of Season 3 of The Story of Rock and Roll was fraught with trouble right out of the blocks.  It took place on a cold, wet, rainy night on 5 November 2020 and my microphone didn’t work for the first hour.  It was the devil’s job to figure this thing out and check and recheck all the sound settings.  In the end, there was no other option than to go off air and shut the whole system down,...

29 October 2020 at 7 pm was the date and time that Episode 11 of season 3 of The Story of Rock and Roll aired.   It was quite a show, unusually chatty and with only one little balls-up which I left in there in the interests of reality. Don't adjust your set after Iced Earth's 'Burning Times' it just takes me 30 seconds to twig that the mic wasn't on :-)  The joys of live r...

Season 3 Episode 10 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show was broadcast on 23 October 2020 at 7 pm.  There was a quick recovery from a botched intro and we were off and running with Guns ‘n’ Roses’ controversial masterpiece ‘One in a Million’.  That was followed up with some Deep Purple and then, into the lesser-known with Fozzy and Catalano.  I reckon this was the most diverse TSORR ever aired...

Season 3 Episode 9 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show aired at 7 pm on 15 October 2020.  It had a rocky start so be warned, the show opens with Van Halen and Dreams because I am still sad about Eddie, it is followed By ACDC, and then on the 3rd tack it goes soft for about a minute DO NOT crank up the volume because it comes back to full volume as soon as I realise the levels we not right.  A...

Season 3 Episode 8 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show aired at 7 pm on 8 October 2020.  It was a particularly special episode due to the sad death of Edward Van Halen on 6 October 2020.  Eddie was very special to me and to pretty much all my friends and acquaintances.  The show was dedicated to him but it wasn’t as much to showcase his work as to point out why Eddie was so special.  So, in t...

S3E7 of TSORR was recorded on Saturday 26 September and broadcasted on Thursday 1 Oct 2020.  The reason for the upfront recording was that I was away on a guitar clinic with guitarist extraordinaire Dan Patlansky when the show was scheduled to air and I needed to pre-record as a result.  This was an interesting process, like playing to an empty stadium.  I am not sure if you would pick it up witho...

Season 3 Episode 6 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show aired from behind the bar at 7 pm on 24 September 2020 on Rebel Rock Radio.  It was Heritage Day in South Africa and so there were numerous celebrations of many cultural traditions going on around the country.  My heritage is rock and metal from around the world so it was a great opportunity to celebrate a couple of bands that fed directl...

Season 3 Episode 5 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show took place at 7 pm on 17 Sept 2020.  Finally, the microphone quality is right and we are very close with the volume levels now.  The show kicked off with a track called ‘Hit The Ground Running’ off an EP by an Aussie band I saw in a pub in Perth around March 2010.  It was such a great little band and even though they are long ago broken u...

Season 3 Episode 4 of TSORR went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 7pm on 10 September 2020.  Technically it was the best yet of the Rebel Rock Radio shows,  other than the small issue of the system crashing in the middle of Bullet Holes by Bush.  You won’t get the 3 minutes gap the live listeners suffered through on the podcast though, that’s been fixed.  On the plus side the microphone quality is...