The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Season 7 Episode 9 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 29 Feb 2024.  We had a full house in TSORR Central and the show was an absolute pleasure to do.   It was a good mix of classics, brand new tracks, heavy, not so heavy, something for everyone.    For this week’s Immortals feature – a track over 7 min that showcases what an artist is all about, we gave the multi-talented Steven Wilson...

S7E8 went out live on Rebel Rock radio at 19h00 on 22 Feb 2024.  It was touch and go with a fiber failure an hour before the show, big well done to the guys at Vodacom Fibre for sorting it out in time.  We started with a bit of ACDC and ‘Overdose’ off the Let There Be Rock album and just kept on building from there.  This week's Immortals feature – a track over 7 min that showcases what an ar...

Welcome to S7E7 of The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show.  This one went out on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 15 Feb 2024.  I was in Clarens with master guitarist Dan Patlansky and a whole lot of guitar maniacs so the show deals with that a bit, but for the main, it is straight down-the-line Rock and Metal, as you would expect.    This week's Immortals feature – a track over 7 min that showcas...

Welcome to The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Season 7 episode 6 aired at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 8 Feb 2024.  As always, the show consisted of 3 hours of Rock and Metal and covered all sorts of artists from late 1960 through to albums released this week.  You should find something amongst this lot, see 'Artists featured' below (in order of appearance).      The Immortals track...

Welcome to The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Season 7 episode 5 aired live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 1 Feb 2024.  As always, the show consisted of 3 hours of Rock and Metal and covered all sorts of artists from late 1960 through to albums released this week.  You should find something amongst this lot, see artists featured below (in order of appearance).      The Immortals track this w...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 7.  S7E4 went out live at 19h00 on 25 Jan 2024 on Rebel Rock Radio.  Amazing to think that the first month of 2024 is done, where does the time go?  We started gently with some Iron Maiden and the show progressed from there.  We had new releases from Green Day, Saxon, Judas Priest, and Ryan Adams.  The year is starting off well.     The Immortals slot, a track over 7...

S7E3 aired live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 18 Jan 2024.    It ended up being one of my favourite shows ever.  The end was gloriously spontaneous, and the people tuned in were just awesome.  Going round the world in 40 min at the end of the show was amazing, unplanned and a great way to say goodnight.    The Immortals track in the episode was Rainbow’s ‘Light in the Black’.  This comes off the...

Episode 2 of Season 7 aired live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 11 Jan 2024.    The Immortals feature this week is from Rush, a track called By-tor and the Snow Dog off their second album Fly By Night.  This was the first album they made after Neal Peart joined the band after the resignation of John Rutsey.  The track consists of 8 parts and gave the world the first glimpse of the direction Rush...

Welcome to the 7th season of The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show.  S7E1 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 4 Jan 2024.  We kicked off with David Bowie and It’s No Game (Part 1) which feels like the perfect song for where we find ourselves in 2024.   The Diabolical Challenge has had a make-over.  In Season 6 I presented 4 albums from a specific year and listeners got to vote on which o...

Well, we made it, welcome to the end of 2023 and the last episode of Season 6.  As has become traditional on TSORR we use the last show of the season to review the year and listen to as much of the music released as time allows.  It was a good year for Rock Music and you will hear that there has been a serious resurgence in classic metal.  Last year I had new 64 albums so this year is 30% down, I...

This is a special episode.  The Story of Rock and Roll turned Six.  On 12 Dec 2017, the first-ever TSORR aired from the Mix 93.8 FM Studios in Midrand Johannesburg.  Six years later to the day, S6E51 aired live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 12 Dec 2023.  The world has changed, and my life has changed so it is good to know that the music has not.  The episode was a celebration of the bands and th...

S6E50 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 14 Dec 2023.  People are winding down now, it has been a long tough year for most, so thanks very much for the support for Season 6 of TSORR and I wish you all an awesome festive season.     The Immortals Track tonight was something different.  Last week we played a track by Roger Kaye.  Roger was a very good friend of mine; I met him at high sch...

S6E49 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 7 Dec 2023 at 19h00.  Fourth last show of 2023, this year has flown.  We kicked off at the start of the alphabet and checked out Alter Bridge off the Fortress.  It was a great way to start, a nice build-up to 3 hours of rock and metal.  This week's Immortal slot went to the Mightly Judas Priest with ‘Blood Red Skies’ off Ram It Down The Diabolical Ch...

S6E48 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 30 Nov 2023.  All last week’s technical problems were sorted and we had a hassle-free show other than the fact that I forgot to turn on the inverter before load shedding which took us off air for 5 min.  The podcast is fine but that’s what that was about when I mentioned it.  The show kicked off and closed off with KISS.  This amazing band are largely res...

S6E47 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 23 Nov 2023.  The live show was a bit of a disaster due to the fibre going down, I had to abort half way through.  The podcast however is great.  We kicked off with ‘Good Times’ by Jimmy Barnes in a duet with the late great Michael Hutchins.  From there it was ‘all systems dogs’ as Danie Maritz used to say.  We covered a wide range of rock and ro...

S6E46 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 16 Nov 2023.  We kicked off with Megadeth and that strange coincidence whereby both Metallica and Megadeth independent of each other used the children’s rhythm “Now I lay me down to sleep”.  Check out 'Artists featured' to see who was played and whereabouts in the show.  It was a pretty chaotic show, just like the old days, with lots of...

S6E45 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 8 Nov 2023.  Check out artists featured below to get a flavour of what we played.  The South African music was covered with two brand new tracks from Vaughn Prangley and Jackson Colt.   There is a bit of confusion at 43:56 where I thought the mic was off but it wasn't and then turned it off and did the bit again because I didn't know wh...

S6E44 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 2 November 2023.  It was nice to be broadcasting live again after a week away.  It was one of those shows where we just ran out of time. Highlights included new tracks by Green Day and Blink 182.  We also looked at John Corabi’s work and I discussed his awesome Biography ‘ Horseshoes and Hand Grenades .    This episode's Diabolical Challenge...

Episode 43 went out pre-recorded as I was in the Maldives.  The show aired at 19h00 on 26 October 2023 on Rebel Rock Radio.  There is a great interview with Cindy Louise and super talented South African lady working out of The Netherlands.  We got a scoop by playing her brand new track Innocence which was released on Friday morning 27 Oct The Immortals for this episode was Iron Maiden's &apos...

S6E42 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 19 October 2023.  It was a tough one, those of you who listen regularly to TSORR will have heard me mention Athol Curtis on many occasions.  Athol has been a fan of TSORR since it started on Mix FM on 21 12 2017.  We were musical brothers and I considered him the TSORR Musical Director due to his many suggested tracks for the shows.  Athol sadly...

Episode 41 of season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 12 October 2023.  Just before kick-off, we heard the sad news on the death of Kobus de Kok Jnr, frontman for The Black Cat Bones.  The Bones are without doubt one of SA’s top bands and Kobus was a phenomenal frontman.  Condolences to Andre Kriel and the rest of the band.  It changed the show a bit as it was necessary to pay tribu...

Epidose 40 of Season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 5 October 2023.  It has been six long years since we lost Tom Petty, hard to believe, such a tragedy.  Epidose was a typo but it is quite cool so I will keep it instead of Episode, hopefully not getting Alzheimer's, I have only been retired for a month, seems a bit quick.  The show kicked off with Airbourne and a track calle...

Episode 39 of Season 6 went out live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 28 Sept 2023.  It was a great show, we had a good few new listeners tuning in which always makes it flow better.    This week's Immortals feature was awarded to Ted Nugent and his masterpiece ‘Stranglehold’.  It sounded excellent and went down very well.  hat's off to the bassist, check out what he is doing, it makes th...

One of the most enjoyable Rock Reviews I have done.  Also one of the most commented on.  I really got deeply into what Sixx A.M. has done and listened to a lot of interviews and watched the documentary mentioned in the review.   James Michael and DJ Ashba add their talent to the charisma and drive of Nikki Sixx.   Sixx A.M. contrasts the light and the dark in a way that few artists can do.  Check...

Episode 38 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 21 September 2023 at 19h00 sharp.  It was as one of our Engineering Managers used to say “All stations dogs” which means.... well we never knew what it meant.  The show built up nicely from a fairly gentle U2 opener to the sheer power of Orbit Culture and Philistine at the end of the show.  Check out the Artists featured to see what we had in between...