The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Episode 37 of Season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 14 September 2023.  Once again, the airwaves were cooking thanks to The Rock Doctor’s Rock Power Hour Turbo edition that precedes The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show.  We kicked off with Kiss, basically the band most responsible for TSORR as it was the band that melted my brain 12-year-old brain and changed everything.  That st...

Episode 36 of season 6 went out live at 19h00 sharp on Rebel Rock Radio.  It was a great episode, we broke the TSORR listenership record so that was very cool.  The show kicked off with the Rolling Stones ‘You Got Me Rocking’.  It was a good mix of genres, we had the classic rock and the metal and a healthy dose of UK punk, pretty much what you have come to expect from TSORR.  Check out the artist...

S6E35 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 31 August 2023.  It was an auspicious occasion, my last day of work at a company I ran for the last 10 years.  As a result, there is a thinly veiled theme of moving on, changes, new beginnings, disappearances etc, etc.  This is demonstrated by the 3 opening tracks, ‘This is How I Disappear, ‘Let Me Out’ and ‘Gotta Get Away’.  Check out the Artist...

S6E34 went out live on 24 Aug 2023 at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio.  Broadcasting out of Benoni, east of Johannesburg in the sinking pit of corruption and incompetence formally known as South Africa.  Ok, it’s not that bad, just having a laugh, sort of.  The show kicked off with Bad Company and a classic track called 'Movin’ On'.  We stayed with the classic rock for a while and then built i...

Episode 33 of Season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 17 Aug 2023.  It was a ripper due to me having a great day and a lot of people tuned in.  We started off with the ‘No Lullaby’ the opening track off Jethro Tull’s incredibly strong live album Bursting Out .  The show had plenty of variety this week, check out the artists featured below, you should find something you dig, hopefull...

Episode 32 of Season 6 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 10 August 2023.  We kicked off with Amanda Palmer, you heard right, something different for a change.  From there it was all Quiet Riot, ACDC, and the usual stuff, and by that, you can have a look at the Artists Featured List below.  This week in The Immortals slot, tracks over seven minutes long that really showcase what a band...

Episode 31 of Season 6 went out live at 19h00 sharp on Rebel Rock Radio on 3 August 2023.  Picking up where the Rock Doctor left off, we started with ‘Living On The Edge’, off one of Aerosmith’s finest albums.  Check out the artists featured to get the rest of the show.  The Immortals this week featured a track released in 1977 called 'Bat Out Of Hell', you may have heard it lol.  It was...

S6E30 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio 7 pm sharp on 27 July 2023.  There was plenty to celebrate, it’s been a long week and the cast members of TSORR Central were all partying up a storm at TSORR musical Director Ahol’s place.  I was not able to join them sadly because I had to do the soundtrack for their party.    We kicked off with Cinderella Night Songs seeing as that is what we were listenin...

Episode 29 of Season 6 went out at 19h00 on 20 July 2023 on Rebel Rock Radio.  It was unusual in that we had two interviews this week as opposed to the usual one.  We chatted to Jacques van der Merwe about ‘Let It Fall’ the brand-new single released by When Angels Come.  Catch this at around 1:30. The second interview is with Chaos Doctrine main Man Dr. D and it was a very cool chat we had before...

A couple have people have asked if I will put up the TSORR Turbo edition which goes out every Friday from 18h00 - 19h00 on Bulldogs Radio.  It is only 60 min and it is designed to bring on the weekend, there is very little chatter and it's loaded with Classic Rock and Metal.  Ideal for a short drive somewhere with the volume up and the windows down.   See what you think, if you dig it I will...

Episode 28 of Season 6 went out live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 13 July 2023.  Following on from The Rock Doctor’s Rock Power Play Turbo show it was necessary to keep the pace.  It has been freezing in Johannesburg this week with Temperatures getting down below zero and we actually had snow which happens about once every 20 years.  It made sense to kick off with The Boomtown Rats ‘Wind Chill...

S6E27 went out live at 7 pm on Thursday 76 July 1023 on Rebel Rock Radio.  It was a pleasure to pick up from where the Rock Doctor left off.  It is a great pleasure to welcome Mario to Rebel Rock Radio and he set a perfect platform for the show.      This week’s Ultimate Challenge was from the year 1974, the albums were Queen – Queen II, David Bowie – Diamond Dogs, UFO – Phenomenon, and The Rollin...

Episode 26 of season 6 went out live at 19h00 on 29 June 2023 on Rebel Rock Radio. The show kicked off with Buffalo Springfield and ‘For What Its Worth’, a track that Rush’s Alex Lifeson says he most wishes he had written. It made sense to then go straight into a song he did write, Rush with Freewill.  There is plenty to get excited about on this show, a good mix of old, new, heavy, and light.  Ch...

Episode 25 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 7pm on 22 June 2023.  The show kicked off with ‘Brown Sugar’ and got even sweeter after that.   Please note that there is about a minute of silence at around 37:00, there was a technical problem, please be patient it comes back strong.  We heard from Philistine who updated us on the banning of their brand-new album Seranim.  The album was due for rel...

S6E24 went out live on air on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 15 June 2023.  It’s a public holiday in SA tomorrow so it was party time and a good crowd was tuned in.  The show kicked off with This Flight Tonight, Nazareth live at the BBC back in 1975.  Check the artists below to see the run of the show.    The Ultimate Challenge this week looked at 1982, the four albums were Judas Priest – Screaming...

Episode 23 of Season 6 was a fantastic affair.  It went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 8 June 2023 at precisely 7pm.  The airwaves were treated to the power and majesty of Judas Priest with 'Screaming For Vengeance'.  From there it was a flurry of Deep Purple, Tesla, Airbourne and .......... see Artists Featured below for the list.    This show was special because we had a worldwide exc...

Episode 22 of Season 6 aired on 1 June 2023 on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 sharp.  We kicked off with The Cult and officially welcomed in a cold Johannesburg winter with a track called Sun King.  From there it was up-tempo heavy stuff with Stone Temple Pilots, Papa Roach, Raven, and Rage Against the Machine.  You can check out who played below in the artists featured section.    New releases include...

Welcome to episode 21 of Season 6. The show went out on Rebel Rock Radio on 25 May 2023.  It was pre-recorded as I was away in a wonderful little town called Sedgefield somewhere along the Garden Route in the Western Cape.  I listened in and chatted to the people and it was a very cool show.  We kicked off with Orange Goblin, they made their TSORR debut with ‘Save Me From Myself’.  I will be playi...

Neil Young is very special to me.  He's a love him or hate him artist.  If you love him you are in the right place.  Attempting to review Neil Young in 60 minutes is as the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus once said "It is possible and it is not possible".   The Story of Rock and Roll.  TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

S6E20 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 18 May 2023.  There is plenty to get your teeth into here.  We have all the greatest rock and roll in the world, see artists featured below.  The show starts off pretty fast-paced and delivers the goods via, Poison, Thin Lizzy, Stone Sour and a good mix of new and old.   We had a new track called ‘I Come From The Dirt’ from Texas Hippie Coalition...

S6E19 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 7 pm on 11 May 2023.  The show kicked off with Herman Frank and we settled into a hour of uptempo, driving rock and roll from the likes of Quiet Riot, Seether, Buckcherry and Rival Sons.  These last two bands mentioned had new tracks released so we took a listen to get a feel for the forthcoming albums.  Later in the show we continued with the goal of bri...

S6E18 of The Story of Rock and Radio Show kicked off on Star Wars Day i.e. May the Fourth, live on Rebel Rock radio at 7:00 PM show started off with the old favorites Judas Priest of the 1986 album Turbo.    There were some great pairings on this episode;  we checked out Sons of Apollo back to back with Bristol band Sons of Liberty, and we put Rush and Mastodon together and heard  'Subdivisio...

S6E17 or Season Six Episode Seventeen of The Story Rock and Roll Radio Show went out live at 7:00 PM on the 27th of April 2023 on Rebel Rock Radio. We kicked off with ACDC and a track off Back in Black called 'Shoot to Thrill'.  It was Freedom Day in South Africa so we celebrated our freedom from electricity, water, and roads without potholes.  We listened to stuff like Badlands 'St...

S6E16 went out live on Rebel Rock radio at 7 pm on 20 April 2023.  It was jam-packed with new stuff including Metallica, Overkill, Dave Hause, and Ian Hunter.  The highlight of the new releases was a track called ‘#Rebel’ from Extreme, Nuno Bettencourt is on fire on the tracks released so far. The album is to be called Six and there are 3 tracks out so far.  We also had a surprise release from the...

Season 6 Episode 15 aired live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 13 April 2023.  The show kicked off with Ozzy Osbourne’s 'Miracle Man' and then blasted through some fast-paced hi-octane rock/metal.  There were some excellent new tracks on the show; Buckcherry with ‘Let’s Get Wild’ off the soon-to-be-released Volume 10, Greta Van Fleet with 'Meet The Master', and Ian Hunter with...