SEASON 5 PODCASTS (PART 2)
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Finally, we reached the end of Season 5. The final show, episode 52 went out live at 19h00 on 29 Dec 2022 on rebel Rock Radio. At the risk of boring you all I just have to say that once again it all happened under really trying circumstances. I hope you all appreciate the lengths I have to go through to get this show out. The Wi-Fi has been non-existent all day, I can’t even upload the MCR Rock Review. We have more load shedding in an hour’s time and I can’t get onto the Rebel Rock Site so I am flying blind. That said this show is a wrap-up of all the albums we checked out this year. Well, not all the albums because we checked out 65 new releases this year. Out of 157 albums added this year 65 were 2022 releases. I did my best to play you as much as possible from these 65.
We kicked off with Halestorm and the title track of their release Back From The Dead. From there we had Motor Sister and a track called ‘Can’t Get Enough’. From there we listened to ‘Take What You Want’ off Diamond Star Halos, the latest offering from Def Leppard. From there we went to Germany and took a listen to Rammstein and Sinner. Desolation Angels out of the UK but featuring South African bassist Clive Pearson who used t be in a SA Metal band called Lynx back in the ‘80s gave us a track called Walking On Water of Burning Black. We also heard from Tony Martin ex Black Sabbath and Joe Lynn Turner ex of Rainbow. Both these guys put out strong albums in the form of Thorns and Belly of the Beast respectively.
Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed both made the cut and sounded awesome. It was time for a bit of Metal from Soulfly and a track called Ancestors and Black Butterfly from Candlemass. After checking out some late ‘80’s early ‘90s style rock from the Dead Daisies, Skid Row, and Aussie youngsters Dead City Ruins we hit the blues with our very own Dan Patlansky whose Shelter of Bones was given the No 2 spot by Blues Rock Magazine. The Soth African scene was also represented by L.A. Cobra, The Devil’s Party Band, Infanteria, and Diverted Disorder.
Finally, we got to the top of the list and played out with Ozzy Osbourne, Parkway Drive, The Halo Effect, and Megadeth, and the best album of 2022 according to me went to Arch Enemy. We had a few minutes left so we checked out with scenes from forthcoming attraction in 2023 in the form of Blink 182 and the single they dropped months ago called ‘Edging’. See you all for 2023 and Season 6 of The Story of Rock and Roll.
PS. Notable mentions we just didn’t get to Keator, Slipknot, Soilwork, Ghost, and Machine Head, what a year for music.
Artists featured: Halestorm, Herman Frank, Motor Sister, Def Leppard, Sinner, Rammstein, Joe Lynn Turner, Nickelback, Desolation Angels, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Eddie Vedder, Billy Idol, Alter Bridge, Tony Martin, Candlemass, Soulfly, The Dead Daisies, Skid Row, Dead City Ruins, Dan Patlansky, L.A. Cobra, Scorpions, Kid Rock, Hell Fire, Infanteria, Sakis Tolis, The Devil’s Party Band, Diverted Disorder, Queensrÿche, Ozzy Osbourne, Parkway Drive, The Halo Effect, Megadeth, Arch Enemy
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Welcome to the second last show of Season 5, i.e. Episode 51. It marks the 5th birthday of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show. This episode went out live on 22 December 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 sharp. Sadly the cell phone towers did not play ball and the signal was a serious killjoy. The show however went out just perfectly on the podcast. I used the opportunity to showcase some of the tracks that make TSORR what it is. Some of these tracks are pretty deep and have backstories that are detailed in the book The Story of Rock and Roll.
This show gives an incredibly short reminiscence of some TSORR history and a bit of a run-through of the bands that form the foundations of The Story of Rock and Roll. The idea was to celebrate the music and show appreciation for listeners who have supported the show for the last 5 years. The celebration kicked off with The Boomtown Rats and the opening track off The Fine Art of Surfacing. This album is part of the critical few albums that mark the start of my lifelong love of rock and roll. From there we moved to KISS and Judas Priest, two bands without which there wouldn’t be a TSORR. The tracks ‘Strutter’ and ‘Metal Gods’ did the honours. Next, we covered two very important SA bands, Radio Rats with ZX Dan and Rabbitt with ‘Working For The People.
We checked out some of the key bands that form a big chunk of TSORR, Rainbow, Deep Purple, ACDC, and Ozzy Osbourne. From there we covered some Punk because without a slight UK Punk detour this would not be TSORR. We listened to The Strangler with Nice n’ Sleazy, Sex Pistols with ‘Submission’, and Stiff Litte Finger with ‘Alternative Ulster’ off Inflammable Material. We went back to the Metal with Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Accept, W.A.S.P., and Metallica.
From there we moved on to the Radio Show and the Mix FM days and how Leon Ekonomides offered me my own show in 2017. I played the track Leon and I bonded over when he interviewed me about the book. The track was ‘Gunfire’ by Blue Cheer. We also celebrated the first-ever TSORR podcast (No 12, check it out if you haven’t heard it) by starting with Jack Hammer and Mr. Midnight. It felt right to follow up with a track I played on the show when Piet Botha passed away in 2019 called Highway To The Sun by Johnathan Martin. We also remembered some other losses that we marked in time on TSORR, Eddie Van Halen in 2020 and Charlie Watts in 2021. With the signal so bad and so many people struggling with the signal the only way I could do this justice was to add another hour to the show. What the hell you only turn 5 once. The last hour was a tribute to some amazing people who have supported the show and just as we were reaching the high point the whole fucking thing ended abruptly with a systems crash that prevented me from saying thanks and goodnight. Such is life, we will have another bash at getting this right next year
Artists featured: Sophie Lloyd (feat Nathan James), The Boomtown Rats, Kiss, Judas Priest, Rabbit, Radio Rats, Rainbow, Deep Purple, ACDC. Ozzy Osbourne, The Stranglers, Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden,, Accept, W.A.S.P., Metallica, Blue Cheer, Rush, Jack Hammer, Johnathan Martin, Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, Rory Gallagher, Cold Chisel, ACDC, Seether, Buckcherry, Joe Bonamassa, Kid Rock, The Clash, The Distillers, Massive Wagons, Foo Fighters, Halestorm, Thin Lizzy, Rose Tattoo, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Tom Petty, Neil Young, The Uninvited, The Cruel Sea, Social Distortion, My Chemical Romance, Fokofpolisiekar
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
S5E50 aired on 15 December 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. December is usually quiet on the station but for TSORR it is always very special, this particular show celebrated the official start of the December holidays. Next week TSORR turns 5 and the week after that Episode 52 the season closer takes you through all the rock and metal highlights of 2022. But more of that later. This episode kicked off with White Lion and a track off the Fight To Survive called ‘In the City’. From there we went to the USA and a band called Motor Sister, and Scotland for a bit of Nazareth and ‘May The Sunshine’, a rock classic if ever there was one. Electric 6 and System of a Down took us to the weirder side of rock with ‘I Wish This Song Was Louder’ and BOOM! Respectively.
From there we checked out the ladies, Laura Cox out of France is new to me, what an awesome guitarist, we listened to Freaking Out Loud off her Burning Bright album. Big thanks to Norman for that one, I had totally missed Laura. We also checked out another track off the new Halestorm album, Back From The Dead. Buckcherry, no strangers to TSORR hit us with Fallout and Sixx A.M. with ‘Stars’. Metallica got us back into the heavy side of things and we stayed there with ‘Spreading the Disease’ from Queensryche and some Accepts and some Candlemass. It all went down very well.
South Africa is blessed with two of the greatest blues guitarists around, Dan Patlansky who has just been awarded the second-best album of 2022 by Blues Rock Magazine for his Shelter of Bones, (this is a huge achievement guys, Dan beat out blues giants Walter Trout, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Edgar Winter) and Richard Pryor in his band Pebbleman. We took a listen to ‘Devil’s Dopamine’ and a track called ‘Edge of Nails’ from Richard’s Pebbleman project. Pink Floyd’s ‘Young Lust’ gave another classic track and then we hit the punky part of the show with The Boomtown Rats, The Clash, and a tribute to Jet Black, the drummer from The Stranglers, RIP Jet, thanks for the music. I am sure that Jet and Dave Greenfield are having a pint right this very moment.
Taking us into the home stretch we hit the rock with Motörhead’s classic ‘Stay Clean’, The Dead Daisies, and some serious thrash from Death Angel and a track called ‘Mistress of Pain’. Then it was back to South Africa and three in a row from Cutting Jade, Arapaho, and Francois Van Coke. We closed out with Alter Bridge and a track that sums it all up tonight titled ‘Holiday’. All the best to you all and to everyone who went on leave this week, enjoy it, Memento Mori!
Artists featured: White Lion, Motor Sister, Nazareth, Rival Sons, Walking Papers, Electric Six, System of a Down, Texas Hippie Coalition, Joe Lynn Turner, Laura Cox, Halestorm, Buckcherry, Sixx A.M. Little Caesar, Little Steven, Metallica, Queensrÿche, Accept, Candlemass, Dan Patlansky, Pebbleman, Pink Floyd, Audioslave, The Boomtown rats, The Clash, The Stranglers, My Chemical Romance, The Dead Daisies, Kid Rock, Death Angel, Cutting Jade, Arapaho, Francois Van Coke, Mastodon, Disturbed, Ayron Jones, The Distillers, Alter Bridge
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 49 of Season 5 aired on 8 December 2022 at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio. It began with the very track that started me on this 40-plus-year journey down Rock and Roll Road i.e. ‘Detroit Rock City’, the opening track from Kiss’s Destroyer. That album changed my life, and may have changed yours too. If you get yourself a copy of The Story of Rock and Roll you may find some parallels. From Kiss, we went to The Clash and the title track of the London Calling album. Next, we got a deluge of guitar from Jake E. Lee and Ivan Ivankovic. Ivan on a track called ‘World in Fear’ and Jake with Badlands back in 1984. Randy Rhoads would have turned 66 this week so we wished him happy birthday in heaven and then checked out his more than able replacement Zakk Wylde in his band Black Label Society and a track called Lovin’ Woman’ off the Unblackened album.
We checked out The Raven Age and a track called ‘The Death March’ and that fitted well with yet another track of the latest Queensrÿche album Digital Noise Alliance. We had some Lynyrd Skynyrd with ‘Call me The Breeze’ and then another bit of classic rock in the form of ‘Call On Me’ from Bad Company. Now if you are listening internationally then I am sorry I bang on about the state of South Africa as much as I do, it is a tragedy we are living through, a government that has betrayed the electorate and stolen all the money by looting and collapsing all the State-owned enterprises. We are on the cusp of a complete blackout with load shedding around 8 hours a day. It was therefore politically correct to bitch about it and play The Damned’s ‘Wait For The Blackout, followed by Sex Pistols and ‘EMI’. If you substitute ANC for EMI you get the picture. From there it was time for some upliftment and that came in the form of Van Halen with ‘Dreams’, The Gaslight anthem with ‘Stay Lucky’, and Sixx A.M. with ‘High On The Music’. We will get through this and the music helps.
The downhill run included some grungy stuff from Audioslave, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains. It was post-Layne Staley Alice in Chains I might add, William Duvall is doing a great job in AIC. Next up, classics from ACDC and Black Sabbath, and then some Halestorm with a cover of Sophie B. Hawkins’s ‘Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover’. We took a listen to a lot of brilliant stuff that is new to me, St Aurora out of Finland, Girish and the Chronicles out of India, and Risingfall out of Japan. Thanks to the wifi situation with a lot of the cell towers in the country rendered useless because the batteries have been stolen, I lost a lot of listeners, apologies to all who were frustrated with the signal dropping. The end of the show turned into a beautiful Metal Festival featuring, Sword, Motörhead, Pantera, Bewitcher, and Arch Enemy. We ended off with Claymorean, a metal band out of Lazarevac, a small mining town in Serbia. Claymorean are one of the best bands I have discovered this year. I Hope you enjoyed the episode, comments are welcome, watch out for the monthly newsletter and let me know if you want to be on the mailing list. Thestoryofrockandroll1@gmail.com
Artists featured: KISS, The Clash, Nevada Beach, Badlands, Ivan Ivankovic, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society, The Raven Age, Queensrÿche, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, The Damned, Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Gaslight Anthem, Sixx A.M., Audioslave, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, ACDC, Black Sabbath, Hell Fire, Iron allies, Halestorm, the Pretty Reckless, My Chemical Romance, St Aurora, Texas Hippie Coalition, Sword, Girish and the Chronicles, Risingfall, Motörhead, Pantera, Arch Enemy, Bewitcher, Claymorean
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 48 of Season 5 aired at 19h00 on 1 Dec 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. It was a tricky show because of the wifi signal jumping in and out. The podcast is 100% so that is a small mercy I am thankful for. We kicked off with a double header in the form of the first two tracks on W.A.S.P’s magnum opus The Crimson Idol. From there is was a bit of Southern Rock from Whiskey Myers and then over to Ireland for some Therapy? and a track called ‘Unbeliever’ off the clritically acclaimed Troublegum. We stayed with the late ‘80s type guitar driven rock with Badlands and a track called ‘Dancing on the Edge’. The Badlands debut album with Jake E. Lee, Ray Gillen, Eric Singer and Greg Chaisson was the first CD I ever bought and has a special place in my heart.
Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy classics ‘Killing Yourself to Live’ and ‘Some Day She’s Going to Hit Back’ were up next and then from these classics we got up to date with two albums released in the last month; Soilworks’ Overgivenheten and Sakis Tolis’s Among the Fires of Hell. Mötley Crüe’s track ‘Motherfucker of the Year’ off Saints of Los Angeles elicited some nominations from the listeners, so I will collect a few more and we can discuss that another time. The Offspring and Blink 182 hit the spot for the ‘90’s kids.
We spent a lot of time talking Metallica, they dropped a first track off the new album 72 Seasons this week and the 2023/24 Tour is kicking off soon. They are doing two gigs per city with different opening acts and different sets each night. I played Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch and Mammoth WVH all of who will be part of the M72 Tour. To end off we checked out the ladies, Taylor Momsen and Lzzy Hale and said farewell and RIP to Christine Mc Vie of Fleetwood Mac who passed away this week. We listened to her play and sing ‘Oh Daddy’ off the multi-million selling Rumours album. SA bands were a bit thin on the ground tonight but we squoze in The Uninvited and The Burning before saying cheers and playing out with KISS and their anthem ‘ Let me Go Rock ‘n’ Roll. Thanks for listening, much appreciated. Cheers until next time.
Artists featured: W.A.S.P, Whiskey Myers, Therapy? Badlands, KilliT, Warrant, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Soilwork, Sakis Tolis, Whitesnake, Mötley Crüe, The Offspring, Blink 182, Candlemass, Burning Witches, Joe Bonamassa, Free, rave, Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch, Mammoth WVH, Matthew Goode Band, Godsmack, Motor Sister, Dead City Ruins, The Pretty Reckless, Halestorm, Fleetwood Mac, Kid Rock, Van Halen, Parkway Drive, Metallica, The Uninvited, the Burning, Iron Maiden, KISS.
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 47 of season 5 aired at 19h00 on 254 Nov 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. I was worried the wifi wouldn’t hold up with the load-shedding, but we made it. The show kicked off with an old TSORR favourite called ‘Tres Borrachos’ by Left Lane Cruiser. From there we took a listen to the perennial rock classic that is ‘Hair of the Dog. Nevada Beach were up next with a track called ‘Hollywood. Hank Decken is the main man in Nevada Beach, on guitar and vocals. We will be taking a closer look at Hank in weeks to come because there are a lot of unsung heroes in the rock ‘n’ roll business and I reckon Hank may be one of them. We checked out two blues giants, Rory Gallagher and Philip Sayce, but listened to less bluesy tracks for a change. Philip may have been a bit mellow for the early stages of the show so we ramped up a gear with Black Spiders and ‘KISS Tried to Kill Me’. Going back to Philip Sayce for a second, make sure you check out the solo at the end, it proves my theory that the songs are just vehicles for solos like this.
We changed pace with Black Spiders and a track called ‘KISS tried to kill Me’ off their critically acclaimed (by me) album Sons of the North. The new Soilwork is a really good album and we listened to ‘Death, I Hear You Calling’. You may be aware I am a huge fan of Matthew Good Bands’ early work so we took a listen to ‘Carmelina’ off the Audio of Being album. Brian Fallon’s ‘My Name Is the Night’ kept things tidy and then we floored it with In Flames and Parkway Drive.
From there we moved to an all-time South African classic by No Friends of Harry, you guessed it the one and only ‘Competition Rules’. Wilko Johnson passed away yesterday, as a RIP we played ‘Going Back Home’ the title track of the album he did with Roger Daltrey back in 2014. Wilko was a founder member of Dr. Feelgood with vocalist Lee Brilleaux. Dr. Feelgood were often cited as a big influence by the UK Punk era bands such as The Jam and The Clash, so we checked out both with ‘Art School’ and ‘Drug-Stabbing Time’. Then it was back to the stuff like The White Stripes and The Bottle Rockets. The Bottle Rockets track ‘Radar Gun’ sent me off on a little tirade about the police in South Africa. We went back to South Africa for a brand new track from the uber-talented Mark Haze and then we checked out some more Diverted Disorder. The boys from the Vaal are doing good things, the album launch is this weekend. From Diverted Disorder we heard The Cars, I shit you not, The Cars on TSORR!. Why? because it’s a great song, and that is why. I totally ran out of time, we squeezed in (or is it squoze :-))? Boston, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, and a brand new track from Disturbed. We finished off with an eight min plus live epic from Black Label Society called ‘Stillborn’. Thanks for listening, comments welcome, catch TSORR on the website or Facebook page.
Artists featured: Left Lane Cruiser, Nazareth, Nevada Beach, Rory Gallagher, Philip Sayce, Black Spiders, Soilwork, Tremonti, KISS, Matthew Good Band, Brian Fallon, In Flames, Parkway Drive, No Friends of Harry, ZZ Top, Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey, The Jam, The Clash, The Cult, The White Stripes, The Bottle Rockets, Texas Hippie Coalition, Joe Lynn Turner, Black Sabbath, ACDC, Motor Sister, Killit, Mark Haze, Diverted Disorder, The Cars, Bad Company, Boston, Def Leppard, Red Beans & Pepper Sauce, Iron Maiden, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, Black Label Society.
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 46 of Season 5 aired on Rebel Rock radio at 7 pm on 17 Nov 2022. The show started a bit differently for a change. Instead of the usual full-throttle Rock ‘n’ Roll we eased in with the classic ‘Judas’ version of Bob Dylan’s brilliant ‘Like a Rolling Stone’. From there we went with ‘Squealer’, one of the early ACDC tracks off Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. It was decided that if you could have a night on the town with one of the dead rock stars then Bon Scott would be a seriously good guy to pick. From there some Black Spiders off Sons of the North and then off to Aussie for a band called Catelano, the track was ‘Saturday Night’, cool track, good times.
We checked out some Texas Hippie Coalition and a track called ‘Pissed Off and Mad About It’ and that morphed into a bit of Chickenfoot. Joe Satriani showed once again just how brilliant he is when he is in a kick-ass band. Def Leppard went down well with a track called ‘All We Need’ off their latest album Diamond Star Halos. It went a bit soft with Courtney Love and Hole not shouting and smashing things so I fixed that with Zakk Wylde, Buckcherry, Overkill, and Parkway Drive. For a change, we played a track by Ghost called ‘Twenties’ and then had three in a row while I had to take care of some work stuff, the joys of running a factory on night shift . The three were from Motörhead, The Dead Daisies, and Sons of Liberty, out of Bristol in the UK nogal.
We checked out the new Rebel Rock Jingle kindly recorded by Prawn of Diverted Disorder and then we took a listen to ‘Destroyed by Fate’ (Feat Jared Gunston) by Diverted Disorder. The Color Blew with Liaan Horton on vocals and Timothy James on guitar kept the SA music flag high with a track called ‘O.D’. From there it was four serious rock tracks from Devils Train, Badlands, Iron Allies, and Skid Row. The new Skid Row, The Gang’s All Here is so good, its heading for a top ten finish for TSORR best albums of 2022. Last week we missed the Punk section so I fixed it this week with Stiff Little Fingers and The Clash and then we played ‘Ain’t It Fun’, the classic written by the guys in Rocket From The Tomb but who went off to record it in The Dead Boys and then later the definitive version done by G’n’R, this version is live and right on the edge, if you don’t get it, it’s not for you as Billy Connelly once said. It was fitting to go to Neil Young with ‘Powderfinger’ and then Johnathan Martins’s amazing cover of Neil’s ‘Cortez the Killer’. The wheels came off at the end where I lost the plot and had a mirth attack about Sakis Tolis and we finished loud with My Chemical Romance and Slipknot.
Artists featured: Bob Dylan, ACDC, Black spiders, Catelano, Ratt, Texas Hippie Coalition, Chickenfoot, Def Leppard, Hole, Leslie West Tribute (feat Zakk Wylde), Buckcherry, Overkill, Parkway Drive, Ghost, Thunder, Motörhead, The Dead Daisies, Sons of Liberty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live, Diverted Disorder, The Color Blew, Devil’s Train, Badlands, Iron Allies, Skid Row, Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, Rocket From the Tombs, Dave Hause, Warren Zevon, Johnathan Martin, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Sakis Tolis, My Chemical Romance, Slipknot.
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 45 of Season 5 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 10 Nov 2022. The show kicked off with ACDC and a track off Let There Be Rock called ‘Overdose’. From there we continued with Black Stone Cherry, Def Leppard, and White Zombie. We went into the ‘00s and cranked the Nu Metal with Drowning Pool and the title track off the Sinner album, the one that gave the world ‘Bodies’ and ‘Broken Home’ off Papa Roach’s Infest album. Strangely enough, we went from that into some mellow blues, courtesy of Popa Chubby and ZZ Top with Trouble and Blue Jean Blues respectively. It was the Papa to Popa connection that did it.
From the Blues, we checked out Iron Maiden and another track off Power Slave called ‘Back In the Village’. Herman Frank, ex of Accept got a look-in with a track off his latest album Two For a Lie. We stayed in Germany for some Rammstein and a bit later ‘Blackout’ from Scorpions, another song written about Eskom. A highlight of the show was the back-to-back pairing of Tony Martin and Joe Lynn Turner, two vocalists who have played in the best bands in the world and have both released solo alums in the last 12 months. Joe Lynn Turner has Peter Tägtgren producing and doing the guitar work and it is one hell of a combination. We had some more Nu Metal courtesy of Limp Bizkit and then used Courtney Love’s band Hole, with a track called ‘Rock Star’ to lead us into a quick farewell and RIP to Nazareth’s Dan McCafferty who passed away this week. As explained on the show Nazareth are a very special band to those of us growing up in the ’70s and ’80s and we thanked Dan for writing and performing some awesome classic songs.
We took in ‘When Your Love is Gone’ by Assie legend Jimmy Barnes and then spent nearly nine minutes on the Thin Lizzy classic ‘Still In Love With You’. It came off the Live album called Life and features all the Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell, Scott Gorham, Brian Robertson, Gary Moore, Snowy White, and John Sykes. Texas Hippie Coalition moved the show out of the ballads and Night Ranger and Queensrÿche continued the excellent medicine and took it to the next level. The new Queensrÿche, Digital Noise Allaince’ is fantastic, check it out. This show just had too much material and not enough time. We tipped the hat to Judas Priest for their well-deserved and long overdue inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we listened to another awesome Vivian Campbell solo and heard how powerful Andrew Freeman is on a track called ‘Year of The Gun’ and we squeezed in an amazingly emotional track from My Chemical Romance called ‘The World is Ugly’. The consensus on the chat was that MCR are correct on this point. Cheers all, see you next week, I hope you enjoy the episode.
Artists featured: ACDC, Black Stone Cherry, Def Leppard, White Zombie, Drowning Pool, Papa Roach, Popa Chubby, ZZ Top, Iron Maiden, Herman Frank, Rammstein, Anthrax, Dead City Ruins, Burning Rain, Skid Row, Five Finger Death Punch, Scorpions, Tony Martin, Joe Lynn Turner, Leslie West Tribute, Limp Bizkit, Hole, Nazareth, The Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Barnes, Thin Lizzy, Texas Hippie Coalition, Night Ranger, Queensrÿche, Halestorm, Judas Priest, Last In Line, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Johnny Cash, In Flames
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 44 of season 5 aired on 3 November 2022 at 7 pm sharp on Rebel Rock Radio. It was a cracker of an episode with plenty of new albums and plenty of rock from around the world. First out the blocks we had The Beatles’ classic ‘Day Tripper’ off a tribute to The Beatles album called Butchering the Beatles. This track featured Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw, and Doug Aldrich and it’s a guitar fest of note. From there we heard from Guns ‘n’ Roses with a live version of ‘Pretty Tied Up’ followed by a band called Paradox and a track of their excellent album Pangea called ‘Cheat and Pretend’.
We mixed in the legends with the newer artists by taking a track off Ozzy Osbourne’s new album Patient Number 9 and following Oz with Dead City Ruins and a track called “Drifter’. We heard a track off Herman Franks’ 2021 release Two For a Lie. Texas Hippie Coalition went down well as did another track off the Phil X and the Drills EP called Stupid Good Looking, Vol 1. There was a lot from Germany on the show, totally unplanned but along with Paradox we had Scorpions, Iron Allies, Herman Frank, on his own and in Iron Allies, and also Rammstein with their strange tune known as B*********.
The SA music came from Jasper Dan, Ross Harding, and L.A. Cobra and then we took in the new Skid Row and a track off Feel It Live which is a live album recorded by The Stranglers in 2013 when they were on Tour promoting the Giants album, the first with Hugh Cornwells replacement Baz Warne in the band. The end was nice and heavy with Eluveitie, Soilwork, and Lamb of God. From Lamb of God we went to Neil Young in that typical extreme contrasting style that TSORR is known and loved for. Thanks for listening, please share the podcast with anyone who may be interested and you can contact TSORR on the website or Facebook page.
Artists featured: Butchering the Beatles, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Paradox, Ozzy Osbourne, Dead City Ruins, Texas Hippie Coalition, Phil X and the Drills, Scorpions, The Pretty Reckless, Herman Frank, Alter Bridge, The Gaslight Anthem, Billy Idol, The Rolling Stones, Joe Lynn Turner, Iron Allies, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Metallica, Queensrÿche, Raven, Cold Chisel, Overdrivers, Joe Bonamassa, Jasper Dan, Ross Hardig, L.A. Cobra, Skid Row, The Stranglers, Dangerous Toys, Eluveitie, Soilwork, Lamb of God, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 43 kicked off at 19h00 on 27 Oct 2022 live on Rebel Rock Radio. We got straight into it with a track off one of the best live albums ever released, Bruce Springsteen’s Live 1975 to ’85, and a track called ‘Spirit in the Night’. From there it was time for some Thin Lizzy followed by Aussie rockers Airbourne and a track called ‘No Way But the Hard Way’. It was good to hear Kim Mitchell’s killer track ‘Go For Soda’ again. It should a staple on all those one-hit-wonder compilation albums. From there we went to ‘Hear About it Later’ off Van Halen’s Fairwarning album, Dave Lee Roth at his languid best. As always, it has to be said that Eddie Van Halen left a hole that cannot be filled.
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown made a welcome return to TSORR with a track called ‘Fuel’ off their Pressure album. Load shedding has hit internet radio hard causing one of TSORR’s greatest supporters to be absent for a few weeks. On this episode he was tuned in, so we caught up on a few of his besties, Space Lord by Monster Magnet, ‘Dead Again’ from Buckcherry and then some Marilyn Manson and Type O negative to round it out. We stayed in the M’s and went heavy with Machine Head and a stunning track off the new Megadeth called ‘Mission To Mars’.
There were a couple of birthdays to celebrate, Tom Petty would have been 72 last week, KK Downing is 71 today and SA guitar maestro Richard Pryor had a birthday yesterday. We heard from all of them. It was great to check out some vintage Iron Maiden in the form of ‘ Children of The Damned. From there Diverted Disorder bought some heaviness to the proceedings. Hailing from the Vaal, this 4-Piece are making waves with their awesome style of in their own words “Alternative, Rock, Blues blended with Trash, core, and Death Metal to create melodic perfection”. We stayed in SA with Shadowclub and a track called ‘Good Morning Killer’. The aforementioned SA guitar maestro Richard Pryor’s solo project Pebbleman got a look in with a track called ‘Searching’. Halestorm, Thundermother, and an amazing bit of teamwork between Nita Strauss and Alissa White-Gluz gave the ladies some airtime. The Nita and Alissa track is called ‘The Wolf You Feed’ and it is really cool, check it out.
Following on from last week’s Crowded House track we had a listen to Tim Finn’s big hit ‘I Got You’ when he was still with Split Enz. The statute of limitations on God save the Queen is now over so we gave the Sex Pistols a chance and then checked out a brand new track from Biilnk 182, some Fall Out Boy, and a very moving track from My Chemical Romance called ‘The Light Behind Your Eyes’.
Artists featured: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Thin Lizzy, Stone Sour, Audioslave, Kim Mitchell, Van Halen, Warrant, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Monster Magnet, Buckcherry, Marilyn Manson, Type O Negative, Machine Head, Megadeth, Wonderboom, Pebbleman, Tom Petty &the Heartbreakers, John Mellencamp, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Halestorm, Thundermother, Nita Strauss & Alissa White-Gluz, Queensrÿche, Diverted Disorder, Shadowclub, Split Enz, Sex Pistols, Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, U2, Foo Fighters, Overdrivers, Hinder, In Flames
Episode 42 of Season 5 kicked off at 19h00 on 20 Oct 2022. The show was live on Rebel Rock Radio and made up for last week’s disaster after the lightning strike. Apologies again for that little abortion, it’s nice to be back in control and with a new inverter to keep the load shedding at bay. The show kicked off with Accept and a track called “What’s Done is Done’ off The Rise of Chaos. Mark Tornillo on vocals and Wolf Hoffman on lead guitar. Then we took a listen to a band that was new to me called Dead City Ruins and a track called ‘Preacher‘. They’ve got four albums out and they hail from Australia. The classic rock flag flew for a while while we heard from Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and ACDC before chilling to Audioslave with ‘Like a Stone’ and then ‘Rats’ from Pearl Jam. ‘Like a Stone’ hit a billion YouTube views this week so that was worth celebrating. We also checked out KISS with the seldom-played ‘Do You Love Me’. This was off Kiss Alive IV and has Peter Criss on drums and Tommy Thayer on guitar, check out the interview I did with Tommy Thayer in the podcast list on 28 Nov 2019. What a nice guy.
The Johnny Kongos classic ‘Tokoloshe Man‘, recorded back in 1971, sounded great and stands up well as did another South African classic from a band called Big Sky. We got into the heavier stuff with Motorhead and UFO and from there it was guitar time and a track from White Lion called ‘Fight To Survive‘ featuring the amazing Vito Bratta on guitar. The story of Mike Slamer’s involvement with Warrant and Joey Allen, was briefly covered then we got into some metal courtesy of Claymorean and South Africa’s own Infanteria out of Cape Town and some more local music with Jasper Dan and Black Bone Nation.
This week the Punk came from the USA in the form of Green Day with ‘Welcome to Paradise’ off 1991’s Kerplunk. We also heard a track, relevant to the whole world right now called “The Economy Is Suffering’ by Anti-Flag. Dave Hause with his track ‘Bearing Down’ off Kick was a highlight for me and is pretty deep. In This Moment showed us all how good a rave could be if Maria Brink was running the show and we went heavy again with Parkway Drive and Megadeth. the show closed with Lamb of God and a track called ‘Ditch’ off their new album Omens. I said that we would play out with Slipknot but then changed my mind and did the LOG instead.
Artists featured: Accept, Cancer Bats, Dead City Ruins, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ACDC, Black Label Society, Joe Bonamassa, Audioslave, Pearl Jam, Godsmack, KISS, Judas Priest, Johnny Kongos, Big Sky, Motörhead, Warrant, Anti-Flag, Green Day, Claymorean, Infanteria, Black Bone Nation, Jasper Dan, Crowded House, Dave Hause, In This Moment, Marilyn Manson, Parkway Drive, Megadeth, Tribute To Leslie West, Wonderboom, UK Subs, My Chemical Romance, Lamb of God
Well, this one did not go according to plan. Apologies upfront, you are only going to get 2 hours of TSORR and it gets more and more chaotic as we get closer to the end. In the middle of the show the house got struck by lightning and as a result, I tried to hold it together and bravely do a “The show must go on” type jol but it was not to be, more and more problems appeared as I searched for damage between songs. Cameras, electric fences, and irrigation system, it started to pile up, and eventually, it was irrecoverable.
The irony was playing Metallica‘s Ride The Lightning pretty much when it happened. Sorry to let you down folks, it was one of those things I’m afraid.
What you will get is: ACDC, Danko Jones, Mötley Crüe, Seether, Nevada Beach, Blackberry Smoke, Jethro Tull, W.A.S.P., Slash’s Snakepit, Boston, Machine Head, John Mellencamp, Phillip Sayce, Q5, Michael Schenker Group, Iron Maiden. Metallica, Motörhead, The Halo Effect, Rush, The Pretty Reckless, Volbeat, System of A Down.
Episode 40 went out live on 6 Oct 2022 at 19h00 on rebel Rock radio. We kicked off with The Who and ‘I’m Free‘ which was fitting seeing as I have just finished nearly three years of study and now have a lot more time to dedicate to The Story of Rock and Roll. It was a pretty laid-back start by TSORR standards featuring stuff by John Cougar, Black Stone Cherry, and Jimmy Barnes. The pace picked up with Motörhead and when we went to Germany to visit Rammstein and Scorpions with ‘Zwitter’ and ‘Wild Child‘ respectively.
The next part of the show covered some classic ’70 and ’80s stuff from Golden Earring and Pat Benetar. Instead of KISS we took a listen to a Gene Simmons track called ‘Living in Sin. We changed pace with some Billy Talent (no he is not singing “I gave my life to Satan” :-), listen carefully) and Matthew Good Band out of Canada. From there a good dose of Serbian Metal from Claymorean and then my current favourite thrash band out of San Franciso, Hell Fire, by now no strangers to this radio show. Check out their new album Reckoning.
The Punk came courtesy of The Clash, Die Toten Hosen, and Rancid, Carnival in Rio (Punk Was) went down very, very well. Pairing George Lynch and Jeff Beck back to back was a great idea, listen out for those solos on the Lynch Mob and Ozzy tracks.
We hit the final straight with some great new SA stuff, another band out of the Devo Oosthuizen stable, this week a band called Forth Son South, and then we had Code 106 from their Alium EP. From there some Springbok Nude Girls and classic Fokofpolisiekar. A highlight of the show was a quick little tribute to the amazing Eddie Van Halen who passed away 2 years ago to the day. You’ll always be special to me Eddie RIP and thank you for everything.
The ending was also very cool, we went acoustic with Rush, off Rush in Rio, and a track called ‘Resist‘ and then Live with ‘Overcome’, recorded live in Amsterdam at the Paradiso. We then finished off with a bit of Neil Young and out with Megadeth off the new album The Sick, The Dying…….and The Dead.
Artists featured: The Who, Fozzy, Black Sabbath, Jimmy Barnes, John Cougar, Black Stone Cherry, Motörhead, Rammstein, Great White, Scorpions, Pat Benetar, Seether, Stone Sour, Gene Simmons, Golden Earring, Billy Talent, Matthew Good Band, Pixies, Claymorean, Hell Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nibs Van Der Spuy, Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen, Die Toten Hosen, The Clash, Rancid, Kid Rock, Lynch Mob, Ozzy Osbourne, Kane Roberts, Fourth Son South, Code 106, Springbok Nude Girls, Fokofpolisiekar, My Chemical Romance, Linkin park, Rush, Live, Neil Young, Asphyx, Megadeth
Episode 39 of Season 5 went out live at 7 pm sharp on 29 Sept 2022. As usual, the show was hosted by Rebel Rock Radio. We got going with Jorn and a track called ‘Some Day They Will Put Out the Sun’, it was agreed that if it was in South Africa it would have been out long ago, or broken, or lost. Next up Hell Fire out of San Fransisco, a truly wonderful band with a track called Cities Ablaze off their 2nd album called Free Again. From there a bit Sevendust with ‘Black’ and Last In Line with ‘Already Dead’ with Vivian Campbell playing like he used to in Dio, which is fitting as they are Dio but without Ronnie James Dio.
We went back to the early ’70s circa 71/72 and listened to Mott The Hoople Cover the Lou Reed classic ‘Sweet Jane’, which led to Neil Young’s ‘Sugar Mountain’, sweet thing geddit? A new track from Billy Idol off his new EP The Cage went down well, as did a new track off Ozzy Osbournes latest album Patient #9. We listened to ‘Immortal‘ featuring Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCreedy. Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan in Mr Big reminded us just how well bass and lead can fit together.
We took another new track off Five Finger Death Punch’s latest album AfterLife. Germany got a look in with Die Toten Hosen and ‘Alles Wir Gut’. We carried on with last week’s discovery, a band called Sumerlands, and then went off in a classic rock direction with ‘Riders On the Storm‘ specially dedicated to one of TSORR’s much-appreciated listeners ho lost a family member this week :-(.
We had tracks from The Stranglers and The Jam, it’s just punk by virtue of the time the bands were formed and their history but I consider them truly iconic rock bands. The ladies were represented by Brody Dalle and her band The Distillers with ‘The Hunger’ and The Donna’s and a track called ‘Who Invited You’. The South African stuff came from When Angels Came, Francois Van Coke, and Fire Horses. After that, we checked out the debut album from My Chemical Romance and a track called ‘Headfirst For Halos‘ which is really cool. We finished heavy with In Flames, Arch Enemy and Slayer.
Artists featured: Jorn, Hell Fire, Sevendust, Tremonti, Last In Line, Mott The Hoople, Neil Young, Mr Big, Tygers of Pan Tang, Rush, Billy Idol, Black Spiders, Alice In Chains, Bush, Anvil Black Veil Brides, Die Toten Hosen, Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch, Sumerlands, Rob Zombie, The Doors, Live, The Stranglers, The Jam, Parkway Drive, Venom, The Donna’s, The Distillers, When Angels Came, Fire Horses, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, in Flames, Arch Enemy, Slayer
Episode 38 kicked off at 19h00 on Thursday 22 Sept 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. First up Guns ‘n’ Roses with ‘You could Be Mine’. from back in the day when G ‘n’ R were the hottest band in the world. Next up Rainbow, off Rising and the opening track ‘Tarot Woman‘. It was pretty much hard rock with bands like Tesla and The Four Horsemen all the way through until some Jethro Tull which made a nice change. The track we heard was ‘One Brown Mouse‘ off Heavy Horses. From there we went bluesy with Samantha Fish and Frank Marino. The requests for more led to Joe Bonamassa with ‘Hanging on a Loser‘ off his latest album Time Clocks.
We checked out a real biker, biker band in the form of Chrome Division and then went heavy with Sepultura and their cover of Motörhead’s ‘Orgasmatron’ with the amazing Derrick Green on vocals. I did screw up a bit, I wasn’t sure if Derrick was Brazilian, he isn’t, he’s American, born in Cleveland in 1971, six foot five weighing 110 kg. That should fix the bungled and botched attempt on the record.
The next bit of the show I really enjoyed. Two metal bands I had never heard of one called Sumerlands and another called Claymorean got some airtime. They are playing what is known as classic metal. Claymorean are out of Serbia and Sumerlands I am not sure. We will be hearing more from these band in the future. Thanks to Loudwire for those two gems. New stuff came from Ozzy Osbourne, Parkway Drive, and Desolation Angels. We got our weekly dose of UK Punk courtesy of Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, and The Jam.
Because there is so much good metal out there right now we kept on going with a new track from In Flames called The Great Deceiver, this is a huge return to form in my view. There was time to visit the ‘80s with Mõtley Crüe and ‘Girls, Girls, Girls‘ and then some Kiss off Lick It Up and ‘All Hell’s Breaking Loose. Hole and The Pretty Reckless represented the ladies and then it was time once again for Rush. I am currently Rush befok and there is no obvious sign of abatement. It feels like we’ve had Rush for 7 weeks in a row now.
The wheels came off a little bit at the end, some bottled-up anger and a tribute to the Rebels at Rebel Rock Radio who work hard doing what they love whether people listen to it or not. So we went out heavy, heavy with Arch Enemy, Dirty Little Rabbits, and Eye of the Enemy.
Artists featured: Guns ‘n’ Roses, Rainbow, Slash’s Snake Pit, Tesla, The Four Horseman, The L.A. Maybe, Q5, Jethro Tull, Frank Marino, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Chrome Division, Sepultura, Manegarm, Claymorean, Sumerlands, Stiff little Fingers, The Clash, the Jam, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Parkway Drive, In Flames, Desolation Angels, Hole, The Pretty Reckless, Rush, The Who, Warren Zevon, Faster Pussycat, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Five Finger Death Punch, Arch Enemy, Dirty Little Rabbits, Eye of the Enemy.
Episode 37 kicked off on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 15 Sept 2022. We are into the last 15% of Quarter 3 and then that is 2022 in its P. Amazing, time really does fly. We kicked off the show with ‘The Longest Day‘ by Iron Maiden. At over seven minutes it was a nice way to give everyone a chance to settle in. From there we went to Mötley Crüe for a bit of ‘Power To The Music’, and that’s what TSORR is all about. That track features John Corabi on vocals, John has just released his biography so I will let yo know how that is once I finish it. From there we had something from Lita Ford off her album titled Living Like a Runaway. Then it was back to the classics with my favorite band Judas Priest and a track called ‘Desert Plains‘. From Priest, we went to a band out of Arizona called Icon with a track called ‘World War‘. Hopefully, that won’t happen.
We checked the title track off Surfing With The Alien, what a classic, the album cost $ 13 000 to make and sold a million copies. I am sure Joe Satriani is still very happy about that. And then an hour in everything went to shit. We are getting load shedding in South Africa, three to four times every 24 hours and it is wreaking havoc with everything including Rebel Rock Radio and The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show. Forgive the rant I had, we are really struggling here. Once comms were eventually restored, I focused on good times music like Metal Church’s ‘Date With Poverty‘, Motor Sister with ‘A Hole‘, Nine Inch Nails with ‘The Wretched’ and Megadeth’s ‘Dogs of Chernobyl’. All pretty much aimed at the government that has stolen all the money and destroyed all the infrastructure.
There is so much good music out at the moment, the New Ozzy Osbourne was released last week and we took a listen to a track called ‘One of Those Days‘ which features Eric Clapton. I reckon Eric has come out tops here, of all the megastar guitarists featured on the album he just gets it perfect. With 50 minutes to go, it was time to forget about the ANC abortion and let the music take over. Steel Panther with ‘Gold Digging Whore‘ bought some levity to the show and seeing as we were down there Buckcherry with ‘Ridin’’ and Sound Garden with ‘Big Dumb Sex‘ kept the show completely NSFW. We needed to check out some SA music and paid our respects to Dennis East who passed away this week. Dennis and Mike Pilot gave us Stingray and the wonderful ‘Better The Devil You Know’. From there we had ‘Baby Murdered Me‘ from Springbok Nude Girls featuring one of Theo Crous’s best solos ever, and there have been a few, in my opinion. We ended off with Parkway Drive and the title track off their new album released last week called ‘Darker Still‘. Check out the second solo, it sounds great.
Artists featured: Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Lita Ford, Judas Priest, Icon, Joe Satriani, Cirith Ungol, Humble Pie, Cream, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, The Gaslight Anthem, Last In Line, Titus Andronicus, Trivium, Motor Sister, Nine Inch Nails, Metal Church, Hell Fire, Nazareth, Hole, Kid Rock, Megadeth, Cradle of Filth, Desolation Angels, Saxon, Steel Panther, ACDC, Buckcherry, Soundgarden, Stingray. Springbok Nude Girls, The Black Cat Bones, Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Parkway Drive.
Episode 36 kicked off with Journey and ‘Anyway You Want It‘, live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 8 Sep 2022. In quick succession, we heard from Mammoth WVH, Edguy and Blackfoot. If any of you caught the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show you will probably have been suitably impressed with Mammoth WVH’s Wolfgang Van Halen, the kids got daddy’s chops that is for sure. From there we went all military with ‘Gods of War‘ from Bruce Dickinson and ‘Military Man‘ from Gary Moore.
While we were on air the news came through that the Queen had died so that led to ZZ Top with ‘Have You Heard?’ And Status Quo with ‘Mystery Song‘ and then into Tom Petty with a track called ‘Flirting With Time’ which is what we are all doing. Tom Morello’s cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blind Willie McTell went down really well, definitely a show highlight there. We also checked out a band I discovered about 14 years ago and I don’t think I have played on TSORR, a band called Biomechanical. The new stuff came from Alter Bridge and Ozzy Osbourne. The next bit was great, it was all based around a couple of tracks from the Netflix documentary Trainwreck, Woodstock 99. You need to see it, we took a listen to Limp Bizkit with ‘Break Stuff’, Korn with ‘Blind’ and Kid Rock with ‘Batwitadaba’. There was some good music at the turn of the century that’s for sure.
From there we cracked a bit of UK Punk with Stiff Little Fingers covering The Specials classic ‘Doesn’t Make it Alright‘, some Steve Jones off the Fire & Gasoline album and a cover of Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’ courtesy of Joe Strummer. We went heavy with the title track off the brand new Megadeth album called The Sick, The Dying, and the Dead and then brand new from Parkway Drive and a track called ‘The Greatest Fear’. SA music from The Black Cat Bones and Asylum Kids took us to a lekker messy ending with Five Finger Death Punch, Arch Enemy, and the find of the year, a band called The Halo Effect, We took a listen to the opening track ‘Shadowminds‘. And that ladies and gentlemen was that for season 5 episode 36. Please share the podcasts with anyone who may be interested. Thanks for listening m/
Artists featured: Journey, Mammoth WVH, Edguy, Blackfoot, Bruce Dickinson, Gary Moore, Q5, Slaughter, Sons of Liberty, The Dead Daisies, ZZ Top, Tom Morello & The Nightwatchmen, Status Quo, Tom petty, Biomechanical, Kiss, Ryan Adams, Dio, Alter Bridge, Ozzy Osbourne, (feat Zakk Wylde), Theory of a Deadman, Mick Jagger, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Kid Rock, Stiff Little Fingers, Steve Jones, Joe Strummer, Nazareth, Megadeth, Parkway Drive, Asylum Kids, The Black Cat Bones, The L.A. Maybe, Cradle of Filth, Five Finger Death Punch, Arch Enemy, The Halo Effect.
Episode 35 aired on 1 Sept 2022, on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00. For once there were no technical problems on startup, everything connected and everything worked. First up we had Krokus with their classic track Long Stick Goes Boom, off 1982’s One Vice at a Time. Next up Biters with a track called ‘1975’ and then a quick track from Herman Frank before we shifted direction with some Faith No More. From there we checked out ‘Baptised in Muddy Water from Ayron Jones and a track off the Ronnie James Dio Tribute tiled This is Your Life.
We spend a bit of time in the ‘Qs’, not home affairs, the letter ‘Q’, with Q5 and Queensrÿche and ‘Steel The Light’ and ‘Jet City Woman respectively. Seether made a welcome return with ‘Fake It’ and Flatfoot 56 made their debut on TSORR. The show moved into party mode with Rob Zombie and Living Dead Girl’ (who you can meet behind the counter at any Municipal Traffic Department near you). Buckcherry and ‘Let’s Party’ off All Night Long, kept the throttle open. We did the usual mix, slammed in some metal with Machine Head, ‘No Gods, No Masters’ and Killswitch Engage then into the UK punky stuff, The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, and Stiff Little Fingers. The new stuff came from Five Finger Death Punch, The Halo effect, Slipknot, and Soulfly.
We checked out Cape Town-based Infanteria who featured a few months ago with a nearly 8 min masterpiece called ‘Swansong’ off their 2022 release Patriarch. Then another brand new album from UK-based NWOBHM stalwarts Desolation Angels who have South African metal merchant Clive Pearson with them on bass. We didn’t manage to play the new Parkway Drive because there just isn’t enough time, that tells you something about the amount of good new metal being released at the moment, “didn’t have time for Parkway Drive”, jesus.
We hit the local stuff with Jasper Dan and Black Bone Nation and then moved to a special level with ‘Warm Machine’ from Bush, you had to be there moving through the night at 3 am in Black Adder II to understand the power of that track. Good times, really good times. Anyway, the show had to die so we ended off with US punk from Green Day and then ‘Helena’ the classic track from MCR. We went out heavy with The Halo Effect featuring Jesper Strömblad ex In-Flames, Slipknot’s new track ‘The Chapeltown Rag’, and Soulfly with ‘Ancestors’. Check it out, and spread the TSORR podcast far and wide please.
Artists featured: Krokus, Biters, Herman Frank, Faith No More, Ayron Jones, Brian Tichy + Oni Logan + Rowan Robertson + Jimmy Bain, Q5, Queensrÿche, Seether, Flatfoot 56, Rob Zombie, Rob Zombie, Buckcherry, Nashville Pussy, Michael Monroe, Machine Head, Killswitch Engage, Thin Lizzy, Billy Idol, The Boomtown rats, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, The Fismits, Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch, Infanteria, Desolation Angels, Texas Hippie Coalition, Pantera, The L.A. Maybe, Jasper dan, Black Bone Nation, Bush, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Kid Rock, The Halo Effect, Slipknot, Soulfly
The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR – Your one-stop shop for Rock
Episode 34 of Season 5 kicked off on 25 August 2022 at 7 pm on Rebel Rock Radio. ACDC got us out the blocks with a track off Powerage called ‘Gone Shooting, We stayed in that style of rock and checked out The LA Maybe, a band out of the Carolinas, and an awesome track called ‘Sucker Punch‘. In recognition of the fact that the world is pretty fucked at the moment we took a listen to ex-Hanoi Rocks and glam icon Michael Monroe with a track called ‘Junk Planet’. Then we got heavy with Burn The Priest, the band that were Lamb of God before they became Lamb of God and a Melvins cover called ‘Honey Bucket‘. Then we followed on from last week with another track off Bring Me The Horizon’s incredibly good album Sempiternal. One of the highlights of this show was an awesome track by SA band Fear of Falling, this was a new single they released called ‘All My Time’. SA music is world-class, always has been always will be.
We took in some Metallica off Kill ‘Em All and then changed the tone with The Offspring and a track called ‘Self Esteem‘. Noodles on guitar got some love for his guitar sound. Ibanez and Pitbull Amps are apparently the secrets. 25 August is famous for being the birthday of two of the greatest rock stars the world has ever known, two guys who had a huge influence on me personally as a kid discovering this awesome music. I am talking about Gene Simmons and Rob Halford, to celebrate their birthdays, 73 and 71 respectively we took a listen to Gene with ‘God of Thunder‘ off kiss Alive II and Rob with ‘Victim of Changes‘ off Unleashed in the East. Those two albums got played to death when I was growing up and I used Kid Rocks’ anthemic ‘Still Something‘ off his latest album Bad Reputation to hammer home the point that in the 70s and 80s music rock music was special.
From there it was Tom Petty followed by Bruce Springsteen with a lovely sentiment in his track “Further On (Up The Road) off The Rising. God remember that hey?, 9-11, seems like a lifetime ago and it took the Boss to put it all in perspective as only he can. The show went heavy again with a new band called The Halo Effect, made up of ex-members of In Flames and Mikael Stanne from Dark Tranquility, it’s well worth a listen, the album is called Days of the Lost. There was no way we were going anywhere without taking another track off the stupendous new Arch Enemy album, Deceivers, the track we heard was ‘Spreading Black Wings’, from there is was My Chemical Romance and Oasis time and a bit of Billy idol thrown in for good measure.
The end of the show was a bit self-indulgent and took us back to some good jols in Cape Town, the scene was set with Kobus!, The Uninvited with ‘The Poultry Christ’ and Fokofpolisiekar with some Neil Young thrown in. Kobus! with ‘Die Volk Van Main‘ is a very special song, Theo Crous and Francois Blom got it right here. The only huge disappointment with all this was that after Neil Young I explained how we used to use Tom Waits to clear the Whammy Bar in Cape Town and then I said cheers and goodnight and I assume that I didn’t hit the mic button so we have a 60 min silence and no Cheerio until Tom Waits takes us out with ‘Mr Siegal. Sorry about that.
Artists featured: ACDC, The L.A. Maybe, U.D.O., Michael Monroe, Warrant, Adrenaline Mob, Burn the Priest, Bring Me the Horizon, Fear of Falling, W.A.S.P., Metallica, The Offspring, Great White, Baton Rouge, Kiss, Judas Priest, Kid Rock, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Jasper Dan, The Halo Effect, Texas Hippie Coalition, Arch Enemy, My Chemical Romance, Oasis, The Professionals, Billy Idol, Stiff Little Fingers, The Distillers, Kobus!, The Uninvited, Fokofpolisiekar, Neil Young, Tom Waits
Episode 33 of season 5 aired finally at 19h18 on Rebel Rock Radio. Same as last week I could not connect to the server but this time I found some gremlins in the system and was able to sort it out. We kicked off with Guns ‘n’ Roses, with Accept and Herman Frank in hot pursuit. Both those tracks featured Herman because back in 1984 when Restless and Wild was released he was on guitar with Wolf Hoffman. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden signaled the end of the metal for the next 10 minutes. From there we went all over the place, leaving the grunge in Seattle we moved to Ireland for The Boomtown Rats, London for Joe Jackson, then down under for some ACDC and a track called ‘Giving the Dog a Bone‘ off Back in Black. Mutt Lange produced both the ACDC and the Boomtown Rats’ The Fine Art of Surfacing.
We had new stuff from Hell Fire and a track called ‘Tortuga Nights‘ off the new album called Reckoning. Also new was a track called ‘Yen‘ off the new Slipknot, which is being released one track at a time in the same way as Arch Enemy and Megadeth were. Speaking of both of those we checked them out as well. It was cool to toast the late great Taylor Hawkins and check out a track called ‘Rudy’ off his EP Kota. It’s got so many hooks it reminds me of Rabbitt. We went mellow with Dire Straits and a track called ‘Lions‘ off the Live at the BBC album and then we went heavy again with a track called ‘Exiled From Earth’ off the finally released album called ‘Deceivers‘. Arch Enemy is my current favorite metal band, Michael Amott and Alissa White-Gluz are killing it.
By the end of the show, we had gone from Del Amitri to Parkway Drive and Nickelback to Soulfly. The UK Punk slot was great, and The Stranglers with Duchess really hit the spot. The Rodneys were lining up, god forbid. It was also great to hear Stiff Little Fingers with ‘Nobody’s’ Hero and Simon McBride who is now in Deep Purple in place of Steve Morse made his TSORR debut with a rack called ‘High Stakes‘. We finished up with Rage Against the Machines cover of Devo’s track ‘Beautiful World, Zack De La Roche literally oozes resentment at the end, don’t be like Zack kids. All in all, it was a pretty mixed-up affair, in a good way.
Artists featured: Guns ‘n’ Roses, Accept, Herman Frank, Newsted, Hell Fire, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Boomtown Rats, Joe Jackson, ACDC, Santana, Dave Hause, John Mellencamp, Devin Townsend, Rush, All them Witches, Megadeth, Slipknot, Taylor Hawkins, Dirty Honey, Simon McBride, Dire Straits, Arch Enemy, Bring Me The Horizon, Nickelback, Hinder, The Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, Mr Big, The Answer, We Are Harlot, Sixx A.M., Del Amitri, Parkway Drive, Soulfly, Rage Against The Machine
Episode 32 of Season 5 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 11 August 2022. Actually, that isn’t quite true it eventually went out at 19h10 due to the all too familiar computer problems that plague internet radio. I am sure by 2025 all these stations will be a lot more reliable. We started off with Volbeat and ‘Step Into Light’, then changed direction and decided to go ‘Into the Pit’ with Halford instead. That track came off his Live Insurrection album. From there we had a flurry of Aussie Rock in the form of James Reyne performing ‘Boys Light Up, off the One Night in Melbourne live album, it’s a rock classic featuring hummers, and not the type Arnold drives. The rest of the flurry came from Airbourne and Rose Tattoo. Around about this time the server decided that that was enough TSORR for one night and I was left with a ton of disappointed listeners and nothing to do except finish the show for the podcast.
The live show is such a big part of TSORR because the audience gives the energy and the show is way more chirpy when it’s live. Anyway, it was not to be. We continued with some excellent brand-new metal. ‘Saxons and Vikings’ from Amon Amarth. It featured Saxons Biff Byford doing the Saxon part of the duet. It’s a very, very cool track, one of my best for the year. We then some Soulfly with a track called ‘Superstition’ off the brand new album called Totem. There was bit of Dio and Megadeth in the middle of it all and then we took a listen to a track called ‘Asshole’ by Helloween. It’s a pretty scathing attack on whoever it was aimed at and to be honest at that particular moment I had a long list of suitable candidates.
I dedicated Gov’t Mule’s beautiful track ‘Soulshine to a few of my friends having a really tough time at the moment and then followed up with U2’s amazing track ‘Walk On’ for everyone who just needs a bit of encouragement in these troubled times. It was time to liven things up with some US punky stuff: Blink 182, Wheatus, and Bloodhound Gang did the honours with Anthem, Teenage Dirtbag, and The Ballad of Chasey Lain respectively. The ladies were represented by The Pretty Reckless and the awesome Taylor Momsen, then we had In This Moment and the power of Maria Brink. While we were there we turned the mic over to Angela Gossow and a track called ‘The Day You Died‘ off Rise of the Tyrant. Michal Amott is just phenomenal on this, Rise of The Tyrant was released in 2007, and still has brother Christopher Amott before he finally left to pursue other interests in 2012. The show stayed heavy because from there we went to Slayer and finally switched the pace a bit with two South African tracks, ‘Born on Death Row’ by The Uninvited, and ‘Swords’ a track off the brand new album from The Black Cat Bones. We ended the evening in good US rock style thanks to John Mellencamp and TSORR’s beloved Tom Petty. The final track is really disturbing, ‘Slow Motion‘ by Third Eye Blind should be a movie.
Artists featured: Volbeat, Halford, Marilyn Manson, James Reyne, Airbourne, Rose Tattoo, Don Babylon, Megadeth, Static-X, Helloween, Theory of a Deadman, Emigrate, Dio, Amon Amarth, Soulfly, The Cult, Stone Gossard, John Frusciante, Children of Bodom, Gov’t Mule, U2, Blink 182, Wheatus, Bloodhound Gang, ACDC, Ratt, Rush, The Pretty Reckless, In This Moment, Arch Enemy, Slayer, The Uninvited, The Black Cat Bones, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Third Eye Blind.
Episode 31 of Season 5 went out live on Rebel Rock radio on 4 August 2022. This show is as unprepared as it gets, let’s see what happens. We kicked off with Bad Company and ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy, then into Dave Hause off one of my favourite albums of all time titled ‘Bury Me In Philly‘. The track we played was called ‘The Flinch’. From there we sped it up a bit with ‘Speed Demon’ from Keel, by now I was hating what I had in the playlist and desperately looking for a way out. By request, we took in some of Australia’s finest in the form of James Reyne and Cold Chisel with ‘Fall of Rome’ and ‘When the War is Over’ respectively. The Cold Chisel track should cause some piloerection, the first two verses sung by guitarist Ian Moss and then the sheer power of Jimmy Barnes taking over from verse three. I love the way Barnsey does this, standing back and letting someone else have a go just increases the magnificence of his voice. It’s the contrast that does it, and then of course Don Walker on piano.
This week’s Rock Review featured Rush and the last track ‘The Wreckers‘ cut off violently due to the time slot allocated so to make amends and also by request we listened to it in its awesome entirety. Things by now were picking up with some very special people tuned in. We checked out a band called Ignite and another called Windowpane, two relatively unknown bands making some awesome music. Next, we popped over to Germany for some Rammstein and some Accept. We checked some new stuff from Alter Bridge off their forthcoming album Pawns and Kings, the track was called ‘Silver Tongue‘ and we also listened to ‘Times Like These‘ off the brand new Five Finger Death Punch release Afterlife. A couple of Alices’ in the form of Alice in Chains and Alice Cooper were followed by classic 80’s metal from Van Halen and ACDC.
We wound it down with four South African bands, starting with a request for Kobus! with Kultuurfeestent and then Jack Hammer, The Black Cat Bones, and L.A. Cobra. The Bones in particular sounded amazing with their cover of Bob Dylan‘s ‘I Shall be Released. We stayed mellow and wound down this very random show with some Black Stone Cherry off the Kentucky album and Kid Rock with ‘Never Quit’ off his latest album released earlier this year titled Bad Reputation.
Artists featured: Bad Company, Dave Hause, Desperado, Keel, Danko Jones, James Reyne, Cold Chisel, Destruction, Thundermother, The Gaslight Anthem, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Rory Gallagher, Ignite, Windowpane, Rammstein, Accept, Alter Bridge, Five Finger Death Punch, Audioslave, Alice in Chains, Alice Cooper, Virgin Steele, ACDC, Van Halen, Candlebox, Kiss, David Bowie, Kobus!, Jack Hammer, The Black Cat Bones, L.A. Cobra, Bruce Dickinson, Black Stone Cherry, Kid Rock
Season 5 Episode 30 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 28 July 2022. Once again showcasing the more sophisticated start to the show we kicked off with ZZ Top off a newly released album called RAW. This was the soundtrack to their Sam Dunn (Of a Headbangers Journey fame) produced 2019 Netflix rockumentary That ‘lil old band from Texas’. I haven’t seen it but will do so soon. It’s released as a tribute to Dusty Hill who sounds awesome on this track. Next up is a cool bit of Whitesnake off Love Hunter released back in 1979. We checked out some Black Sabbath with a track called ‘Peace of Mind‘ and then Aerosmith with Steven Tyler singing about his favourite colour. ‘Tired Wings’ by The Four Horseman was a breath of fresh air and I briefly told the tragic story of that band. The track came off the Rick Rubin produced album called Nobody Said it Was Easy, ain’t that the truth?
Queensrÿche with ‘Child of Fire’ sounded absolutely better than ever and it was cool to hear something of Iron Maiden’s debut album again. Paul Di Anno on vocals and a track called ‘Strange World’. The thing I love about doing these live shows is you can really create something out of nothing, as it wore on things sounded better and better. Infanteria, a metal band out of Cape Town hit us hard with ‘Raging Bastards‘ off their new album Patriarch. The next track ‘Battering Ram’ by Saxon may well be the best track they have ever done, sheer power, metal at its best. We caught some Pat Travers and his track ‘Snortin’ Whisky’, I have changed my message about this track, and new advice is offered now that I have had pause to reflect. Next up, the wonderful Neil Young and his uber cool track ‘Revolution Blues‘, check out that lyric.
We checked out 3Teeth, which is very Mansonesque so we checked out Marilyn Manson, the Double MM himself off The Born Villain album. Rory Gallagher made an appearance with ‘Bad Penny’ and then it was time for ACDC, making a rare appearance on TSORR with ‘Evil Walks’ lol. As always, we got a bit punky with Blink 182 and The Stranglers and threw in The Polices ‘So Lonely’ lest we forget how good the ’77 to ’79 period really was. Then we had a flurry of Ss in the form of Seether, Sixx A.M., and Slipknot. “Time are few boys” as one of my teachers used to say, so we ended up with a bit of Volbeat and checked out with Judas Priest and an iconic moment in Rock when My Chemical Romance played out with ‘Famous Last Words‘ and announced that the Black Parade was dead, we are still all crying.
Artists featured: ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Ivan Ivankovic, The Four Horsemen, Queensrÿche, Iron Maiden, Infanteria, Saxon, Nevada Beach, Pat Travers Band, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Megadeth, Running Wild, Ozzy Osbourne, 3Teeth, Marilyn Manson, Rory Gallagher, ACDC, Dave Hause, Theory of a Deadman, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Keel, Blink 182, The Police, The Stranglers, Seether, Sixx A.M. Slipknot, My Chemical Romance.
Episode 29 of Season 5 kicked off live on Rebel Rock Radio at 7 pm on 21 July 2022. I reckon this was one of the coolest starts ever and featured a little clip of Tom Petty telling the audience in Inglewood to clear the aisles. The original idea to have a mellow start was blown to Smithereens by Therapy with ‘Trigger Inside’ followed by Scorpions and UFO with ‘Blackout’ and Lights Out’ respectively. Punches were being swung at the government and all was good. We took a listen to Trivium, Matt Heafy’s band and they have really grown on me. This week is based on last week’s aborted show but with some super-excellent enhancements. I am in a far better mood.
We checked out Tindrum a band that I found on the Phil Wright Tapes, in a continuation of what I call tracks from Tracks From The Grave, we checked out a track called Street Fighter by Tindrum. From there we had Welcome to the Circus, brand new from Five Finger Death Punch. This time last week I was losing my rhythm, resetting streams, and generally pissing the listeners off so it was great to be able to do this show justice. Some of it has changed, mainly the sentiment (happy, grateful) but most of it stayed the same. Blue Öyster Cult hit the spot with a track called ‘Fight’, which we must. We then entered the ‘Belly Of The Beast’ with Sixx A.M., this bit got a bit personal with the current state of things in SA. I experienced an armed robbery last week, 9 guys moved into our factory and took us prisoner, lie on the floor type shit you see in the movies. We managed to outwit them and set off the alarm but it could have ended very badly. The next two songs, Bastards by Machine Head and (Don’t let Em) Grind Ya Down by Motörhead summed up the need to fight this shit. We cannot let the bad guys win. Things balanced out with Rival Sons and the stoic sentiments of Good Things and we let the power of great rock music do its work, Bad Company, and Foreigner were good medicine.
We had the evolution of female vocals with Sheryl Crow, Lzzy Hale, and Allisa White-Gluz. We sorted out the UK Punk with Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Stranglers, and US Punk with Fall Out Boy and The Distillers. Brody Dale is such an iconic rock chick, she should do more albums. We ended the show with a lot of SA music and started with Springbok Nude Girls, then Mark Haze, then Nibs Van Der Spuy. People wanted more so we had Valiant Swart and we went out with Johnathan Martin’s amazing track ’I Wish You Well‘.
The highlight of the show for me was the shout-out to Danny De Wet and his awesome book Sex, Drums and Rock n Roll……In Africa. I spent time with Danny last weekend and he managed to get my book into the hands of Lucien Windrich who took TSORR on the plane with him back to the UK after a very successful Johnny Clegg tribute gig. We took a listen to Wonderboom with a cover of eVoids ‘Shadows‘, two bands Danny was an integral part of.
Artists featured: Therapy?, Scorpions, UFO, Trivium, Black Label Society, Warrant, Tindrum, Smith/Kotzen, Five Finger Death Punch, Blue Oyster Cult, Sixx A.M., Machine Head, Motörhead, Rival Sons, Saxon, Wonderboom, Arapaho, Bad Company, Foreigner, Slade, Mott The Hoople, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Sheryl Crow, Halestorm, Arch Enemy, Upon A Burning Body, Megadeth, Volbeat, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Springbok Nude Girls, Mark Haze, Nibs Van Der Spuy, Valiant Swart, Johnathan Martin
Episode 28 of Season 5 kicked off live on Rebel Rock Radio at 7 pm on 14 July 2022. I reckon this was one of the coolest starts ever and featured a little clip of Tom Petty telling the audience in Inglewood to clear the aisles. The original idea to have a mellow start was blown to Smithereens by Therapy? with ‘Trigger Inside’ followed by Scorpions and UFO with ‘Blackout’ and Lights Out’ respectively. Punches were being swung at the government and all was good. We took a listen to Trivium, Matt Heafy’s band, and they have really grown on me. We were going great guns with plenty of listeners and things were flowing nicely and then the streams cut out and no matter what I did I could not re-establish them. To save this podcast I had to abort the live show which was really annoying given the fact that I had some shit I wanted to say. It got said anyway but without the help and feedback of a live audience.
We checked out Tindrum a band that I found on the Phil Wright Tapes, and a track called ‘Street Fighter’ which we took a listen to. From there we had ‘Welcome to the Circus’, brand new from Five Finger Death Punch. By now I was losing my rhythm, resetting streams, and generally disappointing the listeners. I pulled the plug and settled on making sure the podcast worked. Some Queensrÿche and Blue Öyster Cult hit the spot and then we entered the ‘Belly Of The Best’ with Sixx A.M., this bit got a bit personal with the current state of things in SA. I experienced an armed robbery this week, 9 guys moved into our factory and took us hostage, all that lie on the floor type shit you see in the movies. It all worked out OK, I managed to outwit them and set off the alarm but it could have ended badly. The next two songs, ‘Bastards’ by Machine Head and ‘(Don’t let Em) Grind Ya Down’ by Motörhead summed up the need to fight this shit. We cannot let the bad guys win. Things balanced out with Rival Sons and the stoic sentiments of ‘Good Things’ and we let the power of great rock music do its work, Bad Company, and Foreigner was good medicine.
We sorted out the UK Punk with Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Stranglers, US Punk with Fall Out Boy and The Distillers, Brody Dale is such an awesome rock chick, she should do more albums. We ended the show with a lot of SA music starting with Springbok Nude Girls, then Mark Haze, then Nibs Van Der Spuy, then Valiant Swart and we went out with Johnathan Martin’s amazing track ’I wish You Well’. This was the first time since TSORR started on Rebel Rock Radio that there wasn’t a show in the Thursday 7 to 10 slot, I found it most depressing to be honest. Apologies to all of you who tuned in and sorry to have let you down. I’d be happier if I knew how to sort it out.
Artists featured: Therapy?, Scorpions, UFO, Trivium, Black Label Society, Warrant, Tindrum, Five Finger Death Punch, Creed, Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Sixx A.M., Saxon, Machine Head, Motörhead, Rival Sons, Bad Company, Foreigner, Slade, Mott The Hoople, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Sheryl Crow, Arch enemy, Upon A Burning Body, Megadeth, Volbeat, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Springbok Nude Girls, Mark Haze, Nibs Van Der Spuy, Valiant Swart, Johnathan Martin
Episode 27 of season 5 aired on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 7 July 2022. The show kicked off with a live track from Volbeat called ‘Maybellene I Hofteholder‘. It was a nice way to start actually and it sort of set the tone for a mellow (by TSORR standards) beginning. From there we had a band called Austin Gold with the title track off their debut album Before Black Clouds. Next up California Breed, that’s half of Black Country Communion, plus Ozzy Osbourne producer Andrew Watt. After that, we smashed some of that Southern Rock action with Blackfoot and Rhino Bucket. Rhino Bucket is out of California so while not strictly Southern Rock, you can hear the influences in the music. The track we played was ‘Going Down Tonight‘. We also had some of SA’s own Jasper Dan which is a band I really dig.
Danko Jones let off a bit of steam and offered up some good advice on what to do when people cross you. We also said farewell and RIP to Manny Charlton, guitarist and founder member of the beloved 70’s juggernaut known by the name of Nazareth. ‘Hair of the Dog‘ was a fitting tribute to a great guitarist and songwriter. Mannie was 80 so that’s pretty good for rock and roll, well played sir. We listen to Queensrÿche and Rush, two giants of prog according to some, but I figure it’s not prog because I really love it. Carlos Santana had a collapse on stage this week and was rushed to hospital, he’s OK, a bit of dehydration (the dude is 74) so to wish him well (because he never misses TSORR lol) we played his version of ‘Whole Lotta Love’ feat. Chris Cornell.
Overall it was a fairly balanced show, we were light on Aussie and German stuff and only managed 4 SA tracks, one of which is my latest discovery, a band out of Cape Town called Infanteria, check them out they are great. The classic ’80s stuff came from Kiss, Dokken, and Dio and Asking Alexandria, Testament, and Amon Amarth brought the metal to the party. We ended super mellow with The Stranglers and ‘Don’t Bring Harry‘ and a beautiful track from Wonderboom called “Night Falls Like a Grand Piano‘. I managed to tone down the doom and gloom a bit although we are still on Stage 5 load shedding in South Africa and it really affects the number of listeners that catch the show. This in turn affects the energy of the whole thing., see if you notice.
Artists Featured: Volbeat, Austin Gold, California Breed, Blackfoot, Rhino Bucket, Danko Jones, Nazareth, Jasper Dan, Queensrÿche, Rush, Dio, Forbidden, Santana feat. Chris Cornell, The Dead Daisies, Stone Sour, Testament, The Police, Pixies, Foo fighters, Mastodon, Infanteria, Kiss, Dokken, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Steve Morse, Joe Bonamassa, Fall out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Asking Alexandria, Amon Amarth, Warlock, Pretenders, The Stranglers, Wonderboom.