Cutter's RockCast

I'm hanging at The Aftershock music festival in Sacramento, CA all weekend seeing live music and talking with rock n' roll friends. When it comes to Stone Sour you never know what will happen when you get into their trailer. I knew I was sitting down to talk to Roy Mayorga, but Corey Taylor and Josh Rand just couldn't help themselves.

Some of the greatest rock albums to ever be released came out in the later part of 1991. Scratch that, some of the greatest albums period came out in '91. Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Ozzy, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Guns n' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more all released career defining albums between the middle of August and the end of September. 1991 has gone down as one of, if not the greatest year in music history. Kaytie and I give our thoughts and go into details on some of these landmark records.

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Sam Kiszka is the bassist for the band Greta Van Fleet out of Frankenmuth, MI. (Frankenmuth is also known as Christmas town,) Sam formed the band along with his brothers Josh and Jake. There are only teenagers fresh out of high school and yet their song "Highway Tune" spent most of the month of September on top of the rock charts. That song was also featured in an episode of the Showtime show Shameless. Now you know who they are, but let's find out how it came to be for one the hottest new bands in rock, Greta Van Fleet.

Our lovely Kaytie went and spent some time at the Sonic Boom festival in Janesville, WI on Sunday Oct. 1st. Sure she hung out with some rockstars and other radio friends, but she also got to have a few conversations with some of our favorite people. First Arejay and Lzzy from Halestorm, then Bill Kelliher of Mastodon and finally Joey Dandeneau from Theory (formerly Theory of a Deadman.)

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***picture labeled "flannel mafia" features Kaytie, Kate Hodge (who helped us with some stuff,) Cody Tour Manager from Hinder and some cool ladies.***

Kaytie and I needed to catch up with Avenged Sevenfold ahead of tickets going on sale for The Stage World Tour. Enter bassist Johnny Christ. The tour which also features Breaking Benjamin and Bullet For My Valentine is hitting arenas all over the U.S. starting in early January. There's also a little court case going on that we had to ask about. Plus they just put out an amazing version of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" for the deluxe edition of The Stage. Yeah a lot to cover. This aired live (besides our little introduction,) on our home base radio station Razor 94.7 so we give it to you the way it was heard, with some bonus content about "Wish You Were Here."

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On September 29, 1992 Stone Temple Pilots released their debut album 'Core' and after entail reaction calling them a Pearl Jam wanna be, it went on to sell millions of copies and become one of the best rock albums of the time, if not ever. Flash forward to September 29, 2017 and 25 years to the day 'Core' was reissued as a deluxe anniversary edition. Time for some quick stories and the sharing of joyous moments with Robert and Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots.

This interview originally took place live on Facebook, because apparently that's what us media people do now. We talked on Starset's tour bus outside of a venue before they went on to play two giant rock festivals in the same weekend, Louder Than Life and Sonic Boom. Starset's new album 'Vessels' has been doing extremely well and the second single "Satellite" is currently skyrocketing up the rock radio charts. On top of that Dustin and the Starset Society (which Dustin explains during this interview) just put out the new Marvel published graphic novel 'The Prox: Transmissions.' Dustin gives a walk through and there's some Starset talk as well, on the latest episode of the Rockcast.

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We had such an amazing response to our last (host) podcast about booking shows that we had to do a follow up. This time Kaytie and I are going through the day of the big rock shows and what's really going on behind the scenes. We do our best to answer some questions we've received and explain why you should quit your bitching with technical problems, or severe weather happen. Any comments or concerns as always you can reach out to us directly.

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Kaytie = @ktrgrocks

From the shadow of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI I did a live radio show ahead of the annual Razor Edgefest concert. My home radio station Razor 94.7 (WZOR) every year puts on a smaller outdoor show in the parking lot of the Green Bay Distillery. Just so happens that it's directly across the street from the Green Bay Packers practice facility and kitty corner from Lambeau Field. The line-up this year was Black Stone Cherry, 10 Years, Gemini Syndrome and Through Fire. I talked to all the bands live on the air from the patio of the venue. It was a great day and so much fun catching up with new and old friends. This episode of the Rockcast is my conversations with all 4 bands, as they happened. Enjoy!

Over the last few months we've been asked the question on how concert booking works. We have also seen all the negative comments about someone's favorite band playing on a week night, or tickets being to expensive, or the ending to early, or not liking the headliner of a major festival, or whatever other excuse you can come up with. Well a lot goes into booking a tour or even just a one off show. The agents, the promoters, the venues, sometimes the radio stations, and yes even the bands have to put a lot of work into setting these shows or tours up. Kaytie and I dig deeper and discuss the ins and outs of how this works. You're welcome.