What is Dad Rock?

Well, we go down the rabbit hole. You will feel old, you will agree with us, you'll disagree with us and at the end, you'll be thinking about this episodes for days.

Intro song is written by us and Jes using a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. For more info, go to www.neuraldsp.com

Famous author and friend of show, Daniel Bukszpan, guests on the show today to talk about Reign in Blood and his new book, Heavy Metal's Big Four(pre sale link below)

If you know, you know so just click the link and enjoy the ride while we talk about one of the most influential metal albums of all time

https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Metals-Big-Four-Transformed/dp/1577158199

Intro music created by us and Jes using a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. For more info on the best amp out in the market, go to www.neuraldsp.com

This was a ton of fun and it's a great watch on youtube so if you like to visually watch your podcasts. here's the link

https://youtu.be/tDtlHtnPsKA?si=KoQk01PXf_ptPB7U

We would also love to hear your tier list over on our Facebook group. Seach Mix Tapes Podcast Group and join the discussion.

Intro music by Us and Jes using a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. For more info on the best amp on the market, go to www.neuraldsp.com

Man some of these choices were insanely difficult but they made us really think and the debating was a ton of fun.

I hope you guys join the discussion on our facebook group(Mix Tapes Facebook Group) and let us know who you would have picked?

Also if this is your time finding us, we would love it if you subscribed.

The intro music is us and Jes and we used a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse and you should too!

For more info, go to www.neuraldsp.com

We were lucky enough to have Norman on the show and he gave us such a great insight on his journey from wanting to play music to getting the gig in Forbidden.

It was a pleasure to have him on and we are really looking forward to the new Forbidden album.

For all things Norman, check out his website

https://www.normanskinner.net/

Our intro music was done by us and Jes and we used a Quad Cortex for the recording, which we heavily endorse. To learn more about the best amp in the universe, check out www.neuraldsp.com

Did you have the VCR set come Saturday night at 11pm back in the 80's/90's? If so, this show is for you.

We go back in the time machine and talk about the Headbangers Ball and how important it was to us in finding new bands, seeing what our favorite bands were up to and so much more....

Intro music created by us and Jes using a Quad Cortex. For more info on the best amp out there, visit www.neuraldsp.com

This was a treat to have a local musician whose doing big things stop by the podcast. Jared has been killing it on the drums and vocals for Rivers of Nihil and we get into his beginnings all the way up to what Rivers is doing and what's his favorite places to eat and we also talk about his favorite Reno drummers

For more info on Jared contact him on socials for drum lessons and here's the link to the Rivers of Nihil page

https://www.riversofnihil.com/

Intro music written by us and Jes and we used a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. For more info on the best amp out there, go to www.neuraldsp.com

Do. you remember your first album that got you in to Rock? Maybe the first album that got you into Metal? Or how about the first album where you really noticed next level guitar playing?

Well we decided to take a trip down memory lane and throw bands at each other to see if we remember the point of entry for those specific bands

Intro music created by us and Jes using Quad Cortex, which is the best amp out in the market in our opinion. For more info, go to neuraldsp.com

What a great it was to have the guitar master, Jeremy Von Epp on the show today. We talked about the following

Growing up in a music household

How starting on Drums was so important

Randy Rhoads

Guitar Teaching

The Venting Machine

The Watchers

and of course, Joining Forbidden and what the future holds.

For more info on Jeremy Von Epp, go to Forbidden's facebook page or check out any of his bands on any streaming service

Intro and outro music recorded by Eric Stangeland, Mark Moots and Jes Phips using a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. For more info on the best amp out there, go to www.neuraldsp.com

This was a fun one for sure. Lots of bands to chose from with iconic logos made for a great, yet tough discussion. We know we missed some bands so let us know who we missed on our Facebook message group, Mix Tapes Podcast Group

Intro music was created by us and Jes using a Quad Cortex, which we heavily endorse. To learn more about the best amp out there, go to www.neuraldsp.com