Rich Embury’s Hard Rock and Metal Podcasts

This week it’s a tale of two “Jacks” as Jack Blades of Night Ranger, Damn Yankees, Revolution Saints and more, joins the show. As always, lots of music from Jack Blade’s stellar career to fill out the show, in addition to the interview. This episode of The Riff with Jack Trash originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio Thursday, December 13th, 2018.

Get your weekly 80s & early 90s metal fix with King Hesh. Three hours of bitchin’ tunes from the “Era of Hair” dudes!!! This week King Hesh continues his end of the year themed shows with the annual “Tribute To Dimebag” show!!!

An entire show of music from the late PANTERA guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, who was heinously killed on stage, doing what he loved doing, 14 years ago this past week on December 8, 2004. You’ll hear, of course, a lot of PANTERA, plus other music from his career, including his collaboration with David Allan Coe in REBEL MEETS REBEL, and the band with his brother DAMAGEPLAN, and some rare tracks over his career. Don’t want to miss this show dudes. Tune In! Toke Up! Rock Out! This episode of the King Hesh show originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio December 7th, 2018.

This week there is no guest, so Jack has decided to put his personal playlist on Shuffle to let technology pick this week’s playlist. It could be Hard Rock, Metal, Christmas tunes, or non-PRR style music, who knows…it’s up to the shuffle button this week on the “SHUFFLE EDITION” of The Riff! Tune in for a killer mix of Jack’s personal playlist of tunes. Oh! The suspense!! This episode of The Riff with Jack Trash originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio December 6th, 2018.

Get your weekly 80s & early 90s metal fix with King Hesh. Three hours of bitchin’ tunes from the “Era of Hair” dudes!!! This week King Hesh continues his end of the year themed shows with the annual “Obscure Hesh” show!!!

An entire show of music from bands that kicked major ass from the “Era Of Hair” but just didn’t make it into the mainstream… for whatever reason. On the show you will hear killer tunes from obscure bands like SWEET F.A., SMASHED GLADYS, TANGIER, HEXX, SOUTHGANG, HERICANE ALICE, BANSHEE, AXE, SLIK TOXIK, ROUGHHOUSE, ROXXI, ICON, ASPHALT BALLET, BRUNETTE, CHILD’S PLAY, SHOK PARIS, WILDSIDE, VALENTINE, ALLEYCAT SCRATCH, WARRIOR, any many many others. Don’t want to miss this show dudes. Tune In! Toke Up! Rock Out! This episode of the King Hesh show originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 30th, 2018.

This week BRIAN TICHY (The Dead Daisies, Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Tak Matsumoto Group, and more) joins Jack to chat about past and current projects, like his holiday album “Merry Tichmas” out now. Songs from Brian’s discography are talked about and mixed throughout the show, including tracks from The Dead Daisies, Brian Tichy doing a Christmas classic off his current solo LP, Tak Matsumoto Group (TMG), SUN (Feat. Sass Jordan) and more. This being KISS week (“Band of the Week” pick) on The Riff, we hear Brian’s favorite track as a fan of the band, “Parasite” as well. This episode of The Riff with Jack Trash originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 29th, 2018.

Get your weekly 80s & early 90s metal fix with King Hesh. Three hours of bitchin’ tunes from the “Era of Hair” dudes!!! This week a very special U.S. Thanksgiving treat as King Hesh kicks off the end of the year themed shows with the Thanksgiving “Killer Covers” Show. An entire show of covers of killer classics from your favorite Hesh artists. King Hesh gives thanks to the eras before the “Era Of Hair”. You’ll hear covers of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Slade, Iron Butterfly, Aerosmith, Blackfoot, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, Nazareth, Kansas, Golden Earring, among many many other classic covers. Tune In! Toke Up! Rock Out!! This episode of The King Hesh show originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 23rd, 2018.

This week, a very special “Family Edition” of The Riff with Jack Trash. Jack’s son JAXON joins the show to celebrate U.S. Thanksgiving, with track selections from the “Old School” (Jack) and “New School” (Jaxon) throughout. This episode of The Riff with Jack Trash originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 22nd, 2018.

It’s nearly -30 Celsius here in Saskatoon during this show this week, so ALL SYSTEMS GO! Let’s warm up with another “New Metal Round-up“! Brand NEW hard rock and heavy metal from Queensryche, Within Temptation (Feat. Anders Friden), Toque, Bedlem​, Kalidia​, Owl Company, Aftermath​, All Hail The Yeti, Nita Strauss​, BillyBio​, Amongst the Giants​, Dire Peril, TrollWar, P.O.D., Warkings, Brothers of Metal, The Three Tremors (Feat. Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens, Sean Peck & Harry Conklin), KOSM​, Memphis May Fire​, Cryptopsy​, Nanowar Of Steel, Last Union​ (Feat. James LaBrie​), Atria​, Einherjer, Wrath​ and more! This edition of Rich Embury’s R3TROGRAD3 originally aired LIVE on Pure Rock Radio November 16th, 2018.

Get your weekly 80s & early 90s metal fix with King Hesh. Three hours of bitchin’ tunes from the “Era of Hair” dudes!!! This episode “Kingdom Of Hesh Premieres” from METAL CHURCH, JETBOY, BONFIRE, and RED DRAGON CARTEL. METAL CHURCH’s new song ‘By The Numbers‘ is off the band’s upcoming album “Damned If You Do“. Also a new track from JETBOY entitled, ‘Beating The Odds‘, off the band’s forthcoming studio album “Born To Fly“. As well as a new single from German rockers BONFIRE, a cover of SURVIVOR‘s hit song ‘Eye of the Tiger‘, off the band’s recently released 2-Disc covers album “Legends” and a new single from RED DRAGON CARTEL (featuring Jake E. Lee), ‘Bitter‘, off the band’s recently released studio album “Patino“. Plus a “Birthday Hesh Block” of QUIET RIOT to celebrate drummer Frankie Banali‘s 67th birthday and Rudy Sarzo‘s 68th birthday. Plus the “Triple Thrash Threat“,”Poon-Tang Playlist” and much more. Tune In! Toke Up! Rock Out!!! This episode of The King Hesh show originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 16th, 2018.

This week a very special chat with ERIC MARTIN, as he counts down his “Top 10” MR. BIG songs. Tune in to hear what Eric’s favorite tracks from his own band are and more. This episode of The Riff with Jack Trash originally aired Live on Pure Rock Radio November 15th, 2018.