Rock & Roll Shin-Soo Choo (Audio)

We celebrate the end of 2017 with a chat about our highlights of the year - including album releases, concerts, MLB moments and much more. We also discuss the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of inductees. Thanks for listening in 2017. Here's to another generous year of rock and baseball.

Graphic designer Margo Z. Nahas is best known for her work on Van Halen's 1984 and Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, along with albums by Seals & Crofts, Rick James and Autograph. Margo chats with us about the process of designing those albums and much more. She also shares some of her favorite album covers and whether or not connecting with the music on the record is important in the design process – an answer that may surprise you.

We pay tribute to AC/DC founding member Malcolm Young, who passed away at age 64. AC/DC's Back in Black album has sold 23 million units in the United States. As part of the grab bag portion, Gabe and Levi guess other all-time best selling albums in U.S. history. We then discuss bands that, like AC/DC, made the transition from one lead singer to another. But for the heart of the order, we honor Malcolm Young and discuss what made him so special and, relatively speaking, under appreciated. Finally, we share some baseball cards to close the episode.

In light of Tom Petty's untimely death, we create an around-the horn-setlist to celebrate his deep catalog. The opening grab bag portion of the show includes a debate on whether you'd want to forever wear Dodger or Astro uniforms (if you had to choose one), Metallica's recent appearance in Manchester, England and a trivia question on two former MLB players born on Halloween. We wrap up with a Show Your Cards segment.

Danny Clinch joined us to discuss his upcoming film, "Let's Play Two", which documents Pearl Jam's two nights at Wrigley Field during the Chicago Cubs run to the 2016 World Series. Danny also shares his connection to baseball and elaborates on another project of his - a documentary on the late Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon. We also have a grab bag of discussions to start the show and a Show Your Cards segment to close the show. Enjoy!

We are back! In this episode, we catch up on late season MLB developments before delving into a grab bag of topics, including Mark Twain's umpiring debut, expansion team all-timers and feuds in rock. Our main topic covers late bloomers in both rock and MLB. Rock's late bloomers may include artists who we feel produced their best output either late in life or simply later in their career. We then close with a very satisfactory Show Your Cards segment.

Patrick Sullivan joins us to discuss the Tall Tales Festival, which he organizes and will take place on August 11 and 12 in Burlington, Wisconsin. In the spirit of discovering new music at festivals, we share some of our favorite artists that we discovered in a live setting. Patrick then shares his experiences growing up as a Milwaukee Brewers fan and his take on the current state of the team. We all then show our cards!

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and all things baseball and rock from 1967. The 1967 MLB season featured the Impossible Dream Boston Red Sox, led by Triple Crown winner Carl Yastrzemski. The Red Sox ultimately faced the Bob Gibson and Orlando Cepeda-led St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. While the year in music was largely dominated by the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers, we discuss some other popular, though overshadowed albums from the year, including LPs by Love, Procol Harum and Bobbie Gentry. We then share some favorite 1967 baseball cards.

We start the show discussing potential MLB expansion cities, gourmet stadium hot dogs (we even build our own) and this date in music history, which leads to a discussion of what one tour we'd want to have caught in the 1980s. Then we each share three bands that are on the top of our to-be-seen checklists. We follow that with three games of MLB's past that we would have liked to have seen in person. Finally, we each share baseball cards.

We welcome guest panelist Adam Galassi as we remember the lives and musical contributions of Chris Cornell and Gregg Allman. Helming Soundgarden and the Allman Brothers Band, respectively, both Chris and Gregg are all-time rock icons, and both are deeply entrenched in our musical tastes. We close the otherwise heavy show with a bit of levity, bringing back the Show Your Cards segment. Adam celebrates Star Wars 40th anniversary with a unique trading card, while Gabe, Levi and Jonathan share cards of Seattle Mariners and Atlanta Braves.