Spring Break Forever Podcast

We've got a lot of good people in town this No Pants Sunday - including all the OG Spring Break Forever crew!  This month we're mining the internet for a nationwide list of drinking establishments with ridiculous names, having a "pooping at work" poetry slam, and discussing the cinematic works of a couple of actor/director auteurs known as The Insane Clown Posse.

One night back in the 80's, a curious young Bobby Hazzard flips the dial to his local tv station and watches Frankenstein on the Count Murray Show. This show started Bobby's obsession with horror movies and his life would never be this same. In this episode, Bobby sits down with his hometown horror movie host, Count Murray (aka the Kosher Count) and they discuss his years on the show.

Bobby sits down with Klint and Rhoades from Strange Faces for a few drinks and to talk about their new recordings. They also discuss random topics such as injuries, The Sweet, Bobby's beard grooming, and growing up with music.

REPENT, YE SINNERS! And prepare thyselves to be judged by….ALICE COOPER?!? Yes, one day rock ‘n’ roll’s most hedonistic bad boy arose from his Budweiser-filled bathtub and remembered that he was once Vincent Furnier, son of a preacher man, and it was time that Alice got born again and brought the good word to the children. But, being this is ALICE, after all, there’s an awful lot of bone-burning, flesh-eating, ass-spanking, clown-fearing tough love on the way to salvation, and to get there you also gotta listen to 2000’s “BRUTAL PLANET” and 2001’s “DRAGONTOWN”, the albums under discussion on this, the 7th episode of COOPERCAST!

As Alice judges the denizens of Brutal Planet and Dragontown (that means YOU, if you didn’t figure that out), so too does he get judged by your clean-living and morally-upright Coopercast team of Bobby Hazzard, the lovely Ms. Hazzard, Nashville’s physician of fright Dr. Gangrene, and Troy Guinn of the Naschycast. Join us as we wade through this musical metaphorical morass to get to the heart of that most theological of all questions: “Does it ROCK?” Leave us a comment and you just might win a Phil X signature “Ass” model guitar too!

Bobby and Cool Cat Taylor, his band mate from The Mighty Jabronis, sit down for a discussion about pro wrestling and pro wrestling records. They both talk about how they got first into wrestling as kids. Cat talks about his time working the independents in the Tennessee area and why he quit. Many oddball wrestling songs are played.

It's Christmas time, and this episode is replete with holiday jams and high-octane winter beers.  We'll also throw out some gift suggestions for the people in your life who live that no-pants lifestyle.  A debate about the merits of "Raiders!" (a documentary about a fan-filmed remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark") spins off into talk about cover bands. 

Warning: If you are of the faint of heart or easily offended, don't listen to this podcast. Bobby and Ms. Hazzard sit down with for an unfiltered/unedited talk with their old buddy, Deuce Hollingsworth from the Yuppie Pricks. Bobby and Deuce discuss the old days - the SXSW show where everybody left after the Pricks played and Bobby's band was up next and also how the Hazzards first met at a Yuppie Pricks Summer Beach Party. Deuce tells great stories about the Pricks: getting kicked off of Alternative Tentacles, getting run out of Johnson City, TN, and why the band recently broke up (hint: it's a word that rhymes with dump). They also discuss Deuce's new band Duderonomy.

Swing low, sweet cheerios! That’s essentially what your intrepid, decrepit Coopercasters are doing this time around, as we leave dear old Alice on the precipice of the year 2000, about to embrace the industrial metal age, and take the way-back deep-freezer to the late 60’s when he and his Alice Cooper Band compatriots are changing, arranging and embracing more musical trends than Spinal Tap and managing to sound like everything but the ACB the world would come to love and fear.

Join host Bobby Hazzard, his lovely consort Ms. Hazzard, Nashville horror host Dr. Gangrene, and the Naschycast’s Troy Guinn as we examine some garage-rock “nuggets” released by the ACB band when they were known as The Spiders and The Nazz, followed by track-by-track discussions of the first two Alice Cooper Band albums, PRETTIES FOR YOU and EASY ACTION. In these early works, we find a band that can play the sh%t out of anything but thinks their appeal lies in the cult fringes of hippie freakout jams and Zappa-worshippers, and has no idea of the worldwide stardom that awaits them just around the corner…

Bobby and Sweet Time review the new Ramones 40th Anniversary edition of their self titled debut. They discuss how much they love the new mono mix as well as other such Ramones nerdery like how they were introduced to the Ramones, overlooked 80's albums, favorite Ramones drummers, etc. They also discuus the possibility of doing a Ramones podcast in the future (Yes. That will happen) Special guest appearance by the Colonel.

This month brings a gluttonous program for the week of Thanksgiving in which a conversation about the ideal soundtracks to our No Pants Sundays spins off into a discussion of creepy bubblegum pop hits and free sass.  Then we break down the good and bad (mostly bad) of the 1980s horror/musical/morality tale/compilation film "Night Train to Terror."  Finally, recollections of the first five albums each of us owned devolves into drunken singalongs and public shamings.