Spring Break Forever Podcast

Bobby and his special guests Dr. Gangrene, Troy from Naschycast, and Ms. Hazzard explore and comment on the Alice Cooper discography. In this episode, they discuss the original Alice Cooper Band and their albums from 1970 - 1974: Love It to Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, and Muscle of Love.

Two things that have sucked about 2016 thus far: Lemmy is gone.  Then David Bowie passed shortly after that.  We talk about the great jams from these guys and how they got into our heads.  (Since we recorded this, the music world has also lost Clarence Reid a/k/a Blowfly, Paul Kantner, and Glenn "The Heat Is On" Frey.  Raise a glass or three...)  The Colonel finds a Donovan jam about the bathroom habits of astronauts that is maybe weird and silly enough to cheer you up in down times.

Time to air the old year out at the Fluff-N-Fold with our first episode in 2016!  "What the hell does that mean?" you may well ask.  It means our obligatory 2015 Best-Of run-downs, of course.  In the process, we also get to drink Bobby's last remaining fancy Christmas beer and check out a doom rock 45 from 1972(!) that turns out to be a party jam. 

Just in time to sully your holidaze, SB4E is back home for a visit.  We're bringing some goodies though.  How about a funky vintage Christmas jam by Rufus Thomas?  Santa brought us an album of contemporary krautrock from Japan(?!) by a band called Minami Deutsch.  And the latest album by Digital Leather "All Faded" should make a nice gift for somebody on your naughty list.  And after the music talk, Slacks speaks on the merits of the latest Adam Sandler vehicle The Ridiculous 6 and declares a moratorium on podcast farts.

We've also got some field recordings from the Christmas bash Bobby threw over at Stately Hazard Manor.  Man, that party had everything...  #1 fan Lee was there, as was Dr. Gangrene.  Christmas horror movies were discussed.  Gifts were given.  There was a robot named Michelob Ultron.  There were snacks, chiefly of the crunchy variety.  Beer was turned into pee pee.

In this special Halloween episode, Bobby sits down with Nashville horror movie host, Dr. Gangrene, and the lovely Ms. Hazzard. They discuss the good doctor's career as well subjects ranging from video store experience > Netflix, the horror movie host that Bobby grew up with, Count Murray, and the new Shudder movie app. There's also a discussion on whatever happened to Vinnie Vincent from Kiss. (Hint: he lives close by) Doc and Bobby toy with the idea of playing a show with opposing Alice Cooper tribute bands. Bobby takes this as a cue to talk about his Alice Cooper obsession. Then, they discuss the merits of Kiss Unmasked and the non-makeup Kiss era with Jeremy from The Exotic Ones. Finally, Bobby and Dr. Gangrene review their favorite heavy metal horror movies. A genre that's near and dear to them both.

Mobile recordings from our long weekend in Memphis of seeing bands, digging for records, and drinking beer - all under the banner of Gonerfest 12!  You'll hear us at our snackiest in the summary of Day 1 - so try to bear with it.  (After that, Bobby wisely decided to record the rest of the updates after we'd slept it off a bit.) 

*After initial release of this episode, Bobby discovered that one of our transmissions from Memphis was missing.  A whole segment had not gotten over the wires to the home office in Sandusky with the rest of the audio.  Upon receiving a backup copy of the missing file, the production crew pulled an all-nighter to stitch in that other bit of reporting to complete this episode the way the SB4E crew intended. 

The end of this summer brings some righteous jams, a la new albums by SB4E faves like Barreracudas ("Can Do Easy") and Royal Headache ("High").  And while we're talking records, let's also talk some record store etiquette this time around.

Also: After last episode's exposure to Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, The Colonel goes crazy and falls into an unforeseen rabbit hole of doom metal - much to the delight of Bobby and Stache.

Join your SB4E hosts for scintillating roundtable coverage of topics including but not limited to: Dirty birds (the ones that go C2B), ways to improve state flags, joggin' while jerkin'.  We've got a party jam from Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds that would make Ric Flair holler "Woo!"  Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats "Blood Lust" LP is serious, heavy business and may cause a weed smell to come out of your speakers.  Warm Soda "Symbolic Dream" LP: Smooth or sad songs?  Let's discuss, or just bullshit in lieu of discussion.

Full disclosure: If some of the references in this episode sound a little dated here in September, that's because we recorded this back in May.  We thought we'd lost this one in the great shitstorm of Summer '15, see.  But we recovered it because shitstorms are temporary, but Spring Break?  That's forever.  Lucky you! 

You'll recognize TV's Daniel from his roles in hit-making Texas bands such as Bad Sports, Wax Museums, Video, Radioactivity, and Mind Spiders just to name a few.  Bobby Hazzard gets the lowdown from Daniel on what all of these groups have been up to lately, plus some hints at upcoming releases like a new Video LP (on Third Man Records!?!) and brand new project called Grave City.  They also compare notes on hot-button topics such as the merits of Captain Sensible, Sonny Vincent shows, Alice Cooper albums, and rasslin' rock.

Plus: On the intro, the SB4E crew is getting psyched up to head west on a little road trip.

...Aaaand we're back!  So our buddy Lee was in town recently, hanging with Bobby Hazzard.  It also worked out that he could drop by the Fluff N' Fold to pinch hit for The Colonel who is absent from this week's show.  Bobby and Lee talk about going to HorrorCon, hobnobbing with celebrity, and getting hosed on an autograph.  Slaxxx speculates that Lee himself could be a cyborg.  Everyone is in the mood for metal, so record talk revolves around albums by the likes of Mad Max, Killer, and Witchfudge (?).  What's up, Lee?!?