The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show

Welcome to S7E7 of The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show.  This one went out on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 15 Feb 2024.  I was in Clarens with master guitarist Dan Patlansky and a whole lot of guitar maniacs so the show deals with that a bit, but for the main, it is straight down-the-line Rock and Metal, as you would expect.   

This week's Immortals feature – a track over 7 min that showcases what an artist is all about features the man himself, Mr Dan Patlansky with a track recorded back in 2006 on an album called Real. The track is called Bad Weather Blues and showcases just what a great player he is.  Next week I hope to play you a short interview Dan and I are planning regarding his new album Movin’ On.   

The Diabolical challenge this week looked at four bands beginning with the letter ‘G’.  The idea is that we have 4 albums and you can only pick one.  This week we had: 

Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band

Golden Earring – Moontan

Great White – Hooked

Guns ‘n’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II 

Artists featured:  Saxon, Volbeat, Thunder, Burn the Priest, Five Finger Death Punch, KK’s Priest, Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, The Angels, Cold Chisel, Rose Tattoo, Mother Love Bone, Junk Yard, Warrant, Suicide Bombers, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, Motörhead, Buckcherry, ACDC, Machine Head, Burning Rain, The Winery Dogs, Green Day, Blink 182, Stone Temple Pilots, Faith No More, Dan Patlansky, Grand Funk Railroad, Golden Earring, Great White, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Cadillac Sun, 12th Avenue, Seether, Rammstein, The Pretty Reckless, Arch enemy, Powder Finger.  

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Welcome to The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Season 7 episode 6 aired at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 8 Feb 2024.  As always, the show consisted of 3 hours of Rock and Metal and covered all sorts of artists from late 1960 through to albums released this week.  You should find something amongst this lot, see 'Artists featured' below (in order of appearance).     

The Immortals track this week came from Blue Öyster Cult, a track called Shooting Shark off The Revolution By Night album.  Buck Dhara on guitar never disappoints.  

The Diabolical Challenge this week looked at the letter ‘F’.  As with last week's 'E', this one was not easy either, not a lot of bands starting with ‘F’.  Foreigner got bumped for Fokofpolisiekar which may not make sense to international listeners.  All I can say is that if you read the book, The Story of Rock and Roll, things will be clearer.  Fokofpolisiekar were a legendary live band and a huge part of my life in the early ’00s.   We looked at the following albums and played a track off each: 

Free – Fire and Water 

Five Finger Death Punch – American Capitalist

Fokofpolisiekar – Lugsteurings

Foo Fighters – Wasting Light 

Artists featured:  The Jam, Motörhead, Night Ranger, The Temperance Movement, Phil Campbell, Roan Van As, Tom Petty, Iced Earth, Hell Fire, Kiss, L.A. Guns, Massive Wagons, Circus of Power, Doomsday Outlaw, Halestorm, The Distillers, The Wildhearts, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Nevada beach, Tokyo Blade, Tony Martin,  Roadkill Ghost Choir, Volbeat, W.A.S.P., Blue Öyster Cult, Free, Five Finger Death Punch, Fokofpolisiekar, Foo Fighters, Extreme, Deep Purple, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Avenged Sevenfold, ACDC 

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Welcome to The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Season 7 episode 5 aired live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 1 Feb 2024.  As always, the show consisted of 3 hours of Rock and Metal and covered all sorts of artists from late 1960 through to albums released this week.  You should find something amongst this lot, see artists featured below (in order of appearance).     

The Immortals track this week came from W.A.S.P., a track called ‘The Tool’ off First Blood…..Last Cuts.   

The Diabolical Challenge this week looked at the letter ‘E’.  This is one of the skinnier letters of the alphabet and not as easy to find artists as it is with ‘M’ and ‘A’ and ‘S’.  We looked at: 

Elton John – Madman Across the Water

The Eagles -Hotel California

Exodus – Bonded By Blood

Extreme – Pornograffitti

Hotel California took it in the end, tough challenge. 

Artists featured:  Thin Lizzy, The Pretty Reckless, Those Damn Crows, Poison, twisted Sister, Adrenaline Mob, ZZ Top, Dan Patlansky, BlackØwl, Massive Wagons, Green day, Foo Fighters, Saxon, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Journey, Five Finger Death Punch, Texas Hippie Coalition, Frank Marino, Gary Moore, The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stranglers, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Queen,, W.A.S.P., Elton John, The Eagles, Extreme, Exodus, UFO, Union, Cindy-Louise, Kenny Hughes, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Rammstein, The Haunted.  

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Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 7.  S7E4 went out live at 19h00 on 25 Jan 2024 on Rebel Rock Radio.  Amazing to think that the first month of 2024 is done, where does the time go?  We started gently with some Iron Maiden and the show progressed from there.  We had new releases from Green Day, Saxon, Judas Priest, and Ryan Adams.  The year is starting off well.    

The Immortals slot, a track over 7 min long, went to Deep Purple’s ‘Knocking at Your Back Door' off their 1984 Perfect Strangers album.  This album was the reunion of the celebrated Mk II line-up and did very well for them.   

The Diabolical Challenge this week was 4 bands starting with the Letter ‘D’:

 Dio – The Last in Line

The Darkness – Permission to Land

David Bowie – Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

Def Leppard – On Through the Night

 Bowie was unstoppable here.  

Artists featured: Iron Maiden, ACDC, Daughtry, Iron Allies, Accept, Pilgrim South, Mark Haze, Seether, POD, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Saxon, Massive Wagons, Megadeth, Halestorm, Pat Benatar, Samantha Fish, W.A.S.P., Ted Nugent, The Almighty, Thin Lizzy, Ace Frehley, Journey, Ignite, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Dio, Def Leppard, The Darkness, David Bowie, The Rolling stones, Springbok Nude Girls, Buckcherry, Bob Dylan, Wolfmother , Volbeat, Ryan Adams, Kid Rock.  

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S7E3 aired live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 18 Jan 2024.   

It ended up being one of my favourite shows ever.  The end was gloriously spontaneous, and the people tuned in were just awesome.  Going round the world in 40 min at the end of the show was amazing, unplanned and a great way to say goodnight.   

The Immortals track in the episode was Rainbow’s ‘Light in the Black’.  This comes off the Rising album, one of the greatest albums to come out of the ‘70s 

This weeks Diabolical Challenge looked at four bands beginning with the letter ‘C’.  The four albums were Chickenfoot III, London Calling, Blast Tyrant, and Electric:

 The tracks played were.  

Chickenfoot – Alright, alright

The Cult – Love Removal Machine

The Clash – London Calling

Clutch – The Mob Goes Wild   

Artists featured:  Running Wild, Rob Zombie, Accept, great White, Fozzy, Gin Annie, Mötley Crüe, Dee Snider, Five Finger Death Punch, Led Zepplin, Journey, Rabbitt, Dire Straits, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sixx A.M., Nightwish, White Wizzard, The Damned, Stiff Little Fingers, Anti Nowhere League, Kenny Hughes, Dan Patlansky, Rainbow, The Clash, The Cult, Chickenfoot, Clutch, Die Toten hosen, David Bowie, Gojira, Girish & the Chronicles, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nickelback, Cold Chisel, Kid Rock, Johnathan Martin

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Episode 2 of Season 7 aired live at 19h00 on Rebel Rock Radio on 11 Jan 2024.   

The Immortals feature this week is from Rush, a track called By-tor and the Snow Dog off their second album Fly By Night.  This was the first album they made after Neal Peart joined the band after the resignation of John Rutsey.  The track consists of 8 parts and gave the world the first glimpse of the direction Rush were taking going forward.  There was a little technical glitch after Yngwie J. Malmsteen, it comes back after about 45 seconds so just jump it or wait it out, apologies for that. 

The Diabolical Challenge checked out 4 bands found under ‘B’ in the record collection.  We took a listen to tracks off Mob Rules, Badlands, Nebraska, and Boston: 

Black Sabbath – Mob Rules

Boston – 

Badlands – Dancing on the Edge

Bruce Springsteen  - Reason to Believe 

Artists Featured:  Hanoi Rocks, Joe Bonamassa, Krokus, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, Ozzy Osbourne, Danko Jones, Halford, Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Drowning Pool, Alice In Chains, Beartooth, Coheed & Cambria, Ryan Adams, Simon & Garfunkel, Black Star Riders, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Savage, Demon, David Bowie, The Clash, Rush, Boston, Black Sabbath, Badlands, Bruse Springsteen, Metallica, Arch enemy, Kid Rock, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Circus of Power, Buck Cherry, The Cult, Joe Satriani

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Welcome to the 7th season of The Story of Rock and Roll radio Show.  S7E1 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 4 Jan 2024.  We kicked off with David Bowie and It’s No Game (Part 1) which feels like the perfect song for where we find ourselves in 2024.  

The Diabolical Challenge has had a make-over.  In Season 6 I presented 4 albums from a specific year and listeners got to vote on which one they would choose if they could only take one.  Well with 52 shows in 2023, we ran out of years.  The new Diabolical Challenge looks at things alphabetically.  We will do two cycles A – Z to get us through to the end of Season 7.  Starting at 'A" we had: 

ACDC – Flick of the Switch

Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil

Accept – Balls to the Wall and 

Audioslave – Audioslave 

The Immortals track, a track over 7 minutes long that never gets airplay but is an amazing example of a band or artist at their best stays as is and we kicked off the year with Grand Funk Railroad and a track called ‘Inside Looking Out’ and that one was especially dedicated to Norman Roux.   

Artists featured: David Bowie, Dee Snider, KK’s priest, Def Leppard, Iced Earth, Foghat, Hawkwind, Saxon, Scorpions, L,A. Guns, Skid Row, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Seether, Reef, Rammstein, Böhse Onkelz, Demon, Hellyeah, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Girish & the Chronicles, Jelusick, Dio, Guns ‘n’ Roses. Grand Funk Railroad, Accept, Avenged Sevenfold, Audioslave, ACDC, Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons, ZZ Top, Roan Ash, Warren Zevon, Fire Horses, My Chemical Romance, Bruce Springsteen.   

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Well, we made it, welcome to the end of 2023 and the last episode of Season 6.  As has become traditional on TSORR we use the last show of the season to review the year and listen to as much of the music released as time allows.  It was a good year for Rock Music and you will hear that there has been a serious resurgence in classic metal.  Last year I had new 64 albums so this year is 30% down, I guess that may be linked to Covid, bands can tour again and many of them recorded during lockdown.  Anyway, there was some really good music.  Check it out.  And thank you for the support, see you in 2024 for Season7  

Artists featured: Jared James Nichols, Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons, Black Star Riders, Dirty Honey, Rival Sons, Girish & the Chronicles, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, Jelly Roll, Doomsday Outlaw, Corey Taylor, Sophie Lloyd, Nita Strauss, In Flames, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Winery Dogs, Mammoth WVH, Greta Van Fleet, Jelusick, Elegant Weapons, Overkill, Iggy Pop, Ian Hunter, Buckcherry, Foo Fighters, Danko Jones, Dave Hause, Extreme, KK’s Priest, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Vandenberg, Philistine, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Marvelous 3

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This is a special episode.  The Story of Rock and Roll turned Six.  On 12 Dec 2017, the first-ever TSORR aired from the Mix 93.8 FM Studios in Midrand Johannesburg.  Six years later to the day, S6E51 aired live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 12 Dec 2023.  The world has changed, and my life has changed so it is good to know that the music has not.  The episode was a celebration of the bands and the songs that make the show what it is.  Thank you all for your support, wherever you are and whoever you are I am deeply grateful for your support.  I will continue to make sure that the show delivers the music that you have come to know it for years to come.  

We skipped the Diabolical Challenge this week due to the birthday bash.  There were just too many bands and songs to recognize.  I had 9 hours of music (123 songs) that somehow ended up in a 3 hour 34 song show.  

We made up for it with the Immortals feature where we needed the time.  The number 2112 is sacred to the show so to celebrate the 6-year anniversary on the exact date the show started 12 December i.e. 21 12 we took a listen to the title track of Rush’s masterpiece ‘2112’

Artists featured:  Sixx A.M., John Paul Young, Van Halen, Cold Chisel, Deep Purple, James Reyne, Scorpions, KISS, Joe Bonamassa, Rory Gallagher, Judas Priest, Dokken, Iron Maiden, Joe Jackson, The Boomtown rats, Audioslave, Matthew Good Band, Buckcherry, Danko Jones, ACDC, Foo Fighters, The Stranglers, The Clash, Rush, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Megadeth, Mötley Crüe, Hinder, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Lyzyrd Kyngz, Mötorhead, The Uninvited.  

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S6E50 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 14 Dec 2023.  People are winding down now, it has been a long tough year for most, so thanks very much for the support for Season 6 of TSORR and I wish you all an awesome festive season.  

The Immortals Track tonight was something different.  Last week we played a track by Roger Kaye.  Roger was a very good friend of mine; I met him at high school and he was one of the most talented musicians I have ever known.  He was a multi-instrumentalist and did some amazing stuff.  All this can be found in my book The Story of Rock and Roll so I won’t go into any detail, but I mentioned a track he did for his father.  It is Prelude in Dm Symphony no 40 in Gm (K550), 1st movement Molto Allegro.  Music written by Mozart and interpreted by Roger on electric guitar.  He worked it all out instrument by instrument and the results are amazing.  This is a home recording that took him a few months to do.   

The Diabolical Challenge featured 4 albums from 1999:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

Blink 182 – Enema of the State

Live – The Distance to Here

Buckcherry – Buckcherry

Artists featured: Boston, Ratt, Dio, Steel Panther, ZZ Top, The Screaming Jets, Rose Tattoo, The Dead Daisies, Kid Rock, Metallica, Taylor Road, ACDC, Cold Chisel, Led Zeppelin, Greta Van Fleet, Rush, Threshold, The Stranglers, The Clash, Pixies, Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons, Motörhead, Scorpions, Accept, Roger Kaye, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, LIVE, Blink 182, Buckcherry, Jelusick, Skid Row, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Piet Botha & Jack Hammer, The Burning, Temple of the Dog

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