Growin' Up Rock
Growin' Up Rock podcast is a weekly memory trip into the hard rock and heavy metal music you loved in your youth as well as the rock 'n' roll that is creating the soundtrack to your life today. Your host, Steven Michael, along with co-host Sonny "Hollywood" Pooni speak with newer and established artist while coming up with some interesting music topics and themes centered around the memories and stories of growing up around rock n roll, that keeps your devil horns hoisted far above your head. Sit back, crank it up, and remember why you fell in love with Rock n Roll. Everyone's got a rock n roll story to tell on Growing Up Rock. Proud Part of Pantheon Podcasts.
Episodes
January 4, 2026 • 104 mins
It's that time of year again for us to give you the best of 2025 and everything it had to offer the world of rock music at least in our minds. Take this with a grain of salt. It's only our personal opinions. What are some of the things you enjoyed best from 2025. Let us hear you!
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January 2, 2026 • 14 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1991 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.
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December 28, 2025 • 78 mins
This week there are no special guests as we go track by track through Ozzy’s first solo live record “Speak Of The Devil”.
In addition as we bring the 2025 album series to a close, we rank all the Ozzy albums we covered this year.
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December 28, 2025 • 84 mins
This week in the “Alphabet Soup Series”, we hit the letter "I". Let's find out what bands, albums, and songs we end up sharing.
A new series from the mind of "Hollywood" Pooni. We are calling this one Alphabet Soup. Here's the idea - 1 Band, 2 Albums, 3 Songs, and 1 Movie all starting with a single letter in the alphabet. The object of this series is to focus on some lesser known bands and songs. As always we will share a littl...
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December 26, 2025 • 15 mins
Sonny went on a Gotthard trip and decided to explore the catalog for these Friday Quick Fix. In this episode he tackles "Need To Believe"
The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.
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December 19, 2025 • 14 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1992 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.
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December 14, 2025 • 81 mins
This week we invited Loose Cannon from The Cobras & Fire Podcast to go track by track through the 13th and final studio album “Patient Number 9” from Ozzy Osbourne.
Each month in 2025 we will cover a studio album release by the “Madman” himself Ozzy Osbourne
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December 12, 2025 • 15 mins
Sonny went on a Gotthard trip and decided to explore the catalog for these Friday Quick Fix. In this episode he tackles "Open"
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December 7, 2025 • 67 mins
This week in the Thanking The Greats Series, we want to thank one of the greatest guitar Players / session guys in rock music Steve Lukather. Steve is mostly known for being a singer / guitarist for Toto, but Steve has played and worked with so many huge artists over the years it’s incredible. Pick a sampling of songs you loved from the 80’s and most likely Steve played on some of them.
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December 5, 2025 • 17 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 11) episode, Sonny is sharing some of the many items and music he collects. In this episode he shares some of his collection of 45s.
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November 30, 2025 • 76 mins
This week we invited Chris Czynszak from The Decibel Geek Podcast to go track by track through the 12th studio album “Ordinary Man” from Ozzy Osbourne.
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November 28, 2025 • 17 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 10) episode, Sonny is sharing some of the many items and music he collects. In this episode he shares some of his collection of 45s.
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November 23, 2025 • 59 mins
In this episode we invite fellow Rush fan and Podcaster Steve Wright from the Podder Than Hell Podcast to discuss our thoughts on recent tour announcement from Rush.
We get into our feelings about the tour, new drummer Anika Nilles, ticket prices, and several other hot topics centered around the return of Rush. We also share some songs we would love to hear added to the new tour set.
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November 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Sonny went on a Gotthard trip and decided to explore the catalog for these Friday Quick Fix. In this episode he tackles "Lip Service"
The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.
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November 16, 2025 • 65 mins
In this episode of the Dirty Dozen Series, we each picked 6 of the worst Scorpions Songs from ‘79 to ‘90.
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The Dirty Dozen Series is our chance to be negative. We typically like to keep it positive around here, unless your name is Hollywood, who likes ‘keeping it real’, but by and large unless it's not something one of us likes, we generally don't even talk about it. So in this series, we pick a dozen songs, albums, b...
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November 14, 2025 • 16 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 9) episode, Sonny is sharing some of the many items and music he collects. In this episode he shares some of his collection of 45s.
The Friday Quick Fix Concept: The Friday Quick Fix is your single dose of Rock n Roll in 15 minutes or less to get your weekend off to a rockin’ start.
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November 9, 2025 • 72 mins
We invite Damn Good Movie Memories host Brain Davis to go through the soundtrack for the movie "Almost Famous" in our annual crossover episode.
Go over to The Damn Good Movie Memories Podcast first, where Sonny and Steven make a guess appearance to discuss the movie "Almost Famous" before coming back to the Growin' Up Rock podcast to discuss the soundtrack.
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November 7, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1990 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
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November 2, 2025 • 76 mins
This week we’ll dig into the studio albums from Rage Against The Machine.
We are going to do a quick history lesson and share our favorite song off each album.
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October 31, 2025 • 15 mins
Sonny went on a Gotthard trip and decided to explore the catalog for these Friday Quick Fix. In this episode he tackles "Human Zoo"
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