Hard Rocking Trivia Show #271 (Top 10 Hard Rock/Metal Albums of 2024)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On your Mark, get ready start broadcasting from California and Delaware.

(00:32):
This is the Hard Rocking Trivia Show, and here're your
host Mark and Danny. All Right, boys and girls, welcome
to the Hard Rocking Trivia Show, Episode to seventy one.
This is our final show of twenty twenty four. And
what we're gonna do this episode is we're gonna do
some rapid fire and then we're gonna finish off the

(00:53):
show with a little countdown top ten albums of what
our favorites of two twenty four. So we've been doing
a whole year's worth of research in the last three
days to narrow it down to ten. I heard some stinkers,
I heard some sums that are some are decent. So
we're gonna give you some honorable missions, some disappointments in

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our top ten. I hope you're entertained. Oh. I also
wanted to bring up the fact before Christmas, I was
a little busy because I took a trip down to
Mexico in Sonata. While I was there, I put together
some playlist on Spotify from years nineteteen eighty one, eighty
nineteen eighty eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, eighteen eighty four. Geez, yeah,

(01:41):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Busy, So there's probably a lot were you supposed to
be there with family.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I was there in the family, but there were some
times where if everybody was taking a nap. Oh, yes,
the time I had to do something and I slept
great down there, But sometimes I was sleeping at different
times when they were. So you got yourself some free
Spotify playlists if you like hard rock and metal from
the eighties. Each year is about two hundred plus songs

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and nice check them out, all right, And.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now I'll definitely check him out.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, I need some people to save it or like
it or whatever you can do and share it with
your friends. And yeah, so if you're like doing what
I do is I take these long walks and I
put music on and I just go kind of helps
things out, all right. And now let's let's go switch
gears and play some rapid fire.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
All right, Danny, you ready for some questions.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think, so I've got some good ones for you.
I don't know that you'll get any of these, but
you may pull it out of your oripisk all right.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So people out there play along with us hard rock
and metal and classic rock trivia questions. Here we go,
question number one, Three current members of Guns n' Roses
were also members of another current active band. Name that band.

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So three current guns n' Roses guys were from another
band that it's still active today.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Geez, I'm gonna say it's not the big three of
guns n' Roses where it's Slash, Axel and Duff.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Correct, it's the other twenty seven people in the band
now right.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
They could be any number of people.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I think there's like seven or eight people in Guns
n' Roses right now. So it's one of those people.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah. See, I don't know any of the others. So
I have no clue because I can't name any any
other members of the band.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I know there's really because the black dude drummer. Yeah,
one of one of those people is in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a law time member.
But the other two people that I'm talking about are
not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
All right, Yeah, I don't know in no clue, uh Rick,
ok No, No.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's gotta be a band, Rick Ocasek is dead, Okay,
a current band. And in fact, I saw this.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Basic Guns Roses besides those three guys.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, because I saw this band this year, no clue.
All right, I'll even give you the names of the guys.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Is it the the is the band? Oh let me
see no shoot, Tracy Guns his band mean La Guns?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, incorrect? All right? That the three guys or Dizzy
Reid who's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
the piano player Richard fordis the guy with the big noses,
the other guitar player, and Frank Furrier who is the drummer.
The they are all former members of the Dead Daisies.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh geez, dead days. That NAR's it down to about
fifty people.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
At Dizzy read and Richard forties or founding members of
the Dead Daisies.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, they were, they were the first guys in it.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, members. Yeah, they were the first group of guys.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yes, yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
So oh for one, sir, So we're gonna we're gonna
go over We're gonna we're probably going over six on
this one, guys, so don't well you.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
May guess this one. So all right, we'll see. All right,
I'm gonna give you a list of five bass players
and you tell me which one is the oldest.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay, the oldest, all right.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
So we got Billy she In okay, Michael Anthony Huh,
Rudy Sarzo, Phil Susan okay, and Glenn Hughes.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Glenn Hughes. All these guys are older than some people think.
I think all these guys are in there, maybe six
sixties and seventies, right, I think maybe.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
They're all that is correct. They they're older than us,
that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'm gonna say Billy Shehan.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That would be incorrect. Allow three years wow.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay, So my second guess, I've already missed the question.
I would go with Glenn Hughes. Nope, Okay, guys narraws
it down. I got three guys left, Michael Anthony, Ruy
Sarizo or Phil Soissan. I'm gonna say it is Rudy.
Rudy Sarzo.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That is correct. He was born in nineteen fifty geez,
nineteen fifty, Glenn Hughes was born in fifty one, and
Phil Susan was born in nineteen sixty one. So he's
the youngest.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's the baby.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Wow, Rudy Sarzo, but he's still sixty three who still looks.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Good too, you know. And he's one of those guys
that came from Cuba. So I don't know if he
swam over and got in a boat or somehow I
came on here. He came over, he made he may
have came over before the Cuban missile crisis. I'm not
even sure. But yeah, he's an old dude. Looks great though, Yeah,
and he still plays great. I don't think he's licking
his base anymore. He might be, I don't know, or

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maybe that's what keeps you young. Lick your base and
you'll live forever.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
See. I saw Quiet Riot at the last M three
and I don't remember him licking his bass, but he
was playing it, playing it all over the place.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, yeah, I saw him when he played with Ozzy.
That's when they they made him stay in one place.
You know. He just did all the shapes, but he's
pretty much Him and Randy pretty much didn't move. They just,
I mean they moved around, but they didn't go back
and forth and across the stage. They stayed in the
little areas. And when Ozzy was the one running around
and that was by they made him do it. Yeah,

(07:51):
well not anymore now now he's he's free to roam. Yeah, okay, all.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Right, so that and Mike going Anthony was nineteen fifty.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Four, okay, so yeah I thought she and I know
Shean's an old older he looks older. I mean he's old,
but he's older than people think because he's been around since. Yeah,
he was in a band with was he even a
band with like Rick James or something like that, or
not Rick James.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Somebody like I don't know about that one.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Somebody in the seventies, somebody from Buffalo, maybe Rick James
or somebody who's friends with him, way before we even
kneho Rick James was He's all right? Yeah, okay, all right?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Quest player from Buffalo yep.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Question two for you? All right, what is the highest
charting Sammy Hagar solo album on the US Billboard Charts?
Not a band, not the Circle, not any bands he's
been in solo album?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Not Van Halen? Okay, uh highest charting album. I'm gonna
say Voa va.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
A incur.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Dang it.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
And when I tell you the name of this album,
it will make perfect sense. From nineteen box Nope, from
nineteen eighty seven. I never said goodbye the one he
did while he was in van Halen with Eddie van
Halen on base that went to number fourteen.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Oh jeez, yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
You were close. You got the right decade. So yeah,
so we get weird now? Oh for three?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Oh for three? All right, well let's see how you
do it this one question two for you. How many
shows did Rob Halford sing for Black Sabbath?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I believe one?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
That would be incorrect.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Wow, I know he did want to get closed.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
On replacing Ozzie in two thousand and four.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, he did one when he replaced do Oh didn't
he He did two for do Oh? Okay, I know
he did want he did three shows. I know he
did one in California, but.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think he did two for do O in nineteen
ninety two. Two.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, I don't know what happened. His deal was unhappy
with something I don't.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know, throwing up, throwing up a little tantrum.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, but he's deal. He can do that, I guess.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I tell you. The Black Saba songs with Dio are
definitely my favorite. Oh yeah, Heaven in Hell and Bob Rules.
Oh gee, they're total classics.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, well stuff that.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I like them way better than the Sabbath than with
the stuff with Ozzie.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, both classic but completely different bands. Really just one guy.
It's like Van Halen, completely different, change your things.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, yeah, you can't compare Van Halen with Davie Roth
and Sammy Hagar. They are two different bands.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, all right, over four, over four, We're we are
killing it, all right, and this is the one I
think you might have a shot at.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna name four drummers, and
all these drummers have something in common. Okay, All these
four drummers played with the same guitar player in his
band or one of his solo projects. Here's the drummers,
Carmina Piece, Tommy Aldridge, Nico McBrain, and a guy named
Sandy Gennaro. They all played with the same guitar player

(11:14):
in his band or one of his solo projects. Carmine,
Tommy Aldridge, Nico, Sandy Gennaro.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I'm gonna say John Sykes.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ah, oh, incorrect, but not a bad guess. The one
that gives it away is Nico McBrain. Who did Nico
McBrain play.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
With the guitar player with Nico.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, he was in the blank blank band in.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
The seventies and it was his the guitar player's band.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, named after that guitar player Ronnie Montrose, Pat Travers band.
Damn it, Nico is in the pat Travers band. Really
it was Tommy Aldridge before. Yeah, that was in the seventies,
after Trust. I think I know was in Trust for

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a while. I think it was before because there are
there is video of Nico playing the pat Travers and
some live thing in Germany and there he is.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, okay, oh for five yeah, oh for five. Well,
Nico just retired, so he was he's been around a
while and making Tommy Aldridge now is these drum videos.
The guy looks like he's ninety years old in the face,
but when you see him playing, like, oh my god,
this guy's a monster. Still great oh.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, but yeah, he's looking a little weather worn.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
He looks like a skeleton with the hair. He just
put a wig on a skeleton. And you see the
guy playing, he's like, oh my god. Yeah, you can't
even see the strings that are attached to him, like
a puppet marrying that Tommy, I can't That's what it
looks like.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right. Question six for you, which I don't think
you'll get at all. But who knows. All right, I've
thought that before. So okay. So there was a super
group in the eighties called Big People. Never had no albums,
no albums, had just did live shows. Any idea who
was in that group?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Never heard of.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
It Big People?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
What state? What country they were.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
In the US? I don't know. Maybe they're from California.
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
So it was a bunch of guys called themselves Big People.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Big People.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Couldn't tell. I never heard of it in my life.
What year?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Uh that was? I think it was like in the
late eighties.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Late eighties. Okay, I don't Neil Sean Sammy Hagar, No not,
I have no idea. Never.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, interesting that you had the Pat Travers question because
Pat Travers was in the group, Oh okay, with Derreck
Saint Holmes, okay, Benjamin Or from The Cars on bass, yeah,
Jeff Carlsi from thirty eight Special okay, and Liberty de
Vito So yeah, Billy Joel, he's great.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, Oh yeah, that sounds like a killer band.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah sounds I wish I could find some some music
by that.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
But did they just jam together? And thinking that was
gonna be a project.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
They Yeah, I think they didn't. They never got the
record deal, but they played songs from all their previous groups, okay,
like the Cars and Ted Nugitt and Pat Travers and
Thirtyeth Special.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I mean you got the cover boy there, Benjamin Orr,
but the rest of the guys but ugly you know,
so yeah, Ben Orr on the album cover and the
other four guys in the back back like cheap big
that never heard that people? I mean, I guess in
the eighties nobody was interested in any of those people really,

(15:03):
with the exception of maybe Ben or maybe, but the
rest of them were kind of past their primes.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, but who knows.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's still killer players.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, oh yeah, I'd really like to have heard that.
But here you go, oh for six?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Geez, Like well, like we predicted last show of the
year going over six. I wonder if anybody out there
got anything right?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, if anybody's even heard of Big People, let us know.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Where'd you find it's a link? If you have a video.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, they probably never did anything. They probably met one
night for dinner and that's where you got that from. Oh,
let's call it Big People. Hah. Some some guy in Delaware.
We'll use this as a question on his podcast.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, great, totally.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, all right, okay, people, So we're gonna give you
a quick commercial break and we're going to be back
with our top ten in the albums of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Get ready, all right, welcome back everybody. During the break,
I looked up on YouTube Big People, and there are
some videos out there of like them doing some cars songs,
some thirty special songs. There's a couple of videos of
their full show from back in two thousand, so this
is a lot later than late eighties, but it looks

(16:25):
pretty cool. I'm gonna check these videos out and see
what see what's going on. There's some like a full
shows like forty five minutes, and then there's a bunch
of just single songs, so I'm checking it out for sure.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, Danny was telling me this was probably about the
time that Benjamin Orr had already been diagnosed with cancer,
so he wasn't doing that great and something maybe the
band split up and stopped working, because yeah, Benjamin Or
didn't make it much longer after that.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, once he passed, the band just didn't they Maybe
he was the driving force of the band, and they
just he was definitely the best looking one. So who knows.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, all right, well cool, I'm gonna go check that
out after this and now dan Our Top ten Albums
of twoenty twenty four Top ten, Don Dunn.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm gonna be the first to admit I did not
listen to all of these albums. Oh oh, the list
you sent me. There's no way I would have been
able to listen to all these.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
So you're basically telling us your list will be bogus.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
I will tell you the albums I listened to and
I liked.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Okay, all right, So what I did was I sent
Danny a list of about what fifty sixty albums that
I think that he may have heard, or that I
know what he's into and what we're both kind of into,
because there's literally so many albums out that released that
nobody has enough time to listen to all this stuff.
In fact, I was watching Sea of Tranquility on YouTube.

(17:55):
This guy named Pete Pardo has a show, and I
just watched his top fifty albums of twenty twenty four
and I was going through his list and the list
I sent Danny and he only mentioned Magnum, Saxon, Bruce Dickinson,
Judas Priest striper, Riot five, black Country comedian in Deep

(18:17):
Purple off of this list. Everything else on his list,
some of most of it I had never heard of
because it was like prog, doom metal or death metal
mixed with this. And you know, this guy's into a
lot of stuff that we're outside of our range. Yeah,
I mean, there's so much out there, but yeah, the

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specializes more of the proggy stuff, but there's some stuff
that comes over. In fact on my list. Of the
stuff I named, I think on my top ten list,
I think only one album appears on my top ten
that was in his top fifty. No, actually two albums

(18:59):
on his top five fifty in my top ten. The
rest of them, none of them made it. So I
guess this is another side of hard rock and metals
pretty much.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
So interesting, Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
And then after we go through our ten, we'll go
through our arnable mentions and our disappointments. So yeah, Danny,
let's start it. Number ten for you, number.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Ten for me. Oh well, I'm gonna go with that
accept album Humanoid. I like, I've always liked accept a
long time, and I think this is another I don't know,
it's the same vein that they've been they've been releasing recently,

(19:44):
so I really like that.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
That album Humanoid pretty good. I saw them on the tour.
I think they played about four songs off of Humanoid reckoning.
They played Humanoid and I forgot the other one, but
that think they played at least four songs off of
that really struggling. So if you like accept especially the
last four, they're all pretty consistent. And then still they

(20:11):
still have that wolf Hoffman tone and the backing vocals
are like classic except it's great stuff. It didn't make mine,
but I definitely considered it, and I actually listened to
it today on my three mile walk, So all right,
good one and my number ten is an album that

(20:31):
surprised me. I didn't think this was gonna make my list,
but it made Pete Pardos list. It's a Striper when
we were kings. I listened to it today, hadn't listened
to it ever, and it was really good. Crunchy tone,
great vocals, the songs were strong. This is Striper's twentieth album.

(20:54):
I was shocked, and I'm not a big Striper fan.
At all. I like some of the stuff, but this
was good though, whole thing throughout. I didn't skip anything,
So I'm gonna go back and check it out some more.
So Yeah, Striper, So Danny write these down, you can.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
I am, and I will. Striper's coming later in my list.
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh okay, so all right, So yeah, I'm surprised. I
was surprised they made my list because I didn't even
really consider it. When I initially looked at the list
and like, okay, well this one's gonna make it, this
one's gonna make it. I didn't even think about the
driver went wow, this is kind of good.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Cool, yeah, nice, all.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right, Now we're down to number nine.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
All right. Number nine for me is the Deep Purple
album like equals one or minus one or whatever you
want to say. Yeah, you want to say it.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, it's equals one. Yeah. I never create it.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I listened to it a couple of times when you
send it to me, and then I listened to it
again not too long ago, and it's just classic Deep Purple.
It's really good, and I was kind of I don't
know what I was expecting, really, but.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
That album made the top three in the Sea of
Tranquility list all right, and yeah, he praised it. He
said the new guitar player fits right in it, says
it's the most guitar heavy album since the Richie Blackmore Air.
I'm like, oh, okay, well, yeah, I'm definitely gonna check
it out. I haven't. I didn't listen to one song
off of this because there were so many things to

(22:24):
listen to. So yeah, I totally missed the boat on
Deep Purple. So definitely that's one I'm gonna check out
for sure. A number nine for me. And I was
I like this band, I've This is their twelfth album
in their career, House of Lords Full Tilt Overdrive one.

(22:48):
I really didn't listen to them until yesterday, okay, and
there's a big reason I should have listened to it earlier. Okay.
It does have James James Christian is lead vocalist, and
Jimmy Bell, who's the guitar player who also did some
sidework with Autograph. But the big key to this is

(23:08):
they added a keyboard player and his name is Mark
man Goold. Ever heard of it Mark man Goold from Touch, Yes,
he is on this album. He wrote all this stuff
with James Christian and the last couple of House of
Lord's albums were less keyboardy. This one brings the Greg

(23:31):
Jeffrea keyboards back to the band. It sounds like classic
House of Lords. It's pretty pretty good. I mean, this
is one of them. Okay again I missed the boat
on this. Listen to it like, okay, well, this is
gonna make the list. This is a pretty damn good
Mark man Goold is on this. Who doesn't like Mark
Mangold and likes keyboards, especially in the ale.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah? Yeah, she was from Touch and Drive.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
She said, yeah, I screwed up on that one. Geez,
I missed it.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow, I will say, I haven't listened to that album
at all, so I'll have to check that one out.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, there you go. So I got to listen to
the Deep Purple and you got to listen to the House
of the Lord. It's okay now. Number that's eight for you.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Number eight for me is the Riot five album Mean
Streets really good. I was kind of shocked because I
hadn't heard anything from Riot. You know, I don't. I
probably haven't listened to much since that they've released since
the eighties, But this one is really good. I thought, oh,
let me put it on while I'm working, and just great.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah. I listened to it yesterday, didn't make my list,
considered it, liked it a lot. It's really riff heavy. Yeah,
it's more like the Thundersteel, right, it's less like the
early eighties Riot. But it's good.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, but exactly that is what I was thinking. I mean,
I don't know that you're going to get much of
the like Narita or Fire down Below kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, sounds completely different, but it's still still good. Yeah,
good band. I don't even know who's original in that lineup.
I know somebody played in Riot at some point in
the last few year.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Maybe maybe one guy. I looked it up. And you know,
the main guys that we would think of is Ryan
are not in the band, right.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
And I know they played the Whiskey this this year
because I was wearing my Riot shirt at one of
the shows there and somebody kill out me. Did you
see right five of it? No? I missed it. Oh
they were great. They played the old stuff and the
new stuff. Maybe I should I should have went to that,
but I should have went. Maybe I was working that day.
I don't know. Yeah, My number eight is a band

(25:38):
I never heard of at all up until about a
month and a half ago. All right, I never heard
a bit of them, don't know anything about their. Name
of this band is Tungsten t U n G S
t e N. They're a Swedish power metal band from
a former drummer from Hammerfall, this guy named Johansen. And

(26:03):
it's a four person band, the drummers from Hammerfall and
his two sons of the guitar player and the bass player.
So it's a family affair plus a vocalist. And wow.
And I started listening to a little bit more power
metal this year, just some of it. I like. Some
of it is too much, just overload, too much of

(26:23):
the choir vocals. But this is more hard rock. It
still has that aspect of the background vocals, but the
songs are really strong, the riffs are really good. I mean,
I never heard of this damn band. And the name
of the album is the Grand Inferno Tungsten good stuff,

(26:44):
good songs, gets right to the point, good vocals, not
too much into the Nordic folk music kind of because
sometimes they go they'll throw in that stuff and you'll
see some oh, you know, violins in it and people
dancing and kilts. I'm like, Okay, this is going a
little too much that way.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, a little much, but.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Uh, fun stuff. Good. I think you'd like it a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So tons, I have to check that out. That's another
one I haven't listened to at all. I'm gonna check out.
I've written it down, so I'll check it out.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, I don't know why I listened to it. At
one point, Oh crap, who the heck is this? And
then yeah, there's videos on YouTube, and like, these guys
are good. They play like any of these European festivals
that you can tell they're not that big yet because
they're on in the middle of the day or maybe
the first band in the morning.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Or yeah, it's kind of hard to be uh you know,
power metal band two in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, but you know, if you're not that big yet,
you know, when you're watching these things and it's still
light out, they're not that big yet. So but yeah, yeah,
I quite dug them. And they had like three or
four albums, and this is only first one I've heard.
I'm like, okay, I'm gonna have to dig into these
guys all right now. Number seven.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Number seven for me is the news Sebastian Bach album.
I've always been a fan of his since well first
skid Row album, and I thought for a while his
first couple albums after skid Row were really good. I
think then he I don't know what happened, what changed

(28:24):
with him, But this latest album I think is really good.
Child within the Man.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yep, I agree, and we might be hearing about that
a little bit later too. Yeah, yeah, this is probably
really strong, closest to skid Row out of the four
solo adams. He's got good guy.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, I'm a I'm a fan of that one.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah at rules all right. My number seven is a
band you've probably heard of. I know you've seen Judas Priest.
The Invisible Shield album album nineteen. All songs written by
Glenn Tipton, Richie Faulkner and Rob Halford. I don't know
if Glenn plays on this, but I know he's involved

(29:07):
in the songwriting. This album is just as good, if
not better than Power on Firepower. It's pretty strong.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
And wow, Okay, I've listened to a couple couple songs
from it and I thought that's cool.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah. The album is produced by Andy Sneap, who is
the touring other guitar player. Okay, yeah, I just one.
When it came out, I didn't really pay attention much
pay attention to it. Listen to it three days ago.
I'm like, man, this is pretty good all the way
through strong, even the bonus tracks are pretty good. So

(29:42):
it could have been higher, and I even consider to
go higher. But I said seven because I hadn't given
it enough time. The ones ahead of it I've listened
to more, So that's why I writ seven.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I get that if it would move.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Up, probably if I spend a lot more time with it.
But throughout the year, you know, Danny and I exchange
music and stuff, and lots of times we'll be listening
to stuff but we never heard of, like thirty years
ago or forty years ago. Right, Danny went through the
entire uri Heap catalog because he never listened to it before.
And sometimes we'll still just stumble across stuff like I

(30:17):
never heard that one exactly, that Nazareth catalog, you know,
and you discovered Gems. I mean, there's a lot of
stuff we've never heard and probably we'll never heart our lifetime.
In our little MP three libraries.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
And there are some pretty big stinkers of those. You know,
we find like, what the hell was that?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Let's delete that, correct, right roun Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, let's keep our own greatest hits of your ayah heap.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
You get like five or six songs that are great.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, they're beloved in Europe, but for me, I could
put them on an EP. Actually I could put my
favorite Uri Heat.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
On one album basically Yeah, yeah, okay, number six, number
six for me. A band that I really like unbelievable
musicians is Black Country Communion. Those guys I don't think
they can put out bad stuff. I mean, they're not
going to be popular. I don't see them touring at

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all ever. But you know, Glenn Hughes and I'll.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Shoot the guitar player, Joe Bonamasso.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Joe Bonamassa, Yeah, just awesome, awesome talent, man. They're great songs,
great vocals, as you would expect.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah. Glenn Hughes, I just got to see him this
year is as good as advertised, fantastic. He's what he
sounds like on the record is what you hear alive.
It's ridiculous. Out of this is the fifth uh Black
Country Communion album. I think it's not their best. It's
good and there. I think it was stay Free, the

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second song on that album I really liked, but some
of it okay, no, no, no. I like them, but
it's not my favorite of their albums. I go back
to the first Yeah, for sure, but good stuff. I
wouldn't I wouldn't put it as a disappointment because I
thought it was good. But yeah, but yeah, it's decent.

(32:17):
I like it didn't make my list though, all Right.
Number six is one that surprised the heck out of
me because as a band I liked in the eighties,
but I didn't love them, and this might be my
favorite album from them, and it's surprise. I think it's
the well, there's two Canadian artists on my list. This
is the first Canadian artist on my list. All Right.

(32:39):
It's their eighth album and they still have two two
original members, the lead singer and the guitar lead guitar players.
Honeymoon Sweet Nice. The album is alive and man, when
I it's like it's only ten songs, every song is good.
It's ridiculous. This is probably my favorite Honeymoon Sweet album

(33:02):
I did.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Wow, that's that's saying something because they had some great albums.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, I didn't think this is gonna be anything when
I saw a live I mean, oh, it's gonna be
a live album. Nope. Ten studio tracks really strong, I
mean the best music of the career. I mean, right
up your alley. This is melodic hard rock, all right,
it's good. Can't can't go wrong with this one. I

(33:26):
mean they may have sold twelve copies, but it's good.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
I don't think I've heard this album. I mean, of
course I know a lot about Home Sweet, but I
don't know that I heard this album, So I'm gonna
have to check that one out too. Yeah, you give
me a whole list of homework now, yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, when you're working on your December Danny gets swamped
in December. Just turn the music on and get those
fingers moving. Yeah, get the work. So, yeah, you got
some good stuff to listen to, all right, Number five.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Or five for me, and I might should have put
this album higher, I think. But the Kissing Dynamite is awesome.
Back with those guys are so good. But this album
is great if you're into just I don't know if
you're the rock at all, This album is so good.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah. If you like eighties rock with gang vocals, yeah,
this is right at your alley.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah yeah, a lot of a lot of guitar in
your face kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
And they've released some stuff in the States. I forgot
which it may have been Nuclear Blast or somebody like that.
But yeah, nobody's heard of these guys over here. They're
pretty much Japan or mostly Europe, and they've been they've
been around a while. It's their eighth album, So back
of the band. Yeah, back with a band Kissing Dynamite. Yeah,

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you might be hearing about that one later, all right.
My number number five for you, My number five is
the seventh album from this band, and we talked to them,
talked about them during Rapid Fire The Dead Daisies Light
Them Up, the seventh album from them and the return
of John Carabbi on lead vocals and the other guys

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in this band still is David Lowie who's the founding member,
Doug Aldridge, Michael Devon and Tommy Clefettos on drums. This
album is more in the vein of like a AC
DC or Kicks. It's that kind of style, stripped down,
balls to the wall, driving on your Harley type music,

(35:32):
gets right, gets right to the point, it's good, and
it comes off really good live. I got to see
them live and all. And even though I saw them
before this album came out, every song they played like instantly,
you knew it within a minute, right in your face,
good stuff. Dead daisies, they don't get.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I should have seen them when they were playing this
tiny little town in Jersey. It was about an hour
and a half away. I should have gone, but you
know that's a long drive to go to a show
and then drive back. Yeah, by yourself.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
And next time they come around, they seem to come around.
I mean, I know doug Aldridge has a cancer scare,
so Red Beach actually filled in form in Europe. But
when he gets I heard he's doing pretty well. So
when they come back, we're seeing doug Aldridge is a
great guitar player. That's the first time I ever saw
him too, and he's well worth it. Yeah, So now

(36:22):
down to number four.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Number four for me, and this was a shocker to me,
I think. But the Michael Shanker album, I think it's
all UFO album, UFO songs but with different singers, And
you know, I love UFO. I think his tenure in
UFO was like the classic and having these other singers

(36:47):
just brings a whole different aspect of the songs. But
they're great. So I really like this album. I listened
to a bunch of times.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, it's pretty faithful to the UFO music and this
could have been a little train wreck, but it's really pro.
I mean, we've got an Axel Rose, Jeff Scott Soto,
joe Lynn Turner, who else is on this? Oh d Snyder?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I think, yeah, yeah, you read through it and you
think this, I don't know this is this gonna be
any good? And then you start listening like, yeah, it's
damn good.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, this is.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Pro all the way.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
It's not some cheap Cleopatra thing where they throw together
eighties vocalists on it. Well, those aren't bad either, but
this is like a step above it. I mean, it's
not on my list, but I did consider it. It's
really good.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
In fact, I think the one with Axl Rose love
to Love is probably the worst song on here, and
it's not bad either.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Right, Yeah, I'm I have a whole issue with Axel
Rose just overall, but yeah, that's probably the worst song,
but it's it's not It's not one that I would
skip if I I would didn't have to.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
I wouldn't have picked him for that song though. That's
a pretty much a it's not a ballad, it's a
it's a ballad. But I wouldn't have picked I would
have picked him a rot, more of a rocker for him,
but who knows, how can sing.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I would have picked somebody like Joe Lin Turner or
somebody for that song. But hey, it works.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
And Jeff got so they nail their songs. D Sneiner's
so yeah, yeah, it's a winner, all right.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Number four, number four, which.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
I think will pop up on your list. It will
be Eclipse Meglo men Many, I can't even meglo man
many Maniam two is how you pronounced that?

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Megal Littlemnium Meg Littlemanium two the eleventh album from Can
You Believe It?

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Eleventh album from the Swedish band with Hooks for Years.
So if you've never heard Eclipse and they're a four
piece led by Eric Martinson, Swedish dude, one of those
genius guys like Butch Walker or Jason Bee or or
Ginger wild Heart, great songwriter, the songs. Every song has

(39:08):
a memorable chorus. I mean this one's no exception. I
almost missed this album. I mean I got to it
late because I figured the first one this was part one.
I don't know there's a part two, so I figured
I already gave Danny this album a while ago, and
I didn't. And when I got I'm like, oh, this
is pretty good. And the fact that they're gonna play

(39:29):
one show in the States, which is good. One show
three months from now, Danny and I will be seeing
them at the Whiskey in Los Angeles, would not be surprised.
It's so yeah. I think they're going from the Monsters
or Rock Cruise right to California to play that show.

(39:50):
I guess the Whiskey place that a lot of people
want to play because it's so famous. Everybody's played there.
I don't know if you've been to the Whiskey yet.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I know you've been to the Roxy.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
I've been to the Roxy in the country Club. Yeah,
I haven't been to the Troubadour. Yeah, I haven't been
to the Whiskey. I'll think I haven't been to the
Rainbow either.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Well, you will be in the Rainbow, all right, the Rainbow,
and you might even have a beer there you can.
You can see the seat that Lemmy used to sit on.
It's right there, right next to a statue. So that's
a preview of things to come, all right.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Number three, we'll probably we'll probably hear about that album
in a little bit from on my list, but.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
I'm not surprised, all right. Number three.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Number three for me is the Mister Big album. Oh love,
mister Big. You know, I wasn't expecting much out of
this album, but the more I listen to it, the
more i'm the more I'm enjoying it. It's classic, mister Big.
There's nothing surprising. You know, you're gonna get killer chops
from from everybody in the band, so it's it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
All right, mister Big. The name of the album was ten,
and you will be hearing about this a little bit later,
all right, but not the way you think, all right. Right,
And that was number three, all right. Number three is
an album you've already mentioned before from Sebastian bach Child

(41:24):
within the man's four studio album. I think it's his
strongest of his solo career. Danny and I both agree
both made and made our lists. Even though Sebastian's kind
of a nut job on social media, you know what,
He's still great live and he put out a really
good album, So I can't fault him.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
I don't care it makes an ass of himself, but
he made a really good record. I can't fault this
at all. If you like Sebati, if you like skid Row,
go get it. Even if you don't like Sebastian, go
get it. It's really good.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, put all that other crap inside.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah, he just played two nights at the Whiskey so
and I probably did pretty well. Yeah, he's still great
life too. I can't. I have nothing about it. Personally,
he's looks like Tommy Lee is like gots some growing
up to do. But yeah, exactly, Yeah, Sebastian bocket three
for me, all right, number two for you.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Two for you for me. We've already talked about as
the Dead Daisies.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
I think the best thing they did was bring back
John Carabbe.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
A guy. Uh.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
The only thing against John Krabbe is he just shoots
himself in the foot. I don't know what his deal
is that he just can't handle success or just doesn't
like it or what. But I don't know. You know,
I think the Moley Ger album with him on it
is their best album by far. The Scream, Yeah, Scream

(42:59):
is great, like the Dead Daisy albums with him on it,
and this is no exception.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, the Union albums are good too, oh man. I
think it's that first Union album. Yeah. The problem with yeah,
Karabe's timing is bad. The music he makes is really good.
It's just the timing of when this stuff comes out
is bad or something something wrong is wrong with a
record company or it's always something. I don't know if

(43:24):
it's something, but the timing is off.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
And I know, well, you got you gotta look at
all that stuff that happens, and what's the common denominator.
It's him, it's him, But you know, maybe it's just
he is the unluckiest person. But you know, the guy
can sing his ass off. And the first Union album

(43:48):
with the song do your Own Thing probably one of
my favorite songs of anybody. Yeah, we got to see them,
gotta check it out if you don't know it.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, we saw John Karrabi without the beard and short hair.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yep, short hair playing at his little tiny clubs. So great,
so great, Yeah, right in front of us.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
He is an amazing you know what. And it's not
his personality either, because if you see him on podcast,
the guy's like she's a chatterbox. He's full of energy,
he's funny, he doesn't hold he was a great guy. Yeah,
doesn't pull any punches. It tells it like it is.
Maybe that's part of it. One of those guys. I

(44:31):
was just honest, and sometimes that people rubs people the
wrong way. I don't know, but I know he left
the Dead Daisies initially because I think he wanted to
spend more time with his wife and his son, and
that's why he kind of left. And then they kind
of brought Glenn Hughes in for a little bit and
then but there was no there was no bad blood

(44:51):
between them. So when Glenn Hughes wanted to concentrate more
on his career this other stuff, Krabbi was available, so
they brought him back. Yeah. Good move of the Dead Daisies.
The problem of the Dead Days is too many lead
singers have been in that band. Keep it consistent and
people will stick with you, I think, right exactly, Yeah, solid,

(45:13):
all right, My number two you have not mentioned yet.
I don't even know if you're familiar with this band
that much. Their first album came out twenty years ago
and then they put it they put it on hiatus,
and then their second album surprisingly came out this year.
It's the top Matsumoto group TMG, which features Eric Martin

(45:35):
from Mister Big, Jack Blades from Night Ranger, Matt stormc
Gun's Roses on drums, and the guitar players Talk Matsumoto
from the Bees, and that band is huge in Japan.
Their first album was great, the second album is great.
I mean you got Jack Blades and Eric Martin playing together.
Songs are strong through the whole thing. But again it's

(45:57):
one of those things that's only released and Japan. But
I think the second one got released in Europe too
through Frontiers. Good stuff. If you're a fan of Mister
Bigger Night Ranger, you're gonna like this because the songs
are strong.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
It's a good album. Yeah. I haven't listened to that
album at all, so I'm gonna have to check that out.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, you're gonna like it right away. And if you
if you're not familiar with the first album, the first
album was maybe even better. All right, good stuff. It's
funny because I think Eric Martin's this Eric Martin's performance
on this album is much better and the songs are
much better on this one than the Mister Big album.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Okay, just my opinion. Yea, I will say, even though
I really liked that album, I think Eric Martin was
the wig link.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah he struggled on tour, Yeah he did. You could
see it.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Oh, he totally did. Yeah. I saw that saw that
tour when I was in the third row and he
sounded okay.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
But yeah, but I'd seen Eric Martin in the past
where he was hit and everything, and on this tour
he was having some vocal help with the other The
other three guys were harmonizing a lot and helping him
quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, so maybe that's why they said, you know what,
it's about, time to in this. Even though the tour
went really well and globally of course they were huge
in Japan, but yeah, maybe it was time to stop.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
So yeah, I don't just hang it up, and I
think that's what the tour was meant to represent.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yeah, well, we'll see everybody who's said they were going
to retire except for Rush is that.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Well they've all come back, so well you're not gonna
see Rush out a the Who is still Yeah, so
we'll maybe the Who should stop.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Ario Speedwagon just stopped, so we'll see about that. You
hear the story about that, Well wait, we can get
in that later. But you know what happened with that? No,
So the bass player, Bruce Hall had a surgery, so
he was out for a while. So they brought in
Matt Bissonett on bass. Okay, so Matt Bissonette, brother of

(48:04):
Greg Bisonette, monster player, also played with davidly Roth, and
then Kevin Cronin said they sounded so good with Matt Bissonette.
When it was time to bring Bruce back, he said,
I don't want to do it anymore. It's never going
to be as good as it is now bringing back
the old bass player. So he said, wow, they just
had their last show, so Kevin Cronin is going to

(48:24):
go solo and just played Rio by himself instead of
So he basically broke up the band because he didn't
want to bring the bass player back in their dress.
It kind of a slap in the face, huh.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
A little bit, yeah, Jesus.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, that's the Rio Speedwagon drama because nobody else wanted
to stop the band. But without Kevin Cronin, you can't
do Ari speed But he's the sound even.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah, he's the vocalist and that's all they've got. Yeah, so,
I mean, they got great songs, but he's the vocalist
is what you need.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
So when he does the Summer Shed tours and he
like sticks Kevin Cronin and somebody else. So yeah, so
I regress now right now down, No before that, let's
do a commercial break and we'll give you our number one.
All right, here we go, guys, Top ten twenty twenty four. Danny,
what's your number one?

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Well, you you picked it earlier. It's definitely Eclipse. I
love that band, and I mean I'm flying to California
to see them, so you gotta know there's something there.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna get all eclipsed up before
I go, make sure I know everything off their particularly

(49:37):
their latest albums. I already know their first few albums
pretty well, so.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, but they have eleven albums, you know, all eleven.
I know some songs in there. I know, I know
the singles some of the singles. But yeah, I'm gonna
have to go deep with Eclipse, especially the last five albums.
So so I.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Check out online with their what their set list is.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, find out what they're playing at the Monsters or
Rock what they're set list, and Horne knows. Yeah, I'm
looking forward to that. Hopefully they don't disappoint.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
So oh man, I'll be I'll be really bummed that
they suck. Yeah, but I don't think they're gonna suck.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
I don't think so either. So maybe maybe we'll see
some special guests showing up there make them. Maybe Jeff
Scott Soda will show up their buddies, so you never Yeah,
they's in town and Eric Parkinson, so we might see
some people in the crowd there, So you don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
All right, that'd be cool. If they pulled out a
wet song, that would be cool.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
That would be very well. I'm going to see Saigon
kick and Jeff Scott Soda was singing vocals on that show.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
I know that's kamid. I'm I'm waiting to see that
they're if they're playing New York or not. I haven't
heard anything about that yet.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
I believe they are, but I don't know if it's
been announced yet, so yeah, we're gonna have to do that.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
And the the Beg's son playing bass.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Brandon Gibb. Yeah, in fact, I saw I saw them.
I saw him play with him already. Yeah, he's good.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
No high vocals though, no, okay, good, No.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
It doesn't do that all right. My number one is
an album you've already mentioned right from Germany, Kissing Dynamite
Back with a Bang, their eighth studio album. Pretty much
totally unknown here, and this could be their best album.
I think it's pretty pretty strong. The band's mission is

(51:26):
to bring back stadium rock, so that gives you an
idea what they sound like. Stadium rock, big choruses, I mean,
stuff you're gonna remember right away. This this is a guitar. Yeah.
This is their first number one album in Germany, so
in their home country they're doing quite well. I'm sure
they're interesting, okay, and like you know, surrounding countries around there,

(51:46):
so they're doing decently and they can see them on
the festival circuit. Seems like they're moving up on the bill.
I mean they're not huge or anything, but yeah, anybody
likes eighty style hard rock Kissing Dynamite is right up
your alley. Check them out nice? All right? Now, do
you have any honorable mentions you want to make? Is
there is one.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
I've got? I've got a couple. I really liked the
new Dragon Force album. Okay, if you're into speed metal,
those guys are top notch.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Man.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Their guitar players are so freaking good. On the almost
on the opposite end of that, I really like the
Richie Cottson album No Mad It's a lot more bluesy
and laid back. And when I saw him a few
weeks ago or a few months ago, I guess he
played a bunch of songs from this and it was

(52:42):
very much laid back and just kind of he played
with a trio, him and bass, playing a drummer, and
it was just it was pretty much like a solo thing.
He could have done it by himself, I think. But
and then you mentioned the Revolution Saints album.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't listen to it this time around,
So yeah, that's why I didn't make my list. So
I couldn't. I couldn't put it on the list without
listening to it. It might be great because I know
they change, they changed players in it.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
But yeah, it's good. It's it kind of reminds, I
guess just because of the circumstances. It kind of reminds
me of the Dead Daisies.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
But yeah, it's still Dean from Journey on vocals and drums,
but they switched out Jack. I don't even know who's
in it anymore. Is it Pilsener, Jack Blazers, I can't remember.
I don't know their name. Guys is three guys, but
I don't remember. So I couldn't put it on my
list because I hadn't really listened to it.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Okay, but Deane sings his ass off, so it's he's
really really good.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Okay, you got any more? Is that it?

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Uh? That's all the honorable mentions I've got.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I have three. Also one I'm surprised you didn't mention
Saxon hellf Iron Damnation, the first album with Brian Tattler
from diamond Head in it. I listened to it. I
like it, but it didn't quite crack my top ten.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I agree. I listened to it. I thought it sounded good,
but it's not as good as the other ten I
have right next one was a German I think a
Swedish power metal band called Hammerfall Avenge The Fallen.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I love the title track and it's good, but I
didn't I didn't spend enough time with it, so I
couldn't put it on there.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
And the I did listen to that one, and you know,
at first you're thinking, man, this is good, and then
you realize, you know, it's forty five to fifty minutes
of that same thing. Yeah, I was like, I'd like
a little bit more variety.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
But yeah, that's where man, I think it's more Man
of War screwed up. Their first album was very diverse
and top picks and stuff, and then they just honed
in on the Conan thing and everything was about that.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Yeah, it's like, okay, I.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Need I need a little variety too. I can't too
much same in the sameness, I guess.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, death to Your Loincloth.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Yeah all right. And the last one is one I
don't even know if you've ever heard of this band,
but they're they're coming up. Three sisters from Mexico. They're
called The Warning.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
I've actually seen a couple of videos of them. They're
not too bad.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yeah, it's called Keep Me Fed. I just saw a
video of them. Playing in Poland at night at a
festival and there was a lot of people there. They're
very good. They're very young, I think I think the
bass player's probably nineteen and the guitar player or drummer
and it's just a three piece, but they're very talented.

(55:56):
And they're from Mexico but they play hard rock. Yeah,
but they're good, and they've been doing this for like
ten years, since they were little kids. So there's videos
and we see them there with like these little girls
and pigtails like I guess they got their break on
YouTube doing a cover of Metallica Mixed. So they did

(56:17):
a cover of that as little girls from Mexico. So
that's why people kind of notice them, and they just
kind of keep getting better and better and better and better,
and now people are noticing them. So the warning keep
me fed. Yeah it was. It's good, but not good
enough to crack my top ten. Now do you have
any disappointments?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I just the one I'm kind of disappointed in the
Anvil album. Usually Anvil comes out with at least one
or two songs that I like. I'm thinking that that's
a cool song. This album maybe not so much. But
I mean it's anvil. What do you what do you expect?

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Yeah? What was the name of that you remember? I
don't remember the name of it. I mean I remember
listening to it, but it wasn't enough to Oh it's
called One and Only. But yeah, I didn't really knock
my socks off. It was like, okay, this is this
is Handvil. It's pretty standard.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Yeah yeah, I mean if you like anvill, you probably
already have it.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So yeah, I have three disappointments.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Oh boy, okay one.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Of them is one of them is on your top
ten list? Oh wow, okay, mister Big ten Wow, love
the tour, love the band. I guess I expected more.
I expected to be better than it is. I think
it's okay. I mean it's not terrible, but it's not

(57:41):
my favorite mister Big album by far. I wouldn't put it. No,
I have five albums that are much better. It's definitely
definitely not bump ahead or lean into it.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
No, it's probably in the bottom bottom two. So that's
why it's a disappointment, but not terrible. Bon Jovi Forever.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I don't want to have anything to do with bon Jovi.
I did not listen to that album I don't care.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
First first singles great, second single is pretty good. Rest
of the album is awful. When they brought in John
Shanks is a producerlas other guitar player. It's bad, it's terrible.
It's not the bon Jovi grew up with. It'sugh.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
No, I've I've written bon Jovi off. You know, I
was a huge fan back in the day. So is
that and all the girls were.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
You got Philix and you're not using them turned into
a country bad country band.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Yeah, you got that kind of ripper playing guitar and
you're not letting letting him lose.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
You're Yeah, every album without sam Bora has been bad.
It's not Philix's fault, not.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Oh no, not at all. I mean it's it's John
bon Jovi's band. It's his band. It's his it's his fault. Yeah,
it's just horrible.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Some people still like it. I can't get back. It's
not much. No, it's just not good.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
No. After it's my life. That was the last last
I wanted to hear a bon Jovi.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Yeah, And in the last and the last disappointment was
the solo album from Mick Mars. It's called the Other
Side of Mars. Initially it was supposed to be Krabbi
on vocals on all of it, and I guess they
did record some of it, but they scraped that and
they put a guy named Jason Bunting from line them,
who's a good singer. But these songs, there's nothing memorable there.

(59:42):
I mean, Mick Mars was a night as a riffmaster
and that's why he worked in Motley Crue. This is
just dull. It's not exciting at all. It doesn't do
anything for me, and I was disappointed.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I mean, yeah, I listened to it when you send
it to me because I thought because I had heard
that Karabi was singing on it. But then yeah, you
started playing it, It's like, well, that's not Carabi you're singing.
And then you're like, whoa, hey.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Yeah, I was thinking of Krabi is gonna be there.
It's gonna be like the Motley Crue nineteen ninety four album. Okay,
this is gonna this is good. Nope, Nope, this is
worse than Generation Swine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
It's not good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Poor mc mars, because I like the dude, but this
is not good. Yeah, well, and yeah, I got no
support for whatsoever. And Motley Crue wanted nothing to do
with him. They kind of did him dirty, you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Know, yeah, I think I decide, Yeah, well I think
they did each other dirty. I think he was he yeah,
you know, he's doing them. They're suing him, and it's
all just yeah, so they'll just leave.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
And they just yeah, put the album ount and nobody nothing,
no support for whatsoever. They got squashed, buried, whatever you
want to call it. So yeah, all right, So that
concludes our top ten from twenty twenty four. Hopefully we
turned you on to something. Danny mentioned some albums I'm
gonna listen to and I probably do. This did the
same for him, Yeah, definitely. So if you like hard rock,

(01:01:11):
rock is not dead. According to Gene Simmons's rock is dead. No,
there's plenty of it out there. She's got to find
it now. It's just not readily available. You have to
search it out, yeah, through whatever podcasts or YouTube videos
or whoever. Somebody's talking about the music that you like.
So it's it's there. She's got to find it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
It's not it's not Beyonce or anything like that, but
now it's out there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
Yeah. Yeah, he's got some issues that whole.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Oh geez'z that whole halftime thing at the game.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
I turned that right off. Click, not interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
She's out there with the country oup it on and
the cowboy something Cowboy Caldwell or something like what the
hell is this?

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
And you know, anybody that says everybody should thank her,
just that turns me off, right then? And for what
for being a star, for being a musician, for you
should pay homage to Beyonce?

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
No beautiful woman, great singer, but I'm sorry you're When
people start just that, I don't like. I don't like
the elitist attitude of not actors in music, some music,
some actors, and some musicians like no, okay, you can
sing great, okay, you can act great, okay, but good

(01:02:36):
for you ain't not better than anybody else. It's just
like you just put your pants on like anybody else cares.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
That's right, right, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
So I think we're going to end on that high note.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Beyonce Ooo yay, Beyonce, hooray.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah. And so when we do a showing two weeks
it'll be a new year, Year twenty seven of the
Hard Rocking Trivia Show. I think I don't know something.
I don't remember I think it's wow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
We need to check that out because twenty seven years yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
It's more like fourteen. Yeah, what the hell are we
doing and why are we doing it for the We don't.
We're not like a three hundred thousand followers, We're like
one hundred. So a how do people listening it? Cool?

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Hookers are blow there?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
You go? Right? Yeah? Doing it for fun? Yeah, I
got a lots to listen to. Now I'm gonna listen
to deep pop. Problem, So we turn this thing off.
So day that is cool. So I'll see in a
few weeks with a new show.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
All right, all right, walk on by.

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