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.
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October 5, 2025 • 61 mins
We re-cap our concert going experience for the Struts and Dirty Honey tour with special guest and host of the Struts Life Podcast Leah Jones.
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October 3, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1988 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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September 28, 2025 • 70 mins
This week we invited Steve Wright from Podder Than Hell to go track by track through the 9th studio album “Black Rain” from Ozzy Osbourne.
Each month in 2025 we will cover a studio album release by the “Madman” himself Ozzy Osbourne
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September 26, 2025 • 16 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 7) 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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September 21, 2025 • 70 mins
In this episode of “When Rock Ruled The Charts” we take a close look at 8/8/92, the day that Montreal Riots took place. This week we will be looking at the album charts for the Billboard 200
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September 19, 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 "G"
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September 14, 2025 • 82 mins
In this episode we take the way-back machine and look at what would have been our top 5 albums of 2005 had the Podcast existed 20 years ago.
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September 12, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1986 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
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September 7, 2025 • 73 mins
In this episode we pit Don Dokken against his former guitar slinger George Lynch and find out which album will reign supreme in this divisive album battle. It's Don Dokken's "Up from The Ashes" vs. Lynch Mob's "Wicked Sensation".
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September 5, 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 "Domino Effect"
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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August 31, 2025 • 79 mins
This week we invited Brad Rusthoven from the Slamfest Podcast to go track by track through the 8th studio album “Down To Earth” from Ozzy Osbourne.
Each month in 2025 we will cover a studio album release by the “Madman” himself Ozzy Osbourne
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August 29, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1986 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
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August 24, 2025 • 82 mins
This week in the Thanking The Greats Series, we want to thank one of the greatest guitar Players / Singers in rock music Tommy Shaw.
From Styx to Damn Yankees and some of Tommy's solo career, we cover it all.
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August 22, 2025 • 16 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 6) 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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August 17, 2025 • 72 mins
This week, we once again visit the The 250 List. In volume 10 we each take a look at 5 more bands that did not quite make a household name for themselves in the 80s and early 90s.
The 250 List is an article written and published in November 2021 by Bobby Caughron from XS-Rock Website.
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August 15, 2025 • 13 mins
In this Friday Quick Fix, Sonny celebrates his Birthday for 1985 when he takes a look at the music and events that were happening during his special day.
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August 10, 2025 • 85 mins
For our 8th Anniversary,
In this episode we are each sharing 8 of our favorite all time bands and why they were so important to us during our Growin' Up Rock years.
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August 8, 2025 • 17 mins
For this “Hollywood’s Private Collection” (Vol. 5) 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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August 3, 2025 • 71 mins
We get the listeners involved as we rank 8 of our favorite Metallica album opening tracks. In addition Steven finally gets to his first Metallica concert after being a fan for over 40 years. Come with him as he recounts his adventure.
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August 1, 2025 • 13 mins
In this FQF, Sonny is showing he doesn't hate all Canadian music by sharing some of his favorites.
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