It’s our annual look back at all of the Cobra Gold. 2020 may have been a dumpster fire but it was a great year for the kings of self-deprecating smugness that is Cobras & Fire. Part 1 features the bits:

Neck Tattoos
George Lynch
Craig Smith
Dave La Roth live
TicketShaft
Ian Wadley
Donnie Vie
Don Jamieson
LC trying to explain the podcast to other humans
14 year old Bakko Stryper Karaoke
Bret Michaels sells his RV
Skin Dogs
Def LepAdrenalize Rolling Stone review

The music:
Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane
Taproot – Poem
Lynch Mob – Bed Of Roses
The Who – Who Are You
KISS – I
Meat Puppets – Backwater
Orleans – Still The One
Sammy Hagar – I’ll Fall In Love Again
Enuff Z Nuff – Fly High Michelle
Oasis – Hello
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Oddfathers – Another Tear Goes Dry
John Lennon – Nobody Told Me
Love/Hate – Spinning Wheel
Lizzy Borden – Me Against The World

LC and Bakko unleash a MegaEp of new music as we count down each of our top 10 albums of 2020.

Spoilers ahead!

LC’s Top 10

10) Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure
9) Black Stone Cherry – Human Condition
8) Body Count – Carnivore
7) Wyldelife – Year of the Snake
6) Pearl Jam – Gigaton
5) AC/DC – Power Up
4) Local H – Lifers
3) Marilyn Manson – We are Chaos
2) Creeper – Sex, Death and the Infinite Void
1) Massive Wagons – House of Noise

Bakko’s Top 10

10) Massive Wagons – House of Noise
9) Red City Radio – Paradise
8) AC/DC – Power Up
7) Stryper – Even The Devil Believes
6) Ozzy – Ordinary Man
5) Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons – We Are Bastards
4) Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure
3) Haunt – Flashback
2) The Atomic Bitchwax – Scorpio
1) Michael Grant & The Assassins’ – Always The Villain

Intro: Armored Saint – Attention Span
Outro: Steel Panther – F 2020

Bakko and LC drop the needle and discuss their top notch vinyl collection. We talk manufacturing, mastering and lack thereof, bands/albums that are better suited to CD, whether upgrading your stylus is bullshit and if LC’s Vinyl OCD and current monthly spending habit is in need of professional intervention.

Want to see the albums and our handsome faces? Check out the YouTube version of this Ep here: https://youtu.be/A0LSrNR9fJw

Music Clips Featured:

Bob & Doug McKenzie & Geddy Lee: Take Off
Donnas: Take IT Off / Save Me
Slipknot: Sulfur
Black Stone Cherry: Big Legged Woman
Foo Fighters: I Should Have Known
Ghost: Rats
Bob Mould: American Crisis
Marilyn Manson: Keep My Head Together
Def Leppard: Run Riot
Stones: Heartbreaker
Zakk Sabbath: The Wizard
Icon: Under My Gun
Trucker Diablo: Drive
Alice Cooper: Pain / From The Inside
Heavy Pettin : Rock Ain’t Dead