Ep 122 – Concert Recaps, Record Store Day, Tipping Etiquette – Bakko and LC detail their experiences at two recent concerts they attended together, apart: Judas Priest / Saxon / Black Star Riders and Glorious Sons. They also discuss Record Store Day and tipping etiquette on an $8 Budweiser. Music featured in show order below. Support artists. Buy this music!

Turbonegro – Special Education
The Wild! – Another Bottle
John Corabi – Hooligan’s Holliday
Glorious Sons – Heavy
Texas Hippie Coalition – Hands Up
Black Star Riders – Dancing with the Wrong Girl
Judas Priest – No Surrender

Spotify Preview Playlist 122: https://spoti.fi/2HJt9xm

KISS released their 19th album Sonic Boom in 2009 exclusively at Wal-Mart… and the world hasn’t recovered. Join Loose and Bakko as they do a track-by-track of what is considered KISS’s masterpiece…if graded on a curve. A curve where not stepping over a baby’s diapers on the floor means you are in a CLEAN bathroom. Topics also include the odd mid-2000 era of KISS, pre-release hype, the standard operating procedures a new Wal-Mart must follow, original working titles for the album, and the three sides of Danger.

Bakko pulled a bunch of his friends in to record a sort of “We Are The World” type of song. Featuring people you’ve never heard of. The Minnesota “Un-Stars” offer up the Lemmy approved cover of the Motorhead Classic Born To Raise Hell.

1987 – The Greatest Year In Rock (Part 2) – Bakko & LC return to discuss 1987, better known as (not)The Year of Anvil. Topics include: pop culture, LC reveals a coming of age tale at a Holiday Inn, our hatred of parades and the unfortunate return of Thumb Butt Dad. Music: Black Sabbath, KISS, Lizzy Borden, Warlock, Dokken, Faster Pussycat, Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Keel and – for the 120th straight episode – NO ANVIL.

1987: The Greatest Year in Rock – Part 1

It’s time for another Cobras & Fire Greatest Year In Rock. Music and topics discussed in part 1: Def Leppard, Motley, ’87 Era Cobra Hacks, GNR, Bruno Boardwalks, Dio, Y&T, Sammy Hagar, banned high school T-Shirts, Anvil, Menards, and a detailed track by track of Poison’s Look What the Cat Dragged In.

Bakko chats with Jim Florentine about his book “Everyone Is Awful: (Except You!)”, his thoughts on bands getting old, going to Catholic School, his podcast Metal Midgets and more.

Bakko and Twin Cities Drummer for the bands Jason Dixon Line and Level collaborate on this twist on the KISS classic. By no means is Josh Toomey of the Talk Toomey Podcast involved.

We packed a lot of Cobra Gold in this episode. Topics include the lack of “Super” in Ripper Owens’ latest group. How Joe Satriani managed to never join Whitesnake. Glen Tipton stopping but not quitting. The musical legacy of the Hardee’s Restaurant California Raisins. Mike Portnoy’s post Dream Theater life. Cobras & Fire very first foray into the world of mashups. And Paul Stanley’s latest Bitter, we mean, Twitter blast on Gene Simmons. And we play great songs from “Super” groups of varying degrees of “Super”. Music from:
Contraband
Gaye Ratt
Chickenfoot
The Damned Things
Them Crooked Vultures
Audioslave
Union