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…
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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…
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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
On May 13th 2017 Bakko was covering the Northern Invasion Festival in Somerset Wisconsin. On this night the headliner was Soundgarden.Working from the photo pit, Bakko captured these images which would be among the last live shots taken of Chris Cornell as sadly he took his own life a few days later on May 17th. None of these pics have ever been published and only a handful have been shared on social media making this the first time these have been widely available.
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As bonus coverage this week we have an interview with Michael Beinhorn, producer of Soundgarden’s “Superunknown”. Michael shares stories from the making and recording of Soundgarden’s most successful record.
Michael Beinhorn has lived his life in the pursuit of artistic expression, first as a visual artist, then as a performer, and finally as a record producer.
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Coming in at Number 9 on Rolling Stone’s greatest Grunge Albums is Soundgarden’s 1994 release “Superunknown” featuring guest host, from the Pods & Sods Podcast, Eric Miller. Eric and Bakko talk about the making of the record, the genius of Chris Cornell and go track by track.
Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records.
Read MoreBakko 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…
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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
Mark Yarm, author of the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge, joins the program to share stories from his book and talk about the musical movement that was Grunge.
Mark is the contributing features editor and podcast host/producer at Input, a site about technology and culture. In addition, he has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Wired, WSJ. Magazine, and Rolling Stone and am the author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, a Time magazine book of the year.
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