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Best Of The Cobra: Highlights From 2020 – Part Two

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 2 features the bits: Tiger King What Covid really means for concerts Ron Keel Chris Czynszak wiki-man Tommy Thayer…

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310: Best Of The Cobra: Highlights From 2020 – Part Two

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 2 features the bits:

Tiger King
What Covid really means for concerts
Ron Keel
Chris Czynszak wiki-man
Tommy Thayer grounds keeper
KISS Podcasts ripping us off
Brian May being the “Butt” of jokes
Satan not as cool as you thought
Lee McCormack being soops Canadian
Shout It Out Loudcast taking Bakko to task
Bach v. Jericho Twitter battle
Ron Young
Nazi Antiquing
Mitch Malloy: former member of Van Halen and Covid Denier
Spotify ran by a douchebag
Know your ROLL
Michael Sweet v. Cardi B
Rob Halford
SIP TV
The Nug v. Lee

Music:
Keel – Right To Rock
Actual Villains – Losing My Religion
Little Caesar – I Wish It Would Rain
Ron Keel – 3 Chord Drinking Song
Chris Cornell – Watching The Wheels
Motorhead – Ain’t No Nice Guy
Joe Walsh – All Night Long
Ringo Starr – It Don’t Easy
Brain Richie – Religion Ruined My Life
Bryan Adams – Run To You
Styx – Too Much Time On My Hands
Young Giant – My Body
Little Caesar – Chain Of Fools
Richie Sambora – Ballad of Youth
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax
Monkees – I’m A Believer
Pure Prairie League – Amie
Nude Party – Chevrolet Van
REO Speedwagon – Roll With The Changes
Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
Soul Asylum – Misery
INXS – Good Times

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Best Of The Cobra: Higlights From 2020 – Part One

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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309: Best Of The Cobra: Higlights From 2020 – Part One

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

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EP 234: Top 10 Albums of 2020

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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308: EP 234: Top 10 Albums of 2020

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

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Chris Cornell – Soundgarden 5/13/17

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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307: Producer Michael Beinhorn Interview

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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306: Whatever, Nevermind No. 9: Soundgarden – Superunknown w/Eric Miller

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.

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EP 233: Record Store Days – Vinyl Talk

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…

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