One more GnR episode after this one! Thank you so much for giving a damn about Rock n' Roll. Here's what you have to look forward to in a mere 2.5 hrs of greatness: Slash runs naked through a golf course Duff teaches you to cook Steven goes motorbiking with Tommy Lee Axl is confused, frustrated and pissed off Izzy rules, because he's my favorite Roger Ebert is a cranky-pants windbag The Dead Pool racks up a ton of TV Tropes New monthly bonus feed here! https://www.patreon.com/rockfilmrock ...

Hello friends and welcome to Van Halen time! This episode features 3 intertwining sections: My narration of some hand-picked moments in VH history, my real-time reactions to Cameron Crowe's follow up to "Fast Times..." and a super fun interview conducted by my friend and fellow rocker, Eve Clarke, for an as-yet-unreleased series of videos she's cookin' up with other opinionated guitar enthusiasts in our local orbit. Eve's music can be found here: https://tripthewire.com/ Part two of my Van...

XMANSTARTRACK AUDIOBOOKYNESS! Listen to me read a couple hours of Jan Michael Vincent Marty Friedman's  Sci-Fi X-over epic! I love the X-Men and wish I liked more Star Trek. So here's me following through on a dumb idea I had a couple yrs ago when Mike Stolklassa of Red Letter Media appeared onscreen pretending to read this paperback masterpiece and went straight to ebay to buy the damn thing. More later. New monthly bonus feed here! https://www.patreon.com/rockfilmrock Choose your...

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Guns n' Roses tour with Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones and more! Then Clint Eastwood's kiddo gets his favorite-est band in the whole wide world to be in his dad's new movie featuring Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson. Also lots of booze and drugs and bikers and strippers! Axl Rose warms up his vocals backstage with a Queensryche song that passive-aggressively lets his band know he's sick of their heroin dependency. The "Hell House" era featuring West Arkeen and Del James is discussed....

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New monthly bonus feed here! https://www.patreon.com/rockfilmrock This marks the end of The Crow trilogy...of my shows, not the film trilogy. Much like the Robert Johnson episode, I was shocked to find out how little of full story of this incredibly talented performer's death I had actually known all this time.  The Crow stands out from many other subjects of A History of Rock n' Roll in Film and Rock n' Roll. I simply don’t talk in as much detail about most movies I cover on these...

New monthly bonus feed here! https://www.patreon.com/rockfilmrock This episode is dense and detailed as all hell. I say that every few months about a new episode, it's true. But this really ranks up there with my Janis Joplin, Chris Cornell, AC/DC and Doors episodes in the amount of research (see the many references below) and interstitial music edits involved. So thank you in advance for your indulgence. This one covers:  An expanded history of James O'Barr's journey from the USMC to...

Here we go! The beginning of The Crow saga I've been working toward for a couple of years. I had big plans to cover more bands from the soundtrack, but after learning what I learned about O'Barr and Reznor's mutual love for Joy Division, I decided to take this route. Please enjoy hearing about: Trent Reznor's Cleveland cover band years, becoming a roadie for The Revolting Cocks and making Pretty Hate Machine for TVT Records James O'Barr's early life, tragic loss of his fiancee, joining up...

Who wants to chat about animation, new wave, and early 80s heavy metal? This episode is wild by any of my usual standards. The topics veer all over the place and the music is wackier than normal. Hope you like it!  This one covers the making of Heavy Metal, the amalgamation of many different animation studios all working overtime to complete their different segments, the difference between Taarna and the original Moebius story "Arzach" or Arzack or whatever, the anarchic and confrontational...

It's an ACE episode! And a TV episode! Such a cheap cop out for a show with "film" in the title, I know. But you love it when I subvert your expectations, don't you? This one dips heavily into Ace's account of important moments in KISStory and then permutationalizes into a commentary track for an old Quantum Leap episode. I hope you can enjoy both, because I care about you and want you to be happy. Because of me. I want you to be happy because of things I do, because I'm a no-good person and...

Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Legs McNeil, Nick Tosches, Rex Weiner, and because I'm feeling sassy as hell, Michael O'Donoghue. Yep, this is a purely selfish and HUGELY self-indulgent episode where I read you things that recently made my heart swoon. Things I love for the pure energy of the language used, but that I can't graft onto any one band or film episode. Much brutality and obnoxiousness and vulgarity in this episode. But it's endearing and inspiring because it's delivered to us...

No idea who this is for, other than people like us who HAD to watch the Brett Michaels movie as soon as we found out about it. I start the episode with some older interviews just so that the Bret fans will have something of value to listen to before the rest of the episode slides into 2 hours of loud befuddlement on the part of myself, Dan, Brian, and Jackie. Some of you already know their voices from the Shred Guitar and Metal Lords episodes I put out last year.  The film in the only...

Welcome back! Thank you for patiently waiting for this 2nd part of the "I watched 3 Hank Williams movies in one weekend though ironically its taking me more than 3 months to release the series" trilogy.  I cover lots of stuff you don't normally hear about in Hank Sr retrospectives and documentaries, so even if you've seen a few, you might still learn something here on this episode.  I gotta take a break from Hank to release one or two episodes next that require a little less labor becoz...

This is an episode I'm as proud of as I could ever be. I had the joy of covering the Misfits turbulent times in the 70s, 80s, and 90s with all the innocent fun + mean-spirited legal chicanery I could unearth. This will include yarns about WCW, Static Age, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the creation of Legacy of Brutality, The Box Set, and Jerry and Doyle stealing Danzig's Samhain skateboards FROM UNDERNEATH GLENN'S BACK PORCH WHEN HE WASN'T AROUND BECAUSE THE ANZALONE PARENTS WERE LIKE...

So happy I get to revisit MISFITS once again! But I'm also amazed and a little bit unhappy it took me a full year to do it. I've covered two films - just my basic rundown & first impressions. And my ruling on whether you should look them up or not, instead of details about the makings of. Because there isn't much documentation I could easily find. Especially since Hammer was such a movie factory at the time, cranking out work non-stop. It's not like there are multiple books or...

Hank Williams Sr. is not only crucial to the development of Country and Western music, I'd go as far as to say he's an influence on the development of the culture of the the Western World - as in multiple continents. But more importantly for us, Rock n' Roll would certainly not be as rich in rhythm, poetry and plaintive cries from the wounded human soul to the deafening wind in the cold wilderness that is Life, when you're down and out. In my opinion he not only changed Country music forever,...

Back with you soon, starting a Hank Williams series, and then getting our Halloween festivities on with MISFITS pt 2 (finally!) https://www.podscure.com/psep067/ for the original source of today's audio and to subscribe to the Podscure universe https://www.bonfire.com/store/justtheworstshirtsever/ for my shirts  National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Text 988 from anywhere in the USA to communicate with a trained Crisis Counselor or text TALK to 741741 or call 1-800-273-8255 National...

No not the sequel. That film, like "Godfather 3" is just something you heard of and may foolishly think you remember, but never actually happened.  This is just the second part of my series on this wonderful film that is mighty beloved to me. Settle in and prep yourself for more readings from Bruce Springsteen interviews & the P.F. Kluge novel, my analysis of the movie and its origins and execution in my own loving detail, + my very accurate representations of Bruce's non-Jersey-sounding...

This one is truly, truly, truly outrageous like fer SHUR! 2nd warning in a row that you will hear a bonanza of F-Bombs from yours truly on this one. You'll get lots of the usual side trips into various major events of the life of the band in question along with reviews/history of Satisfaction, Valley Girl and Jem & The Holograms (the show, not the movie). You'll also hear as I get louder and more random in my live observations about Britta Phillips and Justine Bateman's performances as...

Warning: Tons of F-Bombs from your host in this one. Julie Roberts & Justine Bateman portrayed members of band managed by Liam Neeson, along with Britta Phillips at the tail end of her tenure as the lead vocalist of TV's "Jem & The Holograms" (which I think merits its own episode, soon). Meanwhile, the Go-Go's get together in the late 70s L.A. punk scene, tour the UK, come home, get signed and through touring with The Police and getting on MTV, they become huge 80s megastars and...

Hoo boy! This one has it all, folks. More tales from the early tours, the move from Sun records to RCA, the first appearances in Vegas and Hollywood, Priscilla Presley Bingo, Penn and Teller, multiple head traumas and multiple overdoses, not to mention a whole load of douchebag journalists straight up telling Elvis he sucks and that American teenagers that like him "need a good hard slap across the mouth."  National Sexual Assault Hotline (R.A.I.N.N.) 1-800-656-4673 National Suicide...

This round will contain less info about the film, and has no mentions of Robert Goulet, I promise. But it IS all about the usual things you discuss when it comes to THE KING. Stuff you just can't avoid when bringing up  Elvis Aron Presley: Bloom County, Charles Bronson, 'lectric guitar pickups, Corey Feldman, Johnny Cash, electro shock therapy, 16 year old Priscilla, Sam Phillips, and the case for Colonel Tom Parker being a paranoid psychopath who never let Elvis tour Europe because he was...

Jackie, Brian, Dan and I are back to carry you on thru the end of "Metal Lords" like the ferryman over the river Styx (not the band). Arrive with coins over your eyes and be prepared for more Thrash Metal history, more jokes and hijinks with the gang and be prepared to learn the magical connection between this movie, Game of Thrones and Stephen King. National Sexual Assault Hotline (https://www.rainn.org/) 1-800-656-4673 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255 Choose your way...

It's a bizness casual episode! Dan, Brian, Jackie and I watch this delightful coming of age drama together and geek out over metal minutiae. There's a decent amount of pausing the show to yell about things, which will continue in the next installment(s) I'm sure.  Choose your way of supporting the show for no money or for maybe some money(shirts, donations, social media follows): https://linktr.ee/justtheworstever National Sexual Assault Hotline (https://www.rainn.org/) 1-800-656-4673 ...