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What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. This week Robert gets a glimpse into another collection of lost and forgotten songs from the silver screen! Our hope is that we turn you on to something new.

Songs this week include:

1. King’s X – “Junior’s Gone Wild” from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey(1991)
2. The Looters – “Join The Professionals (The Proffesionals)” from Ladies & Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains (1982) 
3. Queen – “The Hero” from Flash Gordon(1980)
4. The Donnas – “Strutter” from Detroit Rock City – Music From The Motion Picture (1999)
5. The Commitments – “Mr. Pitiful” from The Commitments (1991)
6. Iggy Pop – “Repo Man” from Repo Man – Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)
7. Silverchair & Vitro – “Spawn” from Spawn: The Album (1997)
8. Alice Cooper – “Man With The Golden Gun” from Muscle Of Love (1974)

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Welcome Tommy Vann to Fowl Players Radio!! Tommy is a four time inductee into the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame; once as himself, and as a member of his bands "The Echoes", "The Professionals", and "The Admirals". The nurse at the hospital where he was born said that he was born singing instead of crying! His first taste of showbiz came in 1948 when he was on "The Howdy Doody Show" in New York City (which featured a young Bob Keeshan as "Clarabell the Clown", who later became well know as "Captain Kangaroo"). In high school he formed his first band "The Pizzarinos" with Jerry Jeff Walker (known for writing "Mr. Bojangles" and others) and Larry Santos (writer of "Sherry" for the Four Seasons and commercial jingles "Folgers in your cup" and "All Aboard Amtrak"). After serving in the US Marine Corps, Tommy went on to have hit records with his bands throughout the 60's. He has so many great stories and he is writing a book which is yet untitled but should be out very soon. Listen as we hear about Tommy meeting Babe Ruth,  performing in commercials for Pepsi ("Feeling Free") and Clairol; meeting The Platters, The Drifters, Sam Cooke, The Coasters, and later performing with them, performing with James Brown, Frankie Valli, Lionel Hampton, and Smokey Robinson as well as the Four Tops (and an interesting incident in an elevator with the Temptations), and sharing a dressing room (as well as quite a few adult beverages) with Redd Foxx at Club Casino in Baltimore.

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Welcome to Season 4 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show.  Episode one kicked off live at 7 pm on 7 Jan 2021.  It was a great episode, a lot of regular listeners who had missed the show over the festive season were back and that always leads to some good energy.  We kicked off with Axel Rudi Pell and a track called ‘Gunfire’.  That was followed closely by Bad Company and a track called ‘Walk Through Fire’.  The point was made that this is the Brian Howe version of Bad Company and a surprising amount of people don’t know the post-Paul Rodgers material.   

We spent a bit of time around 1990 – 1993 with L.A. Guns, Dangerous Toys, and Aerosmith and then took in some classic ACDC and Rammstein before checking out some Shinedown by request and some vintage Soundgarden.  Newish stuff was covered in the form of Burning Witches, 5 ladies out of Switzerland, and Voice of Extreme from their 2018 album Mach III.

 Highlights for me were listening to Metallica’s ‘The Day That Never Comes’ and Megadeth with ‘This Was My Life’.  Megadeth are soon to feature on the Rock Review so watch out for that.  Local rock was ably taken care of by Jasper Dan, The Burning, and L.A. Cobra.  Cold Chisel and Airbourne were the Aussie representatives and for the rest, it was a pretty even mix of UK and USA bands.  I have rediscovered The Wild Life by Slaughter, which went down well as did the wonderful contrast between Testament and Dire Straits.  I am also really digging Thundermother.   

Artists featured:  Axel Rudi Pell, Bad Company, Dangerous Toys, Brides of Destruction, L.A. Guns, Aerosmith, ACDC, Rammstein, Burning witches, Voices of Extreme, Shinedown, Soundgarden, The Offspring, The Sex Pistols, The Professionals, Thundermother, Airbourne, Cold Chisel, Accept, Bullet Boys, Armored Saint, Joe Satriani, Iron Maiden, Testament, Dire Straits, Jasper Dan, The Burning, L.A. Cobra, Metallica, Megadeth. Keel, Night ranger, Slaughter, Black Sabbath, Michael Schenker Group, Biters, scorpions, My Chemical Romance, Francois Van Coke.     

The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Season 2 Episode 8 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show aired at midnight on 21 Feb 2020.  Technically it was flawless with no recurrence of last week’s minor technical glitches.  The biggest problem was the amount of load-shedding going on which affected the number of listeners who stay up to listen to the show.  It’s either Telkom signal affecting streaming or Eskom cutting power to areas during TSORR Radio Show, you gotta fight hard for your music these days.  

The show started with Mercyful Fate out of Denmark and a track called ‘Desecration of Souls’, I don’t want to say it’s a first but it is certainly not common to hear Mercyful Fate on the radio.  They were a huge influence Metallica and can stand proudly as having a major role in starting the thrash wave that engulfed the world in around 1983.  We checked out some Kiss and then a bit more thrash in the form of Overkill with a track called ‘Electric Rattlesnake’ especially for Valeska who had a birthday this week.  We featured a rare little gem by an Aussie band called Fast Track off an EP I bought at a gig in Perth in 2010, I am pretty sure they are long gone now.  It was a night for playing bands that don’t often get airplay on the show with booth Tool and Faith No More getting a look in.  Our very own Johnathan Martin scored the much-coveted TSORR hat trick, with his 3rd appearance in 3 consecutive weeks.  We took a listen to his track ‘April’ off The Highway Infinity album.  The Midnight 7-plus feature, the one where we play a song that goes longer than 7 minutes, featured Metallica with ‘Master of Puppets’.  It sounded phenomenal, goosebumps all the way.

We caught another one of those TSORR theme songs, this one in the form of Night Wolf by Krokus and then checked out two of SA’s finest back to back with Black Bone Nation and The Color Blew.  The rock music is alive and well in South Africa and just needs a lot of support, the bands are gigging and the music is available on-line and at gigs, check them out.  Hopefully some of the shows international listeners will check out these great bands we have.  We got into the final straight and blasted our way to the finishing line with something off Butchering the Beatles, a track featuring Lemmy, John 5 and Eric Singer, and some Journey for Margy, a regular listener, and then finished off with a track by the Foo Fighters.  Last night featured a bonus track in the form of Thin Lizzy because I was still answering WhatsApp’s and wasn’t quite ready to go.  All in all a good time was had, Enjoy \m/

Artists featured this week:  Krokus, Mercyful Fate, Van Halen, Metallica, The Professionals, Johnathan Martin, Foo Fighters, Kiss, The Color Blew, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Pretty Reckless, Overkill, Tool,  Journey, Michael Schenker Group, Night Ranger, Black Bone Nation, Def Leppard, Nevada Beach, Faith No More, The Stranglers, Fast Track, The Alabama 3, Butchering the Beatles & Thin Lizzy       

The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Episode 40 of The Story of Rock and Roll went out into the world at midnight on 18 October 2019.  Two hours went by in a flash, that’s the power of good music \m/.  It was foot to the floor for the first hour and then we started to get a bit more off the beaten track with stuff like Nibs Van Der Spuy, Walking Papers & 12th Avenue.  According to the WhatsApp line TSORR Radio Show is “The best show on Rockfest”!! and “I am wide awake tonight show is one of the best in a long time”.  So there you have it.  

The new stuff came from Mark Morton, the punk came from Green Day and from The Professionals.  As usual, I had waaaay too much music and the show could easily have gone 4 hours.  Somehow the ladies got bumped so I’ll fix that next week.  Every time I play stuff off Rush’s final album, Clockwork Angels, I like it more, what a special band, we listened to The Wreckers.  Every episode of TSORR is lead guitar-centric and this one was full of it.  Jeff Georges smack you round the head solo on ‘I Tried’ by We are Harlot was especially cool, as was the outro guitar work from Hammett and Hetfield on ‘The Day That Never Comes’.  Mike Orlando’s fretwork on Angel Sky would certainly qualify as notifiable.  You probably know by now that as with infectious diseases, where some are classed as notifiable because they are high in ‘you better give a fuckness’, so too, in my world, are guitar solos. Consequently, it is my duty to notify you every time you are about to hear one.  There was a small little tribute to a giant of a man, Fanie Marais who sadly passed away this week, it’s still an open wound for me.  Fanie was one of the nicest guys in the SA Music scene and he’ll be sorely missed.  He produced and Engineered all The Uninvited albums and he was a very close friend, he loved life and to say cheers I played him our beloved Rolling Stones with Sad, Sad, Sad. 

Artists featured included:  Megadeth, The Professionals, Nibs Van Der Spuy, Rainbow, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Animal Bites, Metallica, We Are Harlot, Walking Papers, Sixx:A.M., Dokken, Airbourne, Joe Bonamassa, Accept, L:ast In Line, Audioslave, Windowpane, Pearl Jam, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, 12th Avenue, W.A.S.P.  Adrenaline Mob, Mark Morton and Rush

The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

Episode 23 was a special episode in that I reflected back a bit on some of the songs that will always be an integral part of The Story of Rock and Roll.  The Show was dedicated to my daughter who just turned 21, without her there would probably be no TSORR.  The show went live at midnight on 14 June 2019, nothing was pre-planned, which was obvious right from the first 10 seconds.  This is how it went down.  

The show should have kicked off with the mighty Judas Priest but we took a listen to John Paul Young’s classic Yesterday’s Hero first.  It included mega bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, ZZ Top, Deep Purple and Rammstein, we checked out some punk in the form of The Professionals, The Sex Pistols and The Stranglers and as always we hit the SA music hard with Jack Hammer, Springbok Nude Girls and Valiant Swart.  The Metal was supplied by In Flames.  Other artists featured included The Temperance Movement, Shinedown, Tool, Tony Carey, Led Zeppelin, Billy Talent, The Uninvited, Trouble,  UFO, Tesla and Stone Sour.  

The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock

March 29, 2019

James Daubeney

This episode took place at 00h00 on 22 March 2019.  It featured among others Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Dio, ZZ Top and Thin Lizzy.  There was a short tribute to ax-man extrordinaire Berne Torme who sadly passed on 17 March 2019, check it out it, sad but magnificent.  The show also features lesser known but no less impressive bands like Icon, Clutch, Skid Row, Jack Hammer, The Professionals, Badlands, Little Steven, Cutting Jade & NWOBHM band Demon, one of those who never got as far as they should have.  On the acoustic side we took a listen to Rodgriguez and Simon & Garfunkel.  There's more, give it a listen.     

The Story of Rock and Roll. TSORR - Your one-stop shop for Rock