Episode #23 - Rock by Numbers
In the good old days, when we didn’t know very much and were happy for it, we had to rely on old fashioned methods of gaining knowledge. ‘Internet’ wasn’t even a word and if you were a rock fan then you were pretty much reliant on either Sounds, Kerrang! or your best mate’s older brother to learn what was hot and what was not.
Episode #21 - 1971
Let’s be honest. Early Seventies rock was really fucking weird. Like, weapons-grade weird. Sometimes that weirdness was good, and sometimes that weirdness was, well … really fucking weird. To the point where you just had to have smoked a lot of pot to be reading the same book, never mind be on the same page.
Episode #15 - Sheer Art Attack
We’ve all been there. Loitering in the record shop, pretending to be browsing whilst gawping at the cover to the Scorpions’ Lovedrive and nursing a boner. It’s an unwritten rites of passage for male rock fans of a certain age (and in fact, the Scorpions were serial purveyors of controversial album covers in the late 70s and early 80s - as evidenced by the original album art for both Animal Magnetism and Virgin Killer).
Episode #10 - Under the Radar
You ever have that moment where you come up with an idea, act on it - and then realise it all sounded very different in your head to the way it did in reality? Yeah, so did the boys. All of which is by way of a welcome to the strange odyssey that is the tenth episode of the podcast.