Thank you Martin Popoff for a thunderous rock and roll chat on a locked-in Friday night! Confronted by three Top Five Popoff lists, Martin threw it down! From his books to his Youtube shows, we tried to cover a bit of everything. Thank you Martin for giving us an hour of your Friday night. If you haven’t read one of his terrific tomes yet, check out what’s available at martinpopoff.com. Money well spent!
We decided to take a three-pronged approach to the discussion by focusing on three Top Five lists:
- Deke – Top Five Martin Popoff Books
- Mike – Top Five albums I bought because of a 10/10 review in Riff Kills Man
- Eric – Top Five Martin Popoff YouTube appearances
From there the discussion flowed like a gin & tonic.
Hope you enjoyed the show!
This was so much fun
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What do I do for an encore???
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11 seventies riffs that would kill man?
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Hahah nice. Yeah next week will be fun too, what I am planning is for Mike to demonstrate how some of the riffs are played.
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I’m going to have a killer riff on my list/for you in the comments for the eighties. I can’t wait to get to that era
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Very cool man. This is the first time I’ve had so many shows planned out in advance! Nice problem to have I’ll tell you. It reduces the stress of “what will I do” and “who will be on”. I’m so honoured that so many want to be on with me. I haven’t been short on guests in months. Last fully solo show was Halloween?
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Well you can add one more to the plan. I’m raring to come back again if you’re happy with it.
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I’m hoping to keep it to 6 guys, but I’d love to have you regardless. Sure thing man. Anything for the Mad Metal Man.
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Oh, I meant you can add Maiden album covers to the plan. I’ll stay in the comments for the next one
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Ah OK! Well yes I’m not doing Maiden covers without you! Haha.
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Appreciated, and I’d be happy to do it early February. I’ll have some very interesting picks, I can tell you that now
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I want to see you do some bullfighting as an encore. Toro!
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Greatest 10/10 Popoff album?
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Yep 10/10 in Riff Kills Man!
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I love music that captures an atmosphere. That’s one of the reasons I love jazz. It’s so evocative of its time, era, recording place, etc. Most metal isn’t spacious enough to be atmospheric. It just rocks with brutality.
Mercyful Fate are heavy as hell and manage to be atmospheric at the same time. That atmosphere is hell, demons, rituals, etc. King Diamond’s vocal layering and the heavy reverb/sea of guitars on Don’t Break the Oath make for one killer record that takes you on a journey. That’s why they’re one of my favorite metal bands. King’s solo career definitely did the same thing by leaning hard on the theatrics.
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Great show Mikey!! I stole the Big TV to watch this on and ran everyone out of the room, but I wanted to see this one from my comfy chair so I could sit back and enjoy…and I did!!
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Thanks for sending me that pic of your TV! I always get a kick out of that! And thanks for checking in JTS!
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Always when I can, I will check it out.
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I always appreciate it man. And you’re welcome to join us for the riffs of the 70s show.
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Thanks to all who watched. Support independent writers like Martin.
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Most importantly — order directly from him to get a deal & a signed copy.
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I wish my ex wife had looked at me the way you looked at Martin, Deke. Total reverance.
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Congrats on an awesome gig, guys! I need to go back and watch from the beginning, but the section I saw last night was awesome!
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The whole thing was awesome!
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Right on!
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When Martin got up to get a gin & tonic I laughed because I just watched the Trans Canada Highwaymen on Youtube doing a cover of Barenaked Ladies song Alcohol.
The line in it goes “A Malibu and Coke for you, a g & t for me..” so Martin getting his g & t fit right in.
Thanks for keeping us entertained. Even when he left, you guys kept at it.
Glad Deke had the Max Webster book in his top 5 because that led Martin to mention Pye Dubois. I was worried about that guy. Not as much now.
It seemed like Martin really enjoyed himself. I hope he comes back on one day.
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I hope so too many. I really had a great time, and it was the biggest audience I’ve had so far too. We have a long lockdown ahead so hopefully we’ll keep the guests rolling in.
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Thanks to all the guys involved. Mike, Deke, Meat and Martin.
Fun times.
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Great show! I have a feeling his return will be sooner than later!
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King’s X :)
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Just my 2 cents. If Martin (or whatever guest is on) left them be the one to tell you when their time is up.
He stuck around the comments and mentioned that maybe he should not have hung up.
I suggest to ask the guest if they are ok going longer. I think he would have. Maybe stuck around another hour.
Again. Just my 2 cents. I’ve never done a video chat with anyone, let alone a guy of that status so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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I fucked that up. I sent Martin a message afterwards apologising. I was thought we only had a hard hour. Lessons learned. I feel like shit about it believe me.
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You did not fuck anything up. He most likely told you he could give you an hour of his time.
You respected his wishes.
My guess is this will be part of the reason he will come back.
Do not feel like shit. You had Martin Popoff on your channel last night, and will most likely be back. That is the thing to focus on.
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Well thanks man. I think Meat can get him in for the King’s X list show. That’s what we’ll try to do anyway!
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Oh and I think you asked me about how to put the questions up on screen. That was me doing that. I sort of pick and choose. It was really hard to keep up with the comments and the stuff going on with Martin — actually a tough balance during any show!
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I asked Martin and he came back with an hour-ish or so as he said. He had no idea what us knuckleheads were up too. Next time he will roll longer with us. All good though.
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Looks like a great show, Mike – and you guys persuaded me to pick up a copy of “all my favourite people are broken,” I have a feeling you’ll convince me to pick up some of Mr. Popoff’s work as well!
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Thats awesome Geoff. I’m glad you picked up the Jensen book!
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Hey that’s great! Thanks for doing that Geoff!
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Great show Mike! Sorry I couldn’t make it for the livestream, but again I loved being able to listen to the conversation versus commenting on everything that I found interesting throughout the discussion. I love how you brought up Martin’s way with words and the descriptions he uses to describe the albums because I struggle with that myself. Because of that, I try to do a more storytelling approach and what the songs mean to me and my personal take on them. I’m definitely checking out those Sea of Tranquility videos where they talk about bands with the worst album covers! Thanks again to Deke for getting Martin to do the show; I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks to Eric/Uncle Meat for discussing his top five Martin Popoff YouTube appearances because it made me motivated to watch more Sea of Tranquility videos (I’ve only seen about five so far).
By the way for the best riffs of the 70s show, AC/DC should be on there in my humble opinion!
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Well Lana, given some of the people who will be appearing on the riffs show, you can probably expect some AC/DC!
Thanks for watching and checking out the show. And I’m glad you enjoyed the questions. We all had a great time. And that’s the whole point, right?
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Oh is Kevin gonna be there?!?!
Absolutely! That’s what I love about your show; getting together, having a great time and bonding over music. Martin Popoff is amazing. I just got around to watching the four part rant of bands with the worst album covers episode on Sea of Tranquility and I agreed with his points.
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: KEVIN WILL BE THERE!
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HOORAY!!! I can always count on Kevin to deliver the goods!
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I think we should start an official Kevin Fan Club. I mean, I’m a fan, you’re a fan, there have to be lots of us.
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I agree! Also, what if you also did a show dedicated to Kevin and his best moments on the show?!?!
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Hi Mike, I found your site a few years ago, when I was looking for fan reviews of Kiss albums. I’ve enjoyed your reviews and commentary on Kiss, Dio/Sabbath, and Loudness, in particular. This video with Popoff was especially fun, since I’ve traded occasional emails with Martin for over 20 years. I first wrote to him after getting the original Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal, when it was new in 1997. Lately, I’ve watched the same SOT videos you guys discussed, and of course I have numerous Popoff-written books. So it was great to get some behind the scenes info on all of these things. I usually find your posts days or weeks after they go online, so I finally have a chance here to comment relatively close to the actual event. Cheers!
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Hey Marc thanks for the terrific comment! Yes, Martin has been answering my emails since First Contact as well — he’s really good about that, and I really appreciate the way he personalizes the books he sends out.
And thanks for reading my stuff too, and thanks for noticing the Loudness. More to come! I have another Loudness review in the bag and three more albums in the mail.
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Really cool show and what a great idea to split topics among u three. It was like a prelude, the beef and encore except on this any one of them could be placed in each spot. Fun show and lot’s of cool info. I’m starting to cave in to getting that Hair metal book…
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It’s a great book that brings back a lot of memories! That’s one things that Martin’s books do for me — engage the memories.
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listening to Spock’s Beard Beware of Darkness. Are u into them?
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I owned a Spock’s Beard but sold it, didn’t speak to me.
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I can relate. My first ones were Snow, which I still adore and V, which is another good one. They are still in my to be checked file whenever a new album comes out. Do u remember which album yours was?
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