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Off The Charts: Mike’s Top Ten Hair Metal Album Opening Tracks

It was my delight to guest on Dan Chartrand’s Off the Charts to discuss my Top Ten Hair Metal Album Openers!  This popular series is one I am proud to take part in!  Premiering June 8 2026, see below!

 

🅻🅸🆅🅴 Top Ten KISS Songs Not About Love! With Johnny Metal – 3:00 PM EST!

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Episode 150:  Top Ten KISS Songs Not About Love!  With Johnny Metal…and more?

Welcome to the 150th (“officially numbered”) episode of Grab A Stack of Rock!  It is only suiting for the 150th episode that we do something special:  my favourite band of all time, KISS.  It’s so strange that we have only done one Kiss episode on Grab A Stack of Rock.  (NOTE:  On the old LeBrain Train in 2020, we did our Top KISS albums.)  Back on Episode 5 of Grab A Stack of Rock, Tim Durling, Marco D’Auria and the Mad Metal Man dissected and analyzed the Kiss Creatures of the Night box set.  We’ve never done a proper Kiss list show on Grab A Stack, or anything spotlighting my favourite band since.  I am not entirely sure why that is, except possibly that I’ve already done many Kiss lists on other shows.  For this one, I think we’ve come up with something unique.

Johnny Metal from My Music Corner (and perhaps others!), will be joining me at the cottage for a special outdoor episode:  Top Ten KISS Songs Not About Love!  For Johnny and other potential participants, this was a difficult task.  For me, it was a matter of elimination.  I hope you like what we’ve come up with.

Excluded from this list:  Solo albums, covers and instrumentals…maybe.

For the purposes of this show, we will have CDs on display for physical product, some never seen before on the show.

How many Kiss songs can you name that are not about “love”…or sex?  Let’s rock and roll.  Join us live and get your weekend started right.  At the cottage, with Johnny Metal and I.

 

Friday June 5 at  3:00 PM EST, 4:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

 

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode: You’re Gonna Love Our Maiden Bootleg Collections!

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode: You’re Gonna Love Our Maiden Bootleg Collections!

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If we knew only one thing about Harrison, it is that he loves live music.  Like many fans of live music, Harrison has attained quite a collection of Maiden bootlegs.  Simply put, Harrison’s goal (and Mike’s as well, though not nearly as complete) is to get a live album or bootleg from every Iron Maiden tour.  In the perfect world, we’d both own live versions of every Maiden song ever played live.  There are many, such as “Caught Somewhere In Time”, that were played live but never recorded or released live.  And that where bootlegs come in.

In this episode we look at our “Maiden boots”, all CD unfortunately.  We always like to have a variety of audio formats to show you, but this time all we have is CDs.  But a lot of them, we do have!

Please join us for the premiere – we love to interact in the comments!  See you tonight.

Friday May 29 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube.

SHOW NOTES:  We only have a couple episodes left to do, but will be taking a break from 50 Years of Iron Maiden for a short time.  Grab A Stack of Rock will continue regularly, and 50 Years of Iron Maiden will return as soon as possible.

 

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🅻🅸🆅🅴 50 Years of IRON MAIDEN episode 34: The Book of Souls: Live Chapter – May 22 Show #2

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN episode 34:  The Book of Souls: Live Chapter

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Harrison and Mike are racing to the end of 50 Years of Iron Maiden!  After the Book of Souls studio album, Iron Maiden reliably provided us with a Live Chapter to mull over.  Featuring a host of new songs and a clutch of classics, The Book of Souls: Live Chapter is a fine retelling of these stories in the live setting.  This one was released in audio and video form, but Maiden declined to release a DVD or Blu-ray.  Instead the live show was given to us for free on YouTube.  Still, we have already had so many live albums and videos to discuss.  What will this Live Chapter offer us this time?

As usual, Mike and Harrison will break down the album track by track.  Harrison will discuss the tour, what songs were played, dropped and never seen again.  Expect our usual thorough approach and maybe a surprise too!

Join us live in the comments – we always appreciate your participation!


Friday May 22 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

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🅻🅸🆅🅴 Science Fiction, UFOS and the Paranormal with author Violeta M Bagia – May 22 Show #1

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Episode 148:  Science Fiction, UFOS and the Paranormal with author Violeta M Bagia

Please welcome our newest guest!  From Australia, it’s author Violeta M Bagia of Melbourne, who has written a number of science fiction books including her Hart of Darkness series and more.  She is a UFO and paranormal buff and it is our pleasure to host her this morning on Grab A Stack of Rock!

This is a show we have been wanting to do for several years, but circumstances never lined up until now.  The goal was always to do a show about ghosts, UFOs and the unexplained, at the cottage, before it’s light.  We’ve finally found the right guest, and the right time!  For her it’s evening in Australia, but for us, the world is yet to wake up.  We will be live at 6AM sharp, which is 8PM Melbourne time.  We’ve seen and heard some weird stuff in the woods at night.  Now it’s time to share that special hour with the world.

On the schedule for this morning’s show:  The books of Violeta, Area 51, ghost sightings, Bob Lazar and Majestic 12, UFO sightings and much, much more.

This will be a show not to miss.  We still have a live episode of 50 Years of Iron Maiden for evening viewers!  Please check it out, and join us live if you’re able!

 

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Friday May 22 at  6:00 AM EST, 8:00 PM Melbourne.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

NEW Grab A Stack of Rock theme video – Updated with Joey Suto, Alexploitation, Rob Daniels & more

A long held Grab A Stack of Rock tradition has been to have a theme video with every guest that has ever been on a show.  Today, 56 humans and several animals have appeared on Grab A Stack of Rock, either live or pre-recorded.  The theme video has been updated with newest guests Joey Suto from Rock Show Critique, Alex Winter from Tainted Decibels, and a cool shot of Rob Daniels piloting a Rebel Snowspeeder.  The complete list of all 56 cast members is below (plus the next!).  Thank you for watching as we prepare to wrap up 50 Years of Iron Maiden!

Enjoy the video.

Music & vocals by Tee Bone, remix and guitar solo by Tim Durling.  Writting by M Ladano, J Ladano, T Erickson

  1. Blaze Bayley
  2. Harrison Kopp
  3. Mike Ladano
  4. Eric “Uncle Meat” Litwiller
  5. Aaron KMA
  6. Tim Durling
  7. Rob Daniels
  8. John T Snow
  9. Marco D’Auria
  10. Grant Arthur
  11. Brian Richards
  12. Joelle M&H
  13. Kevin Simister
  14. Dr. Kathryn
  15. Jen Ladano
  16. Grace Scheele
  17. Jex Russell
  18. Spencer “Spenny” Rice
  19. Nurse Kat
  20. Peter Kerr
  21. John Clauser
  22. Erik Woods
  23. Jason Drury
  24. Pierre-Luc Allard
  25. Len Labelle
  26. Reed Little
  27. Metal Roger
  28. John the Music Nut
  29. Mike Slayen
  30. Pete Jones
  31. Todd Evans
  32. James Kalyn
  33. Angie Moon
  34. Ryan Gavalier
  35. Chris Preston
  36. Dan Chartrand
  37. Glen “Archie” Gamble
  38. bicyclelegs
  39. Davey Cretin
  40. Melissa Nee
  41. Sidney George Cini
  42. Ashley Geisler
  43. Martin Popoff
  44. Bert Blotto
  45. F Lee Harvey Blotto
  46. Bowtie Blotto
  47. Broadway Blotto
  48. Jake Not From State Farm
  49. Bob Cesca (Camp Chaos)
  50. Lana Teramae
  51. Robert Lawson
  52. Harper (with Oscar)
  53. D’Arcy Briggs
  54. Alex Winter
  55. Joey Suto
  56. and (briefly) Max the Axe

And next:

57. Violeta M. Bagia

Rock Daydream Nation: Building the perfect Iron Maiden setlist!

Harrison and I have two shows to promote today!  Premiering this morning with Rock Daydream Nation, we join Peter Kerr to discuss our “perfect” Iron Maiden setlists!

We approached this from a fun perspective.  We picked personal favourites from our Maiden wishlists, and went from there!  Realism was not our concern.  How did we do?  We look forward to your feedback!

Premiering Friday May 15 at 10 AM EST!  Join us!

🅻🅸🆅🅴 When the Live Version is Our Definitive Version! With Joey Suto of Rock Show Critique

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Episode 147: When the Live Version is Our Definitive Version! With Joey Suto of Rock Show Critique

Please welcome Joey Suto of Rock Show Critique to the cast!  We have a fun and varied show for you tonight, with lots of physical product.  Expect CDs, vinyl, and maybe some tapes too.  Tonight we’ll be looking at songs where the live version is our definitive version!  This is a topic right up the Mad Metal Man’s alley!

Surely, you can name a few yourself.  Some will be appearing in tonight’s show!  Think about songs where the live version is always the go-to for you.  And which live version?  A newer one?  A vintage one?  We’ll hear 30 picks tonight, not including overlap.  (Disclaimer for the pedantic:  We don’t care how much of a recording is “live” for this exercise.)

Join us live, as we love to interact in the comments!

Friday May 15 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

🅻🅸🆅🅴 50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode: Johnny Metal has SEEN Burning Ambition!

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode:  Johnny Metal has SEEN Burning Ambition!

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2026 sees the release of the official Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition.  This milestone certainly deserves its own episode of 50 Years of Iron Maiden.

Fortunately, Johnny Metal saw the film on May 7.  He came to us with his thoughts, and we’d like to share them with you today.  This afternoon, May 8, we are doing our first Grab A Stack of Rock afternoon cottage show of the season.  Johnny will be joining Mike to share his review of the film.  (Meanwhile, Harrison will slumber in Australia, preparing for a weekend of recording.)

Please join Johnny and Mike, live this afternoon, to talk Burning Ambition!

Friday May 8 at  3:00 PM EST, 4:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

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50 Years of IRON MAIDEN episode 33: The Book of Souls with Reed Little

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN episode 33: The Book of Souls

Special Guest:  Reed Little

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Iron Maiden surprised many in 2015 when they announced that their new album, The Book of Souls, would be a double CD set clocking in at over 92 minutes.  Those who were tiring of long Iron Maiden epics would be faced with five bonafide long-bombers, including the longest Iron Maiden song of all time, “Empire of the Clouds”.  Led by single “Speed of Light”, The Book of Souls would go #1 in Australia, #2 in Canada, and #4 in the US.  That is where our three co-hosts are from for this appropriately long episode.

Joining Mike and Harrison tonight is Reed “Attention to Detail” Little of the Contrarians.  As usual, Reed brings his analytical mind to the table with some interesting notations.  Together we break down all 11 songs, as well as the first (and last) Iron Maiden B-side in several years:  “Maiden Voyage” from the Record Store Day single for “Empire of the Clouds”.  This spoken-word track features Bruce and Nicko, and we’ll let you hear some of it tonight.

This episode is completely unedited.  After covering the 11 songs, the tour, and artwork, we will leave you completely exhausted.  Join us in the comments tonight!

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Friday May 8 at 7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube.

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