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Celebrate 10 Years of Record Store Tales on tonight’s LeBrain Train

The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike & Friends

Episode 101 – 10 Years of Record Store Tales & mikeladano.com

It’s my party and I’ll throw it if I want to!Β  10 years is a good enough excuse, right?

Join me tonight for lists, guests and tunes.Β  Tim Durling, Harrison Kopp and longtime reader Brian Richards are on deck.Β  If you wanna join the party, drop us a line!

There will also be a big secret revealed for the first time tonight!

Friday March 11, 7:00 PM E.S.T.Β onΒ YouTube,Β FacebookΒ andΒ alsoΒ Facebook!

Robert Lawson & the School of Jazz – Saturday LeBrain Train

Tremendous fun and a lot of learning tonight in the School of Jazz!Β Β Author Robert Lawson has a jazz collection to die for and we got a small taste of it tonight.Β  The panel for Saturday Jazz consisted of four experts and one newbie:

  • Yours truly (LeBrain – jazz novice)
  • Uncle Meat (jazz expert)
  • Dr. Dave (an actual doctor)
  • Aaron (Keeps Me Alive resident jazzbo)
  • Robert Lawson (serious author and hardcore jazz collector)

As the talk veered from Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and more, my wishlist grew and grew and grew.Β  Stay tuned to the end to see some of Robert’s most enviable box sets.

As we often do, we started the show with some unboxings.Β  Check it all out below!Β  See you next week.

Upcoming schedule:

Friday March 11 – The 10 Year Anniversary Show – Record Store Tales and mikeladano.com (with Harrison and Tim Durling)

Friday March 25 – 2 Years of the LeBrain Train (with Tee Bone and Robert Daniels)

Friday April 1 – The Prank Show (With Chris Thuss and Michael Morwood)

Saturday Jazz featuring Robert Lawson on a special LeBrain Train

The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike & Friends

Episode 100 – Saturday Jazz

 

When a guy with the musical intelligence and credentials of author Robert Lawson asks if he can participate in your Saturday jazz show, you say yes!

Much like Donnie in The Big Lebowski, I’m out of my element here.Β  A casual jazz fan like me cannot compete with the knowledge of the guests this week.Β  It’s a Cinco de Listo Top Five Jazz records and the panel consists of:

  • Yours truly (LeBrain – jazz novice)
  • Uncle Meat (jazz expert)
  • Dr. Dave (an actual doctor)
  • Aaron (Keeps Me Alive resident jazzbo)
  • Robert Lawson (serious author and hardcore jazz collector)

Saturday March 5, 7:00 PM E.S.T.Β onΒ YouTube,Β FacebookΒ andΒ alsoΒ Facebook!

Upcoming schedule:

Friday March 11 – The 10 Year Anniversary Show – Record Store Tales and mikeladano.com (with Harrison and Tim Durling)

Friday March 25 – 2 Years of the LeBrain Train (with Tee Bone)

 

Tim’s Vinyl Confessions Ep. 353: Journey Talk with Mike LeBrain

I did another taping with Tim Durling on early Saturday morning, my favourite time on my favourite day.Β  The subject:Β  a band that just announced the title and tracklisting of their new album Freedom:Β  Journey!

It’s been a crazy time for Journey, with plenty of lineup upheaval and uncertainty. Tim and I address all this while going through our favourite Journey rarities from the catalogue. We discuss every Journey lead singer: Greg Rolie, Robert Fleischmann, Steve Perry, Steve Augeri, Jeff Scott Soto, and Arnel Pineda. Enjoy this chat as we gear up for the next chapter of Journey!

REVEALED! Top Five Ballads and the secret identity of “X” on the LeBrain Train!

An unprecedented episode with six killer lists and a mystery to boot!Β  Top Five Ballads.Β  As an added twist, tonight we added a secret guest to the panel, and the rest of the guys had to guess who this person was on their list alone!Β  Although I was worried they would guess the guest quite easily, that isn’t how it went down.

Who’s “X”?Β  Watch and find out!

Unfortunately this episode was also Chris Sarre’s least favourite show due to the big reveal, and he says he will never watch again!Β  Everyone else seemed to love it and I think we will try this again some time.

Thanks to everyone for hanging out tonight, it was a show I’ll remember a long time.

 

 

 

Top Five Ballads Remastered…with a touch of mystery! Tonight on the LeBrain Train

The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike & Friends

Episode 99 – Top Ballads…Remastered

On July 3 2020, we did the Nigel Tufnel Top Ten Ballads on the LeBrain Train with six sets of lists.Β  And it was great!Β  We had lists from Meat, Harrison, Holen, Darr, and Len Labelle.Β  Unfortunately due to Facebook Live and a bad internet connection, I find this show impossible to watch today.Β  Harrison and I have been trying to talk Meat into doing a “remastered” version of the show in the new Cinco De Listo format for a long time, and we finally twisted his arm.Β  The new panel tonight:

“X”?Β  That’s right.Β  This week’s show is not just a list show.Β  There will be a sixth panel member, and that member’s voice and likeness will be obscured for the whole countdown.Β  It will be up to the others to figure out who “X” is, and they have five songs with which to do it.

I love a mystery and I’m really looking forward to this!Β  Tune in tonight for six lists of awesome ballads, and a little Friday evening mystery too.Β  Where’s Mulder when you need him?

 

Friday February 25, 7:00 PM E.S.T.Β onΒ YouTube,Β FacebookΒ andΒ alsoΒ Facebook!

 

 

Don’t You Know These Are 2000 Lists? Top 5 from the year 2000 on the LeBrain Train

Lots of surprises and a couple F-bombs on the show this week!

Normally you would expectΒ Tim Durling (Tim’s Vinyl Confessions) and I to agree about everything.Β  This week, we did not!Β  Instead, Eric Litwiller and I matched nearly album for album.Β  Meanwhile, John T. Snow (2Loud2OldMusic) snuck in some really different picks.Β  Plenty of discussion, disagreement, love and laughs!

We started the show with an “ABSUΠ―D” unboxing and a special surprise from Aaron!Β  Thanks for watching!Β  If you missed it you can catch it below.

 

 

Upcoming Schedule:

  • Friday February 25, 7:00 PM:Β  Top Ballads with Eric, John, Harrison, and Rob Daniels
  • Saturday February 26:Β  Tim’s Vinyl Confessions – Journey
  • Friday March 12, 7:00 PM:Β  Ten Year Anniversary of Record Store Tales
  • Friday March 26, 7:00 PM:Β  Two Year Anniversary of the LeBrain Train with Tee Bone
  • Friday April 1, 7:00 PM:Β  The Prank Show featuring Michael Morwood and Chris Thuss

The Millennium Show: Top Five Albums from the year 2000

The LeBrain Train: 2000 Words or More with Mike & Friends

Episode 98 – The Millennium Show: Top Five Albums from the year 2000

A suggestion from the Meat Man — why not do our top albums from the year 2000?Β  The turn of the millennium was a weird time in metal.Β  A lot of bands were still suffering from the fallout of the past decade, while others were in the midst of big comebacks.Β  But there were so much more than just metal in 2000, as you will see with tonight’s lists!

The panel this evening:

Give ’em a follow while you’re at it, and make sure you don’t miss tonight’s show!Β  As always, the best way is to catch it live so you can participate in the comments.Β  And as usual, there will be special unboxings for those who show up early!Β  There could be something “ABSUΠ―D” in there.

Saturday February 18, 7:00 PM E.S.T.Β onΒ YouTube,Β FacebookΒ andΒ alsoΒ Facebook!

 

Upcoming Schedule:

  • Friday March 12, 7:00 PM:Β  Ten Year Anniversary of Record Store Tales
  • Friday March 26, 7:00 PM:Β  Two Year Anniversary of the LeBrain Train
  • Friday April 1, 7:00 PM:Β  The Prank Show featuring Michael Morwood and Chris Thuss

The Aftermath: Tim’s Vinyl Confessions Episode 351 with Tim and LeBrain

On Saturday Tim Durling, and I recorded a fantastic episode of Tim’s Vinyl Confessions about rare CDs that received loads of comments and questions!Β  Tim has been wanting to try going live for a while now, so Sunday morning we went for it with a followup show!

So, yes: That means this weekend there were three hours of Tim and I yammering about music!Β  But apparently they were a good three hours according to viewer feedback.Β  Here’s the “Aftermath” show that we did at 7:30 AM on a Sunday!Β  Loads of fun — I love mornings!

LeBrain Train Upcoming Live Schedule:

  • Friday February 18, 7:00 PM:Β  Top Albums from the Year 2000
  • Friday March 12, 7:00 PM:Β  Ten Year Anniversary of Record Store Tales
  • Friday March 26, 7:00 PM:Β  Two Year Anniversary of the LeBrain Train
  • Friday April 1, 7:00 PM:Β  The Prank Show featuring Michael Morwood and Chris Thuss

Tim’s Vinyl Confessions Ep. 351: Rare CDs with Mike Ladano

This morning I had a blast taping this episode of Tim’s Vinyl Confessions! Together we showed off some of our rarest CDs.Β  That’s part of the pleasure of being a collector:Β  sharing our treasure with you!

Thanks for having me Tim!Β  Enjoy this awesome two-hour extravaganza of digital rarities!