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🅻🅸🆅🅴 On Record: The April Wine Album Review with Tim Durling

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Episode 156: The April Wine Album Review with Tim Durling

Hot on the heels of his Fleetwood Mac and Night Ranger books, Tim is back!   This time it’s with an April Wine Album Review, and it’s a good one.  Durling tends to focus on artists that don’t already have books available.  If you’ve ever wanted to get into April Wine, this is the book and this is the show!

Unlike last time with Fleetwood Mac, Mike will be hosting while Harrison has the day off.  Cohosting, if schedules align, will be book contributor D’Arcy Briggs.

We also have, for the third week in a row, former Helix drummer Archie Gamble with a clip.  This time he’s going to tell us about Jerry Mercer’s legendary drum solo.

It’s the Sign of the Gypsy Queen, you don’t have to check All Over Town.  You can buy the book at your local Amazon.  You too can be a Roller, or a Hard Rock Kid, Tonite!  Check out the show as we quiz Mr. Durling on all things April Wine.

Friday August 14 at 7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

🅻🅸🆅🅴 Top Mötley Crüe Songs from Each Album with Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation

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🅻🅸🆅🅴 Episode featuring Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation

Episode 155: Top Mötley Crüe Songs from Each Album

Approximately one year ago, Rock Daydream Nation did an epic episode on our favourite, and least favourite, Motley Crue song from every studio album.  Today, with “Hair Metal” all the rave again in 2026, Mike decided to revisit Motley Crue on Grab A Stack of Rock.  Again with Peter Kerr in tow, we’re going to go through our top songs from each studio album!  With a couple bonuses:

  1. Mike will be picking a completely different set of songs from the albums.
  2. Archie Gamble is back this week with his opinions on Tommy Lee and Randy Castillo, two of Motley’s best known drummers!
  3. Mike will also have his favourite song from all the B-sides, EPs and bonus tracks available!  He will also have his physical product ready to show for most of it!

This episode is for Ash.  Take care buddy!

 

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

 

 

 

🅻🅸🆅🅴 Top Female Rockers with Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation

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🅻🅸🆅🅴 Episode featuring Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation

Episode 154:  Top Female Rockers with Peter Kerr from Rock Daydream Nation

Peter Kerr returns to Grab A Stack of Rock with a great topic we’ve never tackled before!  Who are our top female rockers?  The field is wide open with singers, guitarists, bassists, drummers and entire bands!  New bands, old bands, it doesn’t matter as long as they rock!

Viewers are familiar with certain artists Mike has featured on his channel, such as Lita Ford and Lee Aaron, but tonight he’ll prove his tastes are diverse even within the rock realm.  As for Peter?  Always expect surprises from the Rock Daydream Nation main man.  We will also have a guest list from author Michael LeFevre, the 80s Metal Man, who has been featuring female rockers on his blog, and some special clips from former Helix drummer Archie Gamble!  This show is packed!

We will be live tonight.  Be sure to join us and interact with the comments.  Looking forward to it!

Friday July 31 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube or Facebook.

 

 

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode: McFarlane & NECA Eddies

50 Years of IRON MAIDEN bonus episode: McFarlane & NECA Eddies

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This episode is dedicated to Mike’s childhood best friend, Bob Schipper, who got him into Iron Maiden back in 1984.  Today is Bob’s birthday.  Happy birthday Bob!

Welcome back to 50 Years of Iron Maiden.  It has been two months to the day since our last episode.  Alas, Harrison is ill, but he did find a way to participate in this bonus episode while we await his return!

In this special episode, Mike takes a look at what we’re calling his “Large Eddie” collection of Iron Maiden figures!  While the collection itself is modest, the figures are not!  From the McFarlane and NECA lines, we take a close look at all the details of these highly collectible figures.  All still sealed to this day, and some are over 20 years old, which makes them officially “vintage”.  Others are more recent, but still highly desired by collectors.

Check out the details, accessories, packaging and Maiden references in this slick figure collection.

 

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Videos From The Vault! Pre-Grab A Stack Archeological Rock!

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Episode 153: Videos From The Vault! Pre-Grab A Stack Archeological Rock!

If you’re new to the channel, or have been watching since this beginning, then this is an episode that will take you back in time!  We’ve making videos a long time for a long time now, and the channel has well over 1,000 clips and episodes today.  Mike’s earliest video work dates back to 1989-90 on the VHS format.  Until the modern era, he never had the chance to do anything with that video footage, but now…

As we await Harrison’s return, Mike has dug deep into the archives to bring you another special “Mix Tape” episode.  All this material pre-dates Grab A Stack of Rock and is being presented to you in compilation form for the first time!  Mike has included new commentary, and some new material.  Just like a good Greatest Hits album!  Join us tonight for this 1 hour 11 minute episode covering the following subjects, hosted by Mike:

  • “Nothing But a Good Time” – Mike’s first music video – 1990
  • The original mikeladano.com animated ad – 2012
  • “Here Comes LeBrain Again” music video by Tom and Uncle Meat – 2014
  • Record Store Tales – “Cry For Help” – 2018
  • A Trip to Sonic Boom in Toronto – 2017
  • Summer HQ – 2014
  • Max the Axe live in concert – 2018
  • Sausagefest Outtakes – various
  • “One More For the Road” – Rob Daniels’ student video starring Bob Schipper – 1989
  • Top Five Reasons I Love Kiss – podcast outtake – 2014
  • Exclusive interview with Brian Vollmer of Helix – 2012
  • Outtakes and Random Bits – 1990 to 2019
  • New Bonus Clip!  Mike’s ORIGINAL “Battle Jacket” – 2026
  • And LOTS more!

Don’t miss this trip way back in the time!  This capsule of old clips will keep rocking and laughing on your Friday night.  Join us for the premiere!

 

 

Friday July 24 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube.

Top Five Vintage Video Games! With D’Arcy and Dr. K

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Episode 151: Top Five Vintage Video Games! With D’Arcy and Dr. K

An episode long in the making!  We have been talking about doing an episode on vintage video games for three years, but in January, D’Arcy Briggs and I began to discuss it a little more seriously.  Finally we’ve got the episode ready and we’ve brought Dr. Kathryn along for the adventure.

First we had to define “vintage”.  For our purposes, we limited our choices to 70s, 80s and 90s video games.  This still left us with so many choices, that it was hard to put these lists together without using cheat codes!  Yet we rose to the challenge with very minimal, but predictable overlap.  What came as a surprise was how deeply personal some of these picks are.  You might be surprised how video games helped shape the people we would become.

With arcade classics, adventures, first-person shooters, puzzles and more, coming from hand-held machines, consoles, and PC’s, we have a variety of games for you to look at.  What’s more, in addition to gameplay clips, we have physical product that will knock you out.  Dr. K visited Nintendo-crazy Japan and came home with treasures.  She also had some of our vintage Atari and NES gear on hand.  And wait until you see D’Arcy’s collection!

You’re going to love this episode.  Be sure to join in the comments!

Friday June 26 at  7:00 PM EST, 4:00 PM Pacific.  Enjoy on YouTube.

 

Bonus Episode: Summer HQ Tour with Grab A Stack of Rock!

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Bonus Episode: Summer HQ Tour with Grab A Stack of Rock!

Tonight, Mike is recording an episode with Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation, so a pre-recorded episode is on deck!  One of my all-time favourites in fact.  As a sequel to last week’s bonus episode, a tour of Grab A Stack of Rock HQ, this week we’re doing the tour of Stack Summer HQ!

As we did last week, we’ll take a look at the memorabilia here at Summer HQ, and hear the stories.  Some will be familiar to original readers, but most will be previously unseen and unheard.  There is a lot of personal music history in these woods, going back to Grandpa’s original backyard parties with his turntable and massive speakers playing “The Gambler”!  There are also plenty of cool books and collectibles, art and animals.  Animals?  Indeed – when one tours Grab A Stack of Rock Summer HQ, one must be prepared for chance encounters in the wild.  One such encounter happens in this amazing video.

Please join tonight!  This is an episode you don’t want to miss.   Since I am recording with Rock Daydream Nation, I will not be in the comments section, but we’ll be back with your regular Stack soon!


Friday June 19 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube.

 

Bonus Episode: A Tour of Grab A Stack of Rock HQ

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Bonus Episode:  A Tour of Grab A Stack of Rock HQ

With last week’s 150th episode out of the way, and Harrison taking a break, it’s time for two fun bonus episodes!  In the first, this week we’re taking a tour of Grab A Stack of Rock home HQ.

Friends always want to take a tour of the home office.  Now you can!  Check out my memorabilia, collectibles, box sets, discs, tapes and more.  You’ll even see a unique music format that has gone unseen on this show since the LeBrain Train days.  Join me as we dig through stacks of rock to find nuggets and memories beneath.  Books, instruments, clothing, Lego, figurines, toys…when you have this much rock, space becomes the problem!  So we stack and stack, until one must dig to find it.

This is a fun episode.  Join the premiere so we can chat!

Friday June 12 at  7:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM Atlantic.  Enjoy on YouTube.

 

🅻🅸🆅🅴 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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