John Clauser

The Contrarians Live: Toys & Games on Album Covers – Tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

This week’s topic is my pick!

Doing the live Contrarian chats on Wednesday nights has been great fun.  I will keep going with these as long as I’m welcome and as long as I don’t burn out.  For those keeping track, this is my seventh week in a row on the Contrarians.  The subjects thus far have been:

For this week, Toys and Games, I’m not taking the easy way out.  My list will have unexpected picks (because I let Tim have the good ones). Check out the show tonight, live at 7:00 PM.

THE CONTRARIANS – Album covers featuring Toys and Games  – Wed. November 27 – 7:00 PM EST

The Contrarians Live: This album cover is HELL! – Tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

Doing the live Contrarian chats on Wednesday nights has been great fun.  I will keep going with these as long as I’m welcome and as long as I don’t burn out.  For those keeping track, this is my sixth week in a row on the Contrarians.  The subjects thus far have been:

For this week, Hell and the Underworld, I am going straight metal.  No deviations.  We’ll see what the other guys bring.  Check out the show tonight, live at 7:00 PM.

THE CONTRARIANS – Album covers featuring Hell and the Underworld  – Wed. Novermber 20 – 7:00 PM EST

The Contrarians Live: Spaceships! Aliens! Robots! Tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

For those keeping track, this is my fifth week in a row on the Contrarians.  The subjects thus far have been:

This time I’m not going too far off the beaten track.  Nothing Canadian, nothing too far outside the rock genre, and all artists who have been featured on the Contrarians before.  Sometimes you have to play it straight.  Check out the show tonight, live at 7:00 PM.

THE CONTRARIANS – Album Covers with Robots, Aliens and Spaceships – Wed. Novermber 13 – 7:00 PM EST

The Contrarians Live: Album Covers with FIRE & EXPLOSIONS tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

Last Wednesday on the Contrarians, I was absolutely blown away to hear my favourite writer, Martin Popoff, say the words “Mike is a great addition to the show.”

Thank you Martin.  I hope this week I live up to everybody’s expectations!

For those keeping track, this is my fourth week in a row on the Contrarians.  The subjects thus far have been:

I tend to go off the beaten track and focus on artists or albums that have never been on the Contrarians before.  I will be doing that again this week, with some more Canadian picks and some albums that are not in the rock genre at all.  Begin the guessing.

THE CONTRARIANS – Album Covers with Fire and Explisions – Wed. Novermber 6 – 7:00 PM EST

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Holy Grail CDs, Live Bootlegs, and Music DVDs from the Kollection of Kopp

A true throwback to the early days of Grab A Stack of Rock, and a showcase for the Mad Metal Man.  That was Friday night on Grab A Stack of Rock.

Harrison showed us several CDs that Mike wants to add to his collection, including a 2 CD edition of Alice Cooper in El Paso 1980, Iron Maiden bootlegs with Paul, Bruce and Blaze, Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan, a Bruce Dickinson single, and many more.  Harrison also had a rare Nintendo NES video game soundtrack on 7″ vinyl, and possibly the only Arkells CD in all of Australia.  (We just don’t know!)

I miscalculated the length of tonight’s show.  I expected it to run an hour.  I invited some surprise guests to welcome back Harrison after his long absence, and so we were joined by Peter Kerr, Johnny Clauser, and Jex Russell at the one hour mark.  Thank you guys for joining us on this special night.

Mike also had some CDs to show off, such as Prince, Paul Stanley, ELP, King Kobra, and Faster Pussycat.  However, storytelling was his main role.  The Sultans of Ping FC and the Arkells featured into two stories.

Thank you for watching and see you next week on Grab A Stack of Rock for our Mad Max movie ranking!

The Contrarians Live: YELLOW Album Covers tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

A sequel to last week’s show!  Last Wednesday, we covered brown album covers.  This week we’re following that up with yellow album covers!  I will be joining the Contrarians LIVE tonight at 7:00 PM EST for this excellent topic idea.  Each of us has ten picks.  The final panel is TBA but I will be with at least the following people:

  • Grant Arthur
  • John “Johnny Homework” Clauser
  • Jamie Laszlo

40 unique picks for yellow cover art.  Yes, we will see Stryper.

THE CONTRARIANS – Yellow Album Covers – Wed. October 30 7:00 PM EST

 

The Contrarians Live: BROWN Album Covers tonight at 7:00 PM EST!

A sequel to last week’s show!  Last Wednesday, we saw quite a few brown album covers when we looked at minimalist album art.  This week we’re following that up with brown album covers!  I will be joining the Contrarians LIVE tonight at 7:00 PM EST for this excellent topic idea.  Each of us has ten picks.  I will have the honour of sitting on a panel with:

  • Grant Arthur
  • Tim Durling
  • John “Johnny Homework” Clauser
  • Jamie Laszlo
  • Peter “The Professor” Jones.

60 unique picks for brown cover art.  I’ve given my list a twist:  all Canadian artists!

THE CONTRARIANS – Brown Album Covers – Wed. October 23 7:00 PM EST

The Contrarians Live: Minimalist Album Covers tonight at 7:00 PM EST

I will be joining the Contrarians LIVE tonight at 7:00 PM EST for an excellent topic idea:  minimalist album covers.  Each of us has ten picks.  I will have the honour of sitting on a panel with:

  • Martin Popoff
  • Grant Arthur
  • Tim Durling
  • John “Johnny Homework” Clauser
  • Jamie Laszlo
  • Peter “The Professor” Jones.

70 unique picks for minimalist cover art.  This outta be good.  Link is below!

Finding the Beatles and Beck: That’s the “B” Section – Compact Disc Collections with John Clauser @MyMusicCorner

An exhaustive two hours with Johnny Metal took us through almost everything we own in the “B” section of the CD collections!  From Sebastian Bach to Bryan Byrne, we looked at everything on CD, except a few box sets.  As such, we did not see all my Beatles, Black Crowes, Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, or Blue Rodeo on CD.  We saw pretty much everything else.

Johnny Metal’s collection, as usual, featured some really cool and rare Christian metal, and other assorted metal and blues that most of us might not have heard of.  Many of his CDs included collector’s cards or autographs.  John excluded (most of his) Black Sabbath and all of his Beatles for this exercise.

Speaking of the Beatles, halfway through the show, I realized I didn’t have any Beatles in my stack, which is just not right.  I have lots of Beatles besides the Stereo and Mono box sets.  Then viewer Ashley mentioned I had no Jeff Beck.  Well, obviously I do!  I reviewed two of them here on this site!  I realized I had a whole stack I left behind!

That’s how much B stuff I have.  Bon Jovi was the majority of it, and a lot of it turned out to be Bon Jovi I don’t even like.  There was, however, some Bon Jovi that I really really do like, and I hope you enjoy having a look at them.

We saw a lot of CD singles, remasters with bonus tracks, deluxe editions, remasters, digipacks, Japanese imports, and even one 3″ CD.

Thanks for watching this show, which might take you two viewings to finish, but that’s it – that’s the B section, done n’ dusted.

The “B” Section – Compact Disc Collections with John Clauser @MyMusicCorner

GRAB A STACK OF ROCK With Mike and the Mad Metal Man
Episode 74:  The “B” Section with Johnny Metal

Johnny Metal Homework is back for the third week in a row, to grab some stacks of rock!  As a sequel to our “A” section show, this time we are diving into some killer “B’s”.  You’ll be seeing my Black Sabbath, Bon Jovi, and yes…Blaze Bayley.  This episode will exclude box sets which have been shown off before on their own dedicated episodes.  CDs only; no vinyl, cassettes or 8-tracks on this week’s episode.

John says it won’t be as crazy this time (no 74 CDs from a Christian parody band), but it will be  heavy!  The big section is loaded with “Big” bands (Wreck, Sugar, House), and plenty of “Black” (Sabbath, Country Communion, Label Society, Star Riders, Jack).  Let’s take a deep dive into some Japanese imports, rarities, and heavy hitters.

Join us live!

Friday October 11 at 7:00 P.M. E.S.T. / 8:00 P.M. Atlantic.   Enjoy on YouTube or on Facebook!