From the official Antix Facebook page!
Oh, 1988! A new band starring Lenny Wolf from Stone Fury had started his new band Kingdom Come, and the “Led Clones” accusations were rampant! MuchMusic VJ Laurie Brown refers to them as “Kingdom Clone” here.
Antix were an independent hard rock band out of Ottawa, Ontario. They released several records and are possibly best known for “Kick It Up” from the Raw M.E.A.T CD compilation. Check out their Pepsi Power Hour bumper!
August 1991: MuchMusic rarely did phone interviews, but when Lars Ulrich is on a big promotional binge, you take what you can get! Michael Williams, proudly sporting his Fishbone shirt, got to quiz Lars with questions on the new album, and new video “Enter Sandman”, for roughly 10 minutes.
We all knew the next Metallica album was going to be huge. The hype had been building for a year. It was just a matter of the release date.
It’s “the record people say Metallica were always trying to make,” said Lars. Too much of a big deal was being made about Bob Rock, he claims.
“We had Canadian flags all over the studio,” says Lars of the studio vibe with Bob Rock, in answer to Lars’ Danish flag and James’ Star Spangled Banners.
Lars characterizes Rock as someone to bounce ideas off of. He doesn’t really know what a producer does, but had an idea of what he wanted Bob Rock to capture in the studio. The last two months was spent overdubbing and layering; stuff that Lars was not familiar with.
Lars also discusses a massive album release party with 18,000 people at Madison Square Gardens.
Is Metallica finally becoming more “video-friendly”? Watch this legendary interview with Ulrich to find out.
From fall 1988, right before Gene Simmons was set to do his big interview promoting the new Simmons Records label, Pepsi Power Hour host Laurie Brown had Rob Cavestany and Dennis Pepa of the young thrash band Death Angel come in for a quick chat!
Check it out!
This collection of Alice Cooper interviews and videos circa 1987-88 was recorded from MuchMusic’s Pepsi Power Hour.
Topics include:
You’ll also see clips of videos for “The Man Behind the Mask”, “Freedom” and “I’m 18”.
I received my first comment on a video made almost a year ago, with over 1200 views! Please welcome @tcconnection to the show! They took offense to my looping of Sebastian Bach’s amusing laugh in the video at bottom.
The ironic thing about @tcconnection is that they have none – zero, nada – videos on their channel, but still had the balls to post this.
The other ironic thing is that I have, in fact, made videos that benefit society. Check out Adventures in Epilepsy for example.
How much do you wanna make a bet that @tcconnection never replies, and never makes a video of their own?
NOTE: If you have a VPN, set to USA and you can definitely watch this video!
This incredible Iron Maiden special aired on MuchMusic’s Pepsi Power Hour in early 1991. Unfortunately, by this time MuchMusic were mixing music videos in with their interviews, making uploading to YouTube very difficult. This video is unavailable in Canada, Australia, and 23% of the world.
Should I attempt to re-edit it to exclude the flagged content? Tricky to do, since these segments are mixed with interviews and factual blurbs.
At this point Iron Maiden were tired of the big stage productions, and stripped both the stage show and music back to basics. This is included in the interview footage, with Bruce Dickinson and Nicko McBrain handling most of it. Dave Murray, Steve Harris and new kid Janick Gers also offer their own perspectives.
Also included: Lots of live footage, including 1980 in Toronto, and accompanying interviews with Paul Di’Anno and a segment with Clive Burr.
Check it out if you can. If there is enough interest, I may attempt to edit it.
GRAB A STACK OF ROCK With Mike and the Mad Metal Man
Episode 88: Musical Odds n’ Sods: A Grab A Stack of Rock Collection
We have had our first bump in the road with our 50 Years of Iron Maiden series: Mike had come down with his second case of Covid. Fortunately, we have been prepared for occurrences such as this, and we have already pre-recorded an episode to buy us a week if necessary. This is that week: Welcome to Musical Odds n’ Sods!
In this episode you will see topics including:
I have to admit, I enjoy watching this episode myself. There is so much variety here to enjoy. Join me in the comments tonight!
Friday January 31 at 7:00 P.M. E.S.T. / 8:00 P.M. Atlantic. Enjoy on YouTube.
A bitchy Paul Stanley and a disinterested Gene Simmons walked in to host the Power 30 on MuchMusic, with only Eric Singer and Bruce Kulick to save them. On the road to promote the new home video KISS Konfidential, Paul starts off by complaining that Kiss never got played on MuchMusic. (Untrue; all their current videos received ample play, with the exception of the ballad “Every Time I Look At You”, and “Domino” did quite well. It was so popular with one of the MuchMusic hosts that he even played a clip of it on a rap show.)
Kiss videos played on this episode were “I Love It Loud” (Live), “Heaven’s On Fire”, and “A World Without Heroes”, which was the first time I ever caught the full track played any time on MuchMusic. These videos are not included in the clip.
Bonus: Paul sings in the intro to “Heaven’s On Fire” live in the studio.
Disclaimer: This is an extremely dull video! Consider: without music videos, Yngwie Malmsteen “hosting” the Power 30 in 1991 amounts to less than 90 seconds of video. How disappointing. This is an excellent example of why the Power 30 was a vastly inferior format to the Pepsi Power Hour. The shortened time led to substance-free content like this for the vacuous 90s.
Yngwie comments a little bit about each of the videos he has been assigned:
I just told you everything they played, but watch it for Yngwie’s quick comments if you like.
August, 1982: John “J.D.” Roberts on The New Music (pre-MuchMusic) sat down with the Mob Rules lineup of Black Sabbath (Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Vinnie Appice – no Dio this time) to ask about the fuss involving Satanic lyrics. While Geezer admits to using Satan a bit as a lyrical device, he also points out that it’s only one facet of his writing. Stopping wars, he points out, is one of their big topics.
Great little clip that shows the laid back band at their most laid back.
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