ROCK AND/OR ROLL

Day 5: Weezer - Make Believe (2005) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 4: Weezer - Maladroit (2002) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 3: Weezer - Weezer (The Green Album) (2001) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 2: Weezer - Pinkerton (1996) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 1: Weezer - Weezer (1994) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was originally released in October 2020, while the podcast was on hiatus, covertly posted to Internet Archive. I'm guessing most of you haven't heard it, so I decided to give it a proper release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chelsea was originally formed in August of 1976 by singer Gene October, guitarist William Broad (later known as Billy Idol), bassist Tony James and drummer John Towe. After the other three left to form Generation X, October kept the band going, cycling through line-up after line-up, releasing som classic punk singles and albums along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jook were a great band, active for just a few years in the early seventies. They released six singles, including some absolutely classic heavy glam tunes, but no album. For this episode BJ is joined by Ian Kimmet, the band's singer and main songwriter, to discuss why such a killer band failed to thrive, even in the midst of the glam rock explosion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released July 2018: In a world where producers were greenlighting low budget films to be released directly to video there would be no soundtracks, but there would still be music. There were songs in those movies. Otherwise unreleased songs. Great songs. These are those songs. TONY SCIUTO - OUT OF THE DARKNESS FROM ALL AMERICAN MURDER MARK MANCINA - IT’S NOT OVER YET FROM NIGHT WARS STEPHEN BUTLER - ALWAYS ON MY MIND FROM FINAL MISSION THE NIGHT BROTHERS - CRY OF THE CITY FROM KNIGHTS OF THE CITY CAMERON DYE AND CATHERINE MARY STEWART - I WAS JUST ASKING FROM SCENES FROM THE GOLDMINE WARREN BENNETT - STATION IN THE SKY FROM RIDERS OF THE STORM JOHN PAYNE - RIDE THE STORM FROM RIDERS OF THE STORM TUESDAY KNIGHT - IVORY TOWER FROM MAD ABOUT YOU JIM MANZIE - THE WAY OF ALL FLESH FROM TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE LEA HART - DANGER IN THE STREETS FROM INSTANT JUSTICE BILLY BUTT - THE RIGHT TO FIGHT FROM TWIN DRAGON ENCOUNTER MARY ELLEN QUINN - LIPS ON THE MOON FROM VICIOUS LIPS HOT PURSUIT - FIRE WITH FIRE FROM STEELE JUSTICE DEBBIE LYTTON - NIGHT PATROL FROM TOMBOY MIRAGE - STANDING IN THE RAIN FROM THE PISTOL: BIRTH OF A LEGEND JOSEPH WILLIAMS - TURN IT UP FROM SPACECAMP THE HEAT - TOO FAR TOO FAST FROM DISTANT THUNDER GENE MILLER - ABOVE AND BEYOND FROM THE DOUBLE O KID MICHAEL BREWER - SAY YOU WON'T FROM REVENGE RICK RISO - BRAVE HEART FROM THE BONE YARD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 12: April Wine - Walking Through Fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 11: April Wine - Animal Grace (1984) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 10: April Wine - Power Play (1982) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 9: April Wine - The Nature of the Beast (1981) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 8: April Wine - Harder...Faster (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 7: April Wine - First Glance (1978) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 6: April Wine - Forever For Now (1976) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 5: April Wine - The Whole World's Goin' Crazy (1976) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 4: April Wine - Stand Back (1975) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 3: April Wine - Electric Jewels (1973) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 2: April Wine - On Record (1972) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 1: April Wine - April Wine (1971) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released October 2014: The Bee Gees were far more than just a disco band, the Gibb brothers were incredibly talented songwriters and musicians who were responsible for some of the most ambitious and effective pop music of the late sixties and early seventies. On this episode BJ attempts to tell the story of the band with words and song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The very first episode of Rock and/or Roll was released on May 27, 2013. For this episode to commemorate that milestone, BJ takes a look back, plays some favorite clips and songs, and reminisces with old friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry and Dorothy were an HVAC installer and a waitress until they decided they were the reincarnations of Egyptian gods and embarked upon an ill-fated music career. Two albums later one of them was dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pavlov's Dog was a seven piece quasi-prog band from St Louis, managed by a crook, who made a few interesting records before its members scattered. Singer David Surkamp resurfaced in Seattle where he formed an exciting but short-lived band called Hi-Fi with a founding member of Fairport Convention, Ian Matthews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in April 2020: Over the course of just one year, 1974, British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac would go from a career low point, the bottom of the barrel, to suddenly, by years end, transformed, reinvented, and ready to become one of the most successful, top selling acts of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 17: Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will (2003) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 16: "Fleetwood Mac" - Time (1995) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 15: "Fleetwood Mac" - Behind The Mask (1990) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 14: Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night (1987) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 13: Fleetwood Mac - Mirage (1982) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 12: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 11: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 10: Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 9: Fleetwood Mac - Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 8: Fleetwood Mac - Mystery To Me (1973) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 7: Fleetwood Mac - Penguin (1973) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 6: Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees (1972) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 5: Fleetwood Mac - Future Games (1971) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 4: Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House (1970) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 3: Fleetwood mac - Then Play On (1969) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 2: Fleetwood Mac - Mr. Wondeful (1968) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 1: Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (1968) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Doctors of Madness formed in London in late 1974 and flamed out by the end of 1978, releasing three diverse albums that bridged the gap between glam and punk, but very few people seemed to notice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stray formed in the late sixties when it's members were barely teenagers and they landed a record deal before they reached adulthood. Ahead of their time, they found little success, even with help from multiple mobsters, but the catalogue of albums they left behind speak for themselves. Even Iron Maiden cite them as an influence. This is their story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally released in July 2013: B.J. presents an overview of the Pub Rock movement that was a big deal in London in the early to mid-seventies and laid the groundwork for Punk and then New Wave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 11: Electric Light Orchestra - Balance of Power (1986) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 10: Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages (1983) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 9: Electric Light Orchestra - Time (1981) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 8: Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery (1979) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices