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Because I mentioned it in my post below, I figured that I'd do a separate post for Joe Siegler's excellent (and extremely comprehensive) Black Sabbath website. Mr. Siegler has also taken the liberty of typing up and posting a very detailed account of the status of the Tony Martin era Sabbath album reissues, which can be found here. As these albums have been out of print for a very long time now, this may be of interest to more than a few of you.

Andrew Jacobs here,
As I've previously mentioned in one or two of my interviews with the ladies of the excellent Black Sabbath tribute band Black Sabbitch, Sabbath is by far my #1 favorite metal band of all time. And like the majority of Sabbath fans, my favorite era is the Ozzy era of the 1970s.

We’re very excited to bring you this week’s episode. Today,we give you our recent conversation with Eddie Trunk. Mostly known from ThatMetal Show on VH1 Classic, Eddie has a rich rock and metal history that wedelve into in this hour-plus in-depth discussion.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/793468724/all-about-friends-forever-double-lp-compilation

Due to the popularity of the "Henry Rollins Becomes A Born Again KISStian" post, I figured that I'd go ahead and post these videos of Rollins' interview with Gene Simmons on The Henry Rollins Show on IFC back in 2007. Besides the fact that both of these men are heroes of mine, this interview also has special significance for me in that it made me decide to get back into the interviewing game after leaving it 6 years prior (more on that later). Enjoy.

PodKISSt, your KISS podcast (natch), ranks a close second on my favorite podcasts list. Really good stuff. What were the circumstances that led you and your PodKISSt co-hosts Gary Shaller and James Hager to create it back in 2007?

Andrew Jacobs here,
I interviewed Henry Rollins via email this past week but have decided not to post it. Although he's definitely one of my top 5 heroes and I've been a HUGE fan of his for the past 25 of his 30+ year career, I just didn't find the interview worthy of posting due to his one or two short sentence answers to all of my questions. I know that he's constantly touring, working and/or travelling and I certainly don't fault him in the slightest but I also didn't want to bother him by asking him to beef up his answers or whatever. So anyway, long story short - no Rollins interview.

When and how did you meet the late KISS drummer Eric Carr's sister Loretta Caravello?
I became friendly with Eric's sister back around 1996 after I sent her a cassette of a tribute that I did in Eric's memory on my radio show. She contacted me afterwards and we just became friends.

Andrew Jacobs here,
In case you haven't read my interviews with Scott Parker, Andrew Greenaway and Mick Ekers, the 3 gentlemen behind ZappaCast, let me start off by saying that the late Frank Zappa is my favorite artist and composer of all time and has been since I took the FZ plunge back in January of 2008 and decided to attempt to listen to all 100+ of his official releases (more on that later). Well, I only managed to get halfway through before putting that goal on hiatus (mostly due to lack of funds) but in the process, I went on a truly enjoyable journey through the weird and wonderful world of all things Zappa and FZ became my favorite artist and composer in the process.

You just keep coming back to get your ears blasted and we thank you! Last week's Eric Carr episode really took off and we want to welcome all the new listeners. For the uninitiated, we try to mix things up throughout the month. While we love doing the interviews and have plenty more for the future, we also like to showcase some music as we're doing today.

From the Black Sabbitch Facebook:
"Black Sabbitch have decided to seek a new bass player. We already have a number of promising women coming in but if you know a woman who can rock the bass like Geezer and play these songs as close to the original as possible please point her our direction."

What were some of the first bands/artists that you listened to on a regular basis and why?
I was born in 1966. The first record I ever bought, or that my parents actually bought for me, was the soundtrack to the film version of Tommy. I was probably too young to realize that Oliver Reed wasn't in The Who! I got turned onto it by Joe McGrath, the older kid that lived down the street. The Acid Queen fucked me up! Music was actually incidental compared to the artwork or some of the literary references. Tolkein. Roger Dean. Heavy Metal magazine. Ghost Rider. Richard Corben's cover of Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell. Add in Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop" or "Spaced" by Aerosmith and music became a trigger for my ears and imagination.

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Ah, where to begin? It seems like every year the corporate music geniuses come up with ever increasing ways to insult the ears of mankind, and womankind for that matter too. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, a record label proves you wrong. I thought Celine Dion was the bottom of the barrel, so of course someone went out and found Lady Gaga forcing me to do an epic face palm. But even the disaster that is the current state of pop music can be entertaining. Not the actual music, mind you, just the depravity by which the record execs practice their particular brand of torture. By example, Biggie Smalls gets murdered and the record execs think it’s a great idea for Justin Bieber to cover his songs. Actually I’m glad Biggie didn’t live to see this.