In memory of what would have been David Bowie's 74th birthday, and 5 years after he left us, Vinnie discusses the life of David Bowie. For Part 1, he focuses on his early life and talks about his slow rise to superstardom and his notoriety with over the top characters like Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, to launching his film career with the Man Who Fell to Earth all the way up to 1976. To be continued...

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Let's Talk About David Bowie Part 1

To finish off this crazy year of 2020 with things like the coronavirus pandemic and the many high profile deaths, Vinnie puts a positive spin as best he can by talking about all the new music that came out from artists both old and new, and his recommendations about who to listen to.  

Let's Talk About 2020: Year in Review

In Episode 53 of Let's Talk About Rock, Vinnie spends time filling in the gaps about what he missed when talking about hair metal. The first half of the episode is spent talking about forgotten bands he forgot to mention and the second half is spent chronicling the summarized histories of Quiet Riot, Great White and Warrant. 

Let's Talk About Hair Metal II

In 1980, after nearly 5 years out of the public eye, John Lennon decided to eventually get back into the game and released Double Fantasy with his wife Yoko by his side to collaborate. Sadly, on December 8, 1980, John was tragically assassinated outside his home at the Dakota shaking the world. Over the last 40 years, Yoko has had a hand in preserving John's legacy from the countless compilations, to memorials worldwide like the Liverpool John Lennon Airport and the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland among others. 40 years after he was taken from the music world, his spirit lives on to this day. 

Let's Talk About John Lennon Part 2: The Last Months and Legacy

In Episode 51 of Let's Talk About Rock, Vinnie discusses the decade of decadence. Specifically, talking about the rise of hair metal in the 1980's, and the success of bands like Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Dokken, W.A.S.P., Poison, Great White, Warrant and many, many more bands that oversaturated the metal genre by the decades end. Despite the sharp decline in commercial success starting with the grunge movement, hair metal for the past 2 decades has had a legacy as a great nostalgia trip and its legacy is still being felt and is a genre widely loved by many rock  fans to this day. 

Let's Talk About Hair Metal

This episode, Vinnie talks about this great Pinocchio story if ever there was one for rock music, The Monkees who started out as actors who played a band on TV, and then transformed into a real band and this is a story of how the Prefab Four starring Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, successfully sought creative control over their own music. The story of how the Monkees became one of the most iconic figures in rock is one for the ages. 

Let's Talk About the Monkees

On Episode 48, of the Let's Talk About Rock podcast, Vinnie interviews rock radio personality Jacky Bam Bam, the nighttime host of Philadelphia's legendary rock station, 93.3 WMMR. We talk about how he got his start as a DJ and playing drums in bands like Scarlet Fever and the Dogtown Balladeers, before eventually making his way to the radio airwaves at 94 WYSP, before moving to WMMR where he moved up from the overnight shift all the way up to the evening shift he has now.  We even talk about his role in the annual Philadelphia Mummers Parade, accompanied by some very useful advice for the next generation of radio DJ's.

Let's Talk With Jacky Bam Bam

In this special Halloween Episode of Let's Talk About Rock, Vinnie talks about the Godfather of Shock Rock Alice Cooper starting with his humble beginnings, his 70's heyday, his battles with alcoholism and his eventual resurgence as a cultural rock icon. 

Let's Talk About Alice Cooper

More than 3 years after the rock world lost Tom Petty, Vinnie examines the life and legacy of Tom Petty's 66 years on this earth, and the many ups and downs he endured in life. 

Let's Talk About Tom Petty

To pay tribute to one of rock's greatest guitarists Eddie Van Halen, Vinnie looks at the summarized but comprehensive history of Van Halen since the 1970's from the David Lee Roth era, the Sammy Hagar era, the Gary Cherone era all the way up to the present day. R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020)

Let's Talk About Van Halen

To celebrate what would have been John Lennon's 80th Birthday, Vinnie talks about John's early and his solo career from the Beatles breakup in 1970 to the time he took a hiatus to become a househusband for he and Yoko's son Sean in 1975. We talk about everything in between from his albums, to his politics, to his immigration battles, to even his famous "Lost Weekend". 

Let's Talk About John Lennon

If there was one band beside the Beach Boys that were hugely successful before during and after the British Invasion, their name was the Four Seasons. Vinnie chronicles the long running band, their success, their troubles, and most importantly their legacy, best exemplified by being the subject of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys. 

Let's Talk About the Four Seasons

40 years after we lost drummer John Bonham (1948-1980) leading up to Led Zeppelin's breakup, Vinnie gets the led out by learning more about Led Zeppelin's history from their origin story, their tales of debauchery and a summarized making of the great timeless records they made together over the course of their history together. 

Let's Talk About Led Zeppelin

It's been 50 years since the rock world lost Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) so Vinnie talks about the life and legacy of one of rock's greatest guitarists of all time examining his rise to fame summarizing the albums and songs he had given us as well as some of the history of his posthumous discography over the last 50 years. 

Let's Talk About Jimi Hendrix

Part 2 of Black Sabbath's story is discussed as Vinnie G talks about the many parts of Sabbath's history between 1980 and 2017 starting with Ronnie James Dio era of Black Sabbath, then the period of multiple lineup changes over the next decade including the Ian Gillan era, the Glenn Hughes era, and the Tony Martin era of Sabbath. Plus, in the 1990's there were reunions with Dio and the Tony Martin era and then, eventually a reunion with Ozzy Osbourne in the late 1990's lasting all the way to Sabbath's last show on February 4th, 2017.

Let's Talk About Black Sabbath Part 2: 1980-2017

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