The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show
You may well have internet radio fatigue, God knows there are thousands of sites trying to get your attention. The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show is different. It goes out live weekly on Rebel Rock Radio and Bulldogs radio but also as a Podcast so you can choose when you want to hear it. TSORR is not background music, it is a relationship. The show exists to introduce you to music you will like, play the music you want to hear, and give you some insight into the bands and the music. So, if Rock & Metal are part of your life, give The Story of Rock and Roll a listen. The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show or TSORR covers a vast range of Rock, Metal, Punk & Blues. It showcases guitar based-music from around the world. You will get music from the mid 60's all the way through to albums released this week. With TSORR it is all about the music. If you love guitars and loud rock and roll this is the show for you. Each week it features many of the top rock and metal bands in the world. There is always a healthy selection of ACDC, Priest, Maiden, Metallica, Rush, Kiss, Queen, ZZ Top, Rammstein, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Dio, and all the bands that made Rock Music what it is today. The show also introduces you to many great bands that you may or may not have heard of. TSORR tends not to focus on the greatest rock hits of all time, it goes deeper and features tracks off classic albums that you won't hear elsewhere. TSORR is the place to pick up on something you like and then follow up and delve deeper into a band or song that struck a sweet chord with you. The show is always trying to bring you, in Bowie's words, that "One damn song that can make me break down and cry". You get the facts and the stories as well as some irreverent opinions and you can always contact TSORR for more info about something you heard. Give it a try, TSORR; it's all about the music \m/
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 164 minutes
- Episodes
- 339
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E19
Episode 19 was a ton of fun. It aired on 12 May 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio and we kicked off with Mel Gibson's son-in-law Kenny Wayne Shepherd and a track called 'Any Way the Wind Blows', that sentime…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E18
S5E18 went out on Rebel Rock Radio on 5 May 2022. I was in Clarens on a Guitar Clinic with SA Blues Maestro Dan Patlansky.
The show featured a fair amount of blues as you would expect, 'Hounds Loos…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E17
Episode 17 of season 5 aired on 28 April 2022. It seemed to fly by. We started with the one song that is most responsible for The Story of Rock and Roll, 'Detroit Rock City' by Kiss. This song chan…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E16
S5E16 aired on 21 Apr 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. Load shedding had been suspended so the amount of distraction and chaos was reduced significantly from last week. We kicked off with a track titled '…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E15
S5E15 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 14 April 2022. It had an unusual start which may have lost a few listeners. Being a long weekend there was a bit of a party element in the air so we start…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E14
Episode 14 of season 5 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 7 April 2022. For the first time we clocked in with 39 tracks. The show was light on '70's classic rock, blues and SA content fo…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E13
Season 5 Episode 13 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 31 Mar 2022. We kicked off with some ACDC, the title track of their 2016 release Black Ice. From arguably the biggest rock band in the world…
Rock Review: Foo Fighters
The Story of Rock and Roll marks the sad passing of Foo Fighters legend Taylor Hawkins with the posting of a Foo Fighters Rock Review recorded a while back. To Dave, Pat, Chris and Nate, so sorry gu…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E12
Episode 12 of Season 5 aired on 24 Mar 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. The show kicked off with Saxon and a track off their latest album Carpe Diem called 'All For One'. Next up Tyler Bryant and The Sha…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E11
Season 5 Episode 11 went out live on Rebel Rock Radio on 17 Mar at 19h17. Yep, you read that right, 17 min late because the laptop did an upgrade and reset all the broadcast codes. We started off w…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E10
Episode 10, so we are 20% of the way through Season 5 and 2022. The show aired on 10 Mar 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. It kicked off with what could possibly be one of the greatest show starting songs …
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E9
Episode 9 of the 2022 season kicked off at 19h00 on 3 March on Rebel Rock Radio. We started with ACDC to get the blood pumping and then followed with a fairly laid-back Wolfmother track called 'Mind…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E8
Episode 8 aired on 24 February 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio, earlier that day Vladimir Putins troops marched into Ukraine. The Doomsday clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight, 20 seconds worse than Iro…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E7
Episode 7 of Season 5 aired on 17 February 2022. We kicked off with a track called 'Bulletproof' of Paul Stanley's second solo album titled Live To Win. It was topical given the difficult times we …
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E6
Episode 6 of season 5 aired on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 10 Feb 2022. It started off in an uncharacteristically chilled way with Cinderella and a track called 'One For Rock and Roll' off Heartbre…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E5
Episode 5 of Season 5 took to the airwaves on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 3 Feb 2022. It was thoroughly enjoyable and flowed really nicely. I felt like I didn't have enough time right from the ver…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E4
Episode 4 of Season 5 aired on 27 Jan 2022. I think I will always consider this the episode I lost control of. Doing these shows is a bit like doing a gig, you have the songs and the sequence in ou…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E3
Episode 3 of Season 5 aired at 19h00 on 20 Jan 2022 on Rebel Rock Radio. We started with a nice little instrumental before diving into the strange waters of Legend of the Seagullmen and their song '…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E2
Episode 2 of season 5 aired at 19h00 on Rebel Rock radio on Thursday 13 Jan 2022. It started off disastrously. Apart from being stung by a wasp minutes before the show, the entire playlist I had pl…
The Story of Rock and Roll: S5E1
Welcome to 2022 and Season 5 of The Story of Rock and Roll Radio Show. Episode 1 kicked off the season live on Rebel Rock Radio at 19h00 on 6 Jan 2022. We launched with Prince and the Revolution an…