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You heard that right, The Black Room's very own Steve Gorman was nominated for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame with his former band, The Black Crowes and even though we regularly criticize the Rock Hall, we're just gonna be happy about this one for a change 😉See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Metallica hasn't opened for Ozzy since 1986, but now they're part of the final Black Sabbath concert in Birmingham, England and Nikki is making the trip. We keep trying to get into going to the movies, but the movies are making it hard and Steve got confrontational in the theater. We talk about Chappell Roan's Grammy Speech and how the music industry is an anomaly for compensation. Guns n Roses are still hacking away at Chinese Democracy & we are wondering what it would take to get Izzy Stradlin back? Last, but not least, we're gettin a curry!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Reflections on the passing of Marianne Faithful and her time with Metallica. Steve talks about touring with Metallica and we speculate on the future of stadium touring. In the most recent edition of things kids won't ever know, we talk about road trips we took before GPS existed. We think the M3 festival line up criticism is fairly justified and David Lee Roth is questionable at best as a festival headliner. Sinead O'Conner gave her kids some industry advice in her will that we think is brilliant. Steve talks about the night Robert Plant picked up the check at dinner. Steve reviews the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" and apparently there is a football game coming up?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Black Room Season 3 episode 2: Steve Gorman & Nikki Blakk talk about Aerosmith announcing a new show despite retirement. Will the concert industry be able to sustain the high sales of the post-pandemic era? How dangerous is Tik Tok, really? And we wrap with a recap of the Twin Peaks phenomenon in 1990.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve missed recording our podcast earlier tis week for an epic boat trip, so of course we need to hear about it. But, the real story is all things Jane’s Addiction. Steve gives us his unique take on being in a band that implodes on tour, and we look into recent band break ups, like REO Speedwagon and who’s next? Nikki’s pick is Kansas and Steve’s pick is Foo Fighters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We talk about how the Oasis reunion has brought Ticketmaster to the conversation again. We have the insider take with Nikki having worked for Ticketmaster and Steve having toured with Oasis. David Gilmour is talking abut selling Pink Floyd’s catalog again and we speculate on what it’s worth after Queen sold for over $1Bil. Did you ever wonder how money changes a musician? Steve talks about an interesting stipulation with his recent interview with Slash about Guns n Roses. As a drummer, as a musician, as someone who worked with brothers, we get Steve’s thoughts on Alex Van Halen’s forthcoming autobiography “Brothers.” We wrap with (obvs) the return of football season this weekend and our predictions for the San Francisco 49ers🤘See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We’re both tired from the weekend, but we can rally to get into our feelings about Nicolas Cage playing John Madden in an upcoming biopic, which leads to football season starting and Steve’s experience sports betting as Nikki takes on a new sports picking endorsement, which of course leads us to Vegas baby! We mourn the loss of Phil Donahue by celebrating his greatest episode “Real Peter Criss vs Fake Peter Criss” and that puts us in the time machine marveling at how we survived a world before the internet and luggage with wheels?! Steve tells us about touring in the ‘80s before GPS & what it was like moving from Baltimore to Kentucky at 10 years old in 1975.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We have been having non-stop thoughts about the Aerosmith cancellation and of course as people who have been on tour, (In Steve’s case- A LOT) we have the insider track on the Journey lawsuits. We’re letting go of the “No original members” grudge in rock, mostly, but we still hold the “Farewell Tour” grudge. We wrap it up with Rock star dads like Metallica & HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We reminisce about the last Black Crowes show at The Fillmore in 2010. Ever wonder what it was like for Paul McCartney to be asked non-stop about The Beatles for 50 years? Us too. Sleep is still our drug of choice, and we talk 49ers Super Bowl...again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We get into bootlegs and how record companies should embrace the culture. How video games are the new music industry. We express our skepticism over the KISS Avatars and how we think young people are going to view older music in the future, with the exceptions of Liz Zeppelin and The Beatles, who will always be awesome. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's a quickie- Steve updates us on his trip to NYC, where he saw "An Enemy of the People" on Broadway, but failed to get to Murray's cheese shop in the East Village 🤦♀️ Fortunately the cheese can be mail ordered. We have feelings abut how awesome NYC is, while also sharing our first concert experiences and how they relate to the long debated battle between Sammy and Dave as the best singer in Van Halen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We're excited for Steve's pending trip to NYC, where he's getting the same cheese that Nikki had shipped to SF. Cheese lovers unite! We pass judgement on the two Tennessee Eagles tribute bands who are suing each other. Steve updates us on his eye surge & Chauncey the Wonder Dog's leg surgery. We go over some new binges, like Three Body Problem, Baby Reindeer and Argyle. We also find out Steve is deathly afraid of snakes, while Nikki played with them as a child. Is anyone surprised? 😂See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We are talking about Gene Simmons claiming he sold the remaining KISS catalogue to the ABBA hologram team as an act of friendship and not about the money. Steve talks about the secret to a long term relationship with the benefit of his 34 years with his wife. We talk about how angry comic book guys get when a woman is cast as a super hero. We talk about our hypothetical future band names and make a Powerball pact!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We are both so very tired today lol Nikki with a post-Green Day hangover & Steve with life in general. Can you believe Steve Gorman has never seen The Matrix?! Not a one...But, we have some shows to recommend and also we really do like Bono...mostly. He's way less evil than Spotify and the recording industry in general. Steve tells the story of seven castaways from Gilligan's Isle, or was it eight people on a cruise ship, who were oilspotted in Africa...We leave you with some valuable eclipse information that is wholly unverified. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve updates us on his new eyes, while we chuckle over the attempt to cancel 4/20 at Golden Gate Park. We also chuckle over The Who declaring they're done, while also planning a tour to support their "elevated lifestyle." We discuss Timothee Chalamet's pending portrayal of Bob Dylan and Cate Blanchet's past portrayal. Throw in some Baltimore bridge explosion and season 2 of The Wire for good measure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We start off talking about the impending ding black ice apocalypse in Minnesota, but end up talking about an epic party in a soybean field in Indiana. We marvel over the convict who escaped from jail, only to be hit by a car, that left the scene. Steve points out that some countries don't punish jailbreaks and that he's never been to Hawaii. We go all over the place after that, Caribbean, Jerry Seinfeld, Nikki's first car and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve gives us the update on why we live in California...er, rather about how a blizzard is hitting Minnesota, but the locals are unfazed. Chauncey the Wonderdog has a positive prognosis, but will need surgery. We've got the real secret to getting to sleep and the not-so-secret about winning stuff on the radio over the years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steve gives us the update on his dog Chauncey's injury after hitting a bus. We lament not having proper St Patrick's Day meals, while speculating on the Mike Tyson match up with a You Tube boxer. We look into the forthcoming "Poohniverse" & the best gifts for the children in your life. We address the discrepancies in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and the invention of Karaoke. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode we chat about the Barbra Streisand autobiography as well as Steve's experience recording his audiobook. We marvel at the most unbelievable band story, where a singer decided to dose his bass player with estrogen in a misguided attempt to steal his fiancé. Don Henley's testimony in a recent trial opens a whole new speculation about how much cocaine The Eagles really were going in the early 1980s and wrap with some Neal Schon history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We start by taking a listener's question from The Bone socials about Aerosmith & the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band movie from the 1980s, where we learn how Peter Frampton was bamboozled into the part. We learn about the bald eagle nest in St3ve's neighborhood. Steve has some advice for the pending nuptials of Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi and we chat about the new (and old) Pear Jam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.