Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show

Cobras & Fire is a comedy / rock talk show with absurd discussions about music, news, and life. Join your irreverent hosts Bakko and Loose Cannon as we make fun of what we love. We feature a mix of classic artists and bands on the rise. Rock's not dead. It's hiding. And you found it. In addition to our regular show, our interview episodes include members of Judas Priest, KISS, Anthrax, Motley Crue, and more. Our sidecast “Whatever, Nevermind” counts down the 25 Greatest Grunge albums according to Rolling Stone. Episodes feature a special guest host from the Podcast Community and interviews with the artists, producers, and record label execs involved with the albums.

Music Commentary
Comedy
Music Interviews
201
Bakko Plus One - Zeus, Shout It Out Loudcast
This week, Bakko's Plus One is Zeus from the Shout It Out Loudcast. Plenty of KISS talk on this one. The perfect KISS body. Paul Stanley on Twitter. But some other stuff including breaking down some confusing lyrics from a 70's arena rock giant. Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers Shout It Out Loudcast
76 min
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EP 270: Bon Jovi Vox, VH Tribute Tour + Live or...
Jon Bon Jovi vocal struggles. LC getting baptized at a Local H show. Bach v. Jericho v. Trunk v. Santa Cruz. Eddie Van Halen tribute tour rumors. Being discriminated for being a KISS fan. LC & Bakko wonder if the listeners think Aaron Camaro or Craig Smith is in the studio when we record. Horrible people hooking up and more. Local H - 4/20/22 Setlist via Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/65Bm9LLWw2vAmG4z6DPwSz?si=8be9d94c95e84fcc Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers Music: Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day Crobot - Set You Free KISS - I Just Wanna Richie Sambora - Ballad Of Youth Lee Moracchioli - Girl You Know It's True Van Halen - Tattoo
74 min
203
Bakko Plus One - Ron Keel
The Metal Cowboy Ron Keel is back to talk about new music. Keelworld. Keelfest. Some of our aging rock stars vocal struggles. Canceling a show. Busting Bakko's balls and more. Enjoy. Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers Ron Keel - Ron Keel, Keel
74 min
204
EP 269: Batch 7 - Bret Michaels Church Peppers
This week LC & Bakko discuss invading ones personal space. Eric Church is d-bag. A look back at our first 6 batches. Some love for podcasts, Paul Stanley goes on a family vacation. A Red Hot Chili Peppers album review and Bret Michaels takes a stab at that sweet TikTok influencer money. Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers Music: Damned Things - Handbook For The Deceased Motorhead - Get Back In Line Audrey Horne - Danse Macabre Bakko - Twist O Cain Dead Daisies - Like No Other Red Hot Chili Peppers - Here Ever After Poison - Stand
82 min
205
Bakko Plus One - Courtney Cronin Dold
Comedian Courtney Cronin Dold joins Bakko to discuss misogyny in entertainment. The slap. The odds of Vince Neil surviving the Stadium Tour. MIlli Vanilli. Teenage Spank Banks. KISS Jokes. Taylor Hawkins and special Grammy new artist game with a very special podcaster. Enjoy.
95 min
206
Jordan Griffin of Them Evils Interview
Jordan Griffin, guitarist and singer of Them Evils returns to the show to discuss their latest single Burner, the bands bass player being in the mix for the next Steel Panther bassist, getting beer from Dave Grohl, guitar gear, the reality of streaming, some grunge love, a tour tease and more. Them Evils Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers
43 min
207
EP 268: Taylor Hawkins, Kim Kardashian, Skid Row
Just before the recording of this EP LC & Bakko learned of the passing of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. This EP is dedicated to him. The guys also discuss Skid Row, yet again, having a new singer, where Kid Rock lands on the "Cool" scale, Ghost and Def Leppard release new music, and somehow pickleball is involved. Enjoy. Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers
69 min
208
EP 267: March Badness 2022 Champion
The polls are closed. The votes have been counted. The 2022 March Badness Tournament is over. LC & Bakko present your champion to you... the listener. Thanks for voting. Until next year... Pantheon Podcasts, Podcasts for music lovers
88 min
209
Bakko Plus One - Brian Davis of Damn Good Movie...
Bakko's Plus One this week is Brain Davis, host of the Damn Good Movie Memories Podcast. Bakko and Brian discuss the downside of activities like bowling, karaoke & softball. Bakko pitches a spinoff podcast to Brian. Car stereos. Cassettes. Music being undervalued. Netflix making a lot of bad stuff. Rock bio-pics vs. documentaries. Movie sound tracks and more. Pantheon Podcasts Podcasts for music lovers Damn Good Movie Memories on Apple Podcasts Music: AC/DC - Who Made Who Dio - Hungry For Heaven Gun - Word Up Wallflowers - Heroes Nickelback & Kid Rock - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting Don Felder - Heavy Metal John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - The Dark Side
91 min
210
EP 266: Foo Fighters movie Studio 666, Pam & To...
LC & Bakko discuss the Pam & Tommy series, the Foo Fighters movie Studio 666, Nikki Sixx vs. Eddie Vedder, new releases from Scorpions and RHCP, Spotify drama, LC selling Girl Scout Cookies, and more. Music: Tommy Lee - Tired Them Evils - Burner Red Hot Chili Peppers - Black Summer Jesus Chrysler - Rockin' In The Free World Dream Widow - March Of The Insane Guns N Roses - You Ain't The First Cobras & Fire is a proud member of Pantheon Podcasts, The Podcast Network for Music Lovers.
76 min
211
March Badness Round 3 Results Show
We make our way into the March Badness Final Four with a recap of round 3 results and preview of the round 4 matchups. Round 4 voting starts Tuesday 3/15/2022. #MarchBadness Download Bracket from Cobras & Fire Website (PDF) VOTE! Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Decibel Geek Community | Facebook Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Pantheon Podcasts Podcasts For Music Lovers
13 min
212
March Badness - Round 2 Results
We make our way into the March Badness Elite 8 with a recap of round 2 results and preview of round 3 matchups. Plus a bracket busted update. Round 3 voting starts Sunday 3/13/2022. #MarchBadness Download Bracket from Cobras & Fire Website (PDF) VOTE! Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Decibel Geek Community | Facebook Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Pantheon Podcasts Podcasts For Music Lovers
18 min
213
March Badness - Round 1 Results
Bakko & LC Recap the final votes of round one of 2022 March Badness. Round 2 polls open on Sunday, March 6th, Voting can be done on the Cobras On Fire Facebook group, Decibel Geek Community Facebook group, and the Cobras & Fire Twitter page. Links below.! Vote on all 3 and as often as you can. Download Bracket from Cobras & Fire Website (PDF) VOTE! Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Decibel Geek Community | Facebook Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Pantheon Podcasts
38 min
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EP 265: Monsters of Rock Cruise Recap
LC set sail last month on the Monsters of Rock 5-day cruise featuring Alice Cooper and a cast of thousands…. and Grampa Bakko has a lot of questions. Intro courtesy of Courtney Cronin-Dold Music: Crazy Lixx-Hell Raising Woman Union-Love (I Don't Need It Anymore) Motley Crue - Hooligan's Holiday Lit-My Own Worst Enemy Beasto Blanco-Let's Rip Faster Pussycat-Where There's A Whip Eclipse-Mary Leigh Follow Cobras & Fire (View All Links) Follow Pantheon - The Home of Music Podcasts (Spotify)
109 min
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EP 264: March Badness 2022 Selection Show
March Badness returns along with Chris & Aaron from Decibel Geek to join LC & Bakko for this year's selection show. 32 horrible albums will be weeded down to a single champion by listener vote and reviewed on a future episode. This year includes a listener pick from each of the hosts. Also, fill out your own bracket, email it to loosebakko@gmail.com for a chance to win a Cobras & Fire T-Shirt. Voting begins on March 1st and ends on March 18th. Voting can be done on the Cobras On Fire Facebook group, Decibel Geek Community Facebook group, and the Cobras & Fire Twitter page. Links below.! Vote on all 3 and as often as you can. Download Bracket from Cobras & Fire Website (PDF) VOTE! Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Decibel Geek Community | Facebook Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Pantheon Podcasts
102 min
216
Bakko Plus One - Wally Norton CGCM Radio
Bakko's Plus One this week is Wally Norton from the CGCM Podcast and internet radio station. Bakko tries to give Bieber back to Canada. What is the best Van Halen song. Wally owning a cottage in Canada that isn't winterized. Bakko unwittingly starts a fight with Cardi B fans. They get into the Joe Rogan/Spotify/Neil Young kerfuffle. And a Canadian slang game. CFL vs. NFL. Everything from A-Zed. Cobras & Fire is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, THE spot for the musically obsessed. Featuring the music: Triumph - Tears In The Rain WASP - The Real Me Rush - Spirit of Radio Killer Dwarfs - Tell Me Please Aldo Nova - Fantasy Kim Mitchell - Go For Soda CGCM Rock Radio (live365.com) Pantheon Podcasts
94 min
217
Remembering Jonny Z with Neil Turbin & Chris Akin
A show dedicated to the impact of Megaforce Records founder Jonny Z. With Chris Akin from the Classic Metal Show and original Anthrax singer Neil Turbin. Jonny Z, was an American music industry executive who was the owner of New Jersey's Rock'n Roll Heaven record store and founder of record label Megaforce Records. Zazula's record store in East Brunswick, New Jersey made him a central figure of the East Coast metal scene, regularly playing demo tapes sent to him through his underground tape-trading network which included the likes of Brian Slagel of Metal Blade Records, Ron Quintana (the editor of Metal Mania magazine), and producer Mark Whitaker. He was also somewhat of a mentor to Eddie Trunk. Anthrax - Metal Thrashing Mad Metallica - Phantom Lord Testament - Eerie Inhabitants Lone Rager - Metal Rap T.T. Quick - Metal Of Honor Raven - Sledgehammer Rock Cobras & Fire is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, THE spot for the musically obsessed. Chris Akin Presents… - The CMS Podcast Network (cmspn.com) Megaforce Records - Megaforce Records Pantheon Podcasts
76 min
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EP 263: Meat Loaf, Monsters of Rock Cruise, W.A...
This EP LC refuses to pay it backward. Bakko has a shoplifting dilemma. The Motley Crue/Def Leppard stadium tour seems yet again doomed to be pushed another year away. LC packs for the High Seas of the Monsters of Rock Cruise. WASP returns to their homeland. An ode to Meat Loaf and of course... more. Cobras & Fire is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, THE spot for the musically obsessed. Music: KISS - I Stole Your Love LA Maybe - Sucker Punch Ozzy Osbourne - Steal Away LA Guns - Mr. Roboto Queensryche - Best I Can Pop Evil - Boss's Daughter W.A.S.P. - Kill Fuck Die Meat Loaf - Blind As A Bat
89 min
219
Jizzy Pearl Love/Hate, Quiet Riot
Cobras & Fire welcomes Jizzy Pearl to the program. Jizzy talks about his latest book All The Devils, Love/Hate, Quiet Riot, rumors he ran Metal Sludge, the KNAC webcam, Rudy Sarzo returning to Quiet Riot, upcoming tour dates and more. Cobras & Fire is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, THE spot for the musically obsessed. jizzypearl ALL THE DEVILS - Limited to 385 (signed and numbered by Jizzy) *NEW RE – jizzypearl JPearlTV - YouTube JIZZY PEARL (JIZZO) WAS RAISED ON THE HOLLYWOOD SUNSET STRIP IN THE LATE 80'S. HE IS THE SINGER OF THE COLUMBIA RECORDS BAND LOVE/HATE WHICH RELEASED THEIR MUCH-ACCLAIMED FIRST RECORD "BLACK OUT IN THE RED ROOM" IN 1990. THIS RECORD RECEIVED THE HONOR OF 'BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR" FROM KERRANG! AND METAL HAMMER MAGAZINES. JIZZY PEARL HAS TOURED WITH SUCH BANDS AS AC/DC, OZZY OSBOURNE, JUDAS PRIEST, DIO AND MANY OTHERS. JIZZY HAS ALSO SUNG FOR HOLLYWOOD MULTI-PLATINUM BANDS L.A. GUNS AND RATT. JIZZY IS THE CURRENT SINGER FOR QUIET RIOT. JIZZY HAS RELEASED 16 RECORDS WITH LOVE/HATE, L.A. GUNS, QUIET RIOT AND SEVERAL SOLO RECORDS. HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN FOUR BOOKS, THE CURRENT BOOK IS CALLED “ALL THE DEVILS.”
41 min
220
EP 262: Ozzy NFT, Clapton Strikes Back, KISS Pu...
John Madden passed away. LC & Bakko's appearance on Decibel Geek Friday Night Live. Podcasts around the world Best of 2021 shows. Gene Simmons thinks trademarking the $ logo is more profitable than Springsteen selling his publishing for 500M. Clapton's lawyers suck at PR. The latest KISS soundboard series. Alex Skolnick becomes a Hip-Hop legend. Ozzy sells NFT's & more. BONUS: Watch LC & Bakko join Chris & Aaron on Decibel Geek TV and determine the greatest 1992 album during Bracket Brawl!: WATCH Friday Night Live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Music: Black Crowes - Remedy Led Zeppelin - Rock N Roll Black Spiders - Fly In Your Soup Ayron Jones - Supercharged Toby Rand - Layla Wildlife - Bad City Ozzy Ozbourne - Hero
57 min
221
Bakko Plus One - Izzy Presley
Bakko's plus 1 this ep is the host of Metal Edge Magazine's Not Another F'n Podcast, Izzy Presley. A couple of Minnesota boys talking about Minnesota music. We get into Izzy's journey from St. Cloud MN to the city of Angels. His Ace Frehley tribute band Ack! The much maligned Metrodome. Izzy stages a Cheap Trick intervention. MN sports let downs. Packer fans. Favorite bands from Minnesota. The upcoming Monsters of Rock Cruise and so much more. Cobras & Fire is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network, THE spot for the musically obsessed. Featuring the Minnesota Made Music: FLIPP - Half A Brain Janis Figure - Hitchhiker's Holiday Jesus Chrysler - I Know Jesus Lamont Cranston Band - Upper Mississippi Shakedown Oddfathers - Another Tear Goes Dry Slave Raider - What Do You Know About Rock N Roll Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind Mortificator - Save It For The Pit Slave Raider - The Black Hole Metal Edge Magazine's Another FN Podcast on Apple Podcasts Pantheon Podcasts CRUISE | MONSTERS OF ROCK (themonstersofrock.com)
90 min
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EP 261: Wang Out Of Hell
LC & Bakko kick off 2022 in classic fashion. Bakko explains a Facebook post. Ace Frehley goes after Satanist's. Eric Clapton has always been an old man. Motley Crue tries to keep up. Ted Nugent ejaculates & believe it or not... MORE! Music Piston - Mama We're All Crazy Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright Bulletboys - Kissin' Kitty Sheryl Crow - Anything But Down Motley Crue - If I Die Tomorrow Damn Yankees - Coming Of Age Ted - Wango Tango
80 min
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The Best of Cobras & Fire 2021 Part Two
A look back at all the fun and excitement that was Cobras & Fire in 2021. Highlights of the best, funniest and irreverent moments from LC & Bakko. Music: Iron Maiden - Wasted Years J Geils Band - Centerfold Misfits - TV Casualty Damn Yankees - High Enough The Cars - Hello Again King Kobra - Knock Em Dead Kingdom Come - Do Ya Like It White Lion - Wait KISS - Down On Your Knees Kings X - Over My Head Q5 - Pull The Trigger Smashed Gladys - Lick It Into Shape Who - Won't Get Fooled Again Hall & Oates - Maneater Rod Stewart - Ooh La La Powerman 5000 - Free Cinderella - Shelter Me KISS - Rocket Ride Ozark Mountain Daredevils - If You Wanna Get To Heaven Reckless - Crazy Over You Van Halen - Panama Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok Timbuk 3 - The Futures So Bright Twisted Sister - Wake Up The Sleeping Giant
122 min
224
The Best of Cobras & Fire 2021 Part One
A look back at all the fun and excitement that was Cobras & Fire in 2021. Highlights of the best, funniest and irreverent moments from LC & Bakko. Music: Cheap Trick - How Are You? Cold - No One Gin Wigmore - Black Sheep Goldfinger - Here In Your Bedroom Greg Kihn - Jeopardy Oasis - Live Forever Pearl Jam - I Believe In Miracles The Von Bondies - C'mon, C'mon Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time Guns N Roses - Sorry Johnny Lang - Lie To Me Great White - Desert Moon Monster Truck - Things Get Better Mike + The Mechanis - Silent Running Keel - I Said The Wrong Thing To The Right Girl Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands On Me Billy Swan - I Can Help
95 min
225
EP 260: Top 5 Albums 2021
Is the album a dead art form? Debatable. LC and Bakko discuss and countdown each of their top 5 rock albums of 2021. Details and links to artists' social pages in show notes. Spoilers ahead! Music Featured: Turbonegro: Rock + Roll Machine Tetrarch: Negative Noise The Bronx: Watering the Well Badflower: FUKBOI Trucker Diablo: Tail End of a Hurricane Teenage Wrist: Wasting Time Dead Deads: Hey GirilFriend Blacktop Mojo: Wicked Woman Weezer: Beginning of the End Royal Blood: Oblivion Rob Zombie: Ballad of Sleazy Rider Some Irish Band: Rock Kids of the 80s Honorable Mention - Additional bands to check out! Links below. Piston Hellbot Georgia Thunderbolts
54 min