Long before he joined Megadeth Marty Friedman was already making great and groundbreaking heavy metal music with his bands Deuce, Vixen, Aloha and Hawaii. On this episode B.J. discusses those early metal bands with him and you'll get to hear some of the great music that they made.

BJ presents a sampling of thirty more great AOR songs. They'd be wearing their hearts on their sleeve if their shirts had any sleeves!

For this episode BJ is joined by Parthenon Huxley, whose power pop career stretches all the way back to Chapel Hill in the late seventies, alongside the likes of Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. It's an inspirational tale of making it without making it in the music business.

Hear conversations BJ had with Coleman York from Canadian power pop band the Numbers and Graham "Kidder" Hammonds from punky UK power poppers the Incredible Kidda Band. And the songs on this episode? Proof positive that even material of the highest quality did not result in success for many bands.

Legendary Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome graces Rock and/or Roll with his presence. Listen to hear Cheetah discuss: the evolution of punk rock, Peter Laughner, Cheap Trick, Stiv Bators, GG Allin, Ron Weasley...all this and more.

Continuing the power pop series, BJ presents conversations he had with Brent Hoad from Kansas City's The Secrets* and Jeff Root from Boston's Hot Dates.

BJ wrote a book, available now! It's called This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick.

I wrote a book! It's called This band has no past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick. For this very special, one of a kind episode, BJ presents various clips from some of the many interviews that he conducted for the book.

Episode 70, originally released April 2, 2015: Since this is episode number seventy BJ decided to take a look at his own personal top ten favorite albums that were released in the corresponding year of 1970. Episode 74, originally released on April 30, 2015: Since this is episode number seventy-four BJ decided to take a look at his own personal top ten favorite albums that were released in the corresponding year of 1974.

BJ is joined, separately, by guitarist Steve Allen and bassist Ron Flynt from power pop pioneers 20/20 to cover the story of the band and its music.

BJ is joined by Steve Butler from Quincy and Phil Solem from Great Buildings. Both tell very engaging stories. Topics tackled include: murder, lawsuits and Randy Rhoads.

BJ has enlightening conversations about power pop (and the music business) with guitar player Marco Delmar from The Elektrics (who released two albums with Capitol) and keyboardist Dave Hearn from HAWKS (who released two albums with Columbia). What role did a young Jon Bon Jovi play in creating a unique percussion sound? Who turned down a tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Listen to find out.

"Tickled Ivories" originally released June 2014: BJ plays some of his favorite piano-centric rock songs...and they're not all ballads! "Unplugged" originally released March 2014: It's RA/OR UNPLUGGED as BJ plays 25 of his favorite acoustic songs.

The Pop released a pair of singles and album independently before signing with Arista for their 1979 album Go! They managed one more EP with Rhino before splitting up in 1981. Hear David's story of moving from Chicago to LA in the early seventies to pursue his rock and roll dreams.

BJ is joined by Arthur Alexander, guitar player and singer/songwriter from the classic power pop bands the Poppees and Sorrows.

Gary Valentine was an early member of Blondie, performing on the band's first album before leaving to form his own band in Los Angeles called The Know. Hear Gary's story on this episode, with lots of great music interspersed throughout.

BJ is joined by Steve Brigida, drummer from Artful Dodger, for a discussion about the band's career, and their place in the history power pop.

BJ presents an interview with Jonathan Paley from power pop pioneers The Paley Brothers.

BJ presents interviews with two former members of pub rock band the Kursaal Flyers, Graeme Douglas and Will Birch, who each went on to make power pop history with, respectively, Eddie and the Hot Rods and The Records.

Episodes originally released in 2013 and 2016.

For this episode, the second in the power pop series, BJ delves into the story of Big Star via interviews with drummer Jody Stephens and two more people who were there to witness the band's early days, Jon Tiven (from the bands Prix and The Yankees) and Van Duren, who also discusses his classic 1978 album Are You Serious?

For this episode, the first in what will be an extended series about the development of the power pop genre, BJ presents a brief overview, including interviews with Bob Jackson, who joined Badfinger towards the end of that legendary band's original run, and Cyril Jordan, who wrote the iconic "Shake Some Action" for The Flamin' Groovies.

Yes, this is actually the 20th episode of AOR? AOK! Meaning, at this point, BJ has exposed RA/OR listeners to melodic rock songs by more than 450 different bands or artists. IAN CUSSICK - THE SUPERNATURAL GUIDO MINEO - ROSES ROULETTE - ONLY THE STRONG PALACE - NEVER WANNA SAY GOODBYE STEVEN MCCLINTOCK - WHEN LOVE BREAKS SILENT RUNNING - FLAME OF LOVE DAVID J. PETOVAR - IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT 6AM - TIME'S RUNNING AMONG THIEVES - THE SUN STILL SHINES WIZ KIDZ - DOWN ON MY LUCK CHINA - HOT LOVIN' NIGHT P.M. HEAT - COULD IT BE YOU BILOXI - ONE IN A MILLION MONSTERS - RIOT IN THE NIGHT DE-ARROW - CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND MANITO PARK - SURRENDER BRICKYARD - BREAK THE ICE OSLO - STRANGERS EYES VALOR - FOOL NO MORE PAUL COTTON - ONE LONG LAST LOOK MAGGIE BELL - I'M ON THE EDGE OUTRIDER - LOVE IS KILLING ME BLONZ - MIRACLES GENE WALK GROUP - LONG ARM OF LOVE FRICTION - DOWN AND LONELY CHRIS ANDREW - HOLDIN' ON TOWER CITY - WHEN IT ALL FALLS DOWN ROBIN MILLER - FOREVER ERIC RUSSELL - DON'T SLOW DOWN TERRI NUNN - CONFESSION TIME

Originally recorded in 2018 as a Rocknpod exclusive: BJ is joined by Craig Smith from the Pods & Sods Network, Ian Wadley from Rock & Metal Combat, Steven Michael from Growin' Up Rock and Wallygator from the CGCM Podcast for a roundtable discussion about Warrant's unfairly maligned 1990 album Cherry Pie.

Believe it or not...a lot of TV theme songs from the eighties were...good? This episode was ready to go when the RIAA sent its threatening letter, and has been gathering dust since.