Platinum albums, means they sold a at least a million copies, but does that mean they are awesome? Nope. There is such a thing as platinum crap, and on this episode we are exploring some rock albums that were platinum, but as far as we are concerned they were platinum crap. To Get The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP178 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 178
On this episode of Hollywood’s Wild Hair, Sonny goes from doing a solo episode to being joined by his incredible 20-year-old son, Anthony. The idea is to get a youngsters view of where rock stands today, play some killer music and basically make you laugh a little. For The Full Story Go To: https://growinuprock.com/EP177 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Con...
Nov 22, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 177
We talk with Rick Ruhl from Every Mother's Nightmare about their latest album "Resurrect The Faithful". For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EMN WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minority Facebook Group Do You Spotify?...
Nov 19, 2020•48 min
In this episode we discuss some bands that put out great debut albums, but then for some reason never released another album. They effectively were what we are calling one and done bands. For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP176 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Rev...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 176
For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP175 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minority Facebook Group Do You Spotify? Then Follow us and Give Our Playlist a listen. We update it regularly with kick ass rock n roll Spoti...
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 175
Today we talk with the amazing Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie, Son's Of Apollo, W.E.T., Talisman, TSO) about his new album "Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)". We also get into some of Jeff's career, as he goes toe to toe with his biographer Sonny "Hollywood" Pooni. To Get The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP174 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact F...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 174
In this Crank It Up Spotlight we talk with Guitarist Justin Young and Drummer Tom McCullough from Columbus rockers South Of Eden. To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/SOE WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minorit...
Oct 29, 2020•46 min
Sonny and Steven talk about some of their favorite Greatest Hits Albums and what they meant to them growing up. To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP173 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minority Facebook Group...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 173
If we were to hand a teenager a stack of albums that we considered to be the building blocks of rock, what albums would be in that stack? To Get The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP172 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud ...
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 172
Sonny and Steven along with their friends from the Shout It Out Loudcast and Podder Than Hell Podcast are ranking 20 songs from October 1985. In a Livestream event for the Growin' Up Rock Facebook page we busted each others balls and enjoyed plenty of laughs while ranking 20 killer rock songs from the charts in October 1985. Join us for this Livestream bonus. For More Info Go To https://growinuprock.com/20songlivestream WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one o...
Oct 15, 2020•2 hr 40 min
This week we dive into the game show mind of Hollywood and try our hand at playing Scattergories Growin' Up Rock style. As always we can't do it alone so we invite Damn Good Movie Memories host Brian Davis and first time guest to the show SteelCity guitarist Mike Floros to join in the fun. To Get The Full Story Go Here: WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Cont...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 171
Some of the best music a band has to offer appears on their debut albums. In this episode we are giving our top 10 favorite debut rock albums, with a little twist. To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP170 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser J...
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 170
On this edition of Hollywood’s Wild Hair, he goes from doing a solo episode to being joined by his kid brother, Danny and creating a little brotherly love. The idea is to get a sibling’s view of how they grew up with music, where rock stands today, play some killer music and basically make you laugh a little. For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP169 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Conn...
Sep 27, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 169
In this bonus episode of the Crank It Up Spotlight series we interview singer Dave from Italy's rocking Hell In The Club. For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/helloffame WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minority Faceb...
Sep 24, 2020•39 min
This week we discuss two of our favorites in a Motley Crue vs. Ratt showdown. We also invite our friend from the Cobras And Fire Podcast, Bakko to break it down and help us figure out why Ratt never reached the heights that fellow Sunset Strippers Motley Crue reached. To Get The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP168 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail...
Sep 20, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 168
We discuss musicians who left us way too early and where they would have been today if they had lived? Would they have taken a different career path? What are the possibilities and what were the implications it would have had on rock history? To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP167 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like ...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 167
In this bonus episode of the Crank It Up Spotlight series we interview singer Kent Hilli, from Sweden's Perfect Plan. The band returns with their second album "Time For A Miracle". Kent and I discuss some of his roots and the recording of the latest album. For The Full Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/perfectplan WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Cont...
Sep 10, 2020•38 min
Women in rock, deserve our full attention and so this week's episode is dedicated to all those women past and present who have kicked our asses and cranked up their guitars just to entertain us here at Growin’ Up Rock. To Get The Full Story Go Here WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A R...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 166
In the final week of this month long series focusing on music celebrating it's 30th anniversary, we are finishing strong with our Top 10 Rock Albums of 1990. For More Info Click On This: https://growinuprock.com/EP165 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Gro...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 165
This week we have another Game Show Episode. Growin' Up Rock style of course. It's all in the numbers, or at least according to Sonny's brain. We could not get this done alone, so we invite past guest Tony Musallam, and Kevin Williams to help keep all things equal. To Get The Full Story Click On This Link: https://growinuprock.com/EP164 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinupro...
Aug 23, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 164
In this bonus episode, I get the story from Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X on the latest album from his side project Phil X and The Drills. We also discuss his time in Triumph, and some of the work he has done in various sessions for well known artist. To Get The Full Story Click On This Link: https://growinuprock.com/philx WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Conta...
Aug 20, 2020•45 min
We invite special guest Joe McGinness from Klassik '78 and Kuarantine to join us in ranking 20 rock songs from 1990. To Get The Full Story Click On This Link: https://growinuprock.com/EP163 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Minority F...
Aug 16, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 163
Sonny and Steven are celebrating their 3rd Birthday this week. In this episode we will cover 5 Albums released in 1990 which just happen to be the 3rd album released in the bands catalog. Get it? 3rd Album, 3rd Birthday? We are creative - LOL To Get All The Info Go To: https://growinuprock.com/EP162 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Fol...
Aug 09, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 162
In another bonus episode, I chat with guitarist Steve Brown from Trixter and Tokyo Motor Fist. We talk about the new Tokyo Motor Fist album "Lions". We also get into his time with Trixter, Def Leppard, and a trip to Edward Van Halen's famed Studio 5150. To Get The Full Story Go To: https://growinuprock.com/TMF WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form L...
Aug 06, 2020•47 min
In this episode we take a look back at 1990. We are celebrating the 30th anniversary for some of the music, movies, and general pop culture that happened while we were still growing up in 1990. To Get The Full Story Click The Link: https://growinuprock.com/EP161 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Because it’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us o...
Aug 02, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 161
In this episode of Hollywood’s Wild Hair, Hollywood is covering songs that have the same title, but are completely different songs. To Get The Complete Story Click Here: https://growinuprock/EP160 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock Loud Min...
Jul 26, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 160
Steven and Sonny both discuss the Grunge movement in the 90s, but with a look at their top 5 songs that would have fit very nicely with some of the hard rock and metal coming out of the 80s. To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP159 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review ...
Jul 19, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 159
Lead singer Guernica Mancini from Thundermother joins me to discuss the bands upcoming release "Heatwave". I also get some of the facts from Guernica about her career and how she ended up in Thundermother. To Get The Complete Story Go Here: https://growinuprock.com/TMbonus WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter ...
Jul 16, 2020•32 min
In this episode Sonny and Steven talk about siblings rock bands. We get into the bands and music that contain any combination of siblings. To Get The Full Story Click Here: https://growinuprock.com/EP158 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Growin’ Up Rock L...
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 158
The guys along with Special Guest, Steve Wright from The Podder Than Hell Podcast discuss building their perfect playlist, with a twist. To Get The Full Show Notes On This Episode Go To: https://growinuprock.com/EP157 WE NEED YOUR HELP!! It’s quick, easy, and free - Please consider doing one or all of the following to help grow our audience: Connect with us Email us growinuprock@gmail.com Contact Form Like and Follow Us on FaceBook Follow Us on Twitter Leave Us A Review On Podchaser Join The Gro...
Jul 05, 2020•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 157
