Bakko sits down with Jonathan Shank. CEO of Terrapin Station Entertainment and host of the brand new podcast, The Jam. For fans of our music business talk, this is a must listen. About The Jam: A new podcast hosted by Jonathan Shank exploring the evolution of Jam through the lens of key genres, events, and moments and its connection to the mainstream as told by artists, industry icons, and tastemakers. IG: @officialjampodcast About Jonathan Shank: Jonathan Shank is a music entrepreneur and execu...
Mar 21, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko recap the results of Round Three and preview the matchups for the Final Four . Final Four voting starts Saturday March 16th on the Cobras On Fire Facebook Group and the Decibel Geek Community Facebook Group. Join either or both to vote. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2)...
Mar 16, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko recap the results of Round Two and preview the matchups for round Three. Round Three voting starts Monday March 14th in the Cobras On Fire Facebook Group and the Decibel Geek Community Facebook Group. Join either or both to vote. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras...
Mar 14, 2024•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week starts off with an "Is it racist or not" discussion. Extreme & Sebastian Bach show reviews. Spilling coffee on air. Bobbie Brown selling non cancer causing soap. Michael Sweet's cat has a birthday. Slayer is back and more. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire:...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep 316•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko recap the results of Round One and preview the matchups for round two. Round two voting starts Monday March 11th in the Cobras On Fire Facebook Group and the Decibel Geek Community Facebook Group. Join either or both to vote. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & F...
Mar 10, 2024•37 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast It's March so that means the return of March Badness. Chris & Aaron from Decibel Geek are back to make their selections along with Bakko & LC. Make sure to join the Cobras On Fire and Decibel Geek Community to vote your picks. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock ...
Mar 09, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jay Z speaks at the Grammys. Usher performs at the Super Bowl. Candlebox wishes they were the Beatles. Mrs. Nugent brings back Satanic Panic and Bakko has a surprisingly specific Super Bowl prediction & more. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | Chicago ...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep 315•Transcript available on Metacast LC is working on putting on his own festival. Plus Desmond Child takes digs at grunge guitarists. Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper are back on tour. Ace Frehley has pig teets and a huge tax bill. Papa Roach already looking forward to 2025. Roth goes all in on Wolfie and more. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review, and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and f...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep 314•Transcript available on Metacast Bakko sits down with author Darren Paltrowitz to discuss his book DLR Book: How David Lee Roth Changed The World. For more info on the book and all things related to the author: - Paltrocast on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paltrocast-with-darren-paltrowitz/id1429248132 - Paltrocast TV and OTT airings - https://paltrocast.com/where-to-watch - DLR Cast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4D5Uh3Hs8q6iaTIkedDOVo - YouTube (including "DLR Cast" and "Paltrocast") - https://www.yo...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's 2024 and we are back at it. LC & Bakko shake off the rust with a handful of awkward pauses as they remember how to do this show. LC goes to a Buckcherry show. Spotify stiffs Bakko. Bands are refusing to sell merch. Crue has an announcement and it's not a cancelled show. Dave Draiman gets a lady. Ace Frehley has some 2024 personal improvement goals that include talking shit about Tommy Thayer. Bruce Kulick gets chippy. Some show announcements for the coming year. & more Pantheon Podcasts Rea...
Jan 23, 2024•2 hr 36 min•Ep 313•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Toomey (host of 19 podcasts with variants of Nu or Toomey in the title) joins the show to discuss a band. No songs are chosen. This ep was originally released in 2020, the Year of the Metal Rat per the Chinese zodiac. New Bakko and LC episode next week! Oooooh yeeeeeeeeah... More Josh: https://knotfest.com/blogs/talk-toomey https://talk-toomey.simplecast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 16, 2024•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we gear up for 2024, here is a look back at the highlights from the show from the first half of 2023 Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | Chicago IL | Facebook Follow us on Twitter: Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Subscribe to ou...
Jan 09, 2024•2 hr 56 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we gear up for 2024, here is a look back at the highlights from the show from the first half of 2023 Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | Chicago IL | Facebook Follow us on Twitter: Best Hard Rock & Metal Podcast (@CobrasFire) / Twitter Subscribe to ou...
Jan 02, 2024•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko reveal their definitive TOP 5 ROCK ALBUMS for 2023 and ones that almost made the list. They also discuss Weird Science, food bands, and a new fest idea. Scroll down for the music featured after you listen. Websit: Cobras and Fire Podcast - Comedy Rock Talk Show Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and...
Dec 26, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Ep 312•Transcript available on Metacast Merry KISSMas! Here is part two on Music From The Elder with Rob Kern. EP 57. Like Bakko, Rob is among those who appreciate this record. This is part one. This one also has special guest Julian Gill joining. Kind of fun to hear Bakko & Rob jokingly speculate on who is Pawl Stanley. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Clic...
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Back on EP 56 Bakko did a 2 part ep on Music From The Elder with Rob Kern. Then host of the From Out Of Nowhere Podcast. Like Bakko, Rob is among those who appreciate this record. This is part one. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | Chicago IL | Faceboo...
Dec 23, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast An early March Badness winner. Loose and Bakko tackle the 1987 KISS record Crazy Nights. Crazy Nights was KISS swinging for the fence trying to get some of that Def Leppard/Bon Jovi level of sales. Did they overpay to work with Ron Nevison? Should they put Bang Bang You in the EOTR setlist? Did Bakko just coin the term KISS Koma? Find out all of that and more. Plus in this Crackerjack box of a Cobras & Fire EP there is a treat for the listeners. Dig deep and enjoy. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bakko and LC talk about new album releases leading to their top 5 along with discussing the year in music that was 2023. Tons of heavy hitters (Rolling Stones, Metallica, Foo Fighters) dropped albums this year as well as legacy acts (Alice Cooper, Extreme, Dokken), rising stars, and brand-new discoveries. Which ones were complete Swing & Misses, which ones had 3-4 good songs, and which will make our top 5? Music Featured: Dust Coda: Free All The Dancers Rolling Stones - Whole Wide World Alice Co...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 311•Transcript available on Metacast LC and Bakko are back again to break the 1989 KISS record Hot In The Shade. Often maligned for its lack of production, use of drum machines and bloat of material, LC and Bakko try to fix the record by removing some of the filler and re-sequencing the remaining killer to make this a perfect KISS album. They also get into all that led up to and immediately followed this record’s release. Last ep was side one. This week they go track by track for side two. Enjoy. Website: Cobras and Fire Podcast - ...
Dec 17, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC and Bakko are back to break the 1989 KISS record Hot In The Shade. Often maligned for its lack of production, use of drum machines and bloat of material, LC and Bakko try to fix the record by removing some of the filler and re-sequencing the remaining killer to make this a perfect KISS album. They also get into all that led up to and immediately followed this record’s release. This week they go track by track for side one. Website: Cobras and Fire Podcast - Comedy Rock Talk Show Pantheon Podc...
Dec 16, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are going KISS heavy with some bonus eps where we revisit past KISS-themed episodes of Cobras & Fire. As our audience has grown, some of our newer listeners may have missed some of these. Recorded in 2017, we review KISS - Revenge album in detail. We break each song as well as the Revenge Tour, Alive III, KISS X-Treme Close Up video, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Hot in the Shade the music climate in 1992, and where each of us was as a KISS fan leading up to the album and 1992-95 period afterwa...
Dec 15, 2023•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are going KISS heavy with some bonus eps where we revisit past KISS-themed episodes of Cobras & Fire. As our audience has grown, some of our newer listeners may have missed some of these. Recorded in early 2018, in many ways, our Sonic Boom episode shaped the show for the future. All sorts of shows were gathering panels and featuring records they loved. We decided to start doing eps on records we hate. Which turned out to be fun. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe a...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Martin Popoff joins Bakko to discuss his latest book, KISS At 50. They talk all things KISS including the announcement of Avatar KISS seconds after their last show ever. They wrap it all up with their rankings of every KISS album. Buy KISS at 50: martinpopoff.com | Buy on Amazon HERE Martin Popoff is the author of 115-ish books on hard rock, heavy metal, prog rock, punk and record collecting, plus work for Banger Films and writing for Goldmine and bravewords.com Past Work: Amazon.com, musicmusic...
Dec 12, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko discuss Target ads being too accurate. Their latest follower on X Brad Gillis. Bakko offers to throw Jim Gillette a beating. Jay Jay French has horrible advice for new artists. Tons of KISS-related stories. Daryl Hall sues former bandmate John Oates and successfully gets a restraining order against him as well. Sammy/Dave/Eddie/VH drama heats up. LC wants a nemesis and more. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock T...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep 310•Transcript available on Metacast Answering the call that only LC & Bakko can answer. For some years now, KISS has suggested that may pass the baton to a new KISS once the road ends. Well the road has ended and the baton has been handed to... avatars? Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | ...
Dec 05, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just a little over a year ago Daryl Hall from Daryl Hall & John Oates joined the program. With the recent news of his lawsuit and restraining order against longtime music partner John Oates we thought a look back at this chat was merited. You can from an early question from Bakko that there is some larger issues brewing with John. Also, he discusses the immanent return of Live From Daryl's House and that has just recently been made official. ICYMI, here you go. If you caught it the first time, w...
Nov 28, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast The annual Cobras & Fire Black Friday episode is here. If you want to know what they talk about, you have to listen. Please do. And here's to hoping you had a great Thanksgiving. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | Chicago IL | Facebook Follow us on Twit...
Nov 24, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast LC & Bakko talk smoking indoors. The new Mick Mars track from his upcoming debut solo album The Other Side Of Mars. Kerry King has a new band. The passing of LA Guns drummer Steve Riley. The likelihood of Netflix making a Dokken biopic. Trixter drama. Dave Draiman gets bounced from an overbooked flight. New Priest song. Ace fires a shot at Paul Stanley & more. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts...
Nov 21, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Ep 309•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Toomey returns to the show to discuss the latest inductees to the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame. But first, the boys do a quick Slobberknockers mini-ep where they discuss the latest NFL season. Talk Toomey – Knotfest Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Facebook Click like and follow on Facebook: (2) Cobras & Fire: Rock Podcast | C...
Nov 15, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bakko & LC are back with LC recording remotely in Indiana. Topics include. Creed is back. Sammy has a birthday, Vince Neil crashes. Eddie Trunk dominates an interview. Desmond Child blames Grunge. Exposing the LiveNation deal. and of course, breaking down the lawsuit that is KISS v. Gooch. Pantheon Podcasts Reach out to us! Rate, review and subscribe at Apple Podcasts: Cobras & Fire: Comedy / Rock Talk Show on Apple Podcasts Join our fanpage on Facebook: (2) Cobras ON Fire: Private Group | Faceb...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep 308•Transcript available on Metacast 
