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Interview:--> Eric Moore (The Godz)

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"I'm gonna burn right up like a  two dollar pistol rocket shot through the sun." ~ The Godz ~ The Godz  rock n roll was never about "pomp & circumstance".  It was never meant to be poured from a Zeppelin chalice or waved like a U2 flag.  It was simply rock n roll with a biker bar attitude. Grease under the fingernails.  Drinks from a dixie cup.  A bit of chauvinistic swag, but nothing to get hung about.  This ain't one of those "you break it, you bought it" kinda snob shops here.  Nobody's taking names and the hall monitor's havin' a smoke.  Take your "serious" somewhere else.  Or maybe you could hang around awhile, crank it up and be a rock n roll machine. ERIC MOORE INTERVIEW  -  APRIL 2015 Casey Chambers:  Your epic rock anthem... "Gotta Keep A Runnin'" ...came out on The Godz debut album in 1978...and I recently heard it again on an all-request show and was reminded how much I enj

Interview:--> Mark Shelton (Manilla Road) -- Part Two

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"I remember well the oath I made that fall..." ~ Manilla Road ~ "Manilla Road is one of America's -- make that the world's -- great cult heavy metal bands. Geographically isolated, fiercely independent, and highly original." - All Music Guide "Manilla Road has never been mainstream.  Never been a GPS point of interest on the  corporate  music map.  Yet fans are very much wise to the game and find them anyway." - The College Crowd Digs Me (click here for part one) Casey Chambers:  During the 80s, Manilla Road were knocking down pins.  You ran the table for the rest of the decade with... "Open The Gates" , "The Deluge" , "Mystification" (my fav), "Out Of The Abyss" and opened the 90s with... "The Courts Of Chaos" (1990).  And then suddenly, Manilla Road just sorta fell off the face of the earth... "Mystification" (1987) Mark Shelton:  That was when we thought