Hit the Light with Mike and Big Frog

We're getting meta with our metal. Talking about our favorite (and some least favorite) metal songs that are about metal, plus some metal news!

Ok, so Covid isn't actually GONE, but apparently we a decided it was anyway.  We do a run down on the state of metal after the worst pandemic in a century, and discuss the Hall of Fame nomination we thought would never come.

We're back! Sorry about the unexplained absence, we both just had a really busy start to 2022.  We're back to recording more regularly and have some fun things planned coming up. This episode we're talking about Rob Zombie. He's solo career and film making one. Enjoy! 

The year is almost over, and for this episode we're talking White Zombie, and more!

Happy Halloween everyone! Sorry about the delay (life is hectic lately) but just in time we have our episode on Iommi's most evil riffs, along with some metal news!

You heard the worst, now here's the best! Our favorite cover songs!

For every epic cover song in rock and metal history, there are probably ten awful ones.  We're going "undercover" to unearth 10 of the most heinous crimes in cover song history. 

Sometimes even our favorite artists make huge mistakes, these are some of the biggest missteps in rock and metal history (In our opinion) 

We're getting close to reopening and summer is around the corner, what better time to talk party songs?

Nothing fancy this time, just talking some more kick ass guitar riffs!

We decided to make this our annual tradition, we break down the 2021 Hall of Fame nominees, and who we think has the best chance of getting it 

This is it, the episode VH fans have been waiting for: our final tribute to the legendary Edward Van Halen is a deep dive into the self titled debut of the mighty Van Halen!

We send off 2020 and talk about the goings on in the world of metal in the bizarre year that was.  We'll be back soon with our final Van Halen episode!

We continue our trip in the way back machine, covering the Dave era of the mighty Van Halen!

On October 6th, we lost a legend.  We decided to do an album by album dive into his career, but for fun, we're doing it in reverse!  In part 1 we'll cover "A Different Kind of Truth", Van Halen III, and the entire Sammy Hagar era.   

The wind blows through your hair as you slay the mighty red dragon and save the realm!  Not really, but power metal will paint that picture for you! Is it cheesy? Sure, but at least it's fun.    

With all the protests and general unrest, we thought this would be a great time to release an episode on one of the most controversial bands of all time, Body Count. This one is a bit more politically charged than other episodes, but, fuck it.  Black Lives Matter.

Last episode we followed the band from its origins to the end of the classic era, when Fast Eddie Clarke left.  This episode we pick up from there, and follow the lineup shifts up until Lemmy's passing in 2015.

We're finally tackling Lemmy and the legendary Motorhead! This week we follow him through his days as a roadie, Hawkwind, and the classic era of the legendary band!

pretty straight forward. We continue our dive into 70s influences on heavy metal with the legendary Led Zeppelin!

This week, we cover the original shock rocker and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Alice Cooper! We discuss his career and influence on metal over the years.

We're baaaaaack.  Had to give Frog a bit of recovery time from his surgery, as well as figure out how we're gonna do our podcast in quarantine! This episode we're just catching up a bit and chatting about metal, how quarantine is going, and the conspiracy theory that the CIA wrote the Scorpions' "Wind of Change"   Hopefully the quality isn't too bad, still working out the bugs a bit. 

Big Frog with part 2 of his solo episodes on The Scorpions!

Solo episode from Big Frog that he recorded right before surgery, talking about the legendary metal band, The Scorpions!

We originally meant to get this out around Valentine's Day, but better late than never.  Grab your chick, get your lighters out and check out some power ballads.

The ticket saga ends as Ozzy cancels his North American tour definitively. We decided to review the newest Ozzy album "Ordinary Man", and just talk a bit more about the man himself as his career begins to come to a close.

This week we're keeping it simple: our favorite deep cuts from our favorite bands!

Little bit different concept, but this week we talk "time  capsule albums", albums that for whatever reason defined a specific time and place for us, and some stories to go with it.  Kind of  a fun, shooting the shit episode.  Enjoy!

This week we talk our  personal top 5 controversial songs from metal acts! We also discuss the impact these controversies had on the industry and society, as well as the latest news from Ozzy Osbourne.  All that and Mike piggy backing off of Big Frog's episode on racism. 

Just in time for MLK Day.... almost, Big Frog is tackling the issue of racism, in the latest episode of Frogsplaining!

Bit of a loose episode for the new year!  We discuss the name change, Mike's surgery, some album's slated for 2020, update on the Hall of Fame, as well as the Heavy Metal Hall of Fame!

Happy Holidays! We're back just in time to squeeze out one last episode for 2019,  talking about cook fantasy band lineups and our favorite albums if the decade as we go into 2020.  All that, and our concert report for Ace Frehley!

After some technical difficulties and some prior commitments frog Mike, Big Frog returns from an unintentional hiatus with a solo episode  talking about his favorite concert videos!

In another episode of Frogsplaining, Big Frog talks about the Chargers again, as the NFL hits it's mid-season. 

Little bit of a different episode than usual, but this week we're talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  We go over the nominees, and go a bit more in depth with a few of the notable (for us) bands that have been nominated.  This is your ONE chance to hear us talk about Whitney Houston!

We're talking the best live bands of all time! (In our opinions), some sound glitches early on, so please be patient.

We're officially in "Halloween Season", and what better way to kick it off than with a discussion about the legendary Horror Punk originators, Misfits? We also have our first guest, comedian, musician and host of the Degenerate Podcast, Ryan Shores!

So our podcast tends to skew a bit older with our music taste and listeners, so we thought we'd bust out some "newer" bands (Frog considers anything after like, 1999 new, so beat with us) for folks to check out that they may not have listened to before.

We all started somewhere, so here are OUR picks for metal albums to introduce people to the genre with!

Did you like our solos episode? Want some MORE bad ass guitar? Well you came to the right place. Think of it as a companion peace, but here are some of our favorite riffs of all time!

The long awaited solo episode from Big Frog:  Randy Rhoads!  Mike stepped aside on this one to let Frog have at on  his favorite guitarist of all time. 

We're doing things a little differently this week: first up, the new home of Frog's 100% solo podcast, "Frogsplaining"!  If you've listened to it before you know what to expect, it's just in a new spot to listen to.  In this episode, Big Frog gives his opinion on the Chargers as this NFL season starts. 

This week we decided to just talk about some of our favorite guitar solos, and to make it easier for everyone, just insert the damn solos in the episode so you don't have to look it up.  Longer episode than usual because of it, but who complains about kick ass solos?

Our second episode on Ozzy Osbourne, we're talking favorite songs, album covers, guitarists and some metal news!(about Ozzy)

So, we've done Black Sabbath, but somehow, after a year JUST got around to the man, the myth, the legend, the Prince of Darkness ™: Ozzy fuckin' Osbourne!  We jump in soon after his dismissal from Black Sabbath and run from there.  This episode is very Randy Rhoads-centric as well, stay tuned next week for even more Ozzy goodness.  All this, and some metal news!

In this episode, we say goodbye to recording at the San Diego Downtown Library with our Iron Maiden finale! This is another fairly loose episode, but we had a blast recording it. Enjoy! 

This week is a Big Frog solo outing (Mike was a tad busy moving into a new apartment).  Frog does a deep dive into the guitarists of Iron Maiden.  So if guitarists are your thing, this is the episode for you!

Ok, so maybe part 2 SHOULD actually be part one, but we had so much fun talking about the NWOBHM it ended up an episode on its own.  In this episode we talk about the beginnings of the band,  and of our own fandom, as well as discussing the set list of their current tour and our opinions of that and a controversial decision made in the set list. 

We decided to wrap a discussion about the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) into our first episode on Iron Maiden.  As they are generally considered the top band to come from the NWOBHM scene of the late 70s and early 80s, we wanted to shine a light on the scene that birthed them, and the bands that influenced so many metal bands afterwards that don't always get their due, like Diamond Head, Saxon and the Tygers of Pan Tang!

This is one of out more fun episodes, where we take an objective look at the hair/glam metal scene that emerged from the Sunset Strip in the 80s, why it blew up the way it did, why it died, and if it's really fair that it still gets shit on so hard compared to other music genres.  

This podcast goes to 11!  Today we're talking about the classic heavy metal mocumentary: "This is Spinal Tap", some of the stories that influenced it, and our favorite gags/jokes in the film.  All that and some metal news!