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Big Daddy Dave joins the show for the first in a series of episodes dedicated to each of Black Sabbath's post Ozzy records.  We of course begin with the Ronnie Jame Dio’s first album with the band, “heaven and Hell."  In addition to its classic title track there’s a lot to like here but is it really a Black Sabbath album?  We discuss.      RIP Ronnie James Dio RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP32:  The Complete Black Sabbath Discography (the Ozzy Years) https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/07/09/ep32-black-sabbath-complete-discography/   Black Sabbath w/ Rob Halford  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHyUyPPipJw&t=741s   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?s

Topics include government induced pandemics, suburban homes turned into yuppy prisons, blindly trusting self-appointed authorities, getting swept up in the crazed adrenaline of an angry mob and corporate surveillance.  1982 or 2022?      RIP D.H. Peligro  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:   EP9 Dead Kennedys “Frankenchrist” https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/01/22/ep-9-dead-kennedys-frankenchrist/   Academy O.C. “The Legend of Bradman Chapley” https://open.spotify.com/album/2bvxSPaEnxmtNeUYfrs91I?si=7YVYuMSzRkS2TTHxeu-VSA   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/  

Booking a compelling music festival is tough.  You need the right venue, a good range of bands and your headliner is crucial to the events financial success.  So, if you had to curate your own Punk Rock fest with a ten band lineup and a limited budget, how would you go about it?  Would you focus on more affordable, up and coming acts or would you lean into legacy bands that tug on the nostalgia of an audience with deeper pockets?  Our philosophies differ but the results offer three interesting fantasy options for the 2023 festival goer.    LINK TO EPISODE IN BIO   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates

Most people would identify “Ace of Spades” as Motörhead’s classic LP and they’re not wrong.  In fact, the band released six classics in a row starting with their self-titled 1977 debut but it’s really “Overkill” that honed the sound that would unite Metalheads and Punks and influence thousands of bands from every possible subgenre.  From Discharge to Metallica, extreme music would simply not sound the same without Lemmy, “Fast" Eddie Clarke and “Filthy” Phil (The Animal) Taylor and there’s no more sonic proof than their sophomore LP.    RIP Lemmy RIP Fast Eddie Clarke RIP Phil Taylor  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP134:  Motörhead Ace of Spades  https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/08/17/ep134-motorhead-ace-of-spades-soundtrack-to-the-apocalypse-vol-20/    Anot

X always had elements of Americana and Country on the edges of their music but never as straight forward or overt as when they swapped their legendary guitar player Billy Zoom for another LA legend (Dave Alvin of the Blasters) and changed their name to the Knitters.  Half of the songs on their debut are covers but they fit so neatly alongside the John Doe / Exene Cervenka originals that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it was recorded.  It’s a timeless sound for sure, but how does it hold up on 2023?   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Marty & Elayne  https://www.thedresden.com/event/marty-elayne/   Serge Gainsbourg Aux Armes Et Caetera  https://open.spotify.com/album/20iIOE0SiJEVa8LpkMfN3B?si=BuburO_dQiWH-IjdrzRpkg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcas

With a battle cry go forth, which is "Give the people what they want"; and what the people want could only be the senseless slaughter of the gutter-slime that litters this nation for cash and prizes. Yes, this is the show where people bet their lives to win something big. Cause when your life is shit, then you haven't got much to lose on: The Huntsman Hill Polanco Podcast!     RIP Dave Brockie  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Pinback Blue Screen Life https://open.spotify.com/album/3qMXTPf0ofiBHm4D5chujy?si=juET9BNCQhim4wsCrnmq0g   Movies & TV This is Gwar https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/this-is-gwar/563e4d6d26ca5253   Holliston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5ktm9hBEw   GWAR on Joan Rivers  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wwxYrMOvE   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   O

Dark Angel’s second LP was released in 1986, the zenith of Thrash Metal and the same year as “Master of Puppets,” “Reign in Blood,” “Peace Sells..” and dozens of other classics of the genre.  It didn’t leave the same scars that many of those other LPs did at the time but how does this cacophony of Slayer inspired riffage hold up in 2023?  Pretty damn well actually.    RIP Jim Durkin RIP Donald Runyon  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    We Have Arrived https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRpNQJGvL4   Academy O.C. Our Own Disaster  https://open.spotify.com/album/0tFStv5vbtMWNHulzagilr?si=Ij00FXlRQXmrFnn_cvjzsA   HHPP EP50:  The Best Music of 1986 https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/01/30/ep50-the-best-music-of-1986/   HHPP EP78:  VoiVod Killing Technology  https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/09/30/ep78-voivod-killing-technology/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1w

Despite its party vibe, “1965” was the Afghan Whigs breakup album.  The move to a new record label (Columbia), lackluster sales and a less than spectacular tour with Aerosmith that would culminate in a coma inducing 2x4 to the head in an Austin Texas bar bathroom would prove too much for the band.  Though they would emerge triumphant to reunite in in 2006, “1965” for a time was their final salvo and what a gloriously debaucherous time it was.  #solopod!        RIP Bob Nalbandian    Recommended Listening:   EP185AW:  The Afghan Whigs Black Love https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/07/31/ep185aw-the-afghan-whigs-black-love/   Live At the Howlin’ Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUFDfpVvXzU   Moon Maan  https://open.spotify.com/album/0pUyXByJ9TjelPxVD9OBy5?si=8EQr3lOhTxO6wXWXb2SwIA   huntsmanhill.com #huntsmanhill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://manhuntsman.com Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.ba

Is the sum greater than (or ever equal to) the parts?  In this case, Fake Names is the sum and the parts are Refused, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Embrace, One Last Wish, Soulside, Girls Against Boys and Fugazi.  It’s a tall order to be sure and the supergroup pulls from some varied influences, some more expected than others.  How close do they get to their lineage.  We discuss (without surprisingly little debate).         RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    Killer Be Killed  https://open.spotify.com/artist/4JNF6YOUi69O4zAdwQVGLY?si=YxnUITtMS6ijnOA2N7pLcQ   Minor Victories  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ZDbs6Ag5GT53kdeY1ciTx?si=x1u7DduaSUOsFyC6JJSG_A   Bloc Party Silent Alarm https://open.spotify.com/album/0urhQCsjpczjC8zbTMtd8t?si=l6pXhj9LTQyPaFB4jqRHgA   One Last Wish 1986 https://open.spotify.com/album/3mITKV283MWEgyQz7p242N?si=01uHQ2e3R8WGhfV6N5h-kA   Ghost “Square Hammer” https://open.spotify.com/track/2XgTw2co6xv95TmKpMcL70?si=b02e46f2fe27498a   manhuntsman “Glass Hammer” https://open.spo

Part two of our Reevaluation Series where we review an album that we loved in our youth and turned violently against as we became mature music snobs to ask:  Is This Album Actually Great?  This time its Ratt’s 1984 debut “Out of the Cellar.”  The answer might surprise you, unless of course you’ve heard this album before (then the answer is obvious).    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    EP140:  Reevaluation - W.A.S.P. - Is this album actually great? https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/10/12/ep140-re-evaluation-w-a-s-p-is-this-album-actually-g-r-e-a-t/   EP93:  Mötley Crüe Too Fast For Love https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/03/10/ep93-motley-crue-too-fast-for-love/   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://op

Agnostic Front’s second album divided their Hardcore following due to its obvious Metal leanings but these inclinations brought in the Metal kids as the two crowds increasingly began to blend.  Before long “Cause For Alarm” would be heralded as a classic in their catalog and along with releases by SOD, DRI, COC and Suicidal Tendencies would come to define the Crossover genre.  Today it sounds distinctly of a time and that time kicked ass.     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening    Live At CBGB https://open.spotify.com/album/2p0TGP7SKEKa5n8PkzY12A?si=HYYBBgshS-a4R-x7ZYPpng   Movie The Godfathers of Hardcore http://thegodfathersofhardcore.com   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7

We spent last episode Shoegazing and this week we’re tripping in our bucket hats all the way to Madchester to talk about The Charlatans 1990 debut.   Known in the States for the bands lone radio hit,  “The Only One I Know,” the band was a smash in their native England where a full blown scene of drug taking, baggy clothes wearing, dancing to the break of dawn Brits was sweeping the nation.  The Charlatans, along with with The Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, The Happy Mondays & 808 State were the soundtrack.  But how does this stuff hold up today?  Pretty damn well actually.       Recommended Listening    Inspiral Carpets  https://open.spotify.com/artist/66GWpx9iLxrvvfhDsG9STP?si=MLlUJKyVQpmXOv2qWpi49w   808 State “Cubik" https://open.spotify.com/track/5BxETnZ8Dzm86jcuFAozOa?si=6fb3e5628aa1484c   Happy Monday Bummed  https://open.spotify.com/album/6e6DI3muL90IC1LESBo7wK?si=WmKkVMnSTpGcx7P5YANJOw   Ned’s Atomic Dustbin God fodder https://open.spotify.com/album/3jkqrE3ycfEY8088IZXcZZ?si=hOvoDFPYQHiotJMt8Q

It’s 1990 in the UK for a couple of weeks on the HHPP starting with Ride’s stellar debut.  The Oxford quartet  along with My Bloody Valentine were the stalwarts for the then gestating Shoegaze scene,  but while MBV leaned more heavily into the sonic chaos of Sonic Youth, Ride drew on the psychedelia of The Stones Roses.  Regardless of shared of specific influences, each would release masterpieces at the start of the decade, starting with Nowhere.      Recommended Listening    Going Blank Again https://open.spotify.com/album/5l70cCHX1QzN680J68rblF?si=T0G9dn_VSXmBm1OHx76gcQ   Arabian Disco  https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-arabian-disco   7 Seconds Walk Together Rock Together  https://open.spotify.com/album/21CVdYp5y603h73JwAwf0N?si=-euD06vMQoWHuhUyRxkNWw   Ash https://open.spotify.com/artist/2evydP72Z45DouM4uMGsIE?si=Rt6CxOj4SoqKQAh6nc9MLA   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.c

Never Mind the Bullocks, Rocket to Russia, Animals, Low, My Aim is True, Heroes, Rumours and yes, Aja all came out in 1977 and Television’s Marquee Moon might be the best of all of them.  It's punk but atmospheric, arty but accessible, full of attitude but emotional, catchy but virtuosic.  It’s the masterpiece that hides in the shadows, sneaks up on you and then stays with you for the rest of your life.  We find a variety of ways to express this sentiment over and over again for an hour and half.  Enjoy!     RIP Tom Verlaine  RIP Bob N

Rodney was a punk rocker, Michael was a punk rocker, Glenn was a punk rocker, Rancid are punk rockers as they will repeatedly remind you throughout the 42 tracks that make up their second and third LPs.  Results may vary as do our opinions of the bands commercial breakthroughs.  Let’s fight!    Recommended Listening    EP52:  Operation Ivy “Energy” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/02/11/ep52-operation-ivy-energy/   Book   Jeff Tweedy “How to Write One Song” https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-One-Song-Loving/dp/B08DL33RQ1/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAuOieBhAIEiwAgjCvcslBUAN4Ub47Z15qySRdIBN3nf6UWZvl_ojGIRvIct9rybwaiZI96hoC6hQQAvD_BwE&hvadid=455182981612&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031041&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5519565023890393893&hvtargid=kwd-938909160184&hydadcr=22561_10354861&keywords=how+to+write+one+song&qid=1675317216&sr=8-1   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https:

This one’s for Bob.   Recommended Listening    HHPP EP192 (featuring Bob Nalbandian)  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LLWiEga88ZAenA3u9AZMA?si=d446d9b934624566   Movies   Inside Metal (Directed by Bob Nalbandian)   https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Metal-Pioneers-L/dp/B0797LG6FB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CZGSCQG1147A&keywords=inside+metal&qid=1675006630&sprefix=inside+metal%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1   The Rainbow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7fnUJTt4M   Heavy Metal Parking Lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/aca

On July 3, 1969 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drown to death.  Two years later to the day on July 3, 1971 Jim Morrison was found dead in a Paris hotel room and in between both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin would also meet tragic fates.  The four were each only 27 years old and their deaths would unwittingly form an infamous club whose membership, primarily among musicians  would mysteriously grow over the years as Chris Bell of Big Star, D Boon of the Minutemen, Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse and many others would join its growing ranks.  We discuss the phenomenon and dig deep into its luminaries that have had a specific impact on us.     Bob Nalbandian Go Fund Me https://www.gofundme.com/f/bob-nalbandian?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email_m_pd-5332-donation-receipt-adyen&utm_content=internal   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/12982

Scowl are one of a handful of up and coming hardcore bands poised to follow Turnstile into mainstream success.  Charismatic singer Kat Moss is the perfect front person for the moment and is kicking the doors open for thousands of young women to join a scene that long excluded them.   Their debut LP is all the buzz and their live shows are becoming can’t miss events.  But is their music any good?  And is their home town of Santa Cruz CA a bastion of Granola and free thinkers or actually sketchy AF and hard as nails?  Only the kids know for sure.      Recommended Listening    Greg Hahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQWjJ4V07Go   RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7

When Metallica’s “Black Album” was released in 1991 Glenn and I looked at each other with confusion and exclaimed “There’s no Metallica in my Metallica!”  Gone were the screaming vocals, the long overly complicated song structures and pissed off aggression.  I had this same feeling again in 2021 with the release of Deafheaven’s “Infinite Granite.”  It was a far cry from their 2013 masterpiece “Sunbather” (their “Master of Puppets” if you will) and I was confused and a little bit sad though I quickly came around.  Being unfamiliar with the band or either record, neither Glenn nor Rod endured such a burden so I thought, “let’s get their unbiased take” by pitting the two records against each other in a VINYL CAGE MATCH and that’s exactly what we did.  The results surprised me.  Turns out those guys have pretty good taste.         Recommended Listening    Alcest Souvenirs d’un autre monde https://open.spotify.com/album/1zQQoViMwTIXwmidyqTXdF?si=HQsfD6LyRnipB_wlEJbm8A   Ride Nowhere https://open.spotify.com/albu

Now two years removed from the height of the COVD-19 pandemic, 2022 finally saw a return to normalcy and that included an abundant year in music.  Live shows were back in full swing, records were recorded with band members actually in the same room together and acoustic bedroom performances on Instagram slowed down considerably.  Our seventh annual Year End episode reflects all of this and indicates that our voracious appetite for all things music (including the music itself) has not waned a bit.  Our respective Best Of ’22 lists include some of the best shows we attended, our favorite albums released this year, old artists we've only recently discovered, great books we've read and in Glenn’s case even an entire music scene.  It all indicates that we still can’t get enough music and can’t wait to hear what we’ll get into in the coming year.  Happy New Year y’all.     RIP Bob Nalbandian   huntsmanhill.com huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Spotify Playlis