Avatar has got to be the most anticipated! Come on, new Cameron – it could be a whole new Terminator like franchise ready to be born! This could be like the time right before Aliens kicked us in the heads

Now to find out if I can OBTAIN a “High School” torrent. The hunt is on…

You guys rock!

Goon: I remember when Kittie kicked out the black girl in the band and shortly after that I had to interview them and was given notice by their management not to bring that up. That’s what people who liked the band wanted to know about. I asked anyway and got a lame answer. Oddly enough I was mysteriously no longer on the guestlist for the show. I was supposed to bring them on stage.

He gave us a funny tidbit. Women, you can’t live with them and you can’t fuck beer.
What made it funnier was that the guy stutters like a mofo, hence his name.

in 1998 I had a radio show on Brock called “Be Quiet and Drive” (was huge into the Deftones at the time), and I had Kittie on the show when they were nothing, simply because they wanted to come and be guests. I don’t know why I said yes, maybe because their now deceased manager father insisted and i was too weak to say no. Maybe because I was 18 and they were 16 and 2 of them were really cute. Either way they came, I played their demo, asked some questions, they just hung out. They actually REALLY knew their shit even though when they started out back then they were more of a nu metal band, they really knew all the underground stuff on Nuclear Blast, Earache, Candlelight, etc

So I was the first person to ever play Kittie on the radio, and am on the thank you list of their first album – everyone has to be notorious for something I guess.

Swarez: Big fan of STL. Townsend is a freak of nature.

Goon: The White House of Rock is a goddam scary place. I’m not sure if it’s haunted per se, but some very fucked up shit happened in there.

Amorphis was fun to play. The Big Unit show can suck my cock. It was shit and the host was a douche. I don’t even remember who it was. Why play a metal show if you’re gonna be tame? I remember when Slipknot’s IOWA came out. The Sunday before the release date I played 8 songs from it in two hours. You never got that anywhere else. I had carte blanche to play what I wanted. I do remember getting a letter from the CRTC (Canadian content government) for playing an unedited version of Metallica’s So What. Apparently, playing a song that contains the lyrics “I fucked a sheep, I fucked a goat, I rammed my cock right down it’s throat.” is frowned upon. I got to see some awesome shows through that metal program. Slayer/Pantera, White Zombie/Deftones/Panters, Disturbed opening up for Canadian metal chicks Kittie (they were not good), Sepultura. Megadeth at the KoolHaus, an accoustic Megadeth show at the Reverb where not only did Dave Mustaine dedicate Hangar 18 to me, I got to party with the band on their tourbus. I was hugged by each member of Megadeth when they found out that my station played the most Megadeth in all of Canada. Hilarious moment.

But since Gene Hoglan (Death, Dethklok, Death Angel, and maybe more bands that have ‘death’ in the name) is a member/such a force in SYL, I actually think that makes me think less of them as a Canadian band as well.

From Greg’s show I won a couple contests too, and when I’d call in I would often be 4 of the 11 callers needed to get to in order to win. “You’re 4, try again. click” and I’d try and try again, and sure enough that one summer I was always home and near the phone as I listened to it, I won the Coal Chamber album and T-shirt, Beastie Boys tickets – which I traded to Stu for a number of albums he swore he purchased new, but I’m sure he bought used because he’s a cheap fucker like that. Remember popping into the White House of Rock which everyone said was haunted, grabbing that shit, seeing Christie Knight or whateverhernamewas, who looked and sounded like an awful cougar witch.

Ah, memories.

And I remember in another house I was living in, back in like 95, HTZ had a metal show and I remember the christmas episode playing a Judas Priest christmas song. I don’t know if that was Greg’s show though.

There was a competiting metal show starting in 98 on 107.1 called THe Big Unit, which was more mainstream, but I was able to win the entire Slayer catalogue off of.