Classic Rock Hour with John Kenny

Say Your Number

I find Rory Gallagher a bit hit and miss, but Moonchild is a brilliant song.

Have to say it's a great playlist tonight.

Welsh Megaman

SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION!!


AH YEAH!!

Say Your Number

Radio One needs more Marty Friedman fretboard wankery.

lab man

He plays some great music Kenny knows his stuff and doesn't act the maggott

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION!!

AH YEAH!!

The classic line up of Dave, David, Marty and Nick. Nick Menza, a beast of a drummer.

Sugarlumps

Menza was a killer drummer, caught them in the SFX. He was playing a Tama Mirage. Their last two drummers just don’t fit, snare is tuned way too high, giving it a weak sound.

Gar and Menza gave them their legendary sound.

Declan A Walsh

lab man wrote: »

He plays some great music Kenny knows his stuff and doesn't act the maggott

I largely agree with that. Although, he did make one mistake last night. He played Paranoid by Black Sabbath to mark the anniversary of the release of their self-titled debut album. The problem is that Paranoid is from their second album also called Paranoid! I sent in a text and to be fair he acknowledged it.

That said, John is very knowledgeable about rock music in general.

RINO87

Sounds like a good one last night, must listen back

RINO87

Say Your Number wrote: »

Burn by Deep Purple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrjxKCBpd_U

Remember seeing Glenn Hughes perform it in 2011, still had the voice, I miss concerts.

*sigh*

Burn is hands down Deep Purple's best album for me!!

Cole

RINO87 wrote: »

Sounds like a good one last night, must listen back

I tuned in for the second half (haven't listened to JK for years) and it was great stuff...ah Lita Ford

RadioRetro

Last night's playlist was the best so far, right up my alley. It was the sort of lineup that I would have played for myself back in the day when I had a record collection.

Say Your Number

How can you tease an hour of songs from 1975 and play nothing from Sabotage by Black Sabbath or High Voltage from AC/DC

Say Your Number

Lots of Chris Cornell tonight, not a bad thing.

Bassfish

Pantera on RTE1. Nice! Have to come to terms with the fact that my age means the music of my teen years is now 'Classic Rock'.

ford fiesta

some good hard stuff played tonight..reminiscent of his 2FM Metal Show

RINO87

Bassfish wrote: »

Pantera on RTE1. Nice! Have to come to terms with the fact that my age means the music of my teen years is now 'Classic Rock'.

I know its been nearly a year now, but getting surprises like this on Radio 1 still makes me smile!

Welsh Megaman

Spoonman

Rossie11

Got into Alice in chains and others listening to his metal show on 2FM in early 90s.. forever indebted.
If they came along a few years later there was no radio station or show where you would have heard them.

Welsh Megaman

fryup

old man down the road - classic video

Declan A Walsh

I heard much of the show last night.

To mark the anniversary of Rik Ocasek of The Cars, John played You're Just What I Needed. It's a great song. The only issue I have is that he played a song that featured the group's second lead vocalist, bassist Benjamin Orr. I would have thought John might have chosen a tune that actually featured Rik on lead vocals!

Say Your Number

That 'Jaded' song by Aerosmith sounds a bit like Foo Fighters.

Say Your Number

A lot of Kerrang channel circa 2001 on tonight (No Nu-Metal thankfully)

RINO87

Wow. Andrew WK there's a memory I forgot that I had! The soundtrack to me and my mates thinking we were in Jackass

Welsh Megaman

Nickleback.

Welsh Megaman

Super Furries save the day yet again

irs

Completely forgotten how great "Party Hard" was.

At the time I thought it amazing that a band from 80's could still do a song as good as "Crystal".

RINO87

Oh it's a turn it up to 11 show tonight alright

RINO87

Hocus Pocus by Focus

Say Your Number

I'm glad he didn't go for the obvious choice of You Shook Me All Night Long, and played Rock n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution instead.

Declan A Walsh

RINO87 wrote: »

Hocus Pocus by Focus

That's some falsetto that keyboardist/flautist has! :pac:

Say Your Number

Overkill, not by Motorhead though

I remember your man singing an acoustic version of this on Scrubs.

Sarah by Thin Lizzy is a load of corny bollox.

Say Your Number

*Waves lighter in the air*

Welsh Megaman

Hopefully, John will play something from ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ tomorrow night.


https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/20/jim-steinman-dies-hitmaker-meat-loaf-celine-dion


RIP

Declan A Walsh

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Hopefully, John will play something from ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ tomorrow night.


https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/20/jim-steinman-dies-hitmaker-meat-loaf-celine-dion


RIP

While I recognize Jim Steinman's undoubted songwriting ability, I really was not a great fan of his big epic songs, many of which were associated with Meatloaf. In fact, the only Meatloaf song that I really really like is Bat Out of Hell. There are one or two others that I can at best tolerate. One of Jim's worst (for me) was Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. That won't feature on a rock show anyway! If Bat out of Hell is not played, then maybe the best compromise for me would be to play Jim Steinman's own version of Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through. I could tolerate that more than Meatloaf's rendition. Jim's version is calmer and has nice piano and clarinet!

ford fiesta

2 more weeks remain of JK's show..

Say Your Number

How could he cut One by Metallica short before the best part

RINO87

Really enjoyed this stint again, and sad to see it go.

It'll be one of those things that will make me smile when we can hopefully look back on this whole covid affair....
"Jayaus that was a rough stretch, but do you remeber megadeth, sabbath, seputlura, rage etc being blasted out of it on radio 1?"

ford fiesta

The Late Debate will be on a break again soon for the summer..maybe John will return again on this slot?

ford fiesta

Rammstein on Radio 1 !!!

dirkmeister

I shall be listening to Metallica on the drive to work in the morning.

Hopefully the Classic Rock Hour is back sooner rather than later.

RINO87

ford fiesta wrote: »

The Late Debate will be on a break again soon for the summer..maybe John will return again on this slot?

Live programming in this slot in the summer? You having a laugh? Haven't they loads of re-runs of "Shur it was better in...." and "Pantisocracy" to regurgitate for us, again....

Declan A Walsh

With three minutes to go, I suddenly remembered to tune in! It was in the middle of the last track - Enter Sandman by Metallica - which was kind of appropriate! I heard John signing off. I think he enjoyed himself. There was a handover with Cathal Dunne who mentioned the music!

ford fiesta

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

There was a handover with Cathal Dunne who mentioned the music!

Cathal Murray !!!

Declan A Walsh

ford fiesta wrote: »

Cathal Murray !!!

Whoops!

Say Your Number

Turned on the radio a while ago expecting power chords and big guitar solos, but got boring talk instead

Welsh Megaman

Oh.

Right.

Welsh Megaman

At the moment, they seem to be repeating old episodes of ‘Callans Kicks’ after Creedo.

Bring back the rock!

ford fiesta

JK is in Tokyo for the Olympics and records his 2XM radio show 'the JK experience' shows from there !

Welsh Megaman

He’s back at 10pm!!