Passengers of The Crazy Train! Welcome back! This is your new conductor Johnny James! Many thanks to outgoing host Chris Waddell for passing the torch on to me and letting me keep this show going! I hope I do it justice! Here is the first podcasted episode of a new era, the first of many!
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Well I gotta say, it was great to be back doing a live show for you all, even made greater that I was joined by ‘General Distortions host Johnny James ‘Dio’ for the two hour special on this past July’s ‘Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival #5’. In the first hour we played the interviews
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A couple months ago, Sammie X and the Fredericton Metal page on Facebook put together a survey about the local / regional Metal & Punk scene and many of you participated in this survey, which gleaned very important information to not only the musicians, but bar owners and gig promoters. Sammie X has been an
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Iron Maiden was with me live in the studio at the beginning of Hour I, boy did they ever look different from seeing them live and all the photo’s I’ve ever seen! But honestly, it was Fredericton’s ‘Run For Your Lives’ the cities Iron Maiden tribute band headed up by Aaron Hazlett! We chatted about
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Soulstice’s Ezra Seamone joined me at the start of the show to talk about the bands final show happening June 30th at the Panda Bee Catastrophe jam house. Soulstice is a local band that played a great slew of shows in their short life. Winning a Battle of the Bands at Leo Hayes High School,
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Sam Odeh from Montreal West’s ‘Special Op’s joined me from the phone as we opened this 109th episode of the Crazy Train. Special Ops was supposed to come to Fredericton for a show at the Centre Communautaire Sainte Anne in April, then May, but due to scheduling conflicts this show has been pushed to September
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On Episode #108 starts off with a thundering brand new track from Fredericton’s ‘Hero’s Last Rite’ – ‘Nothing Left’ is the single released on their bandcamp page. It’s been a good wait for new material from the Hero’s crew and as they say, ‘Good things come to those who wait’. But ‘Nothing Left’ is the
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This episode dipped into new Metal from Coast to Coast! From Vancouver with my good bud’s ’88 Mile Trip’ over to Calgary with some brand new ‘Napalmpom’, OK I skipped the prairie provinces AND Ontario but the next province was Quebec with ‘Special Ops’ who will be coming to Fredericton in May. Also from Quebec
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Ezra from the local Metal outfit ‘Soulstice’ joined me on this episode to talk about the band and sadly it’s imminent demise. The band will be playing a farewell show in June, so keep your ears tuned to CHSR & The Crazy Train for full details on this last show for ‘Soulstice’, and fear not!
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This was an ALL Request Crazy Train episode, so I played what YOUÂ all wanted to hear! Great show! Great picks by you all for requests. I couldn’t play them all, but I’ll have another all request episode in a month of so, so keep it around in yer brain and we’ll get it on next
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On this episode I spoke on the phone with Mike Bernard from ‘District Avenue’ about the bands name change (formerly known as ‘Kickin’ Krotch’), about the recording of the bands debut album under their new name and what’s coming up for them (BTW, the band is in need of a bass player, please get a
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Finally back! Should be commanding the train with no interruptions until late March/April! I tells ya, we’re sitting on something big. As I said on this last episode, there are so many bands recording or on the verge of recording that the Summers going to be a mega tsunami of new local Metal! On this
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Johnny James ‘Dio’ joined me for this special episode of the Crazy Train, as we played out our ‘best of’ 2016 album picks. In the first Hour we played our favorite picks from Indie Metal from across Canada and in Hour 2, the best of global Metal for 2016! Now, just because we didn’t play
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On this one hour episode of the Crazy Train I delved into our play box to give these bands who send physical copies of their albums to the station some love. This is why it is important/helpful to send a physical copy of your album to as many of the college/community radio stations as you
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So this weekend’s Crazy Train was actually supposed to be an earlier episode that I missed because of illness. The episode was supposed to be a “preview” show which included bands that were playing the Panic Room in Saint John on Saturday November 19th. And, just before the live show aired CHSR had their annual
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All Punk Rock/Hard-Core Crossover Crazy Train edition! Yes! Another wonderful full out Hardcore episode! Lots of angst! Lots of crashing, moshing, beer bottle throwing fun! Next week’s Crazy Train will be an ALL REQUEST episode! Yes, yes my friends, YOU get to program the show! So for Hour I, you need to throw at me
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On Episode #97 of the Crazy Train we had locals ‘Tactus’ in to debut their entire album ‘Bending Light’. Adrian, Alec, Steve and Ben joined me and we went through the album track by track and got into some talk about the bands gear, their touring and plans for the future. The album is now
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On this weekends The Crazy Train, I welcomed on Fredericton’s ‘Dead City Angels’ for a chat about the band, where they came from, what they’ve been up to and where they are going. DCA had just released a three song EP and is planning on going into the studio in the next few months to
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Fredericton’s ‘Winter’s Howl’ joined me for a chat on this weekends 95th episode of the Crazy Train. ‘Ruckus’, ‘CuJo’ and ‘Winter’s’ talked about the origins of this new Cross-Over Punk band that’s been on the scene only about a year but has garnered a great following after playing a stint of shows throughout the year.
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First off, you’re never supposed to apologize, but hell I’m going to, This episode is really half assed and my apologies for that, next weeks will be better. Fredericton’s, nay, New Brunswick’s hardest working band joined me on the beginning of Episode #93 of the Crazy Train. Guitarist Dave Cook and Bassist Shawn Smith talked
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Dave Manning of East Coast Awakenings and Kian Hutchison of Mourning Star join Chris and I on Rosie Morning to discuss East Coast Awakenings Metal Festival happening this weekend in Keswick Ridge! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More
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On this weekends episode of The Crazy Train our guests were one of Fredericton’s most promising new up and coming Metal bands ‘Soulstice’.
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On this weekends edition of the Crazy Train Steve ‘The Buzz Man’ was back in the coop! No guests this weekend, so we continued on with dishing out more METAL from bands playing the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival #IV and The East Coast Awakening festivals. There’s a lot of bands, so there’s going
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WARNING!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND CONTENT THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME LISTENERS! DISCRETION IS ADVISED!!! Things got REAAAl greasy on the ‘ol Crazy Train this weekend! Our guests were Alex, Ian and Riley from Fredericton’s notorious ‘Rectum of Pain’! Within the first minute Riley had dropped his drawers to show off his “manties”
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On Episode #88 of the Crazy Train the gang from Saint John’s ‘Rifium’ joined me in the first half hour to talk about their debut release ‘Ice Disease’! Be sure to check out their bandcamp or Facebook page for info on purchasing the album and brand new ‘Rifium’ merch! Hour I: Crazy Train-Ozzy| Bouncing Betty-Rifium|
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