That Metal Show

Absolutely.

And this is a question I'm sure you get all the time, That Metal Show.

Now, I guess, god, it's been a decade since we've had new episodes of that.

I obviously I got to work on on the final seasons of it more behind the scenes as a producer, coordinating producer.

And now after shows or at concerts, you know, I get 21, 22, 23 year old kids come up and they're like, Oh my God, you're, you're a legend.

You're like one of my heroes.

I'm like, how would you even know that metal show? He goes, when I was 10 or 11, I used to watch with my dad, you know? And now they're young adults, and they love this.

The love of this music was instilled in them by their parents.

Mm-hmm.

But, you know, he's somebody that, I don't know how it happened after the way we beat the shit out of That Metal Show for 10 solid years-

[laughs] I know, right?

But, but, you know, Jim's a fan.

Back for a second time, the legendary man, he has been in radio for over 40 years playing hard rock and heavy metal.

He, of course, was the creator, host, main man behind the incredible, legendary That Metal Show.

He started working at Omega Force Records, signing Ace Frehley back in the day.

He's done everything in this business, is probably one of the biggest champions and proponents of hard rock and heavy metal.

I go right to the record store section.

And yes, for people that aren't our age they would have a special bin with the corners clipped on the vinyl jackets and they would be like half price records that they couldn't sell or couldn't get rid of and i'd i'd because you could get two or three for the price of one record so it was a chance to sample and and discover some other stuff for on a budget and then if you liked it then you could go back and buy the other stuff in the catalog but i did a lot of that i was totally into that

Did you ever get to interview Richie Blackmore on any radio shows or anything or that metal show or anything?

I did not.

I'm a shade green, the only gun I need is the ace of spades, the ace of spades.

Former host of That Metal Show, current co-host of The Rockstrap with Keith Roth, and he works with a personal friend of mine, Courtney Cronin, on Punchlines and Backlines, and he is the name that I dropped to get backstage.

Don Jameson, always a pleasure.

Welcome back to the program.

filming?

I was on a show called That Metal Show.

It was a heavy metal talk show way back in the day on VH1.

Really?

guy's been blowing us up for like three weeks now.

From Paramount's docuseries, Nothing But a Good Time, and VH1's That Metal Show.

Let's hear it for Metal Joe, everybody.

Hey.

this.

I'm curious.

When they shot the opening for VH1's That Metal Show, Yes.

How long and how many shots did it take for them to get the tattoo on the side of your head? Oh,

Hey, what's up, everybody? It's rock and roll comedian Don Jameson, That Metal Show, Rockstrap, International Spy, and MasterChef.

You are hanging out with the hooligans, you know, those YouTube guys.

This week on Hooligan Nation,

That's just not how it is.

However, I think with rock music, when the means of distribution changed, and I know you've talked to a lot of them, but doing that metal show with you, Jim and Eddie Trunk, is that rock bands decided to start their own labels.

That they didn't want to be on Columbia Records anymore, or Island Records, or whatever the major labels were, because they were losing any autonomy of their music and their catalog.

And they said, well, I want to at least... do my own thing.