Episode 80 and the Chaos That Reigns

Tonight I go live on Rock 4 Rookies for the 15th time. I have traveled back and forth from my home in the center of Israel to the capital 15 times. I have fretted, worried, and sweated on my way to the Rusty Mike Radio studio. I have also laughed, smiled, and rocked on the road to the live show.

Now I don't want to polish my own statue but sometimes I feel like I'm running my own online radio empire at www.rock4rookies.com !! Keeping things running smoothly isn't easy, its like being in charge of the UN,but we don't hate Israel. Its like organizing different races with different religions but in this case, the religion is music, the race is simply being different people with our own lives. Its hard to keep the herd grazing smoothly and I had help obviously (Thank you Web Master D) but the herd have grown. Our trance/electro show the Electronic Voyage has been picked up by another web site hence bringing hundreds of more listeners. Country Love with Ilona is now being broadcast on www.rustymikeradio.com, the home of my live show. We also have the Indie Insurgence, slowly but surely gaining ground in its fight against the mainstream. Finally in the last few months we've picked up a new show, the bubble gum Pop Rox, playing the best in pop music.

All of this...this Online Radio Empire, began 80 weeks ago with my first Rock 4 Rookies show. Its funny but when I go back to listen to that first show in the archives, I shudder at how bad I was as a Dj but I still love my music choices, it was and still is my favorite playlist.

So what is Rock 4 Rookies to me right now? Its every thing I wish I had a few years ago, all the music I wish people had been introducing me to. Now its your chance.
Join me tonight at 8pm Israel time(1pm New York) by click here to listen to my live show.

Graduation Day

Yo Rookies,
So in two days I start my first gig at www.rustymikeradio.com an internet radio station and its going to be live.
Many of you dont know how I make the shows youve heard on www.rock4rookies.com but Ill give you a clue, it involves a lot of editing and a lot of swearing. Ive invented curse words to describe how I feel when I have to repeat an entire speech cause Ive flubbed words or just lost track, or worse, finished and then realize I forgot something important. (My wifes inventive curses are great, she hates listening to me repeat things!!!)
So here we are on Tuesday, at 8pm I will begin something new, something I hope will be amazing and as usual, without you guys, itll be nothing! I hope that you all join me as I try to balance a brand new audience while still keeping you guys satisfied!! Everyone who has been with me up until this point, you are no longer rookies, you are now Veterans but I hope you continue on with me to get your Masters in Rock N Roll
See you at the show!
Playlist for Sunday April 19th 2009
1. Scarecrow Hill – Middle of the End
2. Ram Jam – Black Betty
3. Lamb of God – Redneck
4. David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World
5. Saving Abel – Running From You
6. Freedom Call – Warriors
7. Korn – No Place To Hide
8. Limp Bizkit –Hot Dog
9. Cake – Never There
10. Jethro Tull – Living in the Past
11. James Hetfield - Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit has Done Got Out of Hand
12. Seether – Careless Whisper
13. Pop Evil – 100 in a 55
14. Marylin Manson – You Spin Me Right Around
15. Something Corporate – Konstantine
16. Better Than Toast – Cringe or Smile
17. Deep Purple – Lazy
18. Aerosmith – Fallen Angels
19. 3 Doors Down – Loser
20. Sum 41 –What I Believe
21. Sum 41 – Motivation
22. Sum 41 - We’re All To Blame
23. Sum 41 – Walking Disaster

POP-ROCK and Drop It

Show 58

This week, my time in the army will give me a lot of time to come up with a new playlist but this show will definitely hold you over till Marnina blows your mind this coming week on http://www.rock4rookies.com/rock4rookiesfull.html
1. Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird
2. Bowling For Soup – Almost
3. Black Stone Cherry – Lonely Train
4. American Hi-Fi – Hell Yeah!
5. Mori Teitz Anuchi – Stand Me Down
6. Less Than Jake – Never Going Back to New Jersey
7. Third Eye Blind – Jumper
8. Static-X – Love Dump
9. Avril Lavigne –Sk8er Boi
10. The Dandy Warhols – We Used To Be Friends
11. Off By One – Torn – (Natalie Imbruglia Cover)
12. Pennywise – I Come From A Land Down Under
13. 36 Crazyfists – Destroy the Map
14. The All American Rejects – Gives you Hell
15. Nickelback – This Afternoon
16. Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated
17. Nine Days – Story of a girl
18. Rise Against – The Approaching Curve
19. Houston Calls – The Better Part of Valor
20. Weezer – The Good Life (Pinkerton)
21. Weezer – Hash Pipe (The Green Album)
22. Weezer – Keep Fishin (Maladroit)

Valentines Day Massacre Show

Rookies,
So the show went up on Sunday and Valentines Day is Saturday so this show is to get you in the mood. Looking through the play list you can see there aren't many love songs because I am sick to death of them. Instead of a day for Love lets make it a day for love of rock!!! Thats why I saluted Slayer, I just love them. Also, take special notice of Halowreck this week, they hail from Haifa and they are bad ass!!!
See you next week.

1. Three Days Grace – Pain
2. Flyleaf – Perfect
3. Sum 41 – In Too Deep
4. State of Shock – Breathe Again
5. Ben Kweller – Wasted and Ready
6. Eve 6 - Leech
7. Green Day – Working Class Hero
8. Hinder – Without You
9. Halowreck – Minister of War
10. The union underground – Across the Nation
11. Metallica – My Apocalypse
12. Story Of the Year – Anthem of our dying day
13. Nickelback – Too Bad
14. Dust For Life – Poison
15. Staind – Raining Again
16. Simple Plan – Promise
17. SOAD – Inner vision
18. Pearl Jam – Off He Goes
19. Slayer – Die By The Sword
20. Slayer – Raining Blood
21. Slayer - Disciple
22. Slayer – Eyes of the Insane

ROTMAN REQUEST SHOW

Without a doubt one of my favorite poeople and the most die hard listener to the show, Aryeh Rotman sent me a full playlist, including a salute for the show and I was more than Happy to play it.

First of all it gave me the week off (no compiling a playlist) and secondly he knows his rock so you guys were in safe hands!!
Aryeh is the third from the left!!!


The Show can be found at: http://www.rock4rookies.com/rock4rookiesfull.html

1. James Brown – Living in America
2. Nightwish – Amaranth
3. Linkin Park – Don’t Stay
4. The Offspring – Shes Got Issues
5. Bon Jovi – Dry County
6. Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet
7. Nirvana – Come As You Are
8. Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter
9. Jonathan Coulton – Skullcrusher Mountain
10. Weird Al – Jurassic Park
11. Metallica – All Nightmare Long
12. Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light
13. Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Requiem (The Fifth)
14. Korn – Fight The Power
15. Sabaton – Metal Crue
16. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
17. My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade
18. Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
19. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
20. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
21. Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven

Rock 4 Rookies Lip Sync Competition

So I'm really excited about this whole contest thingy. To me, rocking out has always been about more than listening to really good music, it's also been about staring at yourself in the mirror as the opening chords to ACDC's "Back In Black" come on and then rocking out while imagining yourself in front of thousands of screaming fans!!!!!!
Well this, kinda, is your chance to do that except you don't have to worry about being able to sing or knowing how to play an instrument. Let the rock stars do it for you.

The Rules are simple. You have three weeks to record and send me a video of you singing to any rock song you want!! Air guitars welcome!! It can be heavy metal, acoustic or piano rock, punk, rap metal, pop rock, classsic rock, anything rock related! Dance, actually sing, do a fake duet, do a whole Jam band, the possibilities are endless!!
At the end of three weeks, November 30th, everyone will watch all the videos and vote for their favorite one. The top three winners will receive ROCK 4 ROOKIES t-shirts!! I'm still trying to think of other things to give away but the t-shirts is what I've got so far.
The video must be over 2 minutes in length and under 6 minutes.
E-mail me the video to maximum@rock4rookies.com or send me link to your video on youtube.

For any questions feel free to e-mail me or message me on Facebook.
Im gonna start out the competition myself with a little ditty by Limp Bizkit

The Network

I love sitting and watching the numbers jump from zero to 150 in two days in Jonny's "Electronic Voyage" Facebook group.
Really!
It's good to see people flock to his show like that. For exactly a second I felt a bit annoyed that he did in 2 days what took me 5 months but I buried that feeling quickly.
Lets start off with what the purpose of www.rock4rookies.com was in the first place.
Every day, I would wander my University campus with Metal music blaring from my headphones. I got a lot of crazy looks and a lot of people telling me the rock music is just mindless screaming. This bothered me more than anything! There is no way someone could hear Serj Tankian of System of a Down, singing his heart out with intermingled bursts of screaming, doing his high pitched jabber voice, and all this to electric mandolin, and consider it all noise!! Impossible.
I finally started the show up with help from the amazing David Leitner (who manages the site) and Jonny, who was not only my on call encyclopedia, he also wrote the article for the "Rocking Chair"!! I surrounded myself with people who were willing me to accomplish the rock show, not just out of loyalty to me, but because they actually cared about the music!!
During all that time, my wife was pushing me to continue, pushing me to ignore the people that joined the Facebook group and left just as quickly. You guys only have to listen to the show once, my wife hears it fifty million times as I am putting it together.
Several times in the first months I had Jonny guest star on the show with me or even replace me when I was unable to do the show because of the one thing that would stop me, Miluim!! (Army Reserves)
But there were others who always had comments for me or bits of advice and tips. All of you are amazing but out of them all, 2, besides Jonny, approached me and asked if they could get involved. At the time I was unsure how because both were not CRAZY about my music, they both had Genres that they loved more.
After having a conversation with Jonny about Electronic Music, something I know nothing about but happen to love. (My time in the army exposed me to a lot of trance music).
A few days later my Father surprised me with an amazing gift, my own server. He said, "Consider this my helping to further the music cause." It was amazing. You have to understand, he was the one who when first hearing my idea, left the room and went ahead and immediately bought the ROCK4ROOKIES address! He's amazing. He hates the music but still, amazing.
With this new server I approached those who had approached me and the Rock 4 Rookies Network was born.
There are so many types of music out there and so many incorrect ideas about them. Electronic music is not just a massive base beat playing over and over again. Country music is not just hicks complaining about their dogs dying! Indie music isn't just....okay that one didn't work but still, Jon's music grows on me, because its basically rock that pushes the limits. I am all for pushing the boundaries. That's what I thought my rock was.
So, now that the Electronic Voyage will soon bypass, the original Rock4Rookies group, I'm okay with that. Jonny was there at the beginning and I hope hell be there for along time to come. Please, listen to Jonnys show, listen to all the shows, learn something. Put away old feelings and prejudices about certain music. Nobody listens to everything, they say they do, but they don't, not for real.
But now you can listen to it all, on the Rock 4 Rookies Network.

PS: Anybody want to do a rap show?