The Black Room
Steve Gorman & Nikki Blakk talk about Alex Van Halen's memoir, AC/DC's tour & the 49ers
Welcome to "The Black Room," a sometimes weekly podcast with Steve Gorman, former drummer from The Black Crowes-turned Radio DJ & San Francisco radio personality and sometimes concert production coordinator Nikki Blakk who make up the 2p-midnight jocks on 107.7 The Bone FM in San Francisco. In this…
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They Look Like a Bit of a Clown Car Right Now
We break down the most recent Journey drama involving Neal Schon, Avenged Sevenfold and Arnel Pineda asking for a million fans to ask him to leave. We also have a beef brewing between Megadeth and Peter Frampton, but that one doesn’t have legs. We also think Frampton can do no wrong. We talk about …
20:57
It’s more Addiction than Jane
Steve missed recording our podcast earlier tis week for an epic boat trip, so of course we need to hear about it. But, the real story is all things Jane’s Addiction. Steve gives us his unique take on being in a band that implodes on tour, and we look into recent band break ups, like REO Speedwagon …
28:55
It’s a happy anxious!
We talk about how the Oasis reunion has brought Ticketmaster to the conversation again. We have the insider take with Nikki having worked for Ticketmaster and Steve having toured with Oasis. David Gilmour is talking abut selling Pink Floyd’s catalog again and we speculate on what it’s worth after Q…
37:40
Not Even Toast Can Help
We’re both tired from the weekend, but we can rally to get into our feelings about Nicolas Cage playing John Madden in an upcoming biopic, which leads to football season starting and Steve’s experience sports betting as Nikki takes on a new sports picking endorsement, which of course leads us to Ve…
34:33
A Complete Transfusion Can be Better Than the Original
We have been having non-stop thoughts about the Aerosmith cancellation and of course as people who have been on tour, (In Steve’s case- A LOT) we have the insider track on the Journey lawsuits. We’re letting go of the “No original members” grudge in rock, mostly, but we still hold the “Farewell Tou…
23:53
We were having, band fights in 2010 that started in 1971
We reminisce about the last Black Crowes show at The Fillmore in 2010. Ever wonder what it was like for Paul McCartney to be asked non-stop about The Beatles for 50 years? Us too. Sleep is still our drug of choice, and we talk 49ers Super Bowl...again.
15:32
It's from the 19s, and literally, it could have been 1967 or 1997
We get into bootlegs and how record companies should embrace the culture. How video games are the new music industry. We express our skepticism over the KISS Avatars and how we think young people are going to view older music in the future, with the exceptions of Liz Zeppelin and The Beatles, who w…
21:52
And then it just didn't happen...
It's a quickie- Steve updates us on his trip to NYC, where he saw "An Enemy of the People" on Broadway, but failed to get to Murray's cheese shop in the East Village 🤦♀️ Fortunately the cheese can be mail ordered. We have feelings abut how awesome NYC is, while also sharing our first concert expe…
05:25
Bury me in that cheese vat...
We're excited for Steve's pending trip to NYC, where he's getting the same cheese that Nikki had shipped to SF. Cheese lovers unite! We pass judgement on the two Tennessee Eagles tribute bands who are suing each other. Steve updates us on his eye surge & Chauncey the Wonder Dog's leg surgery. We go…
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