Hey Ma, I’m going solo! In what could very well become an ongoing series for Growin’ Up Rock, Steven, Hollywood, and very special guest, Joe Polo from Podcast Rock City, join forces to discuss several artists who have left or taken a break from their mothership bands. They depart from the bands that made them famous in the first place, to go solo or join forces with other artists in a new project to create kick ass rock n roll.
What’s the Story?
One never knows what drives an artist to leave one creative force to join another. Or in many situations, set out on their own to, in a sense, become their own boss and take their careers into their own hands. Maybe it’s money or maybe its ego. Perhaps it’s a “yes” man by their side telling them how great they are and how they are the “real” talent in the band. Hell, for all we know it’s as simple as they’ve grown to hate the other dudes in the band and just need to get away. Either way, it has provided the fans and buyers of all things music with some trainwrecks, and some absolute gems of new music to crank loud and proud.
In this first installment of the series, we go deep on a few artists and tracks to find some really great hard rocking stuff to jam the speakers with. Other selections we stay a little closer to the obvious, while choosing maybe the not so obvious tunes to play.
We have great time visiting with Joe Polo and find out a little about his Growin’ Up Rock story. We discover Joe does like other music besides just Kiss, but in not much of a surprise, one of Joe’s selections for the night involves Kiss. Go figure, I never saw that coming.
Word Of The Day
tenebrous
adjective TEN-uh-brus
1 : shut off from the light : dark, murky
2 : hard to understand : obscure
3 : causing gloom
A Special Thanks to Our Friends in Restrayned fo the Awesome Show Intro Music and Transitions!!
Tell Us Your Growin’ Up Rock Story
We hope you enjoy this episode, and that you share some of your selections on our Facebook page to start the conversation with other listeners. The one thing we found out when starting to research this episode, was the massive amount of artists especially in today’s musical environment that have created awesome music as a solo act or part of a completely new band apart from what originally they were know for. This is exactly what inspired the reason this may become a ongoing series for the GUR team.
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