Welcome to Ages of Rock Podcast! Your co-hosts, Allen Tate, Bill Algee and Dennis Talbott are 3 middle aged, semi mature, Midwestern men.... Talking Rock!
Craig Wright returns to the show this week as we rank the rest of the studio albums in the KISS Katalog. This is another fun conversation filled with laughter and light hearted jabs at each others rankings.
We're back for our first episode of 2025. Allen's long time friend Craig Wright joins us to rank the first ten KISS studio album. There are lots of gasps and laughter as we each work our way from number ten to number one on each of our lists. Once we finished, we each revealed our least and most favorite tracks from each album.
In this episode, we discuss our thoughts on the HBO Max documentary "Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary" and the music genre in general. Allen gave Dennis and Bill an assignment for this episode and then almost forgot to have them give their answers. Lots of fun and laughter in this episode. (Visit AgesOfRock.com and look for episode 388 for the links Allen mention in this week's show.)
How do you take more than 2,000 albums from the 90s and narrow it down to 501? You get some friends together and have interesting discussions. In this episode, author Gary Graff talks about the book "501 Essential Albums of the '90s: The Music Fan's Definitive Guide" and how he and his friends came up with the albums that made cut. We also talk with Gary about how the music industry shifted in the 90s. If you listen and don't agree, GET OFF OUR LAWN!
This week we talk about some recent concerts we've seen and some we have coming up, complain about Netflix and Mike Tyson, and talk about our favorite former KISS member... VINNIE VINCENT.
Bill and Allen have a great conversation with vocalist and lead guitarist of “Riding with Killers” member Taylor Roberts about the current album “Full Circle.” Taylor also tells us the story behind the latest single “Don’t Fade Away.” We also learn that sometimes a massage isn’t just a massage!
In this episode Brian Forsythe (Kix/Rhino Bucket) joins us as we talk about the recent documentary "Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal" which can be found streaming on Paramount Plus.
In this episode we talk a little about a couple classic bands breaking up, Arnel Pineda's response to getting roasted for a bad night during a Journey concert, Dave Grohl's recent revelation, and we each make up our own "Best of" album from the songs that make up the 1978 KISS Solo albums.
Author Paul Wyld joins us in this episode to talk about his book "Jim Morrison Secret - Teacher of the Occult - A Journey to the Other Side" which was released on September 10th in the US. He talks about the inspiration for the book, what it was like finding a publisher, and more.
Daryl Bughman, musician and rock & roll photographer, joins us to share his new book "8 Years 27 Concerts: 2015-2023 Foreigner Live." He has worked with Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, and Dirty Honey.
In this episode, Allen flies solo and has a chat with Martin Popoff about the book VAN HALEN AT 50. They also touch on "the brown sound" along with Wolfgang and the VH legacy, Alex retiring from music, and more.