This one comes courtesy of patron Tony Griggs — whose killer playlist sparked the inspiration to pull this two-part classic from the vault and bring it back as one epic combined episode.

Daryl Dwarf — drummer, founding member, author, and one of the most genuinely engaging rock personalities you'll ever hear on this show — joined Sean, Todd, and Corey Geek for nearly two hours of conversation that goes everywhere.

The Killer Dwarfs have been around for 40 years. They've survived grunge, label chaos, pandemics, and the complete collapse of the music industry as they knew it. They're still standing. They're still touring. And Daryl has some very specific thoughts on why.

This episode covers the full story — the highs, the lows, the hiatuses, the comebacks, the tours you wouldn't believe, the producers you'd recognize, and the famous names who showed up along the way in ways you wouldn't expect.

There's also a recording studio story involving Andy Johns, a cardboard box, and one drumstick that you genuinely need to hear to believe.

And yes — there's a necklace story that will change how you think about 45 records forever.

This episode features:

• The complete Killer Dwarfs story — four decades in the trenches
• The Monsters of Rock Cruise and what it took just to get on the boat
• Famous names and unexpected connections throughout rock history
• The recording sessions that defined a sound
• What the music industry looks like from inside after 40 years
• The philosophy that kept them going when everything else said stop
• One of the greatest recording studio stories ever told on this show

Guest: Daryl Dwarf — Killer Dwarfs, Laidlaw, Automan, Sphinx

With: Corey Geek

Inspired by: Patron Tony Griggs and his killer playlist

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Part 2 of 3 — Featuring Georgia Lunch, HR Representative

Georgia Lunch is still in the building. The animal trough situation remains unresolved. And somehow the Metal Shoppe has descended into one of the deepest, most gloriously unhinged rock music conversations in the show's history.

Part 2 picks up right where Part 1 left off — Georgia Lunch is still on her post-air-guitar-travel welfare check, Noman is still navigating the ongoing saga of Donnie Rhames, tapestries, and corporate intrigue, and Rory is along for the ride as things spiral beautifully out of control.

This episode covers:

• The Metallica and Lou Reed Lulu album — the podcast that covers it one track at a time needs a year between songs to recover, and honestly that tracks
• Stars — the iconic 1985 heavy metal charity recording — the backstory, the Spinal Tap cameo that somehow was real, Ronnie James Dio making the calls, Rough Cut under Dio's umbrella, Kevin Dubrow in the pink jacket getting a lead vocal, and Yngwie J. Malmsteen making sure no one confused him with the other Yngwie
• Beck Bogert and Appice — the supergroup trio that wrote Superstition before Stevie Wonder made it famous, and why Carmine Appice doesn't get enough credit for anything
• The Quiet Riot deep cut — Paul Shortino and the QR3 album, and why it's the only Quiet Riot album worth owning
• The Desmond Child extended universe — turns out he wrote Poison by Alice Cooper, and the trivia game to identify which mystery artist hired him for their second album after the first one didn't sell
• Kane Roberts — the bodybuilder guitarist with the preposterous Rock Doll video and the Desmond Child-penned songs nobody asked for but some of us deeply loved
• Jodi Bon Jovi — Jon's cousin — released an album. It exists. It's not great. She covers Jefferson Airplane's Somebody to Love. The definitive Bon Jovi family power ranking is established for the first time on record
• The complete Kiss deep dive — Gene vs Paul, the theory that Gene was the draw for comic book kids who didn't understand what Plaster Caster meant, why Paul only did one eye with the makeup, Kiss Revenge as possibly the greatest non-makeup Kiss album, Spit as an underrated banger, Vinnie Vincent trying to sell his decade-long solo project for $200 a song or a million dollars for the masters
• Brent Fitz from Winnipeg — playing with Triumph, April Wine, Bruce Kulik, and Gene Simmons — the Winnipeg connection that keeps coming back
• Mixtapes from Hell — the Cinderella podcast that plays every song in the catalog and builds the ultimate mixtape — and yes, the theme songs written for the three hosts are played live on air
• SeatGeek and Fast Fred — the AI podcast with the fake beard and the wig — continues to be mocked with increasing affection
• Part 2 of 3. It gets better from here.

Music featured this episode:

Beck Bogert and Appice, Quiet Riot, Stars, Kiss (Revenge, Dressed to Kill, Hot in the Shade), Kane Roberts, Dogma, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Clutch

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Part 3 of 3 — The Georgia Lunch Farewell Session

All good things must end. Georgia Lunch's HR welfare check concludes in the most Metal Shoppe way imaginable — with a Vinnie Vincent diss track, a Jodi Bon Jovi deep dive, a full debate on band name ownership, Steel Panther, and Rob Halford's Fight closing out the trilogy.

Part 3 picks up right where Part 2 left off. Georgia is still in the building. The trough is still a concern. And somehow we've arrived at one of the deepest, most genuinely informed music conversations the Metal Shoppe has ever hosted.

This episode covers:

• Lich King's Black Metal Sucks — a diss track aimed at an entire genre, played for the room. Georgia's verdict: diplomatic. Noman's verdict: it's on the playlist
• Slaughter's Burning Bridges — the Vinnie Vincent diss track with a spoken bridge in Mark Slaughter's shrieky falsetto that remains one of the most unhinged moments in hair metal history. The full origin story: how three members of Vinnie Vincent Invasion escaped, how Chrysalis kept the band and fired Vinnie, how Bobby Rock got replaced by the ridiculously pretty Blas Elias, and how Bobby Rock ended up in Nelson — who apparently partied harder than anyone
• The original Incubus — thrash metal from the late 80s, nothing to do with the other Incubus, later renamed Opprobrium to avoid confusion. One subscriber on YouTube. The other Dagger also turns up with one subscriber and causes confusion
• The Slaughter/Canadian Slaughter confusion — two different bands, wildly different sounds, Rory caught in the middle
• Jodi Bon Jovi — Jon's cousin — finally gets her song played. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane cover). The verdict: something happened. The website exists. She looks like Jon. The album cover raises questions
• The Guess Who saga — Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings suing the drummer who owned the name for misrepresentation, winning, reclaiming the name, then touring as the Guess Who with only two of the four original members. The CCR/John Fogerty parallel. The Foreigner deep dive — when does a band stop being itself and become a cover band of itself? Jeff Pilsen in everything. The Hurricane/Foreigner connection nobody knew
• Satchel from Steel Panther was in Rob Halford's Fight — nobody knew, including us
• Georgia's farewell speech — on finding community in music, in podcasting, in air guitar, on the importance of whimsy, and on what makes a great conversation. Noman and Rory are not fired. They may even get sick days. Do not push it
• Mortal Sin by Fight closes the trilogy

Music featured this episode:

Lich King, Slaughter, Incubus/Opprobrium, Jodi Bon Jovi, Fight, Steel Panther, Foreigner, The Guess Who

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