Bars are reopening and things are getting weird. This week on SlapperCast, we talk about the safety precautions bar owners have implemented, and the flak they’re taking from customers as a result. Also: bands that would benefit from better singers, overcoming nervousness on stage, the importance of good stage banter: how much is too little, when it does become too much, and should it ever be scripted or rehearsed?

Watch on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcast app.

Show notes

• O’Bannon’s Tap House bar barricaded with kegs
• Another Nail In My Heart – Glenn Tilbrook (solo acoustic)

This week on SlapperCast: bars in Texas are about to re-open! Also: more unusually good solo careers, revisiting our opinions on the Eagles, and drummers that make or break a band.

Show notes

• • Metallica Mixer Explains Missing Bass on ‘And Justice for All’
  • “Lars Ulrich is Down Here” (Pennywise Meme)

This week on #SlapperCast, we talk about why band members sometimes quit after decades (Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick), and the odd situations where they don’t quit even when they can’t stand each other (The Ramones). Also: surprisingly good solo careers, belated appreciation for Duran Duran and Power Station, and a very loud bird.

This is an unusually low-fi episode of SlapperCast, recorded remotely with Zoom because Chad was feeling a little under the weather. Apologies for the crap sound quality.