Cars & Guitars Radio Show

30/10/2025

#188 today @ 2-4pm on 88.6FM. Spooky, spooky - Playing my entire Alice Cooper's "WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE" LP + the Cars of THE MUNSTERS TV SHOW. worldwide from www.PVFM.org..au

29/10/2025

Have mercy!... https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17aSnnPgt7/

22/10/2025

22/10/2025

#187 tomorrow 2-4pm. "Space Ace" Frehley's final orbit R.I.P. "I'm 72 years old and still sound like I did in the '70s. I get a kick that I can do this like I did then. Some say that my playing hasn't evolved is a problem, but I'd say that's bulls***." + the car company founded by a woman and created a car for the Le MANS 24hr & the Holden engineer who's company later made these concept cars! On 88.6FM and worldwide www..PVFM.org.au

21/10/2025

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🔥 The Demon Who Stayed Sober — The Real Reason Gene Simmons Never Touched Drugs or Alcohol

Behind the fire-breathing, blood-spitting stage persona of KISS frontman Gene Simmons, there’s a story few fans ever heard — one that starts not in a stadium, but in a concentration camp.

Simmons’ mother, Flóra Klein, survived the Holocaust after losing most of her family to the N***s.
She endured starvation, cruelty, and death — and somehow, she lived.

When Gene was born years later, she gave him one rule: “Don’t ever waste the life I suffered to give you.”

And he never did.
No drugs.
No alcohol.
Not once.

“I’m her only child,” Gene said. “I had no right to hurt my mother. Life had already done enough to her.”

Even when fame hit — the leather, the fire, the women, the chaos — Gene stayed clean.
Because behind the mask of The Demon, there was still Chaim, the boy who promised his mother he’d never disappoint her.

He once recalled his first Rolling Stone interview:
He arrived in full rock-god mode — spider rings, seven-inch boots, black nails — when suddenly, the doorbell rang.
It was his mother, holding a mountain of homemade food.

“Eat, boys. You’re too skinny,” she told them.
The writer laughed.
The Demon blushed.
And that day, the world saw Gene Simmons for who he really was —
not a rock monster,
but a mama’s boy who kept his promise. ❤️

16/10/2025

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Joe Satriani breaks down the one Eddie Van Halen riff that stumps even the best, calling the intro to Mean Street totally mind-blowing and nearly impossible ...

16/10/2025

As appeared in Show #186, ohhh Mr. Satch... ♥

"Always with Me, Always with You" by Joe Satriani Listen to Joe Satriani: https://joesatriani.lnk.to/Shapeshifting/Subscribe to the official Joe Satriani You...

16/10/2025

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This is an Mtv promo circa 1984. Mtv used it to encourage customers to demand cable companies to add MTV. There were some that saw this as the destruction...

14/10/2025

Today @2-4pm Show #186...
MTV dead after more than 40 years + In March of 1975 the Detroit area's Suzi Quatro began opening for the now solo artist Alice Cooper on his ambitious Welcome to My Nightmare tour. She opened for around 60 engagements on that Cooper tour in 1975.
+ "On This Day": 39th anniversary of, and playing whole album - JOE SATRIANI - "Surfing With The Alien"
& HOLDEN's mighty 186c.i.d. engine
On 88.6FM and worldwide www.PVFM.org.au