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Interviews

Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal :  Many of you know Bumblefoot from his 8 year stint with a little band called Guns N' Roses or from his fret shredding solo albums but he's not one to rest on his laurels. Bumblefoot has two killer projects on the go in Sons Of Apollo featuring Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth, Mr. Big) , Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Winery Dogs), Derek Sherinian ( Black Country Communion, Alice Cooper) and Jeff Scott Soto ( Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen) as well as Art Of Anarchy with former Creed vocalist Scott Stapp. He's also become the lead vocalist and guitarist of Asia (yes, the "Heat Of The Moment" Asia!)

In the first part of this interview from the archives, Ron will discuss shooting his video for "Don't Know Who To Pray To Anymore" in 3 different countries and doing battle with immigration officers, airlines and spiders.

Music

Adrenaline Rush - Adrenalin

Down N Outz - Rock N Roll Queen (Mott The Hoople cover)

Skarlett Riot - Break

Outlaws & Moonshine - Different Kind Of Man

Sault - Save Me

NonExistent- NonExistent

Holly West - When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin cover)

Bonecrusher - Christmas Time Again

Cardinal's Pride - Love

Hardknocks - This One's For Us

Dirty Thrills - Lonely Soul

Old Breed - For Christmas

I, The Dreamer - Rise

Bumblefoot - Don't Know Who To Pray To Anymore

Art Of Anarchy - No Surrender

PLUS : Kasey and Doug Mcfly, the most festive fly in a 56 block radius, exchange gifts and get blasted on egg nog . Kasey's also talking about his gig as MC of Skullfest (including the lovely lass who motorboated herself with his face). By popular demand Kasey's telling more stories about the colourful characters he worked with in his kitchen days including a grill cook who once soiled himself while preparing food for the public! 

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Music 

Danko Jones - Start The Show

Saliva - Click, Click Boom (Every 20 Years version)

Trashboat - Silence Isn’t Golden

Starset – Infected

Ice Nine Kills – The Shower Scene

Gemini Syndrome – Reflection

Crazy Lixx – Weekend Lover

Stone Whiskey – Empty Eyes

King Zebra – Wall Of Confusion (feat. Guernica Mancini of Thundermother)

Inglorious – Medusa

Marta Gabriel – Metal Queen (Lee Aaron cover)

Edge Of Paradise – Edge Of Paradise

Orianthi - Impulsive

Sunlust – Existor

Sue Foley – Dallas Man

The Picturebooks - Rebel (feat. Lzzy Hale of Halestorm)

Shy, Low – Where The Light Bends

Plus, what Kasey’s sick of hearing (outside of the word, no), why he’s a bad person, his quest for a dancing flower toy from the 80’s and the flabbergasting asking price that finally put an end to said mission.

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Interviews

Kevin Waterman : Stunt Man, Stunt Driver and Actor. He’s worked on everything from The Avengers : End Game and The Walking Dead to Scream : The TV Series and The Suicide Squad. However, you horror fans will likely know him best as “The Milk Man” Harry Rooker from the Netflix movie trilogy, Fear Street. Yes, your favourite ghost rider and mine, Kevin Waterman is coming to The Kasey Ferguson Show! 

From being set on fire and car wrecks to slicing into his role as “The Milkman” and what REALLY scares a Hollywood stunt man, Kevin and Kasey carve into all of it, so join them for a walk down Fear Street.

Jeff Zahn : Composer/Musical Director, Are You Afraid Of The Dark. Jeff has supervised and written the music for over 50 TV series , he’s performed all over the world accompanying artists including: Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and Sammy Davis Jr, he’s written for Ray Charles, produced projects for Art Garfunkel and Wyclef Jean. He even developed and produced his own Halloween themed animated feature film “Spookley The Square Pumpkin for Lionsgate which has been released in over 30 countries and plays annually on the Disney Channel. Among his best known work is as the theme composer and musical director of the original 90's TV series, "Are You Afraid Of The Dark".

Jeff will discuss AYAOTD in great detail, from how he landed the gig and the surprising origin story of his now famous theme to the contributions of series composers Jeff Fisher and Raymond Fabi. He'll also deal out some tips to musicians on how to reach music supervisors and break into scoring film and TV, talk some of his current projects that are in development, and treat you to a laugh regarding a comical exchange he had with Ray Charles   Oh yeah, he was also friends with the late, great Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the man who gave us Monster Mash!

Aaron B Koontz : Aaron is a devilishly talented writer, director and producer. Kasey himself describes Aaron’s film, Scare Package, as “one of the best horror films I’ve seen in years, a smart horror comedy/ anthology which manages to be both a side splittingly funny and goregasmically gruesome love letter to horror fans by horror fans.” Aaron also directed the cowboys vs. witches film, The Pale Door and is producing several films to look forward to including, The Bunker starring Tony Todd (Candyman) and Tobin Bell (Saw) and Old Man which is directed by Lucky McKee whom many of you will remember as the director of the ghoulishly great movie, "May". 

Aaron will discuss working with the legendary Joe Bob Briggs and pro wrestling star Dustin Runnels (aka Dustin Rhodes, aka Goldust) on Scare Package, happy accidents, inheriting a blood soaked car during filming and deciding to blow it up on screen, work life balance, how to collaborate with creative friends without it leading to a murder spree and more!

Music

Living Dead Girl – Escape

Floatsam And Jetsam - Wicked Hour

Karpenter - No Vacancy

The Spectre Beneath - The Funeral

Juliet Ruin - Dark Water

Until I Wake – Nightmares

Biohacker - Nerve Damage (911 mix)

Thy Row - The Downfall, Part 1 -Killing All Inside

Afterlife-Burn It Down

Chmcl Str8jckt – 1911

Vessel - Behind The Walls

Dichroma - Frame Dragger

Wage War – Slow Burn

Motorjesus - Dead Rising

Lamb Of God – Walk With Me In Hell (Remastered)

Primal Fear – Hail The Fear

Gost – November Is Death

Dio - Better In The Dark

Thundermother - Ghosts

The Treatment - Vampress

PLUS : Kasey and his bulbous, bug eyed blood brother, Doug Mcfly finally get to the bottom of Cousin Miri’s persistent plot to take them to hell and make their stand, Evil Dead style! Also, Doug is part Finnish?

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Sal and Dan Canzonieri of Electric Frankenstein - Yes, murderous minstrels and psychotic siblings, Sal and Dan Canzonieri of rot n rollers, Electric Frankenstein are coming to The Kasey Ferguson Show's Haunted House Of Rock! Prepare for your ears to be embalmed with terror filled tales of battling slime, vomiting thieves, blood-soaked boobies, fiery car wrecks and the real ghost story behind “Annie’s Grave”.

Music

The Lurking Corpses - Werewolf Queen

Blood Sucking Zombies From Outer Space – I Wanna Hear U Scream

Dr. Chud’s X Ward – Spiderbaby

Rex Stiff And The Kinky Morticians – We Are The Dead

GWAR – I’ll Be Your Monster

Groovie Ghoulies – Graveyard Girlfriend

5 Cent Freakshow – Camp Crystal Lake

Sonic Creeps – Gravedancer

Reverend Horton Heat – Halloween Dance

Nekromantix – Trick Or Treat

HorrorPops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill

Electric Frankenstein - Annie's Grave

Plus, Miri is still out of sorts and blabbering on about taking Kasey and Doug Mcfly (the most morbidly obese fly this side of the cemetery) to hell. Kasey is curious as to who he'll meet there and inquires about the possibility of rubbing elbows with Bon Scott, Andy Rooney and the cat from Pet Sematary. 

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Interview

Matthew Peak: Horror fans will know Matthew for his iconic movie posters for the first five A Nightmare On Elm Street films. Yes, if you found yourself in or around a movie theatre or video store during the film’s original reign of terror it was Matthew's art that donned the theatre walls, VHS box and soundtrack covers. Matthew's art has also graced the covers of many soundtrack albums from The Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Citizen Kane to several of Alfred Hitchcock's films (not to mention albums from Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Thomas Newman and Family Guy's Seth McFarlane)!

Matthew will discuss everything from how he got the Elm Street gig and how long the paintings took him to the positive side of deadlines, ripping up his paintings in frustration, being haunted by his art, why his work for Nightmare 5 got pulled from the ad campaign, his cameo in said film and painting vs. digital art. 

Music

Alice Cooper – Give The Radio Back

The Dudes Of Wrath - Shocker

Motley Crue - Knock 'Em Dead Kid

W.A.S.P. - Scream Until You Like It 

Fastway - Don't Stop The Fight

Metropolis - The Darkest Side Of The Night

Tim Cappello - I Still Believe

Judas Priest - Between The Hammer And The Anvil

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

Dokken - Kiss Of Death

Lita Ford - The Ripper

Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction

PLUS, Alfred Hitchcock (Director of Psycho, The Birds and other spine tingling classics) had a strange phobia and Kasey finds it hilarious given his oeuvre. Cousin Miri is acting bizarrely...even for her...she’s frothing at the mouth and blabbing on about taking Kasey and his partner in slime, Doug “I smell like a zombie’s taint” Mcfly to hell....or at least, Detroit.

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Interviews

Yvette Kaplan: Yvette has worked as a writer, director, producer and in several other capacities on a number of animated projects over the years from King Of The Hill, Futurama, Zack And Quack, The Magic School Bus and Doug to the 2002 film, Ice Age. However, she is probably most known for her work as animation director of the original hit series, Beavis And Butthead and it’s feature film Beavis And Butthead Do America.

Yvette and Kasey will go behind the scenes and discuss not only the inner workings of Beavis And Butthead from the early challenges of the show and the infamous “fire” controversy to working with Mike Judge and the growing pains that came with the jump to the big screen. How did Yvette go from retiring from animation in the 80’s and hand painting baby clothes to directing Beavis And Butthead’s music video with Cher and the duo’s appearance on Letterman? You’ll have to tune in to find out!

Dwight Little : Dwight is perhaps best known for directing Halloween 4 : The Return Of Michael Myers but his credits also include Marked For Death (starring Steven Seagal), Rapid Fire (starring Brandon Lee), Murder at 1600 (starring Wesley Snipes) and even Free Willy 2 : The Adventure Home. He’s also directed a number of TV shows including The X Files, Millennium, From Dusk Till Dawn and 24.

Dwight will discuss Steven Seagal pulling a gun out during one of their meetings and how they got along on set to how he was able to help Brandon Lee land his role in The Crow, working with Robert Englund on The Phantom Of The Opera and the plight of being Freddy, the importance of mavericks like Roger Corman to the film industry, the VHS boom, Netflix and more.

Music

Act Of Denial - Slave

Myles Kennedy - In Stride

Inglorious - God Of War

Bite Me Bambi - Strippers On A Sunday

Moore Ave Underground - Beanies And Plaid Jackets

Sammy Boller – Cloak Of Light

Colin James – Down At The Bottom

Chaser - A New Direction

Bigmotorgasoline - Who I Am

SOM- Youth.Decay

LizZard – Blue Moon

Dead Register- Failed (Lament Cityscape Remix)

Circa Arcana – Esoteric

Thundermother- Heatwave

Wilson – House Of Fuckery

Project Renegade - Respirator 

Gold, Frankincense And Myhrr – Taking Over

Blockbuster - Back From The Shadows

Jeff Scott Soto - Stand Up (Live)

Dirty Shirley - Dirty Blues

Coe Hill – Edge Of Collapse (feat. Tyler Small Of Saving Vice)

Primal Fear – Hounds Of Justice

Coreleoni - Ride On

PLUS, the members of Narcotics Synonymous at Motel Ferguson continue their substance soaked shenanigans and Kasey’s had enough. You’ll be treated to actual audio of the ass sneeze that is Carla Pipekiss, who has been yelling so loudly at herself in a drug and alcohol fueled haze that residents from the building across the street start yelling back at her. Kasey also does battle with an obnoxious home care worker that probably killed her pet rock as a kid, breaks up the “Mensa meeting” between Yellanore next door and her hobbling hobgoblin of a sister, Peg Leg Pam, provides an update on everyone’s favorite drug inhaling derelict, Crackhead Chrissy and pines over not being able to reach the last box of reduced in price frozen treats at the local merchant of food stuffs. Finally, Doug Mcfly has been making his way through the works of Shakespeare and just finished Hamlet...Kasey suggests he try reading them instead of eating them. 

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Todd Whitener : Todd burst onto the scene selling more than 1.5 million records as guitarist of the band Days Of The New. He brought dazzling fretwork and vocal harmonies to DOTN's self-titled debut which contained the hit songs "Touch, Peel And Stand", "Shelf In The Room" and "The Downtown". With a platinum album and a tour with Metallica under his belt, things seemed to be coming up Todd.

Then, singer Travis Meeks abruptly fired the entire band forcing Todd and his fellow bandmates to resort to working menial jobs while they picked up the pieces. Todd and company battled back, signing to Maverick Records with their new band, Tantric, scoring hits with songs like "Astounded" "Mourning" and the Billboard #1 "Breakdown" . Tantric toured with Kid Rock, Creed and 3 Doors down among others and their debut album went gold. However, their next album did not. Though it sold respectably selling more than 200,000 copies Tantric fell victim to the sophomore jinx. Record company woes and line-up changes followed with Todd himself leaving the band in 2007.

Under the name Whitener, Todd would go on to release several records. Now, he's joined forces once again with his former DOTN and Tantric bandmates to form the band Blisskrieg with singer, Donald Carpenter. Their debut, Remedy is on sale now.

Todd and Kasey go in depth on the writing and recording of Remedy and focus in on several tracks, including the incredible lead single "Inside Me". Mr. Whitener also has some sound advice for harmony singers, gives a shout out to legendary pedal steel player, Van Coffee (George Jones) who played on the song, "Destination Unknown", talks slide guitar and the influence of Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots.

Steve Gorman: Original drummer of The Black Crowes, current drummer of the incredible, Trigger Hippy, author and radio host, Steve Gorman is coming back to The Kasey Ferguson Show! 

Steve will discuss everything from the importance of a band having a great team behind them and working with Jimmy Page to The Black Crowes costumed mushroom party with little people, the writing of the By Your Side album, why they threatened to kick legendary producer, Rick Rubin's ass and the misconceptions about his involvement with the band.

Music

NoSelf - Resistance

Juliet Ruin - Cosmic Vertigo

Fame On Fire - I'm Fine

Blisskrieg - Inside Me

Cavern - Fade Before The Flood

B Heaslip - Natural, Magical (Beautiful)

Orianthi - Crawling Out Of The Dark

Motorhead - Live To Win (Remastered)

Ditchwater - Iron Fist (Motorhead cover)

Diamond Head - It's Electric

Reb Beach - Cutting Loose

Kevin Breit - Shoo The Bluebird

Bruce Cockburn - Blind Willie

Sass Jordan - One Way Out (Allman Bros Band cover)

The Still, Small Voice - Roller Rink

14 North - Break

Alter Bridge - Clear Horizon

The Treatment - Laying It Down

Trigger Hippy - Low Down Country Song

Mark Morton - She Talks To Angels feat. Lzzy Hale of Halestrom (The Black Crowes cover)

PLUS: Kasey gets a little too rambunctious and accidentally karate chops an unsuspecting Doug Mcfly, leading the dastardly Doug to return fire with an attack so heinous and foul it offended even the unflappable, Cousin Miri! You'll also be treated to a free Spanish lesson after Kasey inhales his beer too quickly, and your hopeless host comes clean about which Canadian icon he insulted on numerous occasions with his sophomoric shenanigans.

Kasey's Hollywood Remake : Kasey recasts the shit filled cinnamon heart that was the 2001 slasher film, Valentine, with the likes of CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the Samoan Rugby World Cup team of 2002.

Kasey's Report Card : It's on to 1st Grade for Kasey "The Kid" and it turns out the young whippersnapper doesn't play well with others. Imagine that! More revelations from his real report card as Kasey continues to get in touch with his younger self.

Kingston Ribfest And Craft Beer Show : Kasey's interview with Kingston's own, Spearhead Brewing Company from his pre pandemic trip to the Limestone City's celebration of suds. Claire and Greg from the brewery talk Spearhead's Open Mic night, supporting live music and local events such as HOWE Island Rockin the Rock and their Halloween freakshow. Greg also throws down an impressive round of Trivial Pursuit as Kasey hammers back Spearhead's Hawaiian Pale Ale, makes plans to become the "Van Halen of the kazoo" and barks at passing fire trucks. 

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Interview: Erin Alexander And Katey Potter from Cowbell Brewing Co. Kasey's all hopped up at the Kingston Ribfest And Craft Beer Show 2017 talking to the gals from Blythe, Ontario's craft brewery Cowbell Brewing about both their Renegade beers (such as the Mint Pale Ale) and their Founder series (such as Doc Perdue's Boxing Bruin I.P.A.). Kasey also decides to cash in Ferguson and change his name to Kasey Sparling much to the delight of the Cowbell Brewing babes, imbibes and inquires about Cowbell's Imperial Stout and provides play by play commentary as the action unfolds at the beer festival.

Music

Sponge - Plowed

Guns N' Roses - Locomotive

Lynch Mob - No Good

Kopek - Cocaine Chest Pains

Cry Of Love - Too Cold In The Winter

Kid Rock - Rock N Roll Jesus

The Black Crowes - Go Faster

Double Trouble - Rock N Roll (Led Zeppelin cover) feat Susan Tedeschi, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Charlie Sexton

Stargunn - Get Your Rock On

Maeder - No Grass Is Greener

PLUS : Kasey has a new Weather Girl! He wanted the best but the best don't work for free so he got the best he could find on no budget : Siri's argumentative Cousin Miri.

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