Brian Rickman comes to us from Muscle Shoals, Alabama (yep – he's a “Roll Tide” kinda guy) but, throughout his 20+ years in the radio and music business, Brian has called many places home. Rickman started his career and path to deafness as a musician. Brian was the guitarist and primary songwriter for the grunge-era band Another Roadside Attraction. They didn't get famous (probably because their name was too long) but they did sign a record contract, had big shot managers in New York City, toured with bands that did get famous and were part of the same Midwestern scene that spawned Smashing Pumpkins and such. After life as a rock star didn't pan out, Rickman returned to the job he had in high school. At 16, he'd landed a part-time gig as a weekend DJ on his hometown radio station in Decatur, Illinois. While promoting the band, Brian became a popular guest on cheesy morning radio shows all over America (and sometimes Canada). After he took his guitars to the pawn shop, a news/talk radio station in New Jersey hired him to ramble on nonstop for many hours at a time and even proposed to pay him for this. He accepted. This began a long journey up and down the radio dial in places like New York City, both Carolinas, Los Angeles, Georgia, the aforementioned Alabama and now Texas. Brian was also the third wheel on the syndicated Mad Max Morning Show. You might have also heard him previously on Hard Drive with Lou Brutus, sparring with Eddie Trunk about which Motorhead album is the best or on countless radio commercials over the years (lots of concert commercials – he's the guy that yells at you on the radio about the Black Sabbath reunion tour coming to town). Rickman is also a published writer. He's worked as a critic for AllMusic, rock journalist for hipster websites like Consequence of Sound and Pitchfork and has published, to date, four novels (all in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre). Last year, someone even bought the movie rights for that series. What a sucker. Throughout the years, Brian has collected numerous rock and roll experiences. He was super-pals with Dimebag Darrel, was David Lee Roth's drinking buddy, once bought Dave Mustaine new socks and one time got into a shouting match with Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot back stage after a show. Before fists were thrown, the fight was stopped by Ronnie James Dio...which is pretty hilarious. Now, Rickman joins us in East Texas to play the greatest Rock ever recorded, tell funny stories and write a bunch of weird crap for you to read on the internet. Enjoy!
Brian Rickman
[WATCH] Dallas Guy Flies Off A Water Slide In Austin
A Dallas guy is seriously re-thinking hitting the water attractions in the future after he flew off an Austin area private slide over the weekend.
David Salmon posted a slow-motion video on Monday morning that recounts his trip to Lake Travis...
Stephen Pearcy Joins The Line-Up For Rock The Square 2016
In case you missed the announcement, this year Rock The Square in downtown Tyler will feature Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat and Stephen Pearcy, formerly of Ratt.
It's set to be an outstanding show overall on Saturday, October 15th and you can get your tickets right here...
Navigating Dallas In A World of Social Media Warriors
“Years of love have been forgot in the hatred of a minute.” - Edgar Allan Poe
All blacks aren’t criminals. All Muslims aren’t terrorists. All white cops aren’t racist killers.
Following the events in Dallas last night, and the alarming series of shootings that preceded the massacre, it is helpful to take a breath and remind ourselves of these simple truths...
RECAP: Moment By Moment in Dallas 7/7/2016
According to KLTV, the death toll from last night’s incident has risen to five officers, with a total of 12 officers shot.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown at a press conference stated that they have multiple suspects they are pursuing, though one of the suspects was killed after a standoff with officers Thursday night...
Schlitterbahn Says The Park Is Safe Despite Viral Facebook Post
Yesterday (6/28/16), a Texas Mom posted on Facebook that her kids were suffering from a nasty Staph infection following a visit to the Galveston Schlitterbahn water park.
The post quickly went viral and, at the time of this writing, has been shared over 88,000 times on social media...
Crappy Music Monday: Thrash Queen
Today's expedition into the world of Crappy Music, leads us down one of the strangest rabbit holes in Heavy Metal history. Surprisingly not well-documented on the web, Thrash Queen was a...well, a "band" that, at the time of their debut album's release, was literally thrown to the wolves amongst fans of thrash metal...
Why Is East Texas Home To So Many Patent Trolls?
Are you familiar with the term "patent troll"?
It's a pejorative phrase used to describe a person or company that issues frivolous lawsuits against other companies for violating patent laws. In the broadest terms, you may think that litigation such as this is not only valid but just...
Woman In ‘Pride’ T-Shirt Threatens A Texas Mosque
A member of a Fort Worth mosque contacted police on Sunday to report a threat from a woman wearing a 'pride' t-shirt. According to the police log, the caller contacted authorities after a woman in an SUV shouted for members of the mosque to "get out of America" and that someone would be coming back to kill them...
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Deletes Tweet Regarding Orlando Shooting Following Twitter Outrage
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has deleted a tweet that he published hours after what authorities have declared the worst mass shooting in American history.
At 7am this morning, Patrick posted an image bearing Galatians 6:7. The verse reads, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked...
Is It OK To Serve Your Guests Microwave Meals?
Would you ever serve your guests a microwave meal?
Sure, most of us wouldn’t think twice about popping a Zataran’s or a Nighthawk meal in the microwave for lunch…but would you serve that to friends?
A recent survey of UK Adults revealed that 30% of them would be perfectly content to be served a microwave meal of their choice when visiting friends...
Whatever Happened To…Vinnie Vincent?
In the late 1970s, Vincent John Cusano found himself at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The young songwriter had recently ended a stint as guitarist in the soft rock band Treasure. This was Felix Cavaliere's new group following the break-up of The Young Rascals...
Education Board Candidate Who Called The President A Drug Using Gay Prostitute Loses
President Barrack Obama has been called many things since he first took office eight years ago...but a drug using gay prostitute was, well...unique.
State Education Board Candidate Mary Lou Bruner, a retired teacher from Wood County, made national headlines when it came to light that she subscribed to this and a number of other odd conspiracy theories...