Bill did a half-hour tribute to veteran KNAC DJ Tawn Mastrey during his monthly “Rock 50” radio show on Saturday, October 27. He spoke about how Tawn was so helpful in promoting his first solo effort outside of SABBATH — “Ward One” — and how important a figure she was to all of the metal community.

You can listen to that segment of yesterday’s show at this location.

Tawn Mastrey was a disc jockey, music video producer and one of rock radio’s top media personalities. She hosted a daily show on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Hair Nation Channel 23 and was also heard nationally on Westwood One Entertainment’s “Absolutely Live High Voltage”. Mastery also hosted, wrote, produced and syndicated her own radio specials, “RockZone” and “Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo Happy Hour”, through Mastrey Productions, Inc. She did voice-overs, has owned her own video production company, Ladies In Production Services, and has written a cookbook, “Eat This”.

Tawn Mastrey died October 2, 2007 in Minneapolis at the age of 53. She had been suffering from the effects of hepatitis C which she contracted as a child.

H! Everybody,

Our Halloween show this year is two hours of extremely extraordinary bands. Here are some of the bands we’ll be playing: Mnemic, Type O Negative, Rob Zombie, Murder Dolls, Dimmu Borgir, Job For A Cowboy, Korn, Arch Enemy, The Used and The Black Dahlia Murder.

Check us out.

Stay strong.

Peace,
Bill Ward

PS. The Halloween show is our last 100% Hardcore show of ’07. The Armistice show on November 10th and the Christmas show on December 8th, both contain incredible music, but not necessarily all Metal or Hardcore. Given the solemnness of November 11, you can be sure there will be classic songs in keeping with remembering the dead and fallen. The Christmas show will reflect the passion of the season, and I’m not talking about Christmas trees, presents or killing turkeys. Our Christmas shows try to reflect and focus on those without and the hardships at Christmas. Our show will try to bring some solace to those suffering.

H! Everyone.

September 8th, we have another Hardcore Metal show, and in the last half hour of the show, we’re playing songs dedicated to 9/11 and for the guys out there in harm’s way everyday.

Bands we’ll be playing: Slipknot, As I Lay Dying, War of Ages, Carnal Forge, Nile, Converge, Death Breath and many more.

Bands being played in the 9/11 dedication: Ministry, Deftones, Slayer and Anthrax.

Check us out.

Stay Strong,
Bill Ward

H! Everybody.
It’s Bill.

Featured artists on our radio show for this Saturday, August 11th are as follows: Candlemass, Mastodon, Dark Tranquility, Old Man’s Child, Ministry, Korn, Celtic Frost, Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Killswitch Engage and many more. Check us out if you enjoy Metal PERIOD.

Stay Strong,
Bill

Due to technical difficulties with the college’s web site, Rock 50 will not air live today.

It will be available on the alternative stream on WPMD.org beginning at 7.00PM tonight through next Saturday. Times each day: 11.00AM, 7.00PM and 3.00AM. All times Pacific.

Please visit http://www.wpmd.org to check out the stream.

H! Everybody.

Check out our radio show this Saturday June 23rd — it’s Hardcore all the way with Killswitch Engage, Dimmu Borgir, Devil Driver, Ozzy and Deathstar X. Check us out.

–Bill

OK. The July 21st show will be a “Best Of Hard Rock/Classic Metal” and a “Best Of Summer Touring Hardcore Bands ’07.” First hour, Classic Rock, second hour Hardcore summer bands. That’s it.

Stay Strong,
Bill

Today we bring you something cool from the archives. It’s the music video for the track “Children Killing Children” from Bill’s 1997 album, “When the Bough Breaks”. We’re glad to finally be able to bring this video to you as it’s been in the vaults unreleased for some time now. This video was the only video produced from Bough Breaks, and we’re glad that you can finally see it.

Bill still sells the Bough Breaks album direct on his merchandise page. If you haven’t heard it before, or just want another copy, you can buy it on Bill’s Merchandise page.

We will be having more video and audio downloads available in the future, so make sure to keep it tuned here. Coming shortly will be a jukebox player for Bill’s site here with some cool audio clips.

Here are the lyrics for Children Killing Children:

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This Saturday’s Radio Show will be a special “Best of” program with two hours of the best music and interviews from the past 5 years/50 shows of Bill co-hosting Rock 50. Along with a great mix of music, this special edition will feature interviews with members of Slipknot, In Flames and Type O Negative – and a “live” in-studio performance by The Bill Ward Band.

We’ve got a couple of Rock 50 updates for you. First up is a preview of this weekend’s edition of Rock 50. Here it is from Bill:

H! Everyone.

For those of you who listen to our radio shows, here’s a reminder that the Metal/Hardcore show is this Saturday, February 24th. Bands appearing: Anthrax, Behemoth, Napan Death, Sepultura, Old Man’s Child, The Haunted, and many more great bands. Check us out if you like loud, hard music.

Stay strong,
Bill

Second, we’ve posted the track listing from the January edition of the show. You can view that here. We’ve also added Rock 50 dates for March & April. You can view those on the Rock 50 page.

Bill wishes to thank everyone who tunes in!

H! Everybody. It’s Bill.

Just checking in with you to announce some details of the radio show (New Year show) for this Saturday, January 20th.

I don’t know yet, if I’ll be at the show, however, Mike Stark and Liese will be there to make sure you get the best of today’s metal hardcore music and more. We’re featuring some new cuts, including new Deftones. We’ll be continuing to play recently new Strapping Young Lad and Lamb of God cuts also – both great albums.

The biggest feature will be an entire segment devoted to Type O Negative. They’re here in Southern California and playing live at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA on January 21st and 22nd. I’ve selected the most played Type O music on our radio show from over the years. I hope you’ll enjoy what I’ve chosen.

We’ll also step out of our normal format to play a James Brown song and send our condolences to his family.

OK – I have to leave. Check us out. It’s a good show if you enjoy kick ass metal.

–Bill