This past Saturday, Bill Ward hosted this month’s edition of Rock 50, his regular radio show. However, this month’s episode was a little different. It was Bill’s tribute to the >September 11th attacks from seven years ago now.

This show started off with a three minute or so speech by Bill Ward about the show. You can download an mp3 of that track here: https://www.billward.com/sounds/Bill_Ward_911_show_intro.mp3

You can view the track listing for the show here, and don’t forget, you can get all the latest (plus all the past track listings) at Bill’s Rock 50 page here:

http://rock50.billward.com

Dear Everybody,

This July12th is our summer touring bands show, featuring some great newer bands and some of the older, established Hard Rock/Metal bands – Judas Priest, Metallica, and Testament. At The Gates and Children of Bodom are just a few of a host of Metal¹s Greatest on our playlist. Check out the show if you can. We’ve been around now for a while and deliver consistently good Metal shows each month.

Stay Strong.

Love Live Metal.

–Bill

H! Everyone.

Our Metal show will be April 26, 2008. We¹re featuring In Flames, Slayer, Ministry, more Messhugga and At The Gates. For those of you who listen regularly, I hope I¹m bringing good stuff to you and hitting the spot.

Our May show will be May 10, 2008. I¹m making this show a bit different. It¹ll happen five days after my 60th birthday, so selfishly, I¹ll play my all-time favourite Metal bands, and that will include Sabbath, Priest, Ozzy, some surprise tracks, also Type O Negative, In Flames, Slipknot ­ all good stuff from past years up to now. It¹ll be my birthday Metal radio show, May 10th.

OK. Stay strong. Stay safe.

–Bill Ward

H! Everyone.

Our radio show this month will air on February 23rd. I hope you will join us. We’ll be playing new releases in Hardcore Metal and some of the favorites from last year. I haven’t played any Pantera for a while, so I’m playing something this month. Disfear, I’m sure, will be back on the show from January, and right now, Korn kick off the top of the show.

We’ll make a brief tribute to Buddy, Ritchie and the Big Popper. It’s been 49 years since their fatal plane crash after playing the Surf Ballroom gig in Clear Lake, Iowa, February 3, 1959.

OK. We’ll be there February 23rd.

Stay safe. Stay strong.

–Bill Ward

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

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.