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While other stations' listeners are at school...
we're shoplifting!
V-Rock.
— V-Rock jingle from GTA Vice City
A relentless collection of hard-rock bangers, brought to you by the inimitable Lazlow. From a time when rock & roll was all about living and playing hard. Featuring classic material from legendary acts like Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne.
GTA Vice City website
V-Rock - the home of the vulture. Music is dead, and we're eating its innards! (OW!) V-Rock!
— V-Rock jingle from GTA Vice City Stories

V-Rock is a radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories that plays hard rock and heavy metal.

Description[]

3D Universe[]

In 1984, the setting of GTA Vice City Stories, the station was based in Reddick, Florida, and was co-hosted by Couzin Ed and station "intern" Lazlow. By 1986, the setting of GTA Vice City, the station had relocated to Vice City, Florida, and Lazlow is now the sole DJ following Couzin Ed's dismissal.

The station's promos often included derogatory comparisons to other stations, mocking the synthesizer-based music played by its competitors while stating that "real men" only listen to the rock music that V-Rock plays. The station's mascot is a vulture, as can be seen in the station's logo. Lazlow would often complain that the bird "got more air time than [he] did".

The station was officially endorsed by contemporary rock artists, including Jezz Torrent of Love Fist, who can regularly be heard in V-Rock's promos. The station also operated a studio adjacent to its Vice City headquarters, which would often be used by Love Fist for their recording sessions. V-Rock also features promotions, such as the Vulture Prize Patrol, and call-ins from members of the public. The three callers featured in GTA Vice City are Couzin Ed, who vents his anger at Lazlow for "stealing" his job, Mitch Baker, who berates the station because he considers it plays "girl's music", and a man who refers to himself as "Snow Dog". The phone line is also used in GTA Vice City Stories, although in this instance the only caller is a man who insults Couzin Ed.

In GTA Vice City, V-Rock is one of two radio stations to feature original material written and recorded especially for the game, in the form of two songs by the fictitious band Love Fist. The other station to feature original material is Radio Espantoso.

The V-Rock Hotel in Las Venturas, San Andreas takes its name from the radio station and features the V-Rock logo prominently on its sign.

The V-Rock Recording Studio on Hoarmount Avenue, is the recording studio as well as the headquarters for V-Rock.

This is the favorite radio of the Vice City Bikers (alongside Vice City For Lovers) and the Vance Crime Family (alongside Vice City Public Radio).

HD Universe[]

V-Rock is also said to exist (or have existed) in some different form in the HD Universe as part of the new continuity started in Grand Theft Auto IV, broadcasting from the State of Leonida.

In Grand Theft Auto Online, it is possible to buy a jacket with the V-Rock logo on it as part of the Cunning Stunts update.

Tracklist[]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]

Tracklist
Song: Preview: Notes:
"I Wanna Rock" by Twisted Sister (1984)
"Too Young to Fall in Love" by Mötley Crüe (1983)
"Cum On Feel the Noize" by Quiet Riot (1983)
"She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult (1985)
"Bark at the Moon" by Ozzy Osbourne (1983) This song is missing from the iOS, Android, PS2 Classics (PS3, PS4 and PS5), Rockstar Games Launcher and The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition.
"Dangerous Bastard" by Love Fist (1986/2002)
"2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden (1984)
"Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy (1981)
"God Blessed Video" by Alcatrazz (1985)
"Cumin' Atcha Live" by Tesla (1986)
"Turn Up the Radio" by Autograph (1984)
"Peace Sells" by Megadeth (1986)
"Madhouse" by Anthrax (1985)
"Raining Blood" by Slayer (1986)
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Judas Priest (1982)
"Fist Fury" by Love Fist (1986/2002)
"Yankee Rose" by David Lee Roth (1986)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[]

Tracklist
Song: Preview:
"Holy Diver" by Dio (1983)
"Queen of the Reich" by Queensrÿche (1984)
"Lick It Up" by KISS (1983)
"Breaking the Chains" by Dokken (1983)
"All I'm Gonna Take" by Autograph (1984)
"Balls to the Wall" by Accept (1983)
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" by Scorpions (1984)
"Long Stick Goes Boom" by Krokus (1982)
"Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent (1975)
"Round and Round" by Ratt (1984)
"Electric Eye" by Judas Priest (1982)
"Looks That Kill" by Mötley Crüe (1983)
"Metal Health" by Quiet Riot (1983)


Appearances[]

GTA Vice City[]

GTA Vice City Stories[]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • On the V-Rock logo and the text on its billboards, the word "Rock" is written in the same font as the logo for heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
  • Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth are part of the "big four" thrash metal bands. Metallica is the only of the four not to be featured on the station.
  • V-Rock is most likely a reference to the station Z Rock, a nationally syndicated radio network based in Dallas, Texas, United States, that played heavy metal and hard rock music from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]

  • Lazlow quotes Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" during Couzin Ed's phone-in, quoting the line "It's better to burn out than to fade away". This was the final line in Kurt Cobain's suicide note when he committed suicide in 1994, and was also used in Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages".
  • One of Lazlow's quotes is "I hope I die before I get old". This is a reference to The Who's "My Generation", which features this line.
  • One of the V-Rock stingers contains the first few seconds of Dio's "Jesus, Mary & The Holy Ghost". This song was not actually released until 1993, some 7 years after Vice City is set.
  • There is an unfixed audio mixing oversight in V-Rock where the song "Comin' atcha live!" repeats in the first 10 seconds of the song starting.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[]

  • A large portion of Couzin Ed's banter references the 1986 cult-documentary "Heavy Metal Parking Lot".
  • Couzin Ed also says "Comin' atcha live! The bitch is back...", a reference to Tesla's "Cumin' Atcha Live", which is on the station's GTA Vice City playlist. Elton John's "The Bitch Is Back" is also a popular classic rock song, although it doesn't feature on either V-Rock playlist.
  • Couzin Ed makes a reference to the heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, saying "let's turn it up to 12", an obvious play on 11 being "one louder" than 10 on the guitar amplifier volume control in the film.
  • Couzin Ed also says "Terrible Ted, the Nuge, the Axlmaster who gets more Wang Dang Sweet Poontang than Lazlow, then again don't we all", a reference to Ted Nugent's "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang".

See Also[]

Navigation[]

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