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  1. Did I say two weeks? I apparently meant 2 years. As of last Saturday, I finally got my MTV2 back. And free everything. Cheaper bills are nice. :) SO... due to wonderful end-of-month inventory, I had to wait several days until I could watch my recording of Headbanger's Ball. So I fire up the old (NEW) HD-DVR and play my show. Much to my dismay, Jamie Jasta is still hosting the show. But it seems, someone or something has a very crude sense of humour. It wasn't just Jamie Jasta, IT WAS AN ENTIRE FUCKING HOUR OF HIS BAND HATEBREED!! So much for setting sail again. Guess I'll have to sate my metal hunger with VH1 Classic's Metal Mayhem. So, regarding the 2 years, I was holding out for Local HD broadcasts (via satellite) for Bakersfield for the past year. I watch more prime-time than anything and it just seemed a waste knowing I was leaving at some point. Plus, due to the wiring and the architecture of my home, it wasn't practical to install there. And I sure as hell wasn't going to compromise the cable internet connection I had. If time presents itself, maybe I will pen here again. Or this too may become a metal classic, like the original show.
  2. I could have swore Welch had bitter things to say after his departure. I wouldn't let him back either.
  3. Trixter's ex-bassist, PJ Farley, is now a bassist in the band RA. I have not seen a musician with bigger ears. I believe he's been part of the last two albums, the latest just recently being released.
  4. NOTE: This article is 16 months old... Definitely agree: 20) Trixter: The glam metal band from New Jersey who weren't related to Bon Jovi. It might have helped. Word is they're coming back in 2008. I guess the Puppet Show at Six Flags is in need of an opening act this year. What Trixter lacked in originality--they had tunes named "Surrender" (not a Cheap Trick cover) and "One In A Million" (not the Guns n' Roses tune)--they made up for with, well, their lack of originality. 14) Stryper: Christian Metal is just wrong, and quite possibly an oxymoron. I suppose you could say it's more rebellious since it rebels against the traditional concept of rebellion. But then that would make activities such as mowing the lawn, doing the dishes and getting a haircut all part of a Satanic plot. I go with that King Of The Hill show that, when confronted with a Christian rock band, laid it out straight with something like this: you're not making Christianity better, you're making rock n' roll worse. 6) Europe: What does it tell you about a band when their most successful album, in Europe's case The Final Countdown, inspires its guitar player to leave? Millions buy the album. Radio and TV play the song and video and the people who create it question what the hell they're doing. The guitarist in question did eventually return--but only years later, when I guess he ran out of other things to do. Definitely disagree: 21) Lizzy Borden: In retrospect, these guys weren't so much bad as indistinguishable from the many other talents of their era. They didn't overplay any more than usual and they never had a singer who made you want to jump out of a moving vehicle. And that's what's really wrong here. Lizzy Borden evoke no reaction whatsoever. You might as well be listening to air. 17) Dokken: Formed in the 1970s, these heavy metal lifers, after a few years of false starts, finally got to consistently make records in the 1980s just in time to be too late. Or is that too old? Youth culture can be cruel if you're not Ozzy Osbourne--then you're just grandpa. As for Don Dokken, no matter how many hits he has--and he's had quite a few--he still ends up being everyone else's opening act. And that tells us something. 13) Great White: Even before the great fire in that small Rhode Island club that stained whatever legacy they'd aimed for, Great White were responsible for bland, routine glam metal that screwed up a perfectly good Ian Hunter song in "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." The band has also suffered enough line-up changes that even their founder Jack Russell has taken to calling different line-ups "Fake White." 5) Whitesnake: Whitesnake were around for so long that we're ignoring their decade as a blues band to focus on their decade as a vehicle for the dissemination of once-upon-a-wife Tawny Kitaen videos. Singer David Coverdale got so tired of being compared to Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant that he signed up with Zep's Jimmy Page and formed the imaginatively titled Coverdale-Page. When that didn't go so well, Page re-found Robert Plant and Coverdale re-found Whitesnake. Reality TV re-found Tawny. This is starting to sound Biblical. 4) W.A.S.P.: "We Are Sexual Perverts"? "We Are So Perfect"? "We Ain't Sure, Pal"? "We Are (expletive deleted) Performers"? Coming from the same scene as Motley Crue, RATT and Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P. excelled at being the "least good" of the batch. For their efforts, they were razzed by the Parents Music Resource Center, a group of Washington Wives who would've made an even worse band had they picked up instruments. Tipper Gore, contrary to speculation, was no Tawny Kitaen..
  5. Nope. Never got past the radio singles.
  6. It wasn't bad for its time. Musically. Style-wise, not so sure.
  7. "Spider-Man" and "Evil Dead" trilogy director Sam Raimi is set to enter the world of "Warcraft." Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures announced Tuesday that Raimi will be at the helm of a live-action movie based on the blockbuster PC game franchise. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. "At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen." Read entire story here.
  8. NEW YORK (Billboard) – The cult of personality will be revived this fall, when purveyors of hard funk-rock Living Color return with "The Chair in the Doorway" -- the band's first set of new material in nearly six years. Due September 15 on Megaforce Records, the 11-song set was recorded in numerous locations over the last few years, with a majority of the sessions taking place at Sono Studios outside Prague in the Czech Republic. According to lead singer Corey Glover, most of the material came to fruition after the band was asked to re-record "Cult of Personality" for "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock." From there, the group fleshed out songs when on tour and while Glover had time off from touring duties as Judas in "Jesus Christ Superstar." Read entire story here.
  9. I never did wish to be Oscar Mayer's Weiner. But I did like eating them all these decades.
  10. So did you take a walk, Dude? I wager you're the closest of all members to the Staples Center.
  11. Yay...Chickenfoot Deux. Is it really a supergroup, Dave? You were already in QOTSA. Is this social security money for John? Feel like I'm getting recycled cardboard here. Sure, it's good for you, but it's made up of mostly the same old stuff. Actually, I'd check this out over Chickenfoot anyday. R.I.P. Satch.
  12. Ex-bandmate Burton C. Bell?? I knew Cazares was being a pain in the ass, but Burton's been there from the beginning and still is. Things are a little fishy in the land near the land down under. I miss most of Cazares' work with the band, but Olbers has been doing pretty good on the latest albums.
  13. Ooohh...that says "Ltd." I was about inflict serious injury.
  14. I swear that's Robin Finck (sp.) on guitar on the AGDMFG video. I knew Twiggy was back and that Tim Skold had left the band. WTF ever happened to Madonna Wayne Gacy? He was a staple for the longest time.
  15. I don't know about latest battlefield weapon, but it sure would be a great manga title.
  16. I really like this song, along with "Stone Cold."
  17. No guns to a gunfight? Good-grief. But yeah...the irony. I once had a bitch pawn my NES. I showed her by firing my gun into another woman. I know she didn't like that too much as she started stalking my ass. Had to leave the country. I'm playing my PS2 again.
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