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rhapsodynew · 12 days

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UCR News has published all the albums that will be released in May and later!

Stay with us and you won't miss these new items! 🤘

See below 👇

🔥MAY

3 .05

• Indigo Girls, Glitter & Doom – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

• Maurice White [Earth Wind and Fire] – Manifestation: Deluxe Edition

• Melanie – Central Park 1974 (2CD set)

• The Yardbirds – The Ultimate Live at the BBC (4CD box)

• Various artists – Holland-Dozier-Holland: Detroit 1969-1977 (4CD box)

10.05

• John Entwistle [The Who], John Entwistle – The Ox Box Set (6CD box)

• Kings of Leon – Can We Please Have Fun

Peter Gabriel, Back to Front – Live in London (Blu-ray)

• Queen – Queen Rock Montreal (2CD/3LP)

• Sebastian Bach [Skid Row], Child Within the Man – The Staple Singers, Africa ’80

17 .05

• Collective Soul, Here to Eternity

Don McLean, American Boys

Joe Bonamassa – Live at the Hollywood Bowl With Orchestra (CD/DVD set)

• John Oates, Reunion

Kerry King [Slayer], From Hell I Rise

Little Feat, Sam's Place

Oliver Wakeman [Yes], Anam Cara

Pink Floyd – Animals 2018 Remix: Dolby Atmos (Blu-ray/digital)

• Robin Trower – Bridge of Sighs (4CD 50th anniversary edition)

• Slash – Orgy of the Damned

• Various artists – Long Distance Love: A Sweet Relief Tribute to Lowell George (Elvis Costello, Ben Harper, Dave Alvin, others)

24.05

• Lenny Kravitz, Blue Electric Light

Paul Weller, 66

Michael Shrieve [Santana] – Drums of Compassion

• Rainbow – Boston 1981

• Yes – Talk (expanded 4CD anniversary reissue)

31.05

• Anthony Phillips [Genesis] – The Golden Hour: Private Parts and Pieces XII

• Black Sabbath – Anno Domini 1989-1995 (4CD box)

• Crowded House – Gravity Stairs

• Enuff Z'nuff, The 1987 Demos

Howard Jones – Human's Lib; Dream Into Action (CD and Blu-ray reissues)

• Iron Butterfly – Live at the Galaxy 1967

• The Rascals – It's Wonderful: The Atlantic Studio Recordings (7CD box)

• Ratt – Rarities

• R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction (vinyl reissue)

• Richard Thompson, Ship to Shore

Ringo Starr – Crooked Boy (black vinyl/compact disc EP release)

• Squackett [Chris Squire and Steve Hackett] – A Life Within a Day (CD and Blu-ray reissue)

• Various artists – No Songs Tomorrow: Darkwave, Ethereal Rock and Cold Wave 1981-1990 (4CD box with the Cure, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Soft Cell, others)

JUNE AND LATER 🔥

• Bon Jovi – Forever

• Loverboy – Live in ’82 (CD/Blu-ray)

• Robert Hunter [Grateful Dead] – "Tales of the Great Rum Lovers" (2 CD deluxe edition)

• Black Country Communion – V

• David Bowie – Rock and Roll Star (5CD/Blu-ray box)

• Grateful Dead – Mars Hotel: a gift edition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the band.

• Jethro Tull – Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition (extended 3CD/3DVD reissue)

• Phish – Evolve

• Jackson Browne – For Everyman (reissue on vinyl)

#new music #rock music #rock #my spotify #spotify #musica #music love #music #my music #history music #rock photography

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1962dude420-blog · 3 years

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Today we remember the passing of Jani Lane who Died: August 11, 2011 in Woodland Hills, California

Jani Lane (born John Kennedy Oswald; February 1, 1964 – August 11, 2011) was an American recording artist and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the glam metal band Warrant. From Hollywood, California, the band experienced success from 1989 to 1996 with five albums reaching international sales of over 10 million. Lane left Warrant in 2004 and again in 2008 after a brief reunion. Lane also released a solo album, Back Down to One, in 2003, and the album Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner with a new group, Saints of the Underground, in 2008. Lane contributed lead vocals and songwriting to various projects throughout his career.

Lane was born John Kennedy Oswald (later changed to John Patrick Oswald), on February 1, 1964 in Akron, Ohio to Robert and Eileen Oswald. He was raised in Brimfield with four older siblings: sisters Marcine Williams, Michelle Robinson and Victoria Ley, plus older brother Eric, already an accomplished guitarist. With sisters Micki and Vicky and brother Eric harmonizing and playing guitar, Lane taught himself to play drums, guitar and piano by ear by age five. He grew up listening to Cleveland rock station WMMS (100.7 FM "The Buzzard") and was introduced to a variety of music by his older siblings.

With connections from siblings Eric and Vicky in and around the music scene (and with his parents' help), Lane made a name for himself at a very young age. He played drums under the pseudonym "Mitch Dynamite" in clubs by age 11 and with a local band "Pokerface." By that time, his siblings had left for college or marriage, although Vicky was still active in the entertainment industry in northeast Ohio and southwest Florida. Due to Vicky's numerous connections, Lane was able to network with industry execs in pursuit of his dream. Lane graduated from Field High School, in Mogadore, Ohio, a nearby city to Brimfield in 1982.

Lane is credited as the vocalist/drummer on Warrant's Latest and Greatest CD. Throughout his career, Lane would sometimes play drums/acoustic guitar and piano with his band and played the drums in various formats and gigs with other musicians.

After high school, Lane joined the band Cyren, featuring vocalist Skip Hammonds, guitarist John Weakland, bassist Don Hoover (and later Rusty Fohner) with Lane on drums and vocals. Many of Cyren's shows opened for a popular local band called Risque'. When their bassist, Al Collins, noticed Lane's vocal talents, he convinced Lane to form a new band they eventually called Dorian Gray. The new band also included Steven Chamberlin on drums and Dave Chamberlin on lead guitar. Dorian Gray was designed to have Lane as the lead vocalist and to perform original material, but Lane wasn't ready to be the lead singer and quickly returned to the drum kit. Billy Denmead was hired as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. After only a few shows, Collins left the band, vowing to put a band together when Lane was ready to be a lead vocalist.

Lane moved to Florida in 1983 with Dorian Gray. He eventually formed Plain Jane with Collins and Chamberlin, adopting the stage name "Jani Lane" (Chamberlin would also soon rechristen himself Steven Sweet). He took the name "Jani" from his German grandparents, who spelled his name "Jani" and pronounced it "Yay-nee."

Lane began vocal training with vocal coach/trainer Ron Feldmann, who introduced him to Creative Engineering, Inc. in Orlando. Lane worked there as a programmer of the animatronic character Dook LaRue, the drummer for The Rock-afire Explosion. His vocal debut was at The Station in Fern Park, Florida.

Lane, Collins, and Chamberlin recorded the first Plain Jane four-track demos at their rented house in Winter Park, Florida. Although reluctant to leave Florida, they rented a trailer in the spring of 1984 and moved to California with hopes of landing a record deal. They were broke by the time they landed at the Hollywood Bowl Motel and resorted to making sandwiches with mustard packets while taking turns calling their parents for cash.

Struggling to make ends meet as a musician, Lane resorted to working in a pornographic video warehouse. The band, along with a new road crew and a few girlfriends, pooled their wages and lived in a two-bedroom condominium rented by new Plain Jane guitarist Paul Noble. At one time there were 13 people living in the crowded space.

By 1985, Plain Jane had become a regular feature on the Los Angeles club circuit and opened many shows for a band called Warrant. Plain Jane's bassist and guitarist both left the band on the same day Warrant's singer and drummer quit. Erik Turner, who had founded Warrant in July 1984, was impressed by Plain Jane's songwriting and vocal performance and invited Lane and Sweet to jam with his band at Hollywood's db Sound in September 1986.

After generating notoriety on the club circuit, Warrant began to attract the attention of record labels. Following an abortive deal with A&M Records over a contribution to the soundtrack for the motion picture Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the band signed with Columbia Records. The Columbia deal came via the partnering of Warrant and manager Tom Hulett, known for working with The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, The Moody Blues and others. Hulett became Lane's mentor and friend until Hulett's death from cancer in 1993.

As lead vocalist with Warrant, Lane wrote all of the material for the band's 1989 debut double platinum album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, including four Top 40 hit singles: "Down Boys", "Sometimes She Cries", "Big Talk" and the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Heaven." The album peaked at no. 10 on The Billboard 200. Lane also wrote four Top 40 hit singles ("Cherry Pie," "I Saw Red," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Blind Faith") for the second album, the 1990 double platinum Cherry Pie, which peaked at no. 7 on the Billboard 200. Lane also co-wrote and performed with Warrant the song "The Power" in the 1992 movie Gladiator. In 1992, Warrant released Dog Eat Dog, their gold third album, which peaked at no. 25 on the Billboard 200.

Lane left Warrant in March 1993 to pursue a solo career. He returned six months later, helping the band secure a new record with Tom Lipsky of CMC International. Warrant recorded Ultraphobic in 1995, Belly to Belly in 1996, Greatest & Latest in 1999 and a cover album, Under the Influence, in 2001.

Due to personal and business disagreements, Lane left Warrant again in 2004. In January 2008, the band's agent, The William Morris Agency, issued a new photograph of the band with Lane prominently featured, confirming his return to the band. It was the first time that all original members had been in the band since 1993. The band's first show with all original members was in May 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. Warrant performed a series of shows during the summer of 2008, but by September, the band and Lane agreed to move forward separately due to "too much water under the bridge." Warrant and Lane both continued to perform Lane's compositions live and Lane continued to write for himself and other artists.

Lane became involved in acting in the early 1990s. He made a brief appearance in Caged Fear and appeared in High Strung in 1991.

In 1993, Lane started working on his first solo project. Titled "Jabberwocky," the album represented a significant musical departure from previous work. Between 1997 and 2000, demos of Lane's solo material began surfacing on the Internet, with some bids on eBay reaching an estimated $100 per copy. In 2002, Lane decided to postpone the "Jabberwocky" project and released a new project as his debut solo album. The "Jabberwocky" project remained unreleased.

Lane's official debut solo album, Back Down to One, was released on June 17, 2003 through Z Records and in the U.S. in 2006 on Immortal/Sidewinder Records. It carried a "power pop" sound more closely aligned with the sound of Warrant than "Jabberwocky." Shortly after the album's release, Lane was admitted to a rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug-related exhaustion.

In the fall of 2004, Lane contributed lead vocals for the first ever theme song to a novel, Billy McCarthy's "The Devil of Shakespeare," along with James Young from Styx, Ron Flynt of 20/20 and Chip Z'Nuff of Enuff Z'Nuff.

Lane contributed vocals on the track "Bastille Day" and "2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx" for the Magna Carta 2005 Rush tribute album "Subdivisions."

Lane had success with the "VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped" discs, where the acoustic version of "I Saw Red" was included on disc 1, a new acoustic swinging version of "Cherry Pie" featured on disc 2, and a new acoustic version of "Heaven" featured on disc 3.

In 2005, Lane became a fan favorite on the popular VH1 series Celebrity Fit Club 2. His problems with alcohol were highlighted and many viewers supported his efforts at recovery.

With the reissue and U.S. release of "Back Down to One" in 2006, Lane attempted to restart his version of Warrant. Although "Back Down to One" was credited as a solo release, Lane assembled a new touring band called "Jani Lane's Warrant." The band's first shows in Michigan were stopped by legal action from former bandmates objecting to his use of the Warrant logo on his posters. Lane subsequently continued touring without the Warrant name and logo.

Lane lent his vocals to numerous tribute CDs during the 2000s. In 2007, he released a solo cover album titled "Photograph," featuring a collection of his tribute contributions.

Keri Kelli and Lane wrote a song for Alice Cooper titled "The One That Got Away." It was recorded by Cooper on his 2008 record Along Came a Spider. Lane also finished work on a side project, Saints of the Underground, which included Kelli and Bobby Blotzer and Robbie Crane, (both from Ratt). Their album, Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner, was released on April 22, 2008 by Warrior Records, and was mixed by producer/engineer Andy Johns, who'd worked with The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. The album featured additional bass work by Chuck Wright (Quiet Riot, House of Lords). The band was originally called "Angel City Outlaws" when they posted their first two promo singles, "Bruised" and "Exit."

In summer 2010, Lane toured with Great White, filling in for singer Jack Russell, who was recuperating from surgery after suffering internal complications.

On August 11, 2011, the Los Angeles Police Department and local news stations announced that Lane was found dead of acute alcohol poisoning at a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 47. Lane was pronounced dead by fire department personnel who responded to a call shortly before 5:30 p.m.

#August 11 #2011 #R.I.P.#Jani Lane #Warrant

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classic-rock-roller · 5 years

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Random Rock Facts I Know

Some may be true some may be folklore. These are just “facts” I’ve head over the years

1) Ronnie James Dio didn’t like Rainbow in the Dark because he thought it wasn’t heavy enough

2) Mick Mars has guitars with air painted boobs on them for the Girls Girls Girls tour

3) Randy Rhoads was a founding member of Quiet Riot

4) Rudy Sarzo taught at Randy Rhoads’ mom’s school Musonia. He taught bass guitar there

5) Nikki Sixx and Robbin Crosby of Ratt were really good friends

6) Axl Rose is an anagram for oral sex (I had to literally look at it and figure it out to make sure that it was true)

7) The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” was written after the banning of rock music in Iran

8) Jimmy Page dated a 14-year-old girl while he was touring with Led Zeppelin (everyone just seems to like to gloss over this fact but no it's true)

9) Lynyrd Skynyrd got their name from a high school teacher, Leonard Skinner, who suspended students for having long hair

10) Zeppelin came up with the title “Black Dog” after a large black labrador walked into the studio while recording

11) Eric Clapton wrote the song “Layla” for Pattie Boyd, George Harrison’s wife (She later married Eric Clapton after being divorced from George Harrison and then she divorced Eric Clapton)

12) Each member of Nirvana was kicked out of the Nevermind release party for starting a food fight (Kind of funny considering Mötley and so many other bands have done SO MUCH worse)

13) Prince’s “Purple Rain” is a tribute to the Jimi Hendrix song “Purple Haze”

14) Queen has the longest-running fan club according to the Guinness book of world records

15) Pink Floyd’s “Money” has the first curse word that was regularly played on the radio

16) The Famous opening on Derek and the Dominos “Layla” is not Eric Clapton. It’s Duane Allman.

17) Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA was the first CD to be pressed in the United States

18) Having made $18,000, Jimi Hendrix was the highest-paid musician at Woodstock

19) Sharon Osbourne’s Pomeranian was once saved from a coyote attack when Ozzy tackled the wild animal and wrestled it until the dog was released

20) Eddie Van Halen recorded a guitar solo specifically for Back to the Future because (If I remember correctly) the movie didn’t have money to pay the record company to use one of Van Halen’s song so Eddie just recorded something for the movie

21) When Van Halen was first signed, the record company didn’t like David Lee Roth and they wanted the current singer of Montrose (Sammy Hagar) to take over singing for David in 1977

22) Jack Black filmed himself begging in order to get Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” into “School of Rock”

23) Ozzy Osbourne thought “This is Spinal Tap” was an actual documentary the first time he saw it

24) Black Sabbath wrote the hit song “Paranoid” in 20 minutes to fill the remaining 3 minutes of time on their upcoming album.

25) John Bonham was Tony Iommi’s best man at his wedding.

26) The female elevator operator in Aerosmith’s Love in an Elevator music video is Playboy playmate Brandi Brandt who that same year married bassist Nikki Sixx.

27) Led Zeppelin performed in Demark as “The Nobs” after Eva Von Zeppelin, a relative of the late airship designer, Ferdinand Von Zeppelin, threatens to sue.

28) Kiss’ very first comic book has all four of the member’s blood in the ink.

29) Led Zeppelin was forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refuse to let them off the plane.

30) George Harrison had his tonsils removed and destroyed so that they couldn’t be sold.

#rock facts #classic rock #metal

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simscustomshopguitars · 4 years

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Almost stepped on this snake today 😳😳 DBZ Venom we custom painted for the lead guitar player of the Ratt Tribute Band Out of the Cellar. This guitar was original red. We sanded it down, painted the back and sides black and the front a nice rattlesnake tan :-) We then reaches out to Eric Gulas @thc_concepts and had him do a snakeskin patterned hydrographic on the front of the body and headstock to give us the realistic scale pattern and did some other additional shading here and there. Once that was done we airbrushed in the brown spots, did a slight brownish black burst around the edges and then finished it off with our super smooth satin clear coat. ________________________ #dbz #dbzguitars @deanzelinsky @ratt @davesabo @flyingv #airbrushing #hydrographics #custompaint #snakeskin #rattlesnake #python #custompainting #guitarpainting #venomoussnakes #refinisherporn #guitarporn #customguitar #chattanooga #guitarspotter #guitarsdaily #guitarsofinstagram #tennesseeguitarpainting #heavymetal #hairmetal #dbzvenom https://www.instagram.com/p/B9SjAjuHY1U/?igshid=dpsexyngbmnc

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dustedmagazine · 2 years

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Thos Ælla — Sempiternal Mobocracies (I, Voidhanger)

Sempiternal Mobocracies by THOS ÆLLA

For anyone who hasn’t been tuned in, Thos Ælla is the one-man project of Derrik Goulding, resident guitar athlete of death metal outfit Father Befouled. That band has devoted itself to a sort of extended ritual of worship, venerating Incantation’s most doomstruck tones and textures. Not a bad sort of project, but Thos Ælla demonstrates that Goulding has a lot of other stuff on his mind, and other work for his fingers. Check out the plucking and strumming of “Gazing into the Eyes of Faithless Servants,” the first track on Thos Ælla’s new LP Sempiternal Mobocracies. It's lovely, a little mournful, a little moody, even a little cornball. Somehow the tune’s heartfelt, emotive tones allow the corny sentiment to suffuse the piece without collapsing into silliness. And man oh man, does the rest of this record emote, with a zany abandon that can be exhausting, and sometimes flirts with cartoonishness. But even at its most fulsome and potentially goofy, Sempiternal Mobocracies is very satisfying, an example of pastiche at its most energetic and entertaining.

The songs are delirious, hybrid concoctions, fusing the proggy ambitions of Traced in Air-period Cynic, the gonzo pace and snarl of Kreator and the operatic sensibility of Queensryche. If that sounds sort of incoherent to you, well, yes, it is. But Thos Ælla’s music (somehow, someway) is not. Check out “Backwards Afterbirth Flows unto Dreaming Temples,” which starts with the sound of howling wind, over which there’s more of that polished and lovely plucking, and soon some very accomplished, brightly melodic guitar wankery. You can just about smell the sweaty spandex. When the song starts to sizzle and crunch, the sensibility of proggy grandiosity doesn’t drop away; it fuses with something grimmer and growling. Not quite thrash, not quite NWOBHM at its grittiest, but in that vein. The song’s final minutes explode into a blast and tremolo-rich environment, battering away at top speed. Snaking, acrobatic soloing overlays it with drama. None of it should work. All of it does.

The record keeps doing that, to winning effect. The speed metal workout of “This Firestorm of Retribution” is a thrilling joyride. “Deep within the Hexevoid, for Seven Aeons Slept” reaches for more of those cornball accents (carnivalesque synths, over-the-top fretboard heroics that hyperbolically peak and froth) before it races for the horizon with an Iron Maiden cover band and several ounces of meth. Hexevoid? No idea. The record’s thematics are abstruse and remote, and really, it’s the aesthetics that seem to matter here.

Those aesthetics end up doing some fairly interesting cultural work. Metal is sharply stratified music, with numerous undergrounds that tend to express antipathy and contempt for their overground, major-label contemporaries. See the late 1980s, when the burgeoning fields of death metal and the crossover kids, in bands like Crumbsuckers and Cryptic Slaughter, poured invective on the hair metal contingent. Thos Ælla anatomizes and sublates those modes, suggesting something about the extent to which metal needed all of them, to create the space into which bands like Death and Carcass could step. Neither of those bands achieved mass popularity, or rocked big venues alongside of Poison or Ratt. But on their own terms, they were significant commercial successes — Carcass is still making records — and they cast long shadows of their own. Thos Ælla pays a sort of outre tribute to all those bands, and makes its own bananas, dolefully dizzy sounds, much to our collective delight.

Jonathan Shaw

#Thos Ælla #Sempiternal Mobocracies #i voidhanger #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #metal #doom #father befouled #guitar wankery

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nuclearblastusa · 7 years

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U.S./Irish hard rock band @BlackStarRiders have announced they will be joining metal legends Judas Priest and Saxon for a spring North American tour, “Firepower 2018.” The tour will kick off on March 13th in Wilkes Barre, PA and will wrap on May 1st in San Antonio, TX. Black Star Riders is made up of Warwick (Thin Lizzy), guitarist Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy), guitarist Damon Johnson (Brother Cane, Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy), bassist Robert Crane (Ratt) and drummer Chad Szeliga (Breaking Benjamin, Black Label Society). The band is currently on tour in support of their 3rd studio album, Heavy Fire, which was released earlier this year with Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Black Star Riders Tour Dates (w/Judas Priest & Saxon): Mar 13 - Wilkes Barre, PA - Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza Mar 15 - Youngstown, OH - Covelli Centre Mar 17 - Long Island, NY - Nassau Coliseum Mar 18 - Washington, DC - The Anthem Mar 20 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center Mar 22 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena Mar 25 - Ottawa, ON - The Arena at TD Place Mar 27 - London, ON - Budweiser Gardens Mar 28 - Oshawa, ON - Tribute Communities Centre Mar 31 - Detroit, MI - Detroit Masonic Temple Apr 3 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater Apr 5 - Green Bay, WI - Resch Center Apr 8 - Bloomington, IL - Grossinger Motors Arena Apr 10 - Casper, WY - Casper Events Center Apr 11 - Loveland, CO - Budweiser Event Center Apr 15 - Kent, WA - ShoWare Center Apr 17 - Portland, OR - Veterans Memorial Coliseum Apr 19 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield Apr 22 - Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Theater Apr 24 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre Apr 26 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center Apr 28 - Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory Apr 29 - Sugar Land, TX - Smart Financial Centre May 1 - San Antonio, TX - Freeman Coliseum #BlackStarRiders #HeavyFire @warwickricky #RickyWarwick #ScottGorham #DamonJohnson #RobbieCrane #ChadSzeliga #HardRock #Rock #RockNRoll #RockAndRoll #NuclearBlast #judaspriest #saxon

#scottgorham #rock #blackstarriders #damonjohnson #rickywarwick #judaspriest #nuclearblast #robbiecrane #hardrock #saxon #heavyfire #rockandroll #chadszeliga #rocknroll

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kanmae-west · 5 years

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Microphone selfie facesssssss. Got my flame shirt on with my flaming microphone stand from @ragelighting!🎙🎤🤘🏼 Shannon and I had a great rehearsal last night!!!! I love being so in sync! Physically, mentally, spiritually, and sonically! 🎶😛 Damn, my band time is like therapy! They make me feel whole again. 🥰 MINI TOUR DATES: 10/18 Northern Ales, Kettle Falls, WA 10/19 Historic Everett Theater, Everett, WA 💙 We are so excited!!!! Come rock out with us on the east side and then the north side!!!!! So excited! Let Motley Crue heal your ailments! 🔥🤘🏼 AND we will be with Noise Pollution (the phenomenal AC/DC tribute) and Ratts (the amazing Ratt tribute!) SO STOKED! 🎼🎸🥁⚡️👅💋 . . . . . #kisw #999kisw #kiswrockgirl #rockgirl #bikinimodel #seattlemodel #bandtee #lewdandcrued #motleycrue #nastyhabits #thenastyhabits #seattlesinger #seattledancer #seattlevocalist #seattleband #tributeband #coverband #whiskyagogo #cruefest #kettlefalls #everetthistorictheater #noisepollution #acdc #ratt #ratts (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3eu4eLpbjj/?igshid=1gju8zoa68d29

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AUDIBLE FARM PODCAST - Episode 19: Erich Tran http://bit.ly/2RY7mrB

TRANZIG is an instrumental solo project founded, written, and performed by Erich Tran of Des Moines, Iowa. Over a two-year period he wrote and recorded all of the album's guitars, drums, and bass parts producing a heavy metal journey through thrash, hard rock, and solo guitar pieces. With unconventional song structures, this self-titled album is meant to be heard as a whole piece of music rather than individual songs. It also features guest appearances from David Ellefson, Randy Walker, and Stephanie Tran. - from the Tranzig Facebook page Erich Tran is a multi-instrumentalist from the Des Moines area. He recently recorded a self-titled solo album "Tranzig" in which he played all the instruments on the album. He also plays drums in Horror Business (a Misfits tribute band), bass in Facecage, and has an acoustic project with his wife. Follow Tranzig online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tranzigmetal1975 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tranzig/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tranzig/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/onlyleadguitar Follow Horror Business (Misfits Tribute) online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Horrorbusinessdesmoines Follow Facecage online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FACECAGE/ Watch Stephanie & Erich Tran online: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robO_FfJOe8 This Podcast is brought to you by: New Revolt Promotions New Revolt promotions' goal is to help young artists find an audience and become established in the local community by putting them onstage and helping them connect with other artists. New Revolt's next show is Feb. 24th at Ratt's records in Des Moines, with three brand new local bands, playing alongside the Astro Bastards! To find more information on shows visit the New Revolt Promotions Facebook Page. If you or someone you know is looking into playing local shows message the New Revolt Promotions Facebook Page or email them at [email protected] Follow New Revolt Promotions online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/New-Revolt-Promotions-692956884428867 PREVIOUSLY ON IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE: FESTER RAGE VIDEOS - Buick McSnake (Brad Roth and Troy Ulrich) on Halloween 2008 http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/fester-rage-videos-buick-mcsnake-brad.html IHEARIC PODCAST - Episode 58: Mill Show Preview (01/20/2019) http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/ihearic-podcast-episode-58-mill-show.html IOWA BASEMENT TAPES - #29 1-17-2019 https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/iowa-basement-tapes-29-1-17-2019.html YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 42: Goldblums/The Vahnevants http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/your-own-private-iowa-episode-42.html IOWA BLUES SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 139: Woman in Blues 2.0 https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/iowa-blues-showcase-podcast-episode-139.html THREE RANDOMLY PICKED PREVIOUS POSTS.... AUDIBLE FARM - Episode 17: Cobey Murray http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2019/01/audible-farm-episode-17-cobey-murray.html YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 19: Evan Campbell https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2018/03/your-own-private-iowa-episode-19-evan.html IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 2: My Board of Trustees https://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2015/01/episode-2-my-board-of-trustees.html OTHER IMSC WEBSITES AND LINKS: Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/IowaMusicShowcase Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iowa-Music-Showcase/364796883703114 Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamusicshowcase Instagram: https://instagram.com/iowamusicshowcase

#IFTTT #Blogger #Iowa #Iowa Music #Iowa Artists #Iowa Bands #Music of Iowa #Midwest #The Midwest #Mid

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jaybe11 · 5 years

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metalofmontana-blog · 7 years

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Hairball’s Lead Guitarist - Happy

A Metal of Montana Interview - by Josh Richards

*LIVE at the MAC on October 7th. (Sponsored by the Butte Depot)

As a young 15 year old I can still remember the first concert like it was yesterday. I had never seen nor heard the individuals responsible for the music outside of my dinky, dual cassette, and detachable speaker Sony boom box before. Today was my real life “METAL” - Indian in the Cupboard moment!

On March 27th, 1990 my cousins, Kim and Cheryl, convinced my mother and father to allow me to attend Aerosmith in Billings, Montana. What I did not know was, that my favorite band at the time, and my favorite singer to date, would be opening for them. The only words that I was able to muster were, “Sebastian (expletive) Bach”, followed by my mother’s unshocked yet stearn voice sprinkled with that questioning yet firm tone, “What?”. To which I followed, “Holy (expletive) Mom.” And yes. “Holy (expletive) Dad!”

*Thanks Mom and Dad for allowing that door to be opened and Kim and Cheryl for taking their little cousin to his first ever ROCK CONCERT!*

Like yesterday, I can still recall the live performance that Sebastian Bach and Skid Row put on. The notes he was able to hit in the then MetraPark Arena and the rush it brought to my nervous system shot endorphins through my body almost instantaneously. “Those are the emotions we look to invoke from people young and old at our shows” says Happy, the lead guitarist from, Hairball, a legendary twenty man, seventeen year running tribute band to the likes of Guns & Roses, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, Van Halen, Queen, Twisted Sister, Journey, Poison and Bon Jovi.”

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing” – Happy, HAIRBALL Lead Guitarist.

We sat down with Happy, lead guitarist for one of the premiere, if not the premiere Tribute Bands touring the United States currently in HAIRBALL. This bombastic two and a half hour, professionally produced show including fiery pyro, video screens, smoke machines, make-up, costumes, fire, blood and a set list to rival any will be making a stop at the historical Butte Depot on October 7th in Butte, MT to which Happy added, “we’ve been just starting to scratch the surface on the entire state of Montana.”

*Happy is a HUGE Evel Knievel Fan*

Happy, the son of a guitar player himself, took a half hour out of his day to talk with our founder, Josh Richards earlier this week about Hairball, himself, the performances and what to expect in Butte on Ocotober 7th.

We asked Happy after receiving his first guitar, a 1950’s Gibson Holllywoood, “If he knew then, that this is what he would be doing for a living?” Happy did not hesitate, “Ya I did. I mean that was the dream. I think it was when I saw Kiss in like ’77. I was probably in junior high. I knew I wanted to be a part of that kind of energy.” Happy continued, “Fascinated with bands and nothing has really changed in me since then other than I have insurance and I can afford to play whatever guitars I want to play.”

At the time of the interview and article tickets are currently available at the Butte Depot and ONLINE HERE: * https://events.ticketprinting.com/event/24998*

As we continued the interview and got to know about Hariball and whatHappy specifically is known for, which is “bringing kids into the show. A lot of time I will yank em and throw my guitar around their neck and just get in touch with my inner sixteen year old anytime we hit the stage and try to be grateful for being able to play for as many people as I get to with Hairball.” That tone was one of a consistently humble and gracious lead guitarist loving to share the music with fans from the ages of 1 to 100!

*Hairball just paying homage to KISS!*

The biggest advantage of a show attendee at a HAIRBALL show is that “there are a lot of people out there that are like us. They like this type of Rock and Roll done this kind of way with the over the top show. I kind of see us as the preservation society of cool rock and roll.” Which in all cases is the probably the single biggest draw to a Hariball show even to the actual performers that HAIRBALL pays tribute to, at times, joining them on stage as well!

As Happy on lead guitar and the other members of the band including Joe, Steve and Bobby as the leads, Freaky on the base, and Blake on the drums play every show and see the looks and the fun the people are having Happy knows they “doing good work that the people are together, face to face and not just sitting on their phones. They are watching real guys play real guitars, beat real drums, and scream into real microphones. That’s something that should never go out of style.”

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A 17 year evolution of a tribute band dedicated specifically to a bombastic celebration of Arena Rock was definitely a subject we wanted to hit on and we did! We asked Happy specifically about that evolution and this is what he had to say. “Like many great things it started as a joke and then morphed into a career. It really started out as a night out at the bar jabbing fun, silly costumers and changing some lyrics” but what has evolved from a joke has turned into a full on production with a semi-trailer full of schwag and an official Tour Bus!

“If you don’t like Motley Crue, give it five minutes it will turn into Van Halen and if you don’t like that give it another 5 minutes and it will turn into Queen and if you don’t like that it will turn into Journey and it will turn into AC/DC, Alice Cooper”. Happy – HAIRBALL, Lead Guitarist

*Just some of the personas to expect when witnessing HAIRBALL LIVE!*

From plastic totes and garbage bags through HAIRBALL’s evolution in which they are more than a cover band, or a tribute band. HAIRBALL does all they can to pay a respectful and true to form homage to the orginials. Upgrading costumes, guitars, lights, pyro and smoke the show is an all out adrenaline filled night and as Happy states, “If you don’t like Motley Crue, give in five minutes it will turn into Van Halen and if you don’t like give it another 5 minutes and it will turn into Queen and if you don’t like that it will turn into Journey and it will turn into AC/DC, Alice Cooper”.

Performing live with the actual people they portray and pay homage too is one of the biggest compliments that Happy and Hairball as a collective could receive and they have received countless compliments playing with lead singers of RATT, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, KISS and many more. “Having most of the people that we actually portray in our show actually get up and perform with us for a lot of charity events and try and pay it back and do some good has just kind of shown me more why I feel good about honoring them, their music, their spirit, and their personas that they’ve created.” Happy said.

*Just one of the bands Favorite Charities. And ours too*

Be ready Butte to blow out the Butte Depot on October 7th as HAIRBALL celebrates a live homage in Arena Rock style. Do yourself a favor, listen to the interview here, http://bit.ly/2wnwObo and feel the passion, dedication, humility and most of all KICK ASS love for this music how it has always been intended to be viewed. Straight up ALL OUT and in the famous words of Happy, “Butte, we’re coming and we can hardly wait!”

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Top 10 Happenings This Week (July 20 – July 26)

CONCERTS – Shawn Mendes – In support of his sophomore album, “Illuminate,” multi-platinum singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes is performing in his first-ever headlining arena world tour with special guest Charlie Puth. The concert takes place at the American Airlines Arena on Wednesday, July 26. For more information go to AAArena.com. To purchase tickets go to Ticketmaster.com

SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS – Summerfest Concert 2017 – represents the Symphony’s 26th Anniversary Summerfest & Maestro Brooks-Bruzzese, features soloists from famous European orchestras representing 10 countries joined in cultural exchange by musicians of the Symphony. Performances include music of Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Piazzolla, Moncayo, Ravel’s Bolero and premieres by Italian composer Lorenzo Turchi-Floris. Taking place at the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center on July 22.

COLOMBIA – Independence Celebration – 1er Festival Cultural Celebrating la independence of Colombia takes place at the Pembroke Pines City Center on Saturday, July 22. Enjoy the culture of Colombia including live music, traditional dances, arts & crafts, and food. This one day event will be expected to have 2,000-3,000 patrons in attendance. Admission is $20 or $35. (Children under 3 are free).

MUSICALS – MNM Productions – has announced that the July 20 Preview Performance of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” will benefit the Kretzer Piano Music Foundation, which brings the gift of music to children and seniors. Tickets for the benefit are $50 each and can only be purchased through the Kravis Center, either online, by phone or at the box office. As an added bonus, the Kretzer Kids will perform in the lobby from 6:45 to 7:15 pm, before the 7:30 pm curtain.

ROCK BANDS – Every Time I Die – performs at the Culture Room on Thursday, July 20 at 7pm. Since 1998, the metalcore band from Buffalo has garnered acclaim for their energetic and intense live shows. Opening are Dyne Side and Fero Lux. Admission is $17.

Piaf – A Tribute – Miami New Drama presents a journey through Edith Piaf’s life, featuring her most beloved songs. The theatrical work has played across Latin America and now makes its North American premiere. This takes place at the Colony Theatre starting on Thursday, July 20 and all performances are in Spanish except for 3 p.m. July 23 and 8 p.m. July 28, which are performed in English. Admission is $50-$65.

MOVIES – “Girls Trip” – Premieres on Friday, July 21 and is about four lifelong friends traveling to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. This 122 minute R Rated comedy stars Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish

DREAMGIRLS – in Concert – featuring “American Idol” finalist LaKisha Jones in the concert-style production of the Tony- and Grammy Award-winning hit musical. The show tells the rags-to-riches tale of a fictional 1960s Motown girl group based on the stories of real-life acts like The Supremes and The Shirelles. The R&B-tinged score includes “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” and “One Night Only,” and takes place at the Miramar Cultural Center starting Saturday, July 22.

COMEDIANS – Moshe Kasher & Natasha Leggero – perform at the James L. Knight Center on Sunday, July 23,at 7:30 p.m. On their Endless Honeymoon Tour, the married comedians perform stand-up and offer live relationship advice that will keep couples laughing. Leggero is known for Comedy Central roasts, Showtime’s “Dice” and as the creator and star of “Another Period.” Kasher is host of the Comedy Central talk show “Problematic,” a regular on “@midnight” and the author of the memoir “Kasher in the Rye.” Tickets are $31.50 to $41.50.

ROCKERS – Ratt & Ace Frehley – perform at the Hard Rock Live on Saturday, July 22 at 8p.m. 1980s metal band Ratt teams up with Frehley, the former lead guitarist and founding member of the rock band Kiss. Tickets are $30-$70 and can be purchased at TicketMaster.com.

from Hotspots! Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/07/19/top-10-happenings-this-week-july-20-july-25/ from Hot Spots Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.tumblr.com/post/163181419680

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Top 10 Happenings This Week (July 20 – July 26)

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Top 10 Happenings This Week (July 20 – July 26)

from Hotspots! Magazine https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2017/07/19/top-10-happenings-this-week-july-20-july-25/

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Ultimate Jam Night Returns Paying Tribute To The Big Four!

This Tuesday… May 16th…. ULTIMATE JAM NIGHT RETURNS!

Come out and help us pay tribute to the BIG 4…

METALLICA, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, SLAYER…!!

Please help us welcome back, from TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER and I AM MORBID…

BILL HUDSON!

HOUSE BAND • MATT STARR (MR BIG) • MITCH PERRY (RATT) • WALTER INO (SURVIVOR) • MC PAULIE Z (RUBIX KUBE) • GABE MASKA

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Unlike in Wellington, the gates opened and the sun shone as well over 50,000 Guns n’ Roses fans streamed into Auckland’s Western Springs Stadium. And also unlike Wellington, the band actually showed up on time, much to the shock and amazement of all who were present.

Yes, just as the sun dipped below the top of the stage, making visibility possible for those of us sitting in the grandstand, the Looney Tunes music reverberated around the stadium and before we knew it Axl, Slash, Duff and the rest of the band were on stage, cranking out It’s So Easy.

I’ll admit to being a bit ambivalent about seeing Guns n’ Roses as for me much of the lustre of their legacy has dissipated over the last 25 years due to all the shenanigans with Axl and his antics, the whole Chinese Democracy debacle, etc. But still as the three original members took the stage, I must admit to getting caught up in the moment…adrenalin was indeed running high…which is the effect great rock and roll should have on the body.

So, are Guns ‘n Roses a great rock and roll band now? There’s little argument that they were in their original configuration thirty years ago when they came along and seemingly single-handedly re-invigorated a seriously lame scene with Appetite For Destruction. For many of us who had given up hope that authentic, gritty rock music, that actually sounded dangerous, would ever be made again amid the crap poseurs such as Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Skid Row and their ilk were making, GnR arrived like avenging angels, wiping out all that came before them.

That moment, when they seemed like a band of brothers, united in their mission to save rock and roll and have one hell of a good time along the way, seems like an eternity ago.

But here they are.

I suppose the biggest difference now is that they no longer seem like a band of brothers. Adler and Izzy and one can only speculate on the motivation behind Slash and Duff’s decision to share the stage once again with Axl.

But there they are.

The set list is pretty much the same as has been trotted out earlier and the adrenalin rush quickly subsides after the first few songs.

One thing is immediately clear…Slash is in top form, ready, willing and extremely able to crank out one spine tingling solo after another. Just fifteen or twenty minutes into a set that will last almost three hours and it is obvious that Slash is easily “Man Of The Match”.

Axl, on the other hand has his ups and downs.

Physically, he is not the same performer he was 25 years ago…a lithe body shimmying against his mic stand, making the little girls swoon.

But he seems to be enjoying himself.

Vocally, his voice gets stronger as the evening progresses, holding up much better during the rockers than the ballads. This I Love was especially painful to hear, but then Slash arrived with his double neck axe and saved the day with his wah wah-infused solo during Civil War.

The set was full of covers…tributes, I suppose, to bands of the 70s who made a mark on Axl and company as so we heard snippets or full blown versions of tunes from Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Derek & The Dominos, Johnny Thunders, The Misfits, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.

For me, the high point was undoubtedly Sweet Child O’ Mine…it was rendered perfectly and exquisitely by all involved.

So, like their brief career as a band, in its original configuration, Guns ‘n Roses’ show was full of highs and lows.

But the highs made up for the lows, and despite the length of the show, they were rarely, if ever, boring. And thanks to Slash, at times, they sounded like what they once were, a great rock and roll band.

Marty Duda

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Guns ‘n Roses set list:

It’s So Easy

Mr Brownstone

Chinese Democracy

Welcome To The Jungle

Double Talkin’ Jive

Better

Estranged

Live And Let Die

Rocket Queen

You Could Be Mine

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory/Attitude

This I Love

Civil War

Coma

Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather)

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Yesterdays

My Michelle

Wish You Were Here

November Rain/Layla

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Nightrain

Sorry

Babe I’m Gonna Leave You/Don’t Cry

The Seeker

Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses – Western Springs Stadium February 4, 2017 Unlike in Wellington, the gates opened and the sun shone as well over 50,000 Guns n' Roses fans streamed into Auckland’s Western Springs Stadium.

#13th floor #Auckland #concert review #Guns n Roses #marty duda #Megan Moss #NZ #Photos #Western Springs

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