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Praise The Lord! I was backstage with Poison

Well, this is about as wholesome as you can get. A bit jumpy. But Praise The Lord! After you watch this video, you will totally understand!

Guitar Hero from Pete Wilson on Vimeo.

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Enuff Z'Nuff is back baby!

Enuff Z'Nuff returns to the spotlight with a strong set of songs under their belts. This is easily the best collection of tunes in a long time. Although labeled as the next Enuff Z'Nuff album "Lost In Vegas," both the track listing and title have changed. This is just a cool group of songs that has been circulating. The new album "Dissonance" will be released soon, and feature Jake E Lee on guitar.

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"The Rocker" kinda RAWKS according to Variety

Is this the next "Still Crazy?"

From Variety.com:

While Rainn Wilson handles cubicle work with aplomb on TV's "The Office," he's also right at home onstage in "The Rocker," playing a heavy-metal burnout who gets a second shot at stardom -- never mind that success comes 20 years too late, drumming at his nephew's high school prom. It's the kind of role ready-made for Jack Black (had "School of Rock" not happened), and Wilson makes the most of it in this well-crafted, feel-good satire. With a gradual rollout -- and the right word of mouth -- Fox could have a modest hit with the Aug. 20 release.

For those who loved "The Full Monty," "The Rocker" also marks a return to form for director Peter Cattaneo, tapping into the same winsome, risk-everything spirit that defined the 1997 hit. Working with "Seeing Other People" scribes Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky, Cattaneo puts character first: Wilson's Robert Fishman, or "Fish" to his friends, may be an outrageous 40-something man-child, but he's not a character you grow tired of by the second act.

Two decades after his heavy-metal bandmates sold him out for a record contract, the former drummer still prickles at the very mention of his band Vesuvius. The other members are on the brink of being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, while he's stuck answering phones at a dead-end desk job with nothing more than his ponytail and sideburns left to suggest his more flamboyant stage presence.

Fired from work and forced to move back in with his sister (Jane Lynch) and their family, Fish reluctantly agrees to join the band of her awkward teen son (Josh Gad) and his outcast friends (emo-eyed Teddy Geiger and "Superbad's" Emma Stone), who perform mopey pop ballads under the name ADD. No sooner is Fish back at the kit than he's stealing the show, turning a slow-dance rendition of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" into a rafter-rattling drum solo.

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Sebastian Bach puts his glory days behind him

Don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years. On Broadway. VH-1. And now on tour with Poison. Ladies and gentlemen - Sebastian Bach!

From BradentonHerald.com:

Music trends come and go faster than you can say "swing music revival." Artists often find themselves a thing of the past before they even begin to reach their full potential.

Nirvana has almost single-handedly been credited, or blamed (depending on whom you ask) with the demise of '80s metal as it was. Some of those artists are content, or more likely forced, into accepting their fate as a retro act.

Sebastian Bach makes it very clear that he's not interested in reliving old glory days when there are still even better days ahead.

"It's expected of me to just go up there and just do old songs, but that's just too easy and that's not why we're here. We have a new record. I'm not here to relive '89, I'm here to make the summer of 2008 a memory that's just as powerful. That's why what I'm doing is a little different than what some of these other bands are doing," he said.

Bach will be playing at the Ford Amphitheatre on Tuesday along with Dokken, and Poison on a tour that he is very excited about.

"This is going to be the best summer of my life. Guys like Bret Michaels and I have been doing this a long time. We KNOW how to kick your ass. We have been putting on huge shows for a long time now. These kids that go on 'American Idol' and expect to be big rock stars . . . you don't learn that in one TV season. It's a lifelong pursuit of rock," he said.

When asked if he resented being associated with '80s "hair bands" he joked, "I got (expletive) hair so I guess I bring that on myself with my long, luxurious, flowing locks. I got my long hair from guys like Willie Nelson and Gregg Allman, so I guess those guys are hair metal too or whatever you want to call it. At the end of the day I think I'll be remembered more for my voice than my hair. I'm not here to represent 100 other bands I don't know as part of some (expletive) retro movement. That's not what we're doing. We're doing more new songs than old and the crowd loves it"

The new record is "Angel Down" which is released on his own label and distributed by E.M.I. The record should make fans of good, old fashion metal very happy. It has all the desired elements - screeching vocals, huge guitars and a thundering rhythm section. Songs range from thrash to ballads and everything in between within the genre.

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Image, attitude and snarl at the Sunset Strip Music Fest

From Sound Board - The LA Times Music Blog:

Last night the Sunset Strip Music Festival started off with a bang as Everclear, L.A. Guns, Soul Asylum and several other bands including Camper Van Beethoven rocked the House of Blues and the Whisky.

Tribune Co. sister Metromix was the co-sponsor of the brand-new three-night fest that continues tonight with the likes of Juliette Lewis, Hot Hot Heat, Slash and others playing at historic West Hollywood venues like the Roxy and the Viper Room, to name a few.

But last night there was a definite generation gap between the ’80s pre-grunge acts at the House of Blues and the glam rock over at the Whisky. Regardless of how well Camper Van Beethoven switched gears from nostalgic to trippy to funny to Pink Floydian, or how well Soul Asylum blasted out their hits (some, like “Frustrated Incorporated,” are sing-alongs today), the more fitting celebration of the Strip was in the quasi-metal screeching out at the Whisky.

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