As a lifelong KISS fanatic, my interviews with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have always ranked among my highest honors. These are the rare interviews where I catch myself awestruck just realizing my childhood heroes have called my home phone. Really? Wow! Even my parents have to admit it’s pretty cool that their little KISS hellion pursued [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Peter Criss: A 2003 chat with the Cat
Posted: 20th December 2010 by admin in RewindTags: ace frehley, beth, eric singer, gene simmons, kiss, paul stanley, peter criss, tommy thayer
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Southpark Meadows: A Crash Landing Affair
Posted: 15th December 2010 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: broken teeth, buckcherry, crash landing affair, guilty pleasure, jason mcmaster, southpark meadows
Before Southpark Meadows was home to Bed, Bath & Beyond, it was a sprawling cow pasture that hosted some of the biggest rock concerts in Austin. How big? During the 1990s, I was at Southpark Meadows for Metallica with Fight, Suicidal Tendencies and Candlebox; Van Halen with Skid Row; Pearl Jam with the Ramones; and [...]
Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx is Too Fast to Die
Posted: 11th December 2010 by admin in UncategorizedTags: anarchy, generation swine, heroin, johnny thunders, motley crue, nikki sixx, shout at the devil, sid vicious, too fast for love
By Metal Dave Glessner Some punk-rock snob will find reason to argue, but I like to think of Nikki Sixx as Johnny Thunders without the obituary. Certainly both are/were minimalist musicians, but their creative sense of style and swagger refashioned rock-n-roll like few others before or since. From the haywire hair, stacked heels and black eyes [...]
Batusis returns to ATX lookin for a snotty kiss
Posted: 8th December 2010 by admin in News BitesTags: batusis, CBGBs, cheetah chrome, dead boys, lovejoys, new york dolls, sxsw, sylvain sylvain
ABOVE: Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome, New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain and their “designated” SXSW driver (photo by Bob Widenhofer). BELOW: Syl dolled up (photo by 2Fast2Die) When news broke last March that legendary punk guitarists Sylvain Sylvain and Cheetah Chrome would debut their new band, Batusis, at a small Austin club during SXSW, the [...]