By Metal Dave Glessner This is another photo I shot using a borrowed professional camera that was kindly pre-set to “Idiot Mode.” The fact that I framed Eddie so nicely and managed to capture that spotlight glow over his left shoulder was due to my many, many, MANY years of professional … dumb luck! The photo was [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Eddie Van Halen: A Front-Row Eruption
Posted: 26th April 2011 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: balance, eddie van halen, houston summit, van halen
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Chris Gates: A Simple Man’s Rockin’ Road
Posted: 20th April 2011 by admin in UncategorizedTags: big boys, chris gates, gatesville, junkyard, poison 13
By Metal Dave Glessner When it comes to bulletproof credentials, Chris Gates is rock-n-roll Kevlar. During his early years with the Big Boys, Gates helped pioneer the punk-funk template that was equally pillaged and praised by everyone from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Henry Rollins to the myriad bands that rock Austin’s annual Big Boys-indebted [...]
Billy Milano: Speaking Plain English
Posted: 6th April 2011 by admin in Quotes and ChatterTags: anthem, anthrax, billy milano, charlie benante, danny lilker, gross misconduct, headhunters, m.o.d., method of destruction, red, scott ian, speak english or die, stormtroopers of death, surfin' m.o.d., u.s.a for m.o.d., white and screwed
By Metal Dave Glessner For a guy who burst onto the scene like a Human Resources wrecking ball, Billy Milano is actually a fairly mild-mannered gent (or at least he is to me). Debuting some 25 years ago as the barking-mad, politically incorrect, psycho loudmouth for seminal crossover thrashers, Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), Billy and his [...]