By Metal Dave Glessner I first got kicked in the teeth by Supagroup during the late 1990s when a business trip took me to Atlanta. By day, I reported to an office. By night, I prowled the Little Five Points district where I happened upon Supagroup who, in those early days, used to encore with [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Yakking with … Benji Lee of Supagroup
Posted: 31st July 2011 by admin in Yakking with ...Tags: ac/dc, aerosmith, alice cooper, benji lee, chris lee, guns n'roses, hail hail, sean yseult, supagroup, whitesnake
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HeadCat: Phantom, Harvey & Lemmy B. Goode
Posted: 24th July 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: beatles, chuck berry, danny b harvey, HeadCat, lemmy, little richard, motorhead, robert johnson, slim jim phantom, stray cats
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!: Danny B. Harvey, Lemmy and Slim Jim Phantom revisit some golden oldies rock on their HeadCat album, “Walk the Walk … Talk the Talk.” By Metal Dave Glessner It’s admittedly hard to hear beneath the crush of deafening distortion, but there’s a lot of Little Richard in the roar of Lemmy [...]
Airbourne Rocks, But WTF?!?!
Posted: 18th July 2011 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: airbourne, broken teeth, jason mcmaster, joel o'keeffe, sxsw
By Metal Dave Glessner With very special thanks to the idiot on the right, the only caption that suits these photos is “WTF?” The look on my face says it all. Taken during SXSW 2008 following a killer performance by Aussie rockers, Airbourne, on the back deck of Creekside Lounge, what should have been a [...]
Michael Monroe: ‘Sensory Overdrive’ Finds Ultimate Rock Band Delivering A+ Album
Posted: 10th July 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: ginger, hanoi rocks, Iggy Pop, Jack Douglas, Karl Rockfist, lemmy, Lucinda Williams, michael monroe, new york dolls, Sami Yaffa, Sensory Overdrive, Steve Conte, The Chelsea Smiles, the wildhearts
DON’T NEVER LEAVE ME: Guitarist Ginger, left, and singer Michael Monroe, middle, have already parted ways, but not before leaving behind a brilliant rock record that already stands the test of time. (Photo by John McMurtrie) By Metal Dave Glessner The rock-n-roll divorce is already final between iconic Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe and Wildhearts [...]
Metal Dave: Karaoke Kamikaze
Posted: 5th July 2011 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: guns n' roses, headhunters, jerry milton, skid row
By Metal Dave Glessner Here’s a photo I like to call “Don’t Quit Your Day Job.” The shot was taken by Jerry Milton circa 2005 (?) at Headhunter’s in Austin, which has long been one of my regular haunts. On this night, a live band was playing karaoke requests behind shameless and willing wannabes such [...]