By Metal Dave I remember seeing an ad for Faster Pussycat’s 1987 debut album and thinking, “There aren’t enough kegs in St. Louis to make me like this band.” Guitarist Brent Muscat was so pretty and pouty I just wanted to punch him. And because I’d never heard of breast-obsessed filmmaker Russ Meyer, I thought [...]
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Faster Pussycat Kills, Kills, Kills With Underground Sleaze-Metal Classic Debut
Posted: 24th April 2012 by admin in ReviewsTags: Brent Muscat, Faster Pussycat debut album, jason mcmaster, Taime Downe
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Motorhead: Never Mind the Box Set! Here’s Our Officially Endorsed DVD/CD Combo Pack
Posted: 27th February 2012 by admin in ReviewsTags: Killed by Death, Motorhead box set, Motorhead DVDs, The World is Ours
Motorhead plays Austin this Saturday March 3 with Megadeth, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil. Ticket info here. By Metal Dave At an age when most 66-year-olds retire to the fishing pier, Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister is still mainlining cigs and booze while detonating worldwide concert venues with band mates Mikkey Dee and Phil Campbell. It goes without [...]
Review: Rainbow ‘Live in Germany 1976′
Posted: 3rd October 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: Cozy Powell, Deep Purple, Jimmy Bain, Live in Germany 1976, rainbow, ritchie blackmore, ronnie james dio, Tony Carey
By Metal Dave Glessner If Ritchie Blackmore had a dollar for every musician who passed through his payroll, he could retire to Sherwood Forest and cool his frets forever. Oh, wait a minute! Kidding aside, the legendary Deep Purple shredder has assembled some fireball bands over the decades, not the least of which was Rainbow [...]
Review: Anthrax returns with ‘Worship Music’
Posted: 10th September 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: among the living, anthrax, Big 4, charlie benante, frank bello, joey belladonna, rob caggiano, scott ian, worship music
DARTH VADER’S STREET TEAM: Scott Ian, Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna, Charlie Benante and Rob Caggiano wear their allegiance to the dark side (Photo by Andy Buchanan) By Metal Dave Glessner After two decades of unsung persistence and a round of flip-flopping singers, Anthrax finally reclaims its thrash-metal glories on new album, “Worship Music.” Eight years in the tumultuous [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Riverboat Gamblers: Punk Rock Pirates
Posted: 28th June 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: emo's, krum bums, lake travis, rise against, riverboat gamblers, street dogs
PUNK ROCK PIRATES: Gamblers Ian MacDougall (aka Capt. Photogenic), Fadi El-Assad and soon-to-be-overboard singer Mike Wiebe with a hatless Metal Dave. Arrghh!! By Metal Dave Glessner What happens when the Riverboat Gamblers hijack a double-decker party barge and throw a punk-rock barbecue bash on Lake Travis? According to an early announcement from the ship’s crew, [...]
Duff McKagan’s Loaded: Grunge N’ Roses?
Posted: 14th June 2011 by admin in ReviewsTags: alice in chains, circle jerks, duff mckagan, guns n' roses, Iggy Pop, the beatles, the fartz, the ramones, the sword
Loaded Gun: Duff McKagan, center, and his Loaded band mates (photos by Lance Mercer). By Metal Dave Glessner As the resident punk rocker of Guns N’ Roses, Duff McKagan holds a lot of promise for a 1-2-3-4 rant of a record. He is, after all, the same misfit who played drums for The Fartz and introduced [...]
Review: GN’R's Adler Unloads His Destruction
Posted: 15th October 2010 by admin in ReviewsTags: guns n' roses, steven adler
Above: Which one of these guys is totally wasted? In a 4-1 vote, drummer Steven Adler, second from right, was kicked out of Guns N’ Roses for being the biggest junkie in a band full of druggies. As he explains in his tell-all book, things only got worse from there. As the original drummer for Guns N’ [...]