By Metal Dave Glessner According to a source more reliable than my memory, I first met Mykel Foster onboard a Buckcherry tour bus outside a Houston club in December 2008. When a mutual friend later called to tell me he was putting together a new band with ”that guy you met on the Buckcherry bus,” I drew [...]
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Yakking with … bassist Mykel Foster of Houston-Austin rockers, Southbound Saints
Posted: 19th August 2011 by admin in UncategorizedTags: 2Fast2Die, abel idle, Adam Fever, buckcherry, cheetah chrome, chris jordan, flexx bronco, Hot Crush, lance austin, metal dave, mykel foster, new disaster, red eyed fly, southbound saints
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Yakking with … Founder ‘Metal Dave’ Glessner As He Celebrates 2Fast2Die’s 100th Post
Posted: 7th June 2011 by admin in Yakking with ...Tags: ace frehley, anthrax, becky ozuna, buckcherry, chris gates, david bowie, david fricke, david lee roth, dio, gene simmons, ginger, glenn danzig, Iggy Pop, iron maiden, joan jett, lemmy, malcolm young, metal dave, metal edge, metallica, motley crue, natchet taylor, ozzy, paul stanley, peter criss, plasmatics, poison, ramones, steven tyler, van halen
LATE NIGHTS AND VOODOO: On the Buckcherry tour bus with singer Josh Todd in Houston, 2008. We met in 1999 after I was hired to write the band’s debut bio for DreamWorks Records. We’ve had a blast ever since! To mark the milestone of 2Fast2Die’s 100th post today (cue deafening applause), I decided to fulfill a [...]
Bill Z. Bub: A Rare and Dangerous Toy
Posted: 17th April 2011 by admin in UncategorizedTags: bill z. bub, dangerous toys, jason mcmaster, metal dave, shotgun rebels, the deadhorse
By Metal Dave Glessner So the Shotgun Rebels recently rolled into town from San Angelo to play an Austin gig with two of my favorite bands, Broken Teeth and New Disaster. Knowing that a band on the road always appreciates food, beer and a cool place to hang out before showtime, I invited the Rebels [...]
Metal Dave: Another Miraculous Birthday
Posted: 12th April 2011 by admin in Every Picture Tells a StoryTags: gregg maston, jason mcmaster, metal dave, motorhead, pure rubbish, richie gomez, scythe
ABOVE: Birthday Crew 2011, L-R: Frankie Nowhere, Johnny Venom, Abel Idle, Metal Dave, Natchet Taylor. By Metal Dave Glessner Back in the day, my birthday parties were the stuff of legend. Think “Animal House” meets Megadeth and you’ll start to envision the wreckage. Most of these black-tie affairs took place in San Antonio or just outside [...]
Houston Ritcheson Punks ‘Metal Dave’
Posted: 31st March 2011 by admin in UncategorizedTags: belligerent 86, bobby fuentes, brewtality inc., dead end cruisers, dropkick murphys, headwound, houston ritcheson, ignorance park, lower class brats, metal dave, oxymoron, sloppy seconds, sons of hercules, sp-38, the chumps, the contradicks
ABOVE: Houston and I writing songs together in 2004. The longtime Austin punk rocker celebrates his 39th birthday April 3 and continues to fight cancer. Be sure to wish Houston a Happy Birthday this weekend and make plans to attend one of the upcoming benefit gigs being held in his honor. Do it for Huey! Info below. [...]
Vains of Jenna bleeds new blood in Austin
Posted: 3rd December 2010 by admin in News BitesTags: 2Fast2Die, guns n' roses, metal dave, motley crue, new disaster, red 7, sleaze metal, Sweden, sxsw, vains of jenna, wendy wwad, yayo
I first met Vains of Jenna in 2006 when half the band was too young to drink (what happens in Austin, stays in Austin … especially during SXSW). The kids from Sweden were being hyped as a new-generation Motley Roses, so of course I went sniffing for trouble and immediately liked what I found (as [...]