So the first episode of The Rock Of Love Bus aired last nigh…and re-aired today. I forgot about it last night but caught it on the rebound today. To say the least, this is probably going to be a crazy season. There are a couple of women on the show that DO show a little class and restrain…but this is only the first episode. Let run down a few things that went on in the first episode.
Bret Takes usual pictures of contestants, recognizes one from “Movies”
Girl drinks too much, pukes, french kisses Bret less than 5 minutes later.
Women scream and bitch at each other because they can’t fit their luggage under the TWO buses.
Slutty blonds touch each other during Bret Michaels concert. Touch each other MORE at after party.
Girl does something obscene that surprises even Bret, a man that has been on the road with groupies since the mid 80’s.
Girl throws drink at another girl. Other girl throws one back, Fight ensues.
Penthouse Centerfold contestant shows more class than almost every other woman on the show.
Contestant raps some love rhymes that she wrote on the back of flyers with information about gonorrhea and genital herpes on the front that were very visible to everyone.
Staind’s Aaron Lewis kicked off his solo tour last Friday evening in Henderson, Nevada. He’ll being solo touring until January 15th and then again with Staind from January 18th through February 10th for a Europe/UK tour. He then does his solo thing again for a couple more weeks back in the states. I’d be interested to see a solo show. I dig acoustic sound and it’s nice to get away from the noise of metal and hard rock every now and then and just be able to listen and enjoy something on the slower and lower side. Tour dates are below.
Before I get to the title story let me first say this and show you a few things. I don’t have a problem with Bon Jovi per se, but a recent post by Anti-music kind of caught my eye and it brought light to a crazy ordeal that I think is rather ridiculous. I know and understand that after 25 years, Bon Jovi still has a gigantic fan base and these guys don’t come cheap. They need to pay the taxes and mortgage on their 30 million dollar houses and the insurance on their Bently’s and sh*t.
Here you will find a link to an auction on eBay for an obsolete back up server that was used on Motley Crue’s website for 3 years from 2002 until 2005. They thought it was old enough to replace and then three or four years later try to sell by letting people know it was part of the bands website. Does it come with some Motley cat5 cables too???
This thing only has 1.25 gig of ram and 300 gig Hard Drive…most laptops have more than that these days. That was a pretty good deal back in 2002, but today is far too obsolete to actually use.
Seriously, this may still be a usable piece of computer hardware, but it ranks right up there with Vinnie Paul Abbott’s (Pantera, Damageplan, Hell Yeah!) autographed over, a Metallica autographed sewing machine and Dave Mustaine’s (Megadeth) bathrobe. Anything someone can relate to a celebrity or rockstar get’s auctioned off and sadly…some schmuck always buys it.
As if I needed to tell anyone this, AC/DC is among the top album sales of 2008. With 1.92 million album sales in the United States via WalMart Exclusive sale, AC/DC ranks # 5 for the year according to Nielsen Soundscan. This does not include digital sales as the band has opted not to do this. I think if they offered an electronic download of the entire album and not individual tracks, it would still sell well. Regardless I don’t think the absence of digital downloads hurt the sales of Black Ice. Either way AC/DC fans would make their way to get the record from Wal Mart/ Sam’s Club.
World wide AC/DC Black Ice has sold well over 5 million copies of this album, an unheard of number for a rock band these days. I think their retirement fund is pretty much set.
Gibson.com’s Lifestyle is reporting that Kurt Cobain’s infamous Fender Mustang that was used on Nirvana’s first US tour was auctioned off to an undisclosed collector who bought the guitar for a cool one-hundred grand.
The owner of the guitar, a punk guitar player that goes by the name “Sluggo”, probably had no clue at the time that he would ever get that much for the guitar. I imagine as years passed he realized he was sitting on a gold-mine but probably didn’t really want to part with it.
The story goes that Cobain smashed the guitar onstage during a gig (which wasn’t uncommon for Cobain), leaving him guitar-less for his next gig. He ended up trading the smashed guitar to “Sluggo” for a working guitar so he could play the next gig during tough times for the band.
Wow, 94 entries for the Reckless Road Guns N Roses book. Without further delay the winner is “Ron”. Ron, I’ll be sending an email to the address you provided to get your mailing address. Thanks to everyone that entered.
I’ve sworn off buying Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy and I’m kind of glad I did. A friend let me borrow a copy and I really don’t know what to day to make this sound like a great record. I’m not a Gn’R fanboy so I will never say that I love this album.
You know those jig-saw puzzles have so many pieces and every one of them looks the same? It’s kind of like that in a weird way. It sounds like the entire record was pieced together like a giant, strange puzzle. I wouldn’t call it Guns N’ Roses. If it was Guns N’ Roses with most of the original member I would be wondering what the hell happened. It doesn’t sound like a Guns N Roses Album, it sounds like an Axl Rose solo album.
Mohib from Mindcafe.org sent me this cool video of Guns N Roses Sweet Child Of Mine coved in a commercial from Channel V, Australia’s 24 hour music channel. There’s a simple message at the end.
A music video is an extension of a song. A visual interpretation of the artists original product. There used to be a day when you could only see the video on a television music channel or video tape/dvd. Then Mtv stopped playing as many videos and filled the time with reality shows and more crap. They invented Mtv 2 mainly to bring back the video aspect. That too turned down an ugly road or ridiculous reality shows and more crap. Fuse used to be pretty good with with videos when they were Much Music…and then they didn’t show much music at all.
People wanted to watch videos but they wanted to do it on their time, when they wanted and only what they wanted. Along came Youtube. Mainly for people to upload their own videos. Soon people started uploading music videos and the record labels saw dollar signs.
So the first episode of The Rock Of Love Bus aired last nigh…and re-aired today. I forgot about it last night but caught it on the rebound today. To say the least, this is probably going to be a crazy season. There are a couple of women on the show that DO show a little class and restrain…but this is only the first episode. Let run down a few things that went on in the first episode.
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