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Has a sex tape coming out ...

This one is marked as private so I did search on it and Mitch's version is great. I think Cyndi Lauper's cover is the best version of the song personally

"Judgement Day" is the stronger of the two songs.

Ugh, that version of "Hot N' Cold" is AWFUL

Great band! Thanks for the review, Mark

$20????? Is Nadir nuts???

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Umbrella CHOCOLATE STARFISH - You're So Vain I, NAPOLEON - Everytime I See Your Picture BAUHAUS - Ziggy Stardust (I kind of mentioned it upthread but I neglected to mention the song title) ROUGH CUTT - Piece of My Heart CHEAP TRICK - Ain't That a Shame PAT BENATAR - Wuthering Heights (hated Kate Bush's version but Pat's gives me chills) PAT BENATAR - Rated X (Nick Gilder) WRATHCHILD - Alright With The Boyz JOAN JETT - Make Believe

Steve now runs the store out of his house. He moved to Colorado for familiy reasons,set up a shop and it didn't work out location wise so he just "set up shop" in his house.

There's a good chance it was. Marcel (Schmier) from Destruction liked to hang out there, as did Tankard's manager, Buffo and Matthias Prill who worked with Venom, Slayer, Legacy (Testament) and others. These three were pretty much the "odd guys out" but they were a great bunch of guys. Yeah, I didn't know till later (after I returned to the U.S.) that Destruction were from Frankfurt. So the whole night my friend kept going "Dude! I think that's Schmier from Destruction!" and I was like "What? Nah, can't be. Get the f*ck outta here." haha Yeah, I think Schmier was a closeted hard rock / glam fan because he was there quite a bit. He was a really cool guy and even though none of us were really fans of Destruction we'd go to support them. Pay the DM 5 to get into the show and just hang out and get drunk in the lobby LOL

There's a good chance it was. Marcel (Schmier) from Destruction liked to hang out there, as did Tankard's manager, Buffo and Matthias Prill who worked with Venom, Slayer, Legacy (Testament) and others. These three were pretty much the "odd guys out" but they were a great bunch of guys.

In Frankfurt we had this EXTREMELY cool club called The Klapperkahn, which played hard rock and the lighter side of metal (Manowar got played every now and again, Venom, Slayer, et al wouldn't) from open to close. The owner, Ritchie, had a friend in The States who would send him VHS tapes of this new show called Headbanger's Ball and lo and behold, Ritchie had an American video player so he would play videos on the weekends. When he would play stuff off of the stereo it could be anything from Motley Crue to Dokken to Pet Hate, Tokyo Blade, Jade, Kidd Gloves ... you never knew what was going to come flying at you. And he had it ALL - the major label stuff, the indie and DIY bands, you name it ... Then we had this EXTREMELY cool record store called City Music that we could listen to anything we wanted for a while before deciding to buy or not. And they sold Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Metal Rendevouz, etc so you just picked up a magazine, flipped through the reviews, found something that sounded interesting, walked over to the racks, pulled the record out (they almost ALWAYS had whatever you were looking for), plopped it down on a turntable, listened to a few songs then bought both the album and the magazine ... And did it all over again next weekend.

Just saw Now You See Me. Very good all around ... and with Isla Fisher to watch it really couldn't have gone wrong anyway.

Picked up the latest issue of Metal hammer (we're on the Avenged Sevenfold cover) and to be honest, there wasn't one single feature that interested me. I like Avenged but it's not really a band I want to read about ... I did finally read a feature about some black metal guy from Iran, which was interesting enough.. Nah, it really wasn't ...

One of the best (or THE best??) to come out of France. I have a copy of their 'Warning II' album on vinyl that I picked up on a whim when it first came out.

There are no plans for any live shows.

Buckcherry - Confessions The Scorpions - Animal Magnetism. Coulda sworn I had it on CD at one point in my life but it wasn't there so I found it for $2.00 at an FYE ...

Yeah, pretty low on the attractive scale I'd say, also ...

Apparently the new one is heavier (for them anyway) because they're going to make a run for The States with this new album. It's a good record. And, on a side note, I wrote a press release for them a few weeks back.

Do you still want a bunch of jewel cases?? I'm literally dumping a ton of them right now into recycling bins as I move my CD's from jewel cases into sleeves.

... do you like me better now ... Wait, no, that's a song from New England. I pop in and out every now and again when I have some spare time - usually at 2:00am PST ... Glad to see you guys (are there any girls left here??) are still as off your heads as ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHqRu7cA7Kg (Pfffft, why isn't the actual YouTube link showing up???)

I haven't been able to find the AOR issues for about a year now ... sucks. The Prog issues are out in full force every time, tho8gh, which blows as I can't stand prog music. The Kings of Chaos issue was pretty good, yeah. And, to be honest, I had no idea who Kings of Chaos are. I was wondering why those guys from different bands were on the cover together ... after reading the feature, who cares?? The thing that pisses me off every issue is that I pop the CD in hoping to discover SOMETHING worthwhile and 99% of the time just finding utter crap. I've actually been reading through a bunch of old Kerrang's from 83 - 87 or so lately (found them in one of my boxes). The writing was "unique" to say the least but it was also a lot of fun. Reading old gig and album reviews that makes me wanna go pull out those albums (or find them on YouTube in full) is kinda cool. The ads were a lot more creative back then, also.

Frankfurt American High School: I actually knew Gerald Brom but I had no clue that he was "famous." Julie A. (Smith) Moore below is actually Julianne Moore. The nineth one down on this list is pretty interesting. And, James Murphy is not included John N. Abrams ('64)[9] - Commander V Corps and TRADOC Gerald Brom ('83) - Gothic fantasy artist and illustrator Peter Cooke ('67)[11] Herb Hall ('68) - Actor Jeanne Larsen ('67) - Author James M. Link ('60)[9] - Commander U.S. Army Missile Command Julie A. (Smith) Moore ('79) - Oscar nominated Actress[12] Frank O'Leary ('61) - Treasurer, Arlington County, Virginia Joe R. Reeder ('66) - US Under Secretary of the Army Norman Schwarzkopf ('51)[13] - Commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991 Russ Spiegel ('80) - Jazz Musician Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace ('55) - Medal of Honor Stanley Whitaker ('72) - Musician

Couldn't stand that "Get The Party Started" track but almost all of the singles after that I've loved - "Perfect," "Sober," " U and Ur Hand," "So What," "Raise Your Glass," "Just Like A Pill" (admittedly had to look some of the titles up..) are all great songs, I think. And Butch writes a lot of her material, sooooo it can't be all that bad, right?