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  1. Major Babe-age

    in Exquisite Entropy

    Posted

    Hey! That's my ex-wife you're posting there! :lol:

     

    I debated starting a new thread with this one, but then I remembered someone crying about new threads in here and no one talking about music, so I put the stick back and decided not to poke the bear. haha

     

    Any child stars that you know of that ended up turning into WILFs?

     

    Tami Erin

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    Has a sex tape coming out ...

  4. Hard Rock Covers of Pop Songs

    in AOR and Hard Rock

    Posted

    Skin had quite a few good pop covers on the bonus disc that came with the limited edition version of their debut CD:

    Unbelievable (EMF)

    Dog eat dog (Adam Ant)

    Express yourself (Madonna)

    Pump it up (Elvis Costello)

    Hangin on the telephone (Blondie)

    Should I stay or should I go (The Clash)

     

    Their version of Madonna's "Express Yourself" was pretty damn good.

  8. Hard Rock Covers of Pop Songs

    in AOR and Hard Rock

    Posted

    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

  9. Impulse Records

    in Shout it to the World!

    Posted

    I think I am losing my mind. I could have sworn this is the joint I drove to in the 'Burbs of Chicago back in the late 90's but their website says they are in Colorado? Did they move or is it a different place in Illinois I am thinking of? Dan, you may know this being in IL.

     

    Thanks!

    JL

    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.

  10. Before The Internet

    in General Music Discussion

    Posted

     

     

    ^^ I drank at the Klapperkahn several times during my trip to Frankfurt in '87. Great place. My buddy who was with me swore that I was sitting next to one of the guys from Destruction at the bar when I was there one night but I didn't recognize him. :rofl2:

    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." :rofl2:

     

    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

  11. Classic Rock Magazine Moan

    in Flamefest

    Posted

    I think the difference between Classic Rock and Kerrang during its heyday is the fact that Classic Rock comes across as stiff and stuffy. Professionally written articles and layouts etc, whereas classic Kerrang was kind of a reflection of the music it represented. It was bright, brash, in your face and came across as a magazine made by fans who just happened to be journalists. It was more relaxed, less formal.

    There were in jokes. Bands could do interviews that were totally not serious. And even the letters pages were fans saying whatever they liked instead of pontificating or kissing arse (hell I remember them printing my letter about what a miserable bastard Richie Kotzen was at the Poison signing session at Tower Records, London).

     

    I think with the state the music industry is in these days, it would be impossible to capture that spirit in a magazine format that would sell to the masses. Kerrang really was a product of its time, and a true case of lightning in a bottle.

     

    Absolutely. I was just reading through another Kerrang from 82 or 83 and, I'll have to go back and see who the feature was about, but they were hardly mentioned at all (just basically a three paragraph mini interview over a two page spread) and the story was still fascinating. Complete entertainment all around.

  12. Before The Internet

    in General Music Discussion

    Posted

    ^^ I drank at the Klapperkahn several times during my trip to Frankfurt in '87. Great place. My buddy who was with me swore that I was sitting next to one of the guys from Destruction at the bar when I was there one night but I didn't recognize him. :rofl2:

    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.

  13. Before The Internet

    in General Music Discussion

    Posted

    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.

  15. Classic Rock Magazine Moan

    in Flamefest

    Posted

    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 ...

  21. My $1.00 Find

    in Dumpster Diving

    Posted

     

    Awesome job! I'd make the trip for the 600 jewel cases alone.

     

    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.

  23. Classic Rock Magazine Moan

    in Flamefest

    Posted

    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.

  24. Famous People from your High School

    in Exquisite Entropy

    Posted

    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

  25. Any Pink fans here?

    in Other Music Styles

    Posted

    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?

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