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Steel Panther FOR TEH PARTEE
I wonder if FTP (for the party) is a real acronym or did I just blow everyone’s mind again… Nevermind. What you see above is Steel Panther, a “hair metal revival” band performing with Sebastian Bach (ex-Skidrow) and singer Cee-Lo Green at a show in Holywood last night.
As easy as it is to make fun of them — I won’t. I mean, look at the clip. They’re obviously having fun, and they obviously have more girls on stage than I’ve ever been able to make verbal contact with. All I have is this room, a computer and hair loss issues. Goddammit.
You can find more videos from the performance here.
I fancy a suckfest
A suckfest sounds like my kind of evening. Just me (well ok and maybe a few other guys), 10 chicks lined up. It would be my dreams come true.
So imagine my disappointment when I discover that “suckfest” isn’t what I thought it was.
MetalSucks, in conjunction with Live Nation, has announced The Metal Suckfest. The festival will take place at New York City’s Gramercy Theater and will feature 20 bands over the course of two days, November 4 and November 5. Municipal Waste will headline the first night, while Cynic will close the festival the following evening. The remaining acts will be revealed soon.
Source: Blabbermouth
Municipal Waste are cool, but I still say that’s blatant false advertisement dammit. Oh well, back to porn.
Another Dave McClain video interview
Yesterday we posted a video interview with Dave McClain. You can view another video of McClain above.
In this video, McClain shoots his way through a building, killing terrorists and saving hostages. It’s gripping stuff.
Apologies, that’s actually the plot to ‘Die Hard’ (at least I think it is, my mom only lets me watch PG-13 films). John McClane Dave McClain is the drummer of Machine Head, he probably actually speaks about the new album, Unto Locust, and it probably isn’t as exciting as ‘Die Hard’. By now I’m assuming you’ve already clicked play and know what the interview is about though, so I figured it would be pointless telling you what he says (read – I didn’t watch it).
Dave Mustaine’s favorite Metallica song is…
… Who cares?
But if you do care, check this out:
“I had to do a lot of coming to terms with myself in order to listen to Metallica. Before, whenever I heard them, it triggered me in my mind to get up on my soapbox and spit out complaints of what had happened to me. And then once I finally realized, ‘Dave, you’re lucky, you’re blessed, you’re in a great band, you’re in another great band.’ I finally just said, ‘You’re missing it.’
And I remember hearing this song when I was talking to Lars once and telling him this is my favorite song off the ‘Black Record.’ And he goes, ‘Really? Fuck, man.’ It was ‘The Unforgiven’. I liked it because I thought this was really the first time I’ve ever really heard James sing. He had sung before, and he was a great singer. But that was the first time I ever heard him really, really sing.“
Read full article here.
Actually, Dave did talk about liking Unforgiven a lot, there’s an old interview of him where he’s imitating Lars and you can watch it right here. Even though I also remembered the video, I have to credit Blabbermouth user IMNoMoreLies for also mentioning it and providing the link, that way I didn’t have to go look for it.
Tony Iommi comments on reunion rumors
According to the official Black Sabbath Facebook page (Ozzy knows how to use a computer? bands from the 60’s have Facebook?), the legendary guitarist, Tony Iommi, has commented on the rumors that have spread around the internet today in regards to a Birmingham newspaper claiming the band had reformed (click for more).
Tony has said the following:
“I’m saddened that a Birmingham journalist whom I trusted has chosen this point in time to take a conversation we had back in June and make it sound like we spoke yesterday about a Sabbath reunion.
Thanks to the internet it’s now gone round the world as some sort of “official” statement on my part, absolute nonsense. I hope he’s enjoyed his moment of glory, he won’t have another”
Wait… So the band are or aren’t reuniting?
