Most recently before rejoining Michael Monroe in his current band, bassist Sami Yaffa was standing in for the late Arthur "Killer" Kane in the reconstituted New York Dolls. The musical crossover could not be more fitting, much of the Dolls catalogue clearly having a direct influence on Hanoi Rocks and the song featured below lending its name to Sami' s first big post-Hanoi gig, Jetboy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y8-CBXfzhE] Some folks try to d...
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A long time ago, on a shoreline far far away there lived a boy who liked nothing more than rifling through his parents’ record collections, putting the headphones on, and disappearing to a place even further away. Particular favorites included: ‘Sgt. Pepper’s,’ ‘Apostrophe,’ ‘Cruisin’ With Ruben and the Jets,’ and ‘Out Of The Blue.’ The first album I ever owned was K-tels ‘Disco Nights’ compilation. Grandmas are ...
Classic. This word can mean a lot of different things to people. It is also a subjective term since it is usually used with a time stamp context. To me, the word classic is used to actually exemplify something that is timeless. Things that are classic defy being dated because it’s not about a fad, style, fashion, or other fly by night irrelevance. It’s about substance, true talent, and sticking to your guns. Speaking of fashion (the word itself mak...
I find it very interesting that the mainstream media does not label or use the term "terrorist" when talking about the Christian Militia's we've been hearing about. Planning to kill police officers, planning violence against the federal government, and cache's of weapons and explosives...but that's not terrorism. Now if they were brown and Muslim guess what they would be called?