Van Halen Hits Houston on 9/23!!!!!!
Tix on sale Saturday. Yikes, and I forgot to set aside a small fortune!
UPDATE: Joe Satriani hits The Woodlands on his Summer tour 8/28. Also on the bill will be Thin Lizzy (with ex-TL member John Sykes on guitar - worth the price of admission alone), and Deep Purple (still touring with Steve Morse on guitar. This band was better when the guitar player was Joe Satriani - and I like Steve Morse!)
MORE MUSIC NEWS:
Remember when KISS came out with 4 solo albums at once and it was a big collectors' frenzy ... till you realized that the only album that kicked ass was Ace Frehley's? Well, apparently Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are in the studios for two more solo albums.
Steve Vai does Motorhead ... as in, he does one tune on their new album: Inferno. I may yet have to procure one Motorhead disc in my lifetime.
One of my 80s obsessions is the band Rough Cutt. One of the guitar players from the band, Amir Derakh, has gone on to success after that no-hit wonder of a band by taking up shop with the band Orgy. In any event, he's now got his own site: amir-derakh.com that's worth a check in. Of particular interest, the bio and the guitar collection.
'nuther guitarist to bookmark for a while: Josh Ramos. I had just ripped the one song that was worth ripping from the late-era metal ballad band The Storm, "I've Got A Lot To Learn About Love." Did not realize that the guitar player in the band was an erstwhile shredder going back to the early days of Shrapnel records: Josh Ramos. Ramos used to be in a band called LeMans with another shredder: Derek Frigo. Frigo would go on to do the first few albums with a band called Enuff Z'nuff that would clock in about 15 minutes of fame. Frigo then got busted for drugs and has been MIA with the music scene ever since. Josh would leave The Storm (possibly due to realizing it was about the 10th band in the early 90s to ripoff Journey) and play in the post-Neal Schon versions of the band Hardline (approximately the 9th Journey ripoff that led to Neal Schon reforming the original version). For the record, Mr. Big was clearly the best Journey ripoff band of the era. No other copycat band managed a #1 hit ... so there. Still, Josh's catalog of work looks worth exploring.
MORE WEB SLEUTHING: Oh what a joyous day it's proven to be ... go back to the 80s, the end of David Lee Roth's run with Van Halen brought the rise of another LA band: Autograph. The guitar player from that band, Steve Lynch, has a site, as well ... and the long-rumored album he's had on the shelf for over a decade is finally available, too. SWEET!!!
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I may have to see Joe Satriani. I saw him on his Crystal Planet tour and he was great...