Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:01AM 
My friend David Henzerling (Big Cock, King Kobra) has a band called Tunnel. The band has a new song called "Disarray." It's a cool track and it features Troy Luccketta from Tesla on drums.
Tunnel is a great new band keeping rock alive - please give them a listen and let me know what you think!
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 12:01AM 
A few days ago I received an email from one of the guys behind Rock n' America. The event was held for the first time last July in Oklahoma City. The bands were great - the Scorpions even headlined a night - but attendance was less than stellar. In fact, the attendance was so bad...I figured the event was dead.
Well, maybe it's not.
Here's a petition circling online - especially Facebook:
From Howard Pollack / The Zoo Amphitheatre
I'm thinking about bringing back "Rock N America" It was great last year but financially a bomb- give me a reason to bring it back. Give me your thoughts and or criticisms and or complaints. But here is the kicker!!!! The only way I will bring the show back is if I get a petition to bring the show back and it has to be signed by 5,000 people - so are you up to the challenge? Is Rock N America worth it? The ball is in your court. You can Facebook me or you can send emails to office@pmgroupar.com or you can go to zooamp.com and join up on the hot list. Now the only way top get 5,000 signatures on the petition is to have all of you believers email or Facebook all your friends that were there or missed out last year but want to be there this year. So send me a message-you know what to do!
So there it is: if you want Rock N' America back...you better get online!
Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 12:01AM Here's another rare Motley Crue clip. The band, pre- Too Fast For Love playing their second gig ever at the Starwood in Los Angeles. The song? "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles. The quality of this clip is amazing.
It's pretty clear by watching the clip that Motley is a very new band here. The guys aren't quite as comfortable together on stage as they could be...and yet...there's chemistry.
Look at how young the guys are - and they are so thin! Like toothpicks! The video is a hoot and a half. Enjoy your Saturday, Glam lovers!
Friday, February 18, 2011 at 12:01AM Want to two win two awesome Glam albums? Courtesy of Bring Back Glam! you can win Cadence by Bangalore Choir and Worlds Collide by Unruly Child.
If you'd like to add these two cool discs to your collection, all you need to do is send an email to allyson@bringbackglam.com with "Glam albums" as the subject line. In the email, include your legal name, address and phone number. Please only one entry per person. If your entry does not include full information, it will be discarded. Your information will not be shared with outside companies. Email your entries by Sunday, Feb. 20 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 09:24AM
Now, the song is officially out! The song and video debuted on Nikki’s website for the radio show Sixx Sense last night. The song is the first single from the upcoming album This Is Gonna Hurt. The single goes to radio March 1.
The good news is that the album date was actually pushed forward to May 3rd. The album is the companion to the book This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (Harper Collins/William Morrow). The book is due April 12.
Now, back to “Lies of the Beautiful People.”
When I first heard the song, I immediately freaked out. As in, I woke up. It takes a lot to musically excite me anymore but “Lies of the Beautiful People” did it – I was hooked! On that first night, I listened to the song about 12 times in a row. James Michael sounds absolutely fantastic on the track. While the guitar solo isn’t long, it’s easy to see that DJ Ashba will be given a chance to shine on this new record. And Nikki, well, he’s Nikki.
Getting more complex, the song is a unique hybrid of modern and stadium rock. You can definitely tell the song is from a modern band…but it doesn’t sound much like anything else that is out there now. I’ve already read people saying the new song is a bandwagon-jumping attempt at fame. And that is just wrong. SIXX:AM is Nikki’s side project. I think he, just as everyone else in the world, realizes Motley Crue is still his main bread and butter. Motley has a defined sound, SIXX:AM lets him do something else. To complain something is “Too modern… or too different from the Crue” is completely missing the point.
I can’t wait for the new album. Based on “Lies of the Beautiful People” alone it will be in my top 10 of 2011. Let’s hope for a tour!
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 12:01AM Have you had a chance to see the new Whitesnake video for "Love Will Set You Free?" I love the video and I love the song. Really, there isn't much more to say than that, except I can't wait for M3! Whitesnake will be a great headliner. I can't wait to get my hands on Forevermore!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:01AM 
Sometimes we all need a little chaos and uncertainty to shake things up, so that you can take stock of what you have and simply get back to basics. Mickey Finn’s unexpected departure from Jetboy in late 2010 left band co-founders Billy Rowe and Fernie Rod (along with current bassist Jes Reckless and drummer Jesse Mendez) without a frontman as they were about to embark on their first overseas tour. Enter D.K. Revelle, a gritty yet charismatic frontman that has been knocking around the industry for years, looking for a home. I recently had an opportunity to speak with both Billy Rowe and D.K. Revelle about the how this version of Jetboy came to be, and more importantly, where they intend to go.
According to Billy, the band was not willing to give up the European tour that they had worked so hard to book. “We were determined to do the tour, we were committed to do the tour.” Billy continued, “It probably would have hurt us more than anything to cancel the tour, and our mindset was ‘We gotta do this,' but now its like 'Oh, f--k, how are we going to do this…we need a singer.’” Enter D.K., the second guy to audition for the lead spot, and by all accounts, he nailed it. Recommended to Billy and Fernie by Jes and Jesse, after playing only four songs together, Billy thought, “It was great, it was like, f--k, this will totally work, let’s do this.”
So now the real work begins, as the new Jetboy had to come together as a unit and deliver to the fans what they were expecting….because as Billy says, “It’s all about the songs.” Initial thoughts were correct, because D.K. instantly became part of the machine. Musically, Billy states, “Fern and I wrote all the music to the Jetboy songs. Sam had his part and Ron as well, but for the bulk of the riffs it was Fern and I, so musically it’s going be the same.” D.K.’s approach to add a little flavor of his own while still staying true to the original recordings, and this approach worked with the rest of the guys, and the machine just kept rolling. As D.K. said, “Once I got that call that I was in the band, I was like cool, now I have like 8,000,000 things to do to prepare for the tour. Literally, I started sleeping with those headphones on, listening to those songs day and night; and I started writing out the lyrics, because there is something in my weird little head that helps me to remember them if I write them out.” Unfortunately, time wasn’t on D.K.’s side, as he only had four full rehearsals before leaving to do twenty-two shows in seven countries, but he pulled it off. As Billy said, “From Bon Scott to Brian Johnson; from Paul Di’anno to Bruce Dickinson…those guys were drastic changes of the singers, but the band still stayed the same.”
Rehearsals were done, and then it was time to cross the pond…but how will the crowds react? I asked D.K. about any nerves that he had at the time the tour was taking place… after all, he was replacing arguably the most recognizable face in Jetboy. According to D.K., “I was just welcomed overwhelmingly, which was really cool. We were ready for some of the ‘Mickey’s not on the band’ reactions from promoters or venues, but thankfully everybody gave it a shot, everybody gave it a listen.” But D.K. was more excited than nervous, and his goal was to prove himself in front of the fans and to put on a rock n' roll show. “Everybody in that band just knows their role and we just bring it.” And how was crowd reaction…according to Billy, “The reaction was good. There were people that knew Mick and the old stuff, but they came up after the show and they loved it. D.K. puts a good, current twist into it, in like a Buckcherry kind of way. It was a great vibe on the road and the shows went over great. As far as tours go, this was one of the most pleasant ones that I’ve done. The energy was there, a lot of laughing and good times.” According to D.K., “We were doing four encores a night almost every night. We did 'Nice Boys,' a few AC/DC songs, even a KISS song.” Bottom line is the European tour was a success for the band.
Now, for the immediate future, Jetboy is looking write some new songs and get at least one song up for free on the website. Then there are labels overseas that are interested in putting out new material. Additionally, Jetboy has a show on March 6 opening for Skid Row at the Avalon in Santa Clara, CA. Per Billy, “The key for any band is to work the Internet right now,” but he is also looking to book some additional shows that would be right for the band. Announced after my conversations with the guys is their participation at the third consecutive M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, MD. As for D.K., he could not be happier with his current situation, “Here I am with the guitar players I’ve always wanted that play really well together, and to boot, everybody is so down to earth and so cool. And the new music is freaking awesome. We’re back to basic rock n' roll. I’ve put everything else I was doing right on the back burner because that’s how I roll, once I get invested into something, I want to be true to just this one sound…I put it all into one big basket, and that is Jetboy.”
Blast from the past: Billy Rowe Talks the Glam Years.
