Kix - Live Tonight in Baltimore!

I'm in Baltimore, Maryland right now getting ready to see Kix perform live at Rams Head Live! This is always one of Kix's biggest shows of the year - and I'm ready. Follow me on Twitter and I'll update you during the show as much as I can remember. I have trouble remembering that Twitter even exists and often find it a pain - but I'm trying.

Here's Kix doing "Tear Down the Walls" live last week. I really hope they do this song tonight!

As always, reviews and photos coming soon.

Why Are the Guys in Queensryche Backing Lita Ford?

I'm confused.

Lita Ford is going on tour with Queensryche. Fine. She's opening for them. That's great. She's also using all the members of Queensryche as her backing band. Say what?

Ok, so Queensryche won't be Lita's full backing band - she's just doing three songs with them - but it's still confusing. One of the three songs is "Close My Eyes Forever," the song Lita originally recorded with Ozzy Osbourne. Queensryche front man Geoff Tate will sing the duet with Lita. I have to admit hearing and seeing that live would be sort of awesome. I digress.

How will this work? Will Queensryche stop their show and invite Lita on stage for her three songs? Also, if Lita saves her three biggest songs for the Queensryche set, won't her opening appearance be stilted? I dunno. Maybe it will work - it's certainly a new concept and I'm all for change. Maybe the slightly odd pairing of Lita and Queensryche will sell tickets. Everyone knows I'm all about musicians making a good living for their work.

I'm interviewing Lita soon for Noisecreep so I'll ask her about the upcoming tour, which starts mid-October. Also soon on BBG!, a review of Wicked Wonderland, Lita's new album, due out October 6, 2009.

Queensryche will headline Shiprocked, sailing November 15 from Fort. Lauderdale. Lita is not booked as part of the cruise.

What do you think? Do Lita and Queensryche together work?

One for the "WTF" File

I'm not a Ryan Adams fan. I know of him as I write about music and therefore spend my days combing many different websites - but I don't love him. In fact, I very rarely think of him at all...until now. It seems Mr. Adams has written a "hair metal parody" called "The Awl (Hair Metal Version)."

The song is in honor of some new website called The Awl, for which Adams also writes. Apparently, the tune is supposed to be funny but I failed to laugh. I sort of liken the tune to nails on a chalkboard.

Click to listen.

Wolf Blitzer is More Glam Than You

Wolf Blitzer hosts The Situation Room on CNN. The Situation Room just happens to be my favorite show on CNN. Yesterday, Blitzer announced his new Twitter account. Being a fan, I signed up and clicked through his messages...and found an awesome picture of ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and his wife visiting Blitzer on set in Washington, D.C.

Now, that's Glam.

ZZ Top are touring around, hitting some of the cities they were scheduled to play with Aerosmith before that tour completely imploded.

Photo credit: CNN

Winger's New Album Will Rock

Winger is currently working on a new album called Karma. It's set to release on October 27th via Frontiers. The band has been documenting their recording progress online and you can hear some snippets below.

So, what do you think? Is Karma on your list?

Paul Gilbert is Very Glam

You know Paul Gilbert. He's an amazing guitarist, most known for his work with Mr. Big and Racer X. I reported a few months ago that Mr. Big reunited. They played a few shows together in Japan over the summer.

A few days ago, Paul Gilbert spoke with my friends at Metal Sucks. Here's an excerpt of that interview:

Metal Sucks: Can we talk about Mr. Big, which is back on the scene and doing shows in 2009? Does it ever freak you out how huge Mr. Big is to some people? Specifically Japanese people?

Paul Gilbert: Yeah, man. It’s really odd going from playing 500- and 1,000-seat venues to 10,000- or even 15,000-seat venues. It does take some getting used to. Even though there are so many people, I’m further away from them because of the big security pits. I’m further away from the band, too. Sometimes I miss being on a tiny stage, just stuck next to the band where you don’t even need monitors because you can just feel the closeness of all the musicians.

The best part for me is being reunited with Billy [Sheenan, bass], Pat [Torpey, drums], and Eric [Martin, vocals]. When I left the band, we’d been pretty dysfunctional. I’d given up hope of us being together again. I thought “That’s it. We can’t work, so…” Time went by and we’ve now all got our heads in the right place. Our priority now is making music and having a good time with it – and being friends again. The music’s been getting better and better. The Japan tour was great, but we just did this show in Indonesia that was stunning. I can’t wait to go to Europe, [for which] we leave in a couple days. It should be a blast.

Click to read the rest of the awesome interview.

'This Is It' Looks Awesome

As you probably know, AEG Live and Sony Pictures have teamed up to release 'This Is It,' the Michael Jackson tour rehearsal footage. I love me some MJ and this movie looks awesome. I'll be getting my tickets early - can't wait! The movie is out October 28 for two weeks only. Here's the trailer.