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Bon Jovi Burning Bridges

Bon Jovi Burning Bridges

The new album from Bon Jovi is no frills. The CD comes in a sleeve with what looks like the band name and title just written in haste. This record fulfills his contract with Mercury records, after 32 years. The parting is not amicable and you don’t have to read between the lines to figure that out. The last song is the title track, and Jon pulls no punches with the way he feels about his now ex-label "After 30 years of loyalty, they let you dig the grave / Now maybe you can l

Do Clothes Make The Band?

Do Clothes Make The Band?

Music and fashion have always gone hand in hand. Rock stars and models date each other. One minute it’s cool to wear spandex the next minute it’s shorts and combat boots. It’s a case of do you want you want to look like your rock star heroes or do you want your rock stars to look like you? Music in almost all forms, is at its core, about individualism and rebellion. The way we can do that outwardly is with our appearance and what we wear. Grow your hair long, cut it short, sh

Cathouse Live

Cathouse Live

The Cathouse was a club in Hollywood Ca. that happened on Tuesday nights and Tuesday nights only. It was the brain child of Riki Rachtman and Taime Downe. Riki has gone on to host Headbangers Ball on MTV and a whole slew of radio shows. That includes the one he’s being doing now for the better part of a decade called Racing Rocks. Taime was at the time of the birth of the Cathouse, 29 years ago and still is the lead singer for Faster Pussycat. They wanted the Cathouse to be a

Dee Jay Jaxon

Dee Jay Jaxon

Being a parent, you have to make some tough decisions about your kid’s entertainment. For me it was, in the early days, making sure he never saw anything about that annoying purple dinosaur. I admit it, it was selfish, but that thing can drive you insane. “ I love you. You love me. AAAAHHHH!!” I dodged the bullet with that one. Another one, that I spent a lot of time pondering, was whether to show him Star Wars. Of course he was always going to see the movies, but it what ord

What Do You Do?

What Do You Do?

What do you do if your band had a few hits a decade or more ago? This is a question a lot of bands have to not only ask them but have set their career path on the answer. There are a few options as I see them. Go out on the road, live on your past glories playing for smaller shows than in your heyday but giving the diehard fans what they want. Make new music trying to adapt to the times with your sound. Odds are you’ll alienate those diehard fans and they will use that time d