June 1991 GUNS AND ROSES/SKID ROW

Ahhhh 1991, I was 21 years old and although we were starting to hear music from the incoming "gunge" tsunami, heavy metal was still ruling the world with some major releases and big tours that were rocking through North America and the world.

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Kisstory Science Theatre

podcast / iTunes / blog / YouTube / Vimeo / Facebook / Twitter

While there is certainly no shortage of KISS podcasts (shout outs to our brethren Creatures Of The Net, PodKISSt and THE KISS ROOM at this point), the 3 powerful and attractive ...

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the ONLY rock/metal thing I did in 1991

Andrew Jacobs here,

As I've previously mentioned in one or two of my posts, I didn't really become a full bore rock and metal fan until I got heavily into KISS and Pantera in 1993, so in 1991, I was still pretty much exclusively a punk and hardcore ...

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Episode 52 - Radio Revisited 1991

While our Year in Review shows tend to have a great response each time out for the wealth of information that we try to squeeze in each time and numerous song clips that we attempt to shoehorn in; we've also plenty of folks tell us that they like ...

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Slash Takes Toronto to Paradise City

Slash Takes Toronto to Paradise City

Veteran rocker Slash rolled into Toronto to play at The Sound Academy this past Sunday September 23^rd.  When I had first heard about the show I had mild interest but was not chomping at the bit to go as I ...

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UNO! Good Clean FUN with Green Day

Back a couple months ago during our "Threesomes" week I informed our readers about Green Day's plans to release three complete albums, each about two months apart. Well the world has received the first of these, aptly titled UNO!

UNO! brings us a ...

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A book for all the SMF's - Dee Snider's "Shut Up And Give Me The Mic"

Library of Loud week continues and it doesn't get much louder than Twisted Sister! Dee Snider recently released his Twisted Memoir taking the readers back and all the way through his years with the legendary band.

If you are looking for the usual ...

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Henry Rollins' Fanatic! book series

Long before Chris & AAron invented the brilliantly titled Radio Sucks radio show, Henry Rollins was doing something very similar to it on his Harmony In My Head show on an actual radio station, Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles.  To say ...

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HumaleboobalaybeebalayBOP! Crazy from the Heat.

The first book I have chosen to look at for our "Library of Loud" week is a book I that I have unfortunately lost and have been searching to have it replaced. David Lee Roth released his biography(?) "Crazy From The Heat" back in 1998.

First, it ...

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Drop the Needle!...The Heroin Diaries

Next up for the "Library of Loud" week Cynthia Johnson looks at Nikki Sixx's "The Heroin Diaries"


Confession: I just recently(this past February) read Heroin Diaries.  Now, before you scream and start calling me everything but my first name, ...

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Bruce Kulick's Crazy Nights discussion continues next week on Kulick.net

From the official Bruce Kulick Facebook page:

I'm wrapping up week one of my 25th Anniversary of CRAZY NIGHTS celebration with a look at "Good Girl Gone Bad," "Turn on the Night," and "Thief in the Night." And, yes, I said week one. Coming next ...

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In Gene, I Trust

Andrew Jacobs here,

Gene Simmons can safely add one more achievement to his enormous and ever-growing legacy - authoring The Bible.  No, not THAT Bible (though that one certainly does come in handy whenever I run out of toilet paper). ...

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Sammy Hagar, Red My Uncensored Life In Rock

RED
My Uncensored Life In Rock
By Sammy Hagar with Joel Selvin


Bryan Martin

    The book opens with a foreward by Michael Anthony, former bassist for Van Halen, and now bass in Chickenfoot, Sammy’s newest band. His testimony to ...

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Episode 51 - Library of Loud

It's been quite a memorable week here at Decibel Geek headquarters.

We had record numbers of downloads with the recent Bruce Kulick episode and have received a lot of great feedback on the show. Bruce is currently doing a Crazy Nights retr...

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"The Tour" rocks Toronto - Meister's Story

When The Tour 2012:KISS/Crue was first announced I was not overly enthused.  I’ve seen KISS ten times or so and just like no matter how much you love your favourite movie you can only watch it so many times before losing interest in it.  ...

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