Metal Sludge — Some sad and crazy news this morning from our music world. Long time editor of Metal Edge Magazine, Gerri Miller has died. Miller was a constant figure in the rock magazine world from the mid 80’s until the late 1990’s with Metal Edge. A few posts are popping up on social media now including a tribute from Badlands bassist Greg Chaisson. Miller had been battling Lupus for many years. A comment on[…]
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Metal Sludge — Who is ready for a little bit of mud slinging? Well, it appears there is a bit of that coming from the WildSide camp. Maybe not full mud, but partial mud for sure. WildSide drummer Jimmy Darby and co-founder of 80’s Metal Recycle Bin along with Drew Hannah has come out with a interesting and lengthy interview over at Sleazeroxx. So much so, that Sleazeroxx principal Olivier wrote: “WHICH TURNED LATER THAT[…]
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Metal Sludge — Do you think you’re tough? Then get ready to rock n’ roll with the voice of Ratt! Stephen Pearcy is Alive! on the Sunset Strip, performing an exclusive live stream event from the world-famous “Whisky-A-Go-Go” in Hollywood on Friday April 2nd 2021. Pearcy and his Rat Bastards will be playing all the Ratt hits. Also let it be noted, there is a special guest you won’t want to miss. Back in late[…]
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Sleazeroxx — Former Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch was recently interviewed by Jason Green (Sin City Rejects bassist, Sin City Sinners manager, ex-Ratt (Bobby Blotzer version) manager) for the Waste Some Time With Jason Green podcast. Lynch was one of the founding members of Autograph back in 1983 and played on all of their best known albums including Sign In Please (1984), That’s The Stuff (1985) and Loud And Clear (1986) before leaving the band in July 2019 to explore new musical[…]
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Blabbermouth — Legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin has teamed up with Rufus Publications for the publication of “Randy Rhoads By Ross Halfin”, a celebration of one of the most influential hard rock/heavy metal guitarists of all time. This extensive photo book features many classic and unseen shots of the former OZZY OSBOURNE and QUIET RIOT guitarist chosen by Ross from his personal archive. Halfin announced the completion of “Randy Rhoads By Ross Halfin” in a[…]
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Sleazroxx – The M3 Rock Festival has been postponed for a record third time. At first, the 2020 edition and 12th edition overall was supposed to take place from May 1 to 3, 2020 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, USA. The line-up included headliners Ratt, Tesla and KIX along with newcomers Accept, Doro and Little Caesar. The M3 Rock Festival was rescheduled to September 4 to 6, 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. Ratt[…]
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LOS ANGELES — In an era of google-copy-and-paste disguised as hard work, it is nice to see folks put their heart and soul into a passion project. That’s just what co-author Richard Bienstock has pulled off with new book ‘Nothing But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of The ’80s Hard Rock Explosion.” The book, co-written by Tom Beaujour, took three years and is 99 percent quotes — which is incredibly time-consuming if you happen[…]
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UPDATED: Fri. Feb. 26th 2021 Ratt main rodent Stephen Pearcy took to his Instagram on Thursday night sharing our Metal Sludge article headline about Bobby Blotzer appearing at the singer’s taping of a stream event. A secondary post from Pearcy also shows a blond haired man with his back to the singer standing next to a drum kit. Pearcy commented “Rehearsal tonight had swing” and shared the hashtag #drummerswhoplayyamaha while giving the camera a smirk[…]
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Metal Sludge — In a new episode of Waste Some Time with Jason Green, Love/Hate singer Jizzy Pearl is the guest. Pearl has a lengthy resume of bands he’s performed with including; Ratt, Quiet Riot, L.A Guns and Adler’s Appetite. But even with holding down front-man duties in other people’s projects, Pearl has continued to push the Love/Hate brand a full 30+ years later. In this brand new 2021 interview, done quarantine style from his[…]
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Metal Sludge — Who has time to write reviews these days, besides complete music nerds who have no life. Well, I don’t have a life either…and no I am not a nerd, but I couldn’t help it after this hit my ears today. So… I decided to jot a few notes down about the latest from Frontiers Records. Not the airlines but that Italian based indy record label that puts out all the 80’s bands.[…]
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