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March 13, 2015

OVERDOSE: Wayne Static’s Cause of Death Revealed, Mixture of Drugs & Alcohol to Blame

OVERDOSE: Wayne Static’s Cause of Death Revealed, Mixture of Drugs & Alcohol to Blame People — Wayne Static – the former frontman for the popular metal group Static-X – died of a fatal mixture of drugs and alcohol, the San Bernardino County Coroner Office confirmed to PEOPLE. The singer, whose real name was Wayne Richard Wells, was found dead at his home in Landers, California, on Nov.1 at the age of 48. According to the coroner,[…]

March 11, 2015

HOT FOR GUPTA Sebastian Bach’s ex fiancee’ Minnie Gupta appears in new ‘Hot For Teacher’ video along with David Lee Roth

HOT FOR GUPTA Sebastian Bach’s ex fiancee’ Minnie Gupta appears in new ‘Hot For Teacher’ video along with David Lee Roth YouTube — She’s no stranger to being a video vixen, so it seems natural that Minnie Gupta appears in a brand new video for a 2015 version of “Hot For Teacher.” But it’s not for Van Halen. It’s in fact for a plump vivacious blond named Trisha Paytas and her version just hit YouTube earlier[…]

March 4, 2015

DEAD DOUBLE Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx’s doppelgänger Mathew Trippe – RIP

DEAD DOUBLE Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx’s doppelgänger Mathew Trippe – RIP Metal Talk — Of the all sad deaths on the rock scene of the last year, including Jack Bruce of Cream, Wayne Static of Static-X and the legendary Joe Cocker, one that went completely unreported in the rock press was that of Matthew Trippe. Matthew John Trippe was adopted at a young age and grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a[…]

January 18, 2015

COURT ORDERED Metal Sludge Exclusive: Jim Gillette Finally Breaks His Silence on Lita Ford

COURT ORDERED Metal Sludge Exclusive: Jim Gillette Finally Breaks His Silence on Lita Ford By: Metal Sludge Los Angeles — After reading countless interviews in recent years where Lita Ford accuses her ex husband of everything short of assassinating JFK, we reached out to Jim Gillette (again) to see if we could get him to talk. To our surprise, the former poster boy for hair extensions and horribly over the top heavy metal music finally[…]

January 5, 2015

CLASSIC SLUDGE … A Really Fat Sludge Wire For October 13th 1999

CLASSIC SLUDGE A Really Fat Sludge Wire For October 13th 1999 Wow…what in the world were we thinking? The internet was in an infant stage and Metal Sludge was just starting out too. But during that first calendar year from September 1998 through late 1999 we uploaded several dozen Sludgewire columns. As we continue to celebrate Twenty Years (1998-2018) of Metal Sludge, we give you these crazy-ass Sludgewires from wayback. In a nutshell we would take various bits off the “news wire” from websites, press releases,[…]

January 5, 2015

CLASSIC SLUDGE … No Gimmick Needed Sludge Wire October 20th 1999

CLASSIC SLUDGE No Gimmick Needed Sludge Wire October 20th 1999 Wow…what in the world were we thinking? The internet was in an infant stage and Metal Sludge was just starting out too. But during that first calendar year from September 1998 through late 1999 we uploaded several dozen Sludge Wire columns. As we continue to celebrate Twenty Years (1998-2018) of Metal Sludge, we give you these crazy-ass Sludge Wires from wayback. In a nutshell we would take various bits off the “news wire” from websites, press[…]

January 5, 2015

CLASSIC SLUDGE … Ozzy Stillbourne’s Bitter Halloween Sludge Wire October 26 1999

CLASSIC SLUDGE Ozzy Stillbourne’s Bitter Halloween Sludge Wire October 26 1999 Wow…what in the world were we thinking? The internet was in an infant stage and Metal Sludge was just starting out too. But during that first calendar year from September 1998 through late 1999 we uploaded several dozen Sludge Wire columns. As we continue to celebrate Twenty Years (1998-2018) of Metal Sludge, we give you these crazy-ass Sludge Wires from wayback. In a nutshell we would take various bits off the “news wire” from websites,[…]

October 9, 2014

Slingin’ Sludge with Luc Carl: "Sebastian Bach thought I was trying to out rock star him"

Luc Carl: “Sebastian Bach thought I was trying to out rock star him” FARM ROCK 2014 Last summer my girl and I hopped on my Harley Davidson Road King and cruised up to Chicago to catch Black Sabbath. It was a two day trip with several other knuckle head bikers involved and we’re lucky we made it there at all. At some point during the journey a friend of mine texted me and[…]

March 19, 2005

OUCH! … Jack Ponti responds to Joe Lynn Turner’s Rewind with Metal Sludge

March 19th 2005 — On St. Patrick’s Day we posted a rather entertaining Rewind interview with former Rainbow/Yngwie Malmsteen/Deep Purple vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. Then just today, we got an e-mail about it from Jack Ponti. Apparently, he wanted to elaborate a bit on one of Joe’s answers. Just who the hell is Jack Ponti, anyway? Well, we don’t feel like giving a big history lesson here, but Jack Ponti is a guitarist and songwriter[…]

April 20, 2004

METAL SLUDGE’s 20 Questions with Share Ross, VIXEN – April 20th 2004

“I went to a newstand and purchased a BOX of gay porn mags. Me and the engineer cut out 100’s of these naked beauties and wrote messages on them, too. “Dear Bobby, thanks for last night, Love, Tommy.” etc etc. We then covered his drum set in these boy-dangling love pics.” — Share Ross on pulling a prank on Bobby Blotzer Metal Sludge — In Vixen she was known as Share Pedersen, the bass player,[…]