Gerry Gittelson

April 20, 2016

RIP … Legendary Hollywood club owner Filthy McNasty of FM Station

RIP Legendary Hollywood club owner Filthy McNasty of FM Station Hollywood, CA — The Southern California club scene has lost another legend as Filthy McNasty has passed away. According to a posting on the former club owner’s Facebook earlier today, it appears he passed away on April 13th. The update notes he had been battling cancer. McNasty was the owner of FM Station which closed it’s doors at the North Hollywood location in 1997. The[…]

April 8, 2016

CINDERELLA STORY…Tom Keifer kills it with mesmerizing performance in California

CINDERELLA STORY Tom Keifer kills it with mesmerizing performance in California LOS ANGELES — More than three years since legendary glam act Cinderella last played together, singer Tom Keifer is still going strong. The tall, dark-haired front man with the golden rasp headlined Canyon Club before a near-capacity crowd on Thursday, April 7, treating us to an 80-minute set mostly devoted to Cinderella, a Philadelphia foursome that hit it big a generation ago with multi-platinum[…]

February 14, 2016

TRYX WERE FOR KIDS … Sunset Strip glam faves Tryx fizzled out in ’90s, but founding guitarist Brian DeVeau forges comeback with The Image Nation

TRYX WERE FOR KIDS Sunset Strip glam faves Tryx fizzled out in ’90s, but founding guitarist Brian DeVeau forges comeback with The Image Nation LOS ANGELES — With a colorful candy-glam image, excellent musicianship and unbelievably catchy songs like “Only For The Summer” and “You’ve Got a Lot to Learn About Love,” Tryx was like a shooting star on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood back during the post-Poison explosion. Fans loved Tryx, who headlined clubs[…]

February 5, 2016

THAT’S TATE, AS IN GREAT … Ex-Queensryche singer delivers in L.A. concert performance

THAT’S TATE, AS IN GREAT Ex-Queensryche singer delivers in L.A. concert performance LOS ANGELES — You never heard the word “Queensryche” on Thursday, Feb. 4, but the good news, at least for Geoff Tate, was that no one needed to.Yes, Tate lost the battle in 2014 for rights to the name in a court settlement with the other members now forging on as Queensryche without the iconic founding singer. But Mr. Tate has not lost[…]

January 5, 2016

ENUFF LSD … ‘I eat 23-year-old guitarists for breakfast’ A Metal Sludge exclusive with Alex Kane

ENUFF LSD ‘I eat 23-year-old guitarists for breakfast’ A Metal Sludge exclusive with Alex Kane LOS ANGELES, Calif., USA — As an early member of Enuff Z’Nuff and the founder of Life, Sex & Death, in addition to a stint as frontman for Euro favs Antiproduct and his current gig with Richie Ramone, guitarist Alex Kane has made a careeer of being almost famous — and he has the scars to prove it. Kane[…]

June 14, 2015

Wow! CHEAP TRICK kicks ass at Greek Theatre performance in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 25 years to the day since headlining the historic “summer blowout” before 80,000 at the L.A. Coliseum, Cheap Trick is still going strong. The Chicago rock band proved utterly mesmerizing on Friday, June 12 at the Greek Theatre, sounding pretty much as strong as ever in delivering a hit-filled, 90-minute set that included “I Want You to Want Me,” “Surrender” and all the other favorites that saw everyone standing[…]

June 4, 2014

METAL SLUDGE EXCLUSIVE: Rock documentary “Inside L.A. Metal” premieres in Hollywood in a rousing success

METAL SLUDGE EXCLUSIVE: Rock documentary “Inside L.A. Metal” premieres in Hollywood in a rousing success By Gerry Gittelson Metal Sludge Editor at Large LOS ANGELES — The heavily anticipated rock documentary film “Inside L.A Metal” celebrated its screen opening on Tuesday, June 3 at the Beverly Theatre, and oh what a star-studded spectacle the event was. Produced and written by California freelance journalist Bob Nalbandian, the movie is primed to be a huge[…]