AMAZING Photo Alert!!

This is a party I would LOVE to be invited to:

Tommy Lee, Slash, Scott Ian, Rob Zombie, Ace Frehley, and Gilby Clarke. DAMN, I wanna be there. One person doesn't belong, who do you think?

Wanna meet Rob Zombie?

Heads up NYC people!  To kick off the first day of the Royal Flush Festival, Rob Zombie will be signing books at comic book heaven Forbidden Planet in Manhattan (Right in Union Square) at 6pm on the 11th.  Since Comic Con is also that weekend, I am assuming a ton of fans will be in NYC, so show up early if you want a spot.  More info and details on the festival are here.

Brothers in metal

It's my brothers birthday today, and since I like to relate everything to myself I thought I would talk about some brothers in metal.  Can you guess these brothers?
1. Rob Zombies brother is a bit younger than him.  What band is he in?
2. Kyle Sanders of Bloodsimple is brothers with what Grammy nominated bassist/vocalist?














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Got a guess?
1.  Rob Zombies bro is Spider.  Lead singer of Powerman 5000.
2.  Kyle's brother is Troy Sanders of Mastodon!

Update on Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie's Gruesome Twosome tour

Alice Cooper is probably my second favorite artist of all time, so I am allowed to poke a bit of harmless fun at him.  This promo for the upcoming Gruesome Twosome tour looks like it's a show meant for an Elementary School's Halloween party.  The live show will be lots of fun, I am sure (although Rob Zombie will have to kick it up a few notches- recently his tours haven't been that great), but shit.. this promo is silly.  I wish they featured more music and less of the cheese.  I've always loved both of these artist mostly for the music- the campy stage show is fun, but should come second!



No new dates have been announced yet, but I anticipate them to be released within the next few days.

Horror meets metal

The "Gruesome Twosome" tour has just been announced.  It's going to feature Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie.  It looks to me like this is a co-headlining gig, but really it should be Zombie opening for the Coop.   So far the only dates announced are a few in Canada, but more will be announced in the following couple days.  

It was inevitable that these two would eventually work together.  Besides the fact that the two have obvious similarities, Zombie's guitarist, Piggy D. has also been working closely with Alice.  Piggy is a graphic designer who works with his photographer wife/girlfriend/whatever-she-is on a lot of the Alice Cooper merchandise, and the packaging of his most recent album.  

New Rob Zombie Song!

Rob Zombie posted a new song HERE.  You just need to enter an email address to get it. (Note: you can enter a fake email if you want, the song isnt emailed to you.)

After seeing Rob Zombie back at Hammerstein I suspected his voice was shot.  I feel like this song confirms it.  Also, it sounds like a leftover track.  The lyrics blow.  John 5 plays just like Zakk Wylde is an amazing guitarist and is totally under-used.  All that being said, I really don't HATE the song, I just have high standards for Mr. Zombie.  I still have faith that the other songs in the album may be better, since this does seem pretty radio friendly and is probably the most 'pop' single.

I love Zakk Wylde, but Jesus Christ...

I'm gonna talk about Zakk Wylde today- who I love, but was shit when I saw him back in April at Hammerstein Ballroom.  But first I just need to get this out there- I saw Rob Zombie last night and he was borrrrrring!   sad sad sad.  His show reminded me of Zakks snoozefest.  Same venue, same slow pace.  Both Rob and Zakk talked too much and played too few songs.  The only difference was Zakk kept thanking Christ for making him a horrible alcoholic and Rob was just talking filler in between each song.  I'm a fan of both of them, and have seen them live when they were better, but these two shows were not their shining hours.  Trust me this.


Anyway, I found this interview Zakk Wylde did with some site called TodayOnline.com's 'Poparazzi' (dumb name) which is probably the most annoying interview I have read in a long time.  I swear I am a big Zakk fan, but what is this shit?  He sounds like an asshole!

Poparazzi: You've had an eventful 2009.

Zakk: Aside from the botched-up sex change operation? I mean, I got butchered man, And I paid top dollar for this shit too. You think your hand's bad? You should see what happened down here!

Poparazzi: I heard you were in and out of hospital a lot.

Zakk: But it's always funny. I always laugh about it. It's always something. It could be with jazz musicians or something. It's shit you can't make up. Whenever this stuff happens, you have to laugh. It's par for the course. I've broken my back, ribs, messed my neck up, my shoulder's tweaked, then there were the blood clots, I've had two hernias, a throat operation… They just glue me together and ship me out on the road. And when I come home, the kids call me "Uncle Frank." They don't know who I am, I'm just some guy that comes around the house once in a while and gives them money. [why is he advertising the fact that he is an extremely absent father?  How is this ok?] They'll go like "Uncle Frank!" and I'm like, "No, it's Daddy!" Then they'll go like, "Whatever man, just give me the money. I'm getting ready for college."

Poparazzi: And you had to give up booze. What's your poison now?

Zakk: I'm drinking like 6,000 cups for coffee. I'm probably going to have a stroke from drinking that much coffee! I like to chill and have a beer and watch the game with the guys, but the doctor said that if I continued drinking, I would bleed internally. So it's like, "Let's weigh the options here: Do we really need to go to AA for this? Internal bleeding or chill out?" So I was like, what the hell! I just boost the heroin intake and the pain pills. [I am missing the joke here.]

Poparazzi: The other big thing that happened to you was that Ozzy Osbourne replaced you in his band with Gus G.

Zakk: He's jamming with Gus G., who's a great guitar player. Oz was like, "Zakk, you're doing the Black Label thing." Our relationship is bigger than music anyway, he's the godfather of one of my kids. And if he ever needed me, like if Gus had to go home because his wife was pregnant or something, I'd come out on the road and fill in for Gus until he can get back out. [This was actually a pretty good response to the Gus G thing- I'll give him that.  It's also extremely fake.  Zakk got too famous for Sharon's liking and replaced him with a new kid that would not compete with Ozzy's level of fame.  The only reason Zakk would go back is that he knows Ozzy doesn't make the decisions.  And money.]

Poparazzi: Well, you have three kids…

Zakk: I do? First I've heard! [I'm sure kids thought that was hilarious]

Poparazzi: But you're on the road a lot. How does make you feel as a dad?

Zakk: The way I look at it: Even if I had a normal day job, I'd still have to go out to work. My two oldest are teenagers and my little one, Hendrix, is seven — and they'd probably rather be spending time with their friends than with me. But whenever I get any breaks, like if I'm home for a month or something, then I actually spend some quality time with them. When I'm on the road, the kids sometimes come out, but they have school so they'll come out for a bit and then go home. You make it work, whatever it takes.

Am I wrong when I say "asshole" after reading that?  I think not. 

Rob Zombie hits the road

I saw Zombieland today and I am sad to report that it was horrible.  Something that isn't horrible though is the news that Rob Zombie is touring!  ....yea, this isn't exactly fresh news, but fuck off, I didnt know what else to link to that shit movie Zombieland.

New Rob Zombie movie is a cartoon!

Today Rob Zombie's new straight to dvd movie, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, comes out.  And it almost a sequel to The Devil's Rejects.  It's a cartoon, its vulgar and it looks awesome.