Talkin‘ the Talk With Don

It’s not everyday a musician gets to actually play with their favorite band.  It happened to Richie Faulkner in Judas Priest and it also happened Jamie Holka.  From playing in bands that covered Captain Beyond, Jamie Holka became legendary Captain Beyond drummer/songwriter Bobby Caldwell’s right hand man.  This new incarnation of Captain Beyond is nothing […]

This is the 2nd time this year I’ve interviewed Dangerous Toys frontman Jason McMaster.  The last time we focused so much on Dangerous Toys, their appearance at Rocklanta and what not yet there were moments where I felt a connection with Jason and I wanted to get to know more about this guy.  This time […]

2019 marked the 37th anniversary of the tragic death of Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads.  I was trying to think of something special to post.  Then I remembered that I had this bootleg of a Randy Rhoads guitar clinic (which was only the 2nd and last one he would ever give) and I thought that […]

On March 29th and 30th, Brad Lee Entertainment presents the first of what I can only hope will an annual Rocklanta Festival. Rocklanta will feature such glam, hard rock, and sleaze bands such as XYZ, Lillian Axe, Dangerous Toys, Warrant, and Tora Tora just to name a few. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with […]

Tim “Ripper” Owens is a true rock n’ roll fantasy come true.  From fronting bar bands to replace one of the most iconic metal singers (Rob Halford) in Judas Priest, Ripper has done it all.  Since his departure from Priest, Ripper’s powerful vocals can be heard on albums by Charred Walls of the Damned, Iced […]

For ten years, Anna Murphy was a member of the folk metal band Eluveitie from 2006 until 2016. For ten years, Anna played the hurdy gurdy (a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings) and clean vocals in the band. In 2014, Anna released a solo album […]

In 1992 I attended a Faster Pussycat show here in Atlanta, GA at the Masquerade.  That night, the band that was their direct support was band out of Canada that I was only familiar with by name: Slik Toxik  For 45 minutes, Slik Toxik annihilated that room and pretty much had Faster Pussycat looking like […]

30 years ago I was an awkward teenager starting at a new school sporting a Warrant t-shirt and snakeskin boots.  I saw them blow Motley Crue off the stage in 1990, I saw them kill Poison in 1990, and even saw them do a really great shed show as headliners.  Eventually with a change in […]

It’s hard to believe that it was nearly 30 years ago when I first heard Dangerous Toys.  Dangerous Toys had a few MTV Headbangers Ball hits with songs like “Teasn Pleasn”, “Scared”, and “Gimme No Lip” just to name a few.  The band had two hit albums, their self titled debut and Hellacious Acres which […]

If you were a teen or even an early 20-something and living in new Orleans, Lillian Axe was a band that you knew about whether you liked them or not.  Lillian Axe are considered one of the forefathers of the New Orleans 80’s hard rock scene that would go on to spawn other legendary bands […]