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Photos & Review by Frank Piercy  April 10,  2015  During my teen years in the 80’s, I learned about bands like, Motley Crue, W.A.S.P., Ratt, Quiet Riot, Accept and so many more. Every month I was picking up the music mags out at the time, Hit Parader, Circus, Creem, Rip.  One of the things each of these had in common was that like everything they had to sell ads raise money to cover the costs of printing them. Remember ripping the posters out the middle or cutting out the pages to hang on your wall. Well one of the things that sticks out in myRead More →

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Photos & Review by Frank Piercy March 10, 2015 Over the years I have attended many Mayhem Festivals in Hartford. One of the things I enjoy the most is listening to the newer metal bands on the smaller stages and then meeting them at one of the various meet n greets throughout the afternoons. One of the bands last year was this deathcore band out of California called Suicide Silence. They sounded good on stage and were very amicable during the meet n greet that day also, but then being under the tent in the shade with a crapload of free Monster is not badRead More →

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Photographs and Review by Frank Piercy March 3, 2015 Grab a chair and a beer, its time for more reminiscing with Frank… I was a young buck back in the mid to late 80’s, before grunge became the music of choice to the American youth.  I spent a lot of time at record stores and concert halls.  Around 1987 I think maybe it 88, damn I am getting to old to remember this crap. I was listening to a lot of heavy metal from across the Atlantic Ocean, There was a band from Germany and no it wasn’t the Scorpions or Accept… Tho Udo doesRead More →

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Hookers & Blow Lucky Dog Music Hall Worcester, Massachusetts October 15, 2014 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc The Lucky Dog Music Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts marked the seventh stop of eleven dates, for the Hookers & Blow 10th Anniversary Rock N’ Comedy Tour hosted by Don Jamieson of VH1’s “That Metal Show”. Hookers & Blow founding members Dizzy Reed of Guns N’ Roses, on vocals and keyboard and Quiet Riot guitarist Alex Grossi took to the small club stage along with bassist Mike Duda of W.A.S.P. and Johnny Kelly of Danzig and Type O Negative, on drums.  The band played about a two hour set of manyRead More →

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TOM KEIFER Woodstock Fair Woodtstock, CT August 30, 2014 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc Cinderella front man, Tom Keifer took to the main stage at the 2014 Woodstock Fair in support of his solo album, ‘The Way Life Goes’. Keifer has been making music since the his heavy metal debut in 1983 with the advent of Cinderella. Keifer and his solo band played an assortment of Cinderella favorites, in addition to many of Keifer’s new music. Keifer and company opened with the Cinderella classic, “Night Songs” and followed up by “It’s Not Enough” and “Different Light”, from the new album. There was a mixRead More →