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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 April 4, 2015 I ventured into unfamiliar ground last night at a place in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, that I have never been to before, The Stafford Palace Theater. My reason was twofold, Daisy Berkowitz, founding member and original guitarist of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, were playing a show there and I have never been there.I don’t know who put the line up together for the show, but they did a fantastic job. I couldn’t believe how fast it was between bands… BlastforMe hitting the stage next and it was maybe 5 minutes at the most. Another band withRead 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 →