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Happy Anniversary, Glam Fans
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 12:01AM
It's December 3rd, 2013. That means today is the seventh anniversary of Bring Back Glam! It blows my mind that I've been updating this site every single day for the past seven years, but here we are. It's certainly been a fun ride and some of my best friends came about because of this site!
I thought it might be cool for people to share their favorite music-related experience of all time in the comments section today. You know, to reminiscence and what not.
You all know my stories. What have you got to share with me?
Reader Comments (45)
Peace, Roy \m/ \m/
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The four day fest was unbelievable. Got to meet Skid Row and Bon Fire and the lead singer of Helix. WildStreet, Big Cock, Baton Rouge, Lord Tracy!!!! Awesome. Miles Beyond! Camping right next to the Garden of Evil and rockin all night long after hours. Never did see Dirty Penny there, but saw them in VA. I'll also never forget the blood that was thrown around by Lizzy Borden. I'd never seen such a thing! Metal Day was cool too.
All Stages were awesome that year, especially the Retrospect Stage! I'm sad that my fav new band from that fest is no longer: Wildstreet. Felt like a kid again during that week and will never forget it.
Keep up the good work.
Highlights of my Rock & Roll Life to come...
Gotta rush into work now.
Absolute high points have to be hanging with Slaughter on their bus, hanging out at the club with Jani Lane and Jerry Dixon after the Warrant show, and hanging with Jani and Vince Neil on his bus, all in the same night.
Having Jani play us some of the songs on his upcoming solo CD at the time was also pretty cool.
Another high point was a private performance of my favorite Von Groove song (a Canadian band that was awesome and should be checked out) by the lead singer and guitarist on my birthday after one of their many shows we went to. That was heaven.
Plus second row for the Van Halen 1984 show, being on the guest list for the Hysteria tour and backstage, and seeing Original KISS four times on the 96/97 World tour. Those were pretty nice memories too.
Thanks to Allyson for keeping things alive. Good job.
Let's hear some highlights. I'm sure we could all appreciate them.
1. My band opening up for Faster Pussycat in 1989
2. Seeing GNR at the Ritz in 1988
3. Seeing Skid Row at a small club in 1989
4. Kiss reunion concert in 1996 at Madison Square Garden
5. My band reunion show in 2008..opening up for RATT.
thanks again...Gene
I love your website!!!
I love how you keep up to date w/alot of my favorite bands.
I can't stand it when people only talk about the stuff these bands did in the 1980's & early 1990's.
:)
Seeing KISS at Hammerjacks before the Revenge tour and getting a pick from the Starchild
Having Jani Lane literally jump on my head during the shooting of the Blind Faith video
Meeting Bruce Dickenson and realizing that he only came up to my shoulders. He looks so larger than life on stage.
Literally "bumping" into Scott Ian at a restaurant on the upper west side of New York next to the building I was living and realizing we were neighbors.
[Bad memory]...having front row tickets and backstage passes for Ozzy's No Rest For The Wicked tour and showing up to the venue to discover that he cancelled the show.
Working security for the first KISS reunion tour at Mountain View in SF. Worked for the first two songs and then got to watch the rest of the show 3 feet from Ace Frehley.
Monsters Of Rock concert at RFK. Kingdom Come, Dokken, Scorps, Metallica, and Van Halen.
GNR/Metallica/FNM at RFK...first time I ever saw GNR get through an entire show without being shut down or arrested.
While I am at it...these next couple are not really Glam related, but for a music buff like me they were beyond belief:
Going to Hammerjacks for a private invitation only album release party of some god-awful band I had never heard of (they sucked BAD). Out in the parking lot after the show was a bunch of dudes giving promo copies of their CD away to all of the people coming out of the club. The name of the CD...Ten. The band...some new nobody band called Pearl Jam. Wish I could remember which member mine came from.
Pearl Jam story #2...Seeing Pearl Jam the night the Kurt Cobain killed himself. Eddie coming on stage with no stage lights and just a single lit candle on stage and singing an a cappella version of "Release". Still get chills thinking of it.
Seeing Jean Shepherd sing "Honky Tonk Angels" at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. A living country legend on the most famous stage in country music. Unreal.
As for favorite rock 'n roll memories, 2 spring to mind.
The first is the Van Halen 1984 tour at Maple Leaf Gardens. This was my first big rock show and it completely blew me away. I've seen over 150 shows since, yet this show remains one of the best I've ever seen and reminds me of all the things rock shows should be - loud, entertaining & larger than life.
The second is seeing Metallica at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1991 on the black album tour. The show itself was electric and Metallica was at the height of their popularity. Afterwards, we headed to Rock 'n Roll Heaven to catch Varga. On the way back to our cars, we walked past the Gardens and happened to run into a small group of people hanging around to meet the guys in Metallica. Moments later, Lars emerged from the underground parking in a stretch limo and chatted with each of us. He was incredibly cool, and it was the perfect cap to an amazing rock n roll night.
I would like to thank everyone for all they share, for keeping "rock n roll" relevant, or for actually "GASP" having an opinion on what is good music and what is shit.
I have a request for a recurring article: Metalboy! reviews remakes. I think he should review some of these remake albums that seem to be everywhere or "covers" of these awesome glam songs and give it a rating. Maybe like a 1 to 3 or 1 to 5 scale that only he understands as it relates to the essence of this site, to glam, and to what truly constitutes good music :)
Thanks Allyson for all the work you do.
And now my favorite moments in Rock & Roll History...