2014 M3 Pre-Party Plans

Please note, this is not an official M3 event.

D-TOXIN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE 2014 "M-PRE PARTY" - THURSDAY NIGHT - APRIL 24, 2014 - COLUMBIA, MARYLAND

Once again D-Toxin Productions will be holding the annual "M-Pre Party" in Columbia, MD., prior to the beginning of the festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion. This year's pre-party event will be held at Sonoma's Bar and Grill in Columbia, MD., on Thursday, April 24, 2014. So far, four great bands are lined up for the evening. This is a great way to kick off your weekend early. Each year this event gets bigger and better!

Advanced ticket sales coming soon. Watch the event Facebook page for more details.

Event bands, with commentary from event coordinator Dave Dillman:

BLACK TORA - Hailing from Texas, this three piece outfit will blow you away. I was so happy I was able to talk them into making the long trip to play this show. This is one of the most talented bands out there.

NASTY HABIT - Talk about taking a trip back in time... This band will make you think it is 1987 all over again. This band will not disappoint, you will not want to miss this one.

STATION - Back by popular demand, Station will keep the party going again this year. This band has it all: great songs and stellar musicianship. Anyone who was at last year's event will know why this band is back again in 2014.

WICKED - I really don't know what to say about this band... You'll just have to see and hear them for yourself. This band puts on a show like it should be done. This band is young and hungry... and it shows. If you like early Motley Crue, KISS, and Ratt you will love this band.

Comments

[fletch]

When she starts thinking, she thinks of fletch's glory days

[fletch]

better days are shining through

[fletch]

lit the fuck up! dj...you with me?

[The Outsider]

Seriously metalboy, did Bret Michaels F*ck your girlfriend/wife or something back in the day.

It's so pathetic the way you constantly try to rip on him. He is the only glam metal artist around who brings media attention to glam metal almost daily. Keep bashing him so glam metal will never make a comeback.

I've been to one of Bret's concerts before and the whole crowd was loud as f*ck and having a blast. Nothing but a good time, if you will.

Oh that's right...you only care about bands that sounds like hair. Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you. Go back to listening to your hair bands. You should start a website called "Bring Back Hair" than you could attract like minded guy's and you could all cream your jeans together talking about how hairy a band sounds.

[Metalboy!]

Michaels sold out Poison.

Michaels did not sell out M3.

The M3 Promoter lamented to a friend of mine high up within the M3 organization that he wished in hindsight he had booked Poison instead of Michaels solo. Case closed.

I've seen Poison and I've seen Michaels, both point blank, and Michaels' whole solo shtick lacks integrity, as opposed to Poison, which is Glam Metal in it's purest form (as opposed to "Hair Metal", a term you seem to mildly disfavor).

I just really think he doesn't like sharing limelight (primarily with C.C.). It's all about Michaels and Michaels is all about the $$$.

Since Michaels sold out, his whole act and cartoon persona is aimed at the lowest common denominator (LCD) mentality and thus, he knows exactly who he's aiming for when it comes his audience... People like you.

Don't get me wrong. I think Michaels is great... in Poison. Not the sellout parody of himself he's sadly become as a solo artist. Look I'm not opposed to him embarking on a solo career. But look at the difference between the way Tom Keifer of Cinderella has played it and Michaels has done it. Keifer is total class and integrity. Michaels is a total bozo.

Keifer put out a deeply personal album that also rocks. Michaels puts out formula hick-rock albums that probably take 5 minutes to write and record, again, as I said, regardless of who his "friends" are.

Let's see what Michaels will cash in on next instead of hunkering down and making a legitimate Poison album.

All the money in the world can't buy you integrity. But doing something with integrity can lead to a lot of money!

[The Outsider]

I never said I was a huge fan of Bret Michaels solo stuff. I went to the concert because the girl I was with wanted to go. Turns out it was a fun show filled with Poison songs. Sorry to break it to ya but Bret's been phoning it in on the endless Poison tours over the past 10 years.
Case Closed.

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe nobody in the band wants to make another Poison record. I don't recall ever reading a single quote by any of the other band members in recent years saying that they are dying to make new music. Bret is the only one actively putting out new music.
Case Closed.

[Metalboy!]

You are right about the mailing it in thing. I witnessed him mail it in when Poison opened for Crüe at Outlaw Jam in Frederick, Maryland a couple of Summers ago. AND I had to witness him mail it in to an even more disingenuously at M3 last year. It was a laughable affair and people left in droves, thus the promoters lamentation about not booking Poison.

Granted, there's nothing in the press from the other 3/4 of the Poison camp regarding making new music but Michaels did express an interest in doing a new album after his near death experience a few years ago.

If Michaels truly made it a priority, I bet the rest of Poison would jump at the chance to record a new album.

Look at RATT. They take the sh*t seriously and they deliver, and are getting ready to deliver a follow up to "Infestation" soon.

[gary]

I wanna party with fletch @ m3. He seems to keep the spirit alive that we all respect and appreciate...with integrity; otherwise he wouldn't have the all the support that he's been given these past 5 years. Bret michaels certainly does a lot of things for money. I don't believe the same is true with fletch.

p.s. I have it on pretty high authority that fletch was disappointed that both allyson and metalboy didn't include tom keifer's the way life goes in their best of lists.

[gary]

P.p.s. I also know that fletch has written pretty amazing and deeply personal shit these past 5 years that he has only shared with his closest confidants. Like tom keifer for several years, he doesn't have a record deal or a distributor. But there is definitely solid tunes in his vault waiting to be brought forward one day, but who knows? As I wrote, he's shared 'em already with his most respected mentors. We'll see what happens in the future...ain't that the way life goes.

[The Outsider]

I can't wait for the new Ratt CD. "Infestation" was badass.
A million times better than the self titled CD they came out with in 1999.

[Metalboy!]

Indeed, Outsider. RATT certainly seemed inspired with "Infestation". They seem to have the attitude of earnestly wanting to themselves with every album.

And now they've got Croucier for the new one, a voice that went missing from the band for 19 years until his reunion with them onstage at M3.

"Infestation" also included a couple of songs written by Carlos Cavazo, as well.

I'm with you, Outsider. Can't wait to hear the new one!

[Metalboy!]

Geez... Typo... "...wanting to TOP themselves"

[fletch]

adoption is thicker than blood

[fletch]

im dumb

[fletch]

Rock it: I'll make it if so does metalboy. Fuvk, we could probably carpool. Let's see if she wants to come together. M3 can makeeit happen.

[Metalboy!]

Ha! The M-Pre Party Line-Up is better than M3!

It was bound to happen, Rock-it!

They should just have you take over M3. I just don't think the guy who runs it knows what the f*ck he's doing.