Trolling Twitter Tuesday

On my random click-around Twitter during Monday Night Football (#MNF), I discovered this tidbit: Jacob Bunton is helping Lita Ford write new music. I guess Lita will be releasing a new album soon. This, of course, made me click Lita's Twitter...

Wrote some killer songs with Lita Ford today. Her new album is going to be sick! #litaford… https://t.co/DbilaB12el

— Jacob Bunton (@jacobbunton) September 10, 2015

Once I was on Lita's Twitter, I discovered this awesome festival. She's playing this weekend in New Jersey with a slew of great bands. Wish I was going!

New Jersey this weekend! @TheRockCarnival w/ @SLASH, #Godsmack, #StoneTemplePilots & more! http://t.co/rwuf9JEqkk pic.twitter.com/c7gV96zwR4

— Lita Ford (@litaford) September 14, 2015

Comments

[Red6ixx]

What a great name for a festival

[Kixchix]

Yeah that is a very good lineup. Too bad fall is crazy busy with kids and work. Alas, life gets in the way.

[Kevon]

Im going on saturday only, have to be home for Sunday football! Will miss LA guns but seeing the sheagles lose will be worth it!

[fletch]

I'm going with a buddy of mine, my son nick and his friend (who like nick, is also adopted). They (the kids) also like "professional" wrestling, so they are excited about seeing that, too. Nick is in Fall band camp right now and the band is playing on Halloween. Since he plays guitar, he's dressing up as Slash and this week-end will be the first time he'll see Slash perform.

Side note: Over the years on here, there has been discussion about bringing kids to concerts and how to react when they see something inappropriate at a concert (ie. Tommy Lee's 't*tty cam', etc...). Well, a few months ago, I took these kids and a buddy to another festival and while we were in the hotel room (the walls were thin), it sounded like a couple in the next room were quite amorous with each other, bringing the 13yo's to snicker and giggle like any 13yo boy would. I turned up my radio to drown out the couple's sound, but then I remembered that the Supreme Court had just legalized gay marriage, so I told the kids, "hey, ya never know, it might be two guys next door celebrating the SCOTUS ruling".

It didn't take long for their giggling to stop and they focused on watching television instead, while I kept my radio turned up. Ah, all in a day's work...

[fletch]

Him: to answer your questions (better) from a few months ago from M3 and why Dokken was great:

(metalboy! will better understand this answer):

First, Dokken
Dokken on steroids is Queensryche,
Queensryche on steroids is Pink Flyod.

So, when I witnessed Dokken (and all his baggage) stand and deliver while Nick played air guitar, I couldn't have seen a better moment...

[fletch]

fletch says:

There's David Lee Roth, or dave, or roth...or van halen
then dave on steroids is Robert Plant...
then Robert plant on steroids is john lennon.

that's why I barely touch Led Zeppelin or the beatles. I'm not worthy. I just try as good as I'm trusted.

[fletch]

so, let me address my first comment on this post, mb:

have I corrupted them enough, to teach them better. hopefully, we have. I know I have.

[Metalboy!]

What I like about this line-up is the intermingling of Modern Rock, New Metal and 80's Glam and Sleaze Metal and Hard Rock.

It will creates an atmosphere where unaware Metal Millennials and their Digital Native offspring will discover the vastly superior genres of the 80's.

The only downfall is they run the risk of exposure to blowhard Metal mediocritize right, Eddie Chump.

[EddieLongHair]

Agreed, MB. Trunk is SOOOOOOOO annoying! And I'm with Kevon... Sunday I will enjoy watching the iggles get beat by my Boys!

[fletch]

mb and him: I had a heart-to-heart, one-on-one, passionate, real conversation with my other son last night and told him straight: Froggy: you do not want me going on the internet and scream that I'm dealing with another val jacinto. This time they are listening. you need to stop you behavior before you can't control it any longer.

I've seen your story before frog, and I ain't seeing it again.

{his name is jeremiah, but we affectionately call him, froggy, because, [three dog night], jeremiah was a...}

[dad]

^^^and how was that! again, I see where you're going and I'm screaming tom keifer style: stop.

I don't care what they say. because, I can.

[Metalboy!]

Hear, hear, Eddie Longhair! Damned autocorrect jammed me up, tho, Bro... Here's what I meant to say about ol' Chumpy Wumpy... "blowhard Metal Mediocritizer"

[JAT]

Yep...that Eddie Trunk what a a-hole...all he has done is stood for metal in the media which is about any other genre of music except metal. That crazy bastard.

[Dj]

Mixing modern rock/metal with glam and or older styles of rock and metal are an amazing idea I think. Although it can get annoying at some times, it works pretty well. Ozzy kind of started it with Ozzfest and I think Motley did a good job with it at Cruefest. Bringing in relatively newer bands (at the time) like Buckcherry, Papa Roach, and Charm City Devils with Motley as a headliner, everybody kind of wins. Although when I saw Motley with Poison a couple years later, a couple of kids were wearing Cruefest shirts from the previous tours and were talking about Godsmack (Ughhh) being more inspirational than a band like Poison and how Godsmack "Came out way before Poison" I kind of just laughed it off. As far as Eddie Trunk goes, yeah he does get really annoying, but I think it is kind of cool he has turned on people to bands they never thought of before like UFO. Although it is his fault that a band like The Winery Dogs exist. I like Trunk but sometimes he does get annoying, and promotes boring kind of rock...just my opinion though.

[Metalboy!]

Hahaha!!!, JAT... "Eddie Chump, that crazy bastard."! Hahaha!!! That's the problem... He's NOT crazy enough.", just like those stiffs he's flanked by.

And what's really revealing he's a poseur is when he can't even get half of the Metal 101 stuff Florentine throws at him beyond albums and songs.

[fletch]

touchee' mb. and, thank you, too, for your poignant views of corruption on LVR. They helped.

[fletch]

and, definitely metalboys...W.A.S.P. singing.

[fletch]

There's froggy.

froggy on steroids is countless others with whom I've worked.

countless others on steroids is val jacinto.

I'm trying to steer him in another direction, as I tried with val and countless others.

[fletch]

and in the motel room with nick and his friend...

nick asks me, "dad...have you ever messed up".

me: plenty of times, many times, so much so...why?

nick: what happened? how did you get away with it?

me: if I told you, "how I got away with it, I'd be bragging. I won't do that. However, if you are asking, "how did you deal with it?" my explanation will come in a few years. I mean, Christ, you two guys just started to shave!

[fletch]

mb's and him's: brought out the troops today to take on and, more importantly, take down, froggy's entitlement personality. I told him (in front of everybody), in you don't calm down and get a check on your behavior, mb and her fts posse will see you in a few years. everyone agreed and cheered! now...it's up to him.