One of the “super-secret” tapings I was involved with is finally ready for your viewing pleasure!
In this courtroom drama, I played the role of the prosecution, with Peter Kerr as the defense. Judging was the honourable Reed Little (The Contrarians), who had to choose whether or not he was going to buy Vinnie Vincent Invasion, based on our testimony.
I have not seen the final episode myself, but I look forward to watching how I did with a couple weeks distance! This show was a lot of fun, and I’ll be back on Rock Daydream Nation again this fall, defending a band I love! (Or at least, an era I love from a band I like!)
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That was so much fun. Your arguments are basically what I said in my 1.5 out of 5.0 Review. Solos don’t match the song and Robert’s voice was too shrill.
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Thanks John! I had a blast doing it. I can tell you a secret – next time I’m on Rock Court, I’m defending a band we both like a lot. Or at least, we like the glory years. A band from New Jersey.
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That will be awesome!
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This was very entertaining. Both prosecution and defense put forward good arguments, however, I listened to it in 1986 and would be more for the defense.
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Dang!! Well I will tell you, that in popular polls, more people like the album than dislike it. But Judge Little sided with me :)
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He did and you made such a good case that if I hadn’t already listened to it, then I probably wouldn’t have bought it either.
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Now you guys should do Nitro, who are even more ridiculous and the songs are even worse. Michael Angelo Batio is a much better player than Vinnie though. Vinnie does play really fast on the VVI album, but he’s sloppy as all hell. Batio is metronomically precise, but his songs suck so I guess it doesn’t matter. Jim Gillette blows ass. He’s got absolutely no power to his vocals.
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Just saw that you did mention Nitro, or Shitro more appropriately, but I never saw my ridiculous Nordic comment discussed.
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Unfortunately that was edited out :(
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Well Peter picks the Rock Court subjects… I have nothing of Nitro so I won’t be covering them on Grab A Stack.
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Me neither, but I have heard their OFR album. It’s an abomination.
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I remember a music video with a train In itn
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They had a song called “Freight Train” which I assume is what you remember. Fuckin’ Jim Gillette was making fun of King Diamond for using falsetto on an Internet forum years ago. All his vocals are totally falsetto too, only with 1/1000th the balls of King Diamond. Not to mention their music sucks ass, and Mercyful Fate rules.
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The whole Jim Gillette / Lita Ford thing was so ugly I just kind of erased him from my mind. I’d rather listen to King.
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Yeah, a messy break up for sure. It was so bad that Jim got custody of the kids. How often does the man get custody?
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Very rarely, unless the mother is a mess. And the public fighting was ugly.
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And King Diamond rules. Love him in Mercyful Fate or the King Diamond band.
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The family ghooooooost
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Awesome! I didn’t know you knew any of his music! Abigail is a masterpiece.
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