Greetings Rockaholics!

Bumpershoot is upon us. Labor Day weekend, the end of summer! I for one am stoked on the hard rock metal that will be coming down the pipe on Saturday! Peep details right now……..

KISW Metal Shop & Loud and Local Present Metal at Bumbershoot

Saturday, September 3rd
Seattle Center
Bumbershoot Metal showcase at Exhibition Hall with Pentagram, Valient Thorr, Red Fang and Witchburn. Saturday’s line up also features Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs with Vusi Mahlasela, Minus the Bear, Mavis Staples, Little Dragon, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, STRFKR, Shabazz Palaces, Warpaint, MarchFourth Marching Band, Väsen, Champagne Champagne, Astronautalis, Shelby Earl, Free the Robots, Nice Nice, Emancipator, LawnChair Generals, The Great Mundane, Natasha Kmeto, DJ Nordic Soul, Campfire Ok, Meklit Hadero, Craft Spells, Scribes and many more. Single Day Tickets are $35 and Three Day Passes are $75 through Bumbershoot.org.
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If you’ve kept up with KISW’s Loud And Local you are well aware of two bands I’ve been championing for years now. PDX’s RED FANG and KISW Pain In The Grass Alumni WITCHBURN! I’m stoked for both of them to be part of this great lineup of both local and national HEAVY!!!! Speaking of heavy, my radio brothers/little brothers Kevin and Ian of Metal Shop will be on hand as well as myself Saturday to introduce the bands. If you are not hip to Pentagram……..(love, love, love.) Please check out the article Kevin did below with Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling!!

Take one quick glance at Pentagram vocalist Bobby Liebling and you’ll know he’s been through some shit. His trademark deranged stare haunts you as he stands onstage at the age of 58, road-worn but sober and alert after decades and decades of drug abusing, demon chasing, and doom-metal debauchery. Long before the Electric Wizards and YOBs of today were rattling bongs worldwide, one very crucial Virginia crew dared to tune low and play slow. Now, 40 years later, Pentagram bring their skulldozing brand of sonic heaviness to the unsuspecting and soon-to-be-deaf Bumbershoot masses. The Stranger recently spoke with the godfather of doom.
There are a lot of metal bands out there that play fast and there are a lot of metal bands that try to dazzle by playing as technical as possible. Pentagram, on the other hand, have always been known for their sheer heaviness. Why so heavy?
Stranger Personals
I think that draws from spawning off the whole Blue Cheer thing I’m still hung up on. The first time I heard Blue Cheer, I said, “That’s what I want to do.” I wanted to be so excruciatingly loud like the bands that I loved, like Mountain and the Groundhogs and Grand Funk. I loved the wall of amps and I loved the force behind it all. It’s sort of like your amps are your tanks and artillery, the guitars are your weapons, and the people onstage are the soldiers.
You’ve been involved in music through the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, and onward until today. Which era of music do you prefer?
I’d actually have to say the ’60s. I’ve been playing professionally since ‘64, when the Beatles came out. I just went along with it and along with it, and after a while, along came all the Marshalls and the stacks got bigger and we tuned heavier. Also, there was a lot of emphasis on keeping melody throughout songs back then. A lot of the stuff I hear today—well, I can see the positive force in the route that they’re taking, in that they’re not taking out their violence by hurting people. They’re not actually going down the street and killing people or committing heinous crimes. Instead, it’s all channeled into so much boned-out, full-on aggression live. I mean, like “GAHHHHHHHHH!” with complete Cookie Monster singing and beating the hell out of everything as it if were people. If you’ve got hostility for someone, beat the hell out of the guitar. Like, actually hurt it. But I don’t get it. I guess I’m a throwback. I still like having a melody in a song. I love guitar harmonies.
Your latest album, Last Rites, is the first to feature both you and guitarist Victor Griffin playing together since 1994. What’s it like being back together?
Well, it’s like being back with my flesh-and-blood brother. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to one. Victor did an interview and hit the nail on the head when he said, “It’s like a marriage without the sex.”
Which is actually like a lot of marriages anyways, you know.
Yeah, well, not mine. You have to remember I have a 1-year-old kid and a 25-year-old wife [laughs]. But that’s where it’s at with us. It’s at that ground level. We both love each other like brothers, and I would die for the guy.
There are a ton of contemporary doom bands playing globally today that cite Pentagram as a major influence. What’s it like to play alongside bands adopting this sound 40 years later?
Well, of course I’m flattered. I’m not too good at taking that stuff a lot, though, because I was a fuckup for so many years that my inner self says, “Why in the hell would anyone want to be like you, Bobby?” [Laughs] My entire life was immersed in sex, drugs, and rock and roll, where the sex and the drugs were a continuing saga for… well, it’s like the guy says, “I screwed somebody once… for a solid 30 years.” It’s like, “I shot dope once, yeah. I shot dope once, for 40 years.” It was a big shot.
In the end, how do you want Pentagram to be remembered?
I just want to be respected and not seen as a bunch of noise with no talent. I want us to be seen in a good light and not just dismissed as a “drug band.” And that we made a lot of people happy.

Hope to see you in front Saturday!!
Cheers,
Jolene
Nights
Music Director
Loud And Local

“Hola,

Think back to the irresponsible fun you used to have as a child.  Maybe you and your friends would throw snowballs at cars, or, even worse, throw ROCKS at cars… then the car would slow down and the driver would yell at you… or maybe the passenger in the car shoots you in the stomach with a cross bow.  Hated when that happened, but that’s exactly what happened to a 16-year-old kid in San Diego.  He and a friend were throwing rocks at cars when they flung one toward a Toyota RAV-4.  The passenger pulled out a cross bow (so typical of Toyota passengers) and fired, hitting the kid in his abdomen.  The kid will survive, but Captain Crossbow is still at large.  Pretty sure that kid won’t be throwing rocks at cars any more.  Then there’s those brothers in San Francisco who went to the zoo on Christmas Day in 2007, fired a slingshot at a tiger and then were, subsequently, attacked and mauled by the same tiger.  On a side note, the kids successfully sued the zoo because it’s the zoo’s fault that they’re complete and utter f**king idiots.  Let’s face it, kids do really stupid things, and sometimes they face dire consequences as a result… but then, that’s the fun of being a kid- you do really stupid stuff, and if you’re lucky enough to survive your dumb decisions, you walk away with a pretty good story… or so we hoped:  WHAT WAS YOUR DUMB KID MOMENT… NOT ALL OF THEM, JUST THE DUMBEST?

Like all kids, I was an idiot too, but at one point in my life, one of the kids I ran with (Frank Welte) was an even BIGGER idiot.  To be fair, his whole family was pretty messed up (older sister ran away from home at age 16 with her boyfriend [who later murdered an old lady after stabbing her umpteen times] in a van airbrushed with the album cover of Journey’s ‘Escape’, his older brother routinely fired his shot gun at other kids when they [we] played in the woods, etc.).  Anyway, I believe Frank reached the upper limit of stupidity when he took two shot gun shells and threw them into a lit fireplace.  Two things to keep in mind; 1) it was an INDOOR fireplace and 2) it wasn’t HIS house… it was our friend Devon’s house.  Therefore, it was Devin’s dining room table and baby grand piano that were blown to sh*t… and we ALL got in trouble.

There were about a million stories today, so I’ll only share a select few.  Here goes:

Used to drag his sister’s doll (about three feet tall) across the road when they heard traffic coming.  Needless to say, they watched as every driver swerved or slammed on the brakes, etc.  Never got caught.

At age 10, he a and a group of friends decided to build a bomb that consisted of a coffee can filled with gasoline, gun powder and buckshot.  One large explosion later, there were blown windows, a totaled car and buckshot embedded in everything… then their respective fathers embedded their hands to their asses

Played dodge-ball with a bunch of friends… problem was, they didn’t have balls, so they used THROWING STARS instead, and things ended about the way you’d expect.

Put baby oil on the floors of an elementary school… the final bell rings, kids come hauling- ass out of class and eat it

Now my two favorites:

Robbed a Taco Bell for the ‘meat’ and the cheese, not the cash

He and a few friends were shooting dog turds (seriously) with a BB gun on a concrete patio.  One of the BB’s ricocheted off the patio and broke the windshield of a passing car… happened to be a county sheriff

Alright bitches, my wife got a baby- sitter for the night, so we’re gonna drink, eat, drink some more, debate seeing a movie and then continue drinking.  It’s what we do and tonight’s the night.

Until tomorrow, shimmy your jimmy and STAY BEAUTIFUL!”

Before we move forward, I’d like to take a little look back at this past weekends debauchery. As most of you know by now, this past Saturday was KISW’s huge yearly blowout, Pain In The Grass, featuring none other than Korn, Five Finger Death Punch,Queensryche, Chevelle, Metal Shop favorites All That Remains, and more!

We got the day started off right with a little BBQ action. Here’s Miles from the Men’s Room manning the battle station.

After that, we got ready to do the stage announcement for All That Remains! Even after a years worth of stage announcements, I still get nervous when I look out into a crowd this size.

All That Remains kicked ass! If anyone says otherwise, punch em in their jabroni-ass jaws.

Later on in the afternoon, we were able to unwind a bit with Queensryche, as we tasted some of Geoff Tate’s signature wine.

Though we had to leave a little early to get back to the KISW studios in time for Metal Shop, the party wagon came to us! Much to our surprise, Thee Ted Smith, Ryan Castle, Ben The Psycho Muppet, Vicky Barcelona and Jolene came strolling in to crash Metal Shop just like the good ol’ days. So there it is. A wicked weekend fueled by metal. Until next time, horns up!

I read this story this morning and I question this guy, but who knows! A medical marijuana dispensary owner is suing Grays Harbor County for 15 million dollars because he says that a deputy forced a sexual relationship with him! Whoa!!!! According to news stories, Marcus Searls says that he was under the impression that the police were not going to bother his business because he was supposedly being protected by a deputy…protected huh? He said that the deputy threatened to arrest him when he first opened the pot dispensary…unless he had sex with him! Now…the two of them met through Craigslist, had consensual sex at first…the deputies office says that the deputy admits that had a sexual relationship with Searls but maintains it was consensual. So if you are like me and wonder why he wants 15 million dollars? Well…Marcus wants $1 million for every time he claims a sheriff’s deputy forced him to have sex! Hahahahaha! Now that’s funny! Take it to the Peoples Court…it’s the case of the man that was “Boned In Order To get Stoned” (waka waka).

Now even though that is a great story, it is no where near as great as another story I came across…and this one only needs the headline in order to be the best story of the day, and I thank KIRO7.com for this headline…ladies & gents…here it is:

Man Shot In Buttocks In Tacoma

Last week, an Idaho state trooper pulled over a girl who was speeding and swerving on Interstate 15. Her name hasn’t been released since she’s a minor. When the cop approached the car, the teen told him she was 34 weeks pregnant, and had just gone into labor. She even had the baby bump to prove it. But as he talked to her a little more, it became clear what was really going on. She was LYING . . . she wasn’t pregnant . . . and she’d just shoved something under her shirt to make her lie more believable. She was charged with inattentive driving and obstruction of an officer.

Whether it be to the authorities, or someone you know…what is the dumbest lie you told to get out of trouble? Here are some of the texts we got:

I beat a kid up at school and got in trouble. I told my parents i was high and didnt know what i was doing. But then i got in trouble for getting high.

Told my wife I got arrested for a dui so could stay out all night at the casino … She believed me until her sisters boy friend who was with me spilled the beans

I got pulled over and the cop asked me where the fire was. I told him in my pants and lied about sleeping with unsavory women over the weekend. The cop laughed, told me to go to the clinic and let me go.

I ran away and told my parents I was kidnapped by a couple of guys and they were letting me call to let them know I was ok……….super fail

My boyfriend called in sick saturday for pain in the grass, as for the sunburn….he told everyone at work he started tanning! -tara from auburn

I lied and said i had cancer to get a chick in the sack and it workd

I was caught going 70 in a 35 and told the cop I had severe diarrhea

I WAS PULLED OVER SEVERAL TIMES FOR SPEEDING AND TOLD THE COP I WAS HURRYING FOR A BOOTY CALL. WORKED ALL BUT ONCE. DAMN FEMALE COPS!

It does work. My wife has gotten out of a speeding ticket when she said she was pregnant and had to go to the bathroom.

An ex coworker got drunk, missed work and did not call in. Told the boss he thought someone gave him a roofie the night before

I went to work high and our district manager was in. She was like whats wrong with your eye. I told her i was allergic to grass. She told me to stop smoking it.

I told my master I didn’t like peanut butter anymore so he’d leave me alone – signed Lucy.

The members of Tupac Shakur’s old hip-hop group The Outlawz were recently asked if the rumor was true that they smoked Tupac’s ashes after he was murdered in 1996, and they said yes! They sprinkled it in a blunt & smoked it. Holy moly that’s kinda awesome if you ask me!!! BJ asked if I would do that for him, and I said no…but I would sprinkle a little bit on my salmon, kid of like Old Bay!!! We got this text…which floored all of us:

We poured my buddies ashes in a btl of whiskey and passed it around not bad except some bone shards

So Chazz Bono will be the first transgendered contestant on Dancing With The Stars…some people are opposed to this, which is dumb if you ask me. Who care if he does or doesn’t have a schlong! I do hope that Chazz has a sense of humor with all of this controversy…trust me when I say that if he dances to Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady” he will win over a ton of new fans. I doubt he will though!

Earlier this month, 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher of Green Valley, Arizona was working in the yard. He was using a small pair of gardening shears to prune some bushes, and he dropped them. They landed on the ground, handles pointing up. When Leroy reached down to pick them up, he fell face-first. One of the handles went THROUGH HIS EYE SOCKET . . . behind his nose . . . and ended up mostly down his throat. The other side of the handle was still sticking out of his eye socket. He was rushed to University Medical Center in Tucson. Surgeons there somehow managed to remove the shears, completely rebuild his eye area, AND save his vision. It’s been about four weeks since then, and Leroy still has bruising and some minor damage . . . but he can see out of the eye. Check out the X-Ray…it’s intense!!!

Based on this…we had to ask: What stupid thing did you or someone you know do to end up in the emergency room? Here are some of the texts we received:

When I was 7, I ran into a parked car on my 3-​wheeler! Broke my arm in half and split my chin open. Good times!!…. Rock on! Kaitlin

My buddy jumped off his roof with a garbage bag parachute. Wasnt pretty. -​ logan on Whidbey

Hey guys I was riding on the roof of a car and my cousin was on the hood and the genius chick driving decided to slam on the brakes so me and my cousin flew off the car .I sat at saint joes for 6 hours for a broken rib. The drunkin gorilla

Tried a backflip on a trampoline and broke my eye socket with my knee cap

I was sledding behind a truck and hit a tree headfirst going 30 mph, no helmet cause “it would have blocked my vision. The tree one and i got a fractured skull.

Putting air in my Jeep tires and got into a fight with the air hose and lost. Went to ER with a broken leg. I pulled on the hose and it pulled back!

I smoked some fake pot called spice, ended up having a seizure and was on life support for a day and a half because the seizure was so intense

I once squirted super glue into my eye, missed the eyelid completley, straight to the eyeball its self. I had to rub a vasaline like stuff in my eye for a week.

Stepdad put a chainsaw about 4 inches into my fore arm…. 20 Stitches. 2 Days of non paid work and a $1200 doctor bill. That’s what we get for trying to trim trees for mothers day

My husband put a glow stick in the microwave to “reactivate” it. the glow stick blew up in his face/eyes when he pulled it out. emergency room with 4 kids plus him. sucked. but soooooo funny now!

I was riding “bitch” behind my buddy on a scooter through our neighborhood. 30 mph and a sharp turn later, i was sliding across the road with my face. – Andrew

When I was 3 years old, I attempted to take a piss in the tiolet on my own. Well I could barely get my unit over the lip of the tiolet and the seat came down and smashed my action. Blood backed up into my bladder, they had to operate on me it fix my action. Bill, bellevue

My owner got a little to ruff playin leapfrog i hate it when he lands short, stinky

Today’s Video Blog is an Intern Challenge!!! For this weeks Challenge, our intern Spicolli has 60 seconds to get a random strange to belch for him. Do you think he will do it?

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Over the weekend, Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann said that the east coast hurricane and quake were God’s warning to Washington D.C. The backlash immediately followed, and she has since come out and said it was a joke. Here is a link to the video of the “joke”:  http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=90921&sitesection=sechicagotribune&VID=23524262 

People are upset because she said God caused all of this, but I think it’s just a dumb relate and in poor taste.

What really irritates me though is she is just trying to get all the God folks to come vote for her. That is the problem with the Republican Party; all they have are the extreme religionists. It would be nice if a politician would leave God out of the picture and focus on trying to run the country based on being cool to each other, regardless if one person believes in God, or another believes in a different God, or if someone doesn’t believe at all.

Why can’t we have a politician who does that? We have bigger fish to fry in the country then trying to figure out if God does or doesn’t care.

Bottom line is, we have to stop bring God into our problems and start taking care of this country!

“Hola,

Author Mark Banschick (bans- chick) is the author of a series of divorce books (see the irony of ‘bans- chick’, now?).  In his latest, he points out that many people pick up bad habits when they divorce.   He calls it an “immature reaction”, and suggests that divorced or separated adults are twice as likely to start smoking, get less sleep, gain weight and put themselves at higher risk of an STD than married or never- married folks.  Anyway, according to Banschick; get divorced, develop bad habits.  On the other end of the spectrum, a study from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 46%, or almost half of teenagers smoke, srink or use drugs.  75% have tried tobacco, alcohol or cocaine and about 15% have abused prescription drugs… and none of them are going through a divorce.  Soooooo, who do we blame for that?  No one says, but let’s face it, if there’s one thing we seemingly enjoy doing, it’s blaming other people for our behavior, so today we figured we’d do just that.  Maybe you drink too much (kids) or smoke too much (stress from work) or cuss like a sailor (parents) or drive like a maniac (wife hassling you?) or watch too much TV (nothing to do in your boring town), today we wanted to know:  WHO DO YOU BLAME FOR YOUR BAD HABITS AND WHAT BAD HABIT HAVE YOU PASSED ON TO SOMEONE ELSE?

Has a caffeine addiction and blames his brothers… personally I don’t see the connection.  Maybe he was ambushed in his sleep, started drinking caffeine to stay awake and now he’s a coffee junkie?  I dunno.

Blames his alcoholism on his job… don’t know what the job is, but unless you’re a paid drunk, blame alcoholism on the sugary- sweet awesomeness that is a state on inebriation

Holds his cousin responsible for his drinking… and by ‘holds his cousin responsible’, I can only assume he means that he thanks his cousin

Based on the “lead feet” of all the male drivers in his family, he blames them for his addiction to speeding… should blame the low speed limits

His recent addiction to crock- pot chicken is absolutely Ted’s fault for introducing the recipe that has him addicted

Calls himself an “east coast D” who is cynical/ his girlfriend is a “happy go lucky hippie”… says that his cynicism is rubbing off on her and it sucks

Gets his spitting habit from his brother

Her high school boyfriend introduced her to pot

OK bitches, trivia night… gotta roll.

Until tomorrow, look but don’t touch and STAY BEAUTIFUL!”

Josh emailed me, and he needed help with something a lot of people have to go through in their marriage.

Josh got a job offer that would send him out of state for a year, but the money would be so good that he would be able to be debt free and pay off the mortgage to his home by the age of 30. The only problem is that his wife has a really good job that she beat out hundreds of other applicants to get, so he doesn’t want to have her leave that job.

They don’t have kids, but they want them in the near future so being debt free would be ideal.

I know it’s hard to be away from the people you love; I had to be in Arizona while my family was still in Rochester for 4 months and it was brutal, but Josh has hit the lottery with this job opportunity. There are many people in the military who have to go through with this for sometimes years at a time and yes, there are the horror stories, but there are many who prove that it can work.

If they really have a strong relationship and are able to communicate effectively, this shouldn’t be a problem in the long run.

In the grand scheme of things, a year isn’t really a long time and there are still many ways they can stay connected. If they set aside some money, they can visit each other twice a month or more and with Skype and Facebook chat, the distance won’t hit them as hard.

40 years ago, this wouldn’t be a question. My father struggled back in the day and if he was given this opportunity, he would have taken it in a heartbeat; and this was before all the technology we have today to communicate.

So Facebook is no longer going to be permitted for people behind bars! The Washington State Department Of Corrections is talking with Facebook to have inmates accounts disabled…so sadly those guys will have to “poke” each other the old fashioned way! Waka Waka!

I have 2 nominees for today’s dumbass in Washington State…the first is a guy that a guy that our ran cops in Yakima on his motorcycle was eventually caught. How was he caught? Ell, dum dum decided to brag about it on his Facebook page…what a moron! Stick to writing about what you had for dinner when it comes to status updates. He also had pix of his motorcycle on his page & it matched the one that got away from the cops. The second nominee comes from Lynden…this genius doused gasoline on a beehive in a tree…and when he lit it…it caused an EXPLOSION!!! He singed the tree & killed the bees, but besides his brain cells…no one else was hurt. Now why did he do that? Well…a bee stung his buddy, and he was retaliating!!!! Hahahaha!!!! I love what the fire chief had to say about it… “The correct way to do that is to call the beekeeper.”

Great news fellow fans of Hope Solo, and by fans…I don’t mean that you admire her goalie skills in soccer (she was the US women’s goalie)…I mean you admire her sexiness…it will be on display this year on Dancing With the Stars…yup…the former U-Dub Husky will be rocking next to nothing when it comes to attire as she tries to do splits and gets lifter in the air! The true highlight of the new cast though is not Hope…it’s Chaz…Chaz Bono! Yes, Dancing With the Stars will have their first transgender contestant! Awesome…this is a must watch!

I know I am late to the party, but man do I love 2 & A Half Men…that is one funny show…I now get why it’s done so well in the ratings…the wife & I watch it whenever it’s on TV these days. Another show we are late to & we now love…How I Met Your Mother! Hilarious show…NPH rules on the show.

Wow…the Hawks finally traded Kelly Jennings. He’s off to Cincy…bummer…who are we going to have play cornerback & watch the other teams wide receivers run over now?

President Obama has a 67-year-old uncle, Onyango Obama, who lives in Framingham, Massachusetts. And on August 24th, Onyango was arrested for DUI. The cops pulled him over when he plowed through an intersection in his SUV. He blew a .14 on the breathalyzer, which is almost double the legal limit. This is my favorite part… when they asked him if he wanted to make a phone call, Onyango said, “I think I will call the White House.” The White House didn’t have a comment yet on Onyango’s arrest . At the end of the day though…this is pretty embarrassing for the President, so based on this…we asked when was there a time that either you embarrassed a family member, or they embarrassed you?  Here are some of the texts we got:

I went camping at a lake and my uncle refilled my sunblock with nair

When my grandparents stayed with me they had sex on my bed and got caught. I wish I could flip my mattress more than once

Had to fire my uncle for a dirty u.a. Only to have him arrested 6 months later for stealing from my grandmother his mom

My sis had the DEA storm my parents house.

Three days before we left for my wedding in Vegas, my aunt aand to my work to inform me that my Cushman and cousin wasnt able to go because he went to rehab.

ex husband got f’d up and tried 2 sleep w/my best friend’s 17 year old sister… 3 times in one night.

Sunday at safeway my 8 year old son see’s a sexy chick in line behind us and asked me daddy do you want sex with her like you and mommy do. Sooo embaressing.

Was going to introduce my girlfriend to my father for the first time we walked in on him getting it on with a male blow up doll

I secretly set up a cam in the exercise room with the pole,and caught dad doing a routine to avril lavene, sara

I caught my dad chasing the neighbors dog down the street with his pants down holing a jar of peanut butter. From lucy in puyallup

my husband likes to dress in womens clothing. one time he made his assistant nick return one of his bras -​signed Kathy

My dad once came out during a party wearing nothing but peanut butter and calling my name…lucy

Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach’s New Jersey home was flooded due to hurricane Irene, and he lost a ton of cool rock memorabilia. Sebastian talked about it on his Facebook page. He said, “I am numb, in shock, and devastated to report that my home of 21 years, my house featured on ‘MTV Cribs’, has been destroyed, condemned, and deemed uninhabitable due to the extreme flooding courtesy of Hurricane Irene…Gone are irreplaceable items, such as my KISS Gargoyles from the 1979 tour…KISS pinball machine…Skid Row master tapes, video & audio, concerts, master tapes [and] boxes and boxes of one of a kind Skid Row memorabilia, from the first tour to our last, all stuff I collected on the road that no one else had. It’s all over now. I will always love New Jersey, but now there is literally nothing left for me here except memories of a past life. Hello, Los Angeles. Hello, new life. Here I am. It’s time for a new start. Like I have a choice.” Dang that sucks for Sebastian…the odd part is that he posted a few pix of the flood damage, and hundreds of people “Liked” those photos??? What is to like of a picture that destroyed some cool stuff for the guy? Some people are WAY too “like” happy!!!! Based on this…what is something from your personal collection that you would absolutely hate to lose? What is something you have lost that still bums you out? Here are some of the texts we got:

Would hate to lose my guitar autographed by pearl jam

I would never want to lose the knife my father gave me before i shipped out for a 3yr tour of the persian gulf. I carried that knife every single

I would hate if I lost my katana which I received as a gift from my sensei when I was training in japan. It was made in 1617 and it means the world to me.

Lost ALL my original wedding photos when our drug dealer neighbor stole my computer and Every other electronic in our house

My gold plated Chipper Jones 1995 rookie card autographed and in mint condition was stolen last week by most likely a family member, its worth 15000 right now

Would not want to lose my picture with Matt Hasselbeck taken right before their super bowl season

My 1886 double barrell shotgun that my dad left to me after he died was stolen. I was to give it to my son….

If I lost my home made Steve The Producer blow up doll I swear I would give up on life. That’s the only thing keeping me going in life. -Brad

He had amazing fantasy number 15 in that house!! (spider man # 1)

i couldnt handle loseing my 1980s carvin bass . hot rod red. i would cry a little if i lost my les paul or flying v. but the bass is amazing and a custum

This may sound stupid but I’ve been collecting alcohol bottles since I turned 21. They have never been opened and some items you can’t get anymore. ~Ninja

I would hate to lose my signed Henrik Zetterberg and Nick Lidstrom Red Wings jerseys

BJ, I have a KISW FM 100 coffee mug I’ve had for over 25 years.

autographed dirt cd. All the original members signed it…

Today’s Video Blog features Toppy checking out the Avanti Markets for the first time!

Here is the same VLOG for you iPHONE people.

Poor Bazz loses his house!!!!!

SEBASTIAN BACH: Hurricane Destroys New Jersey Home

Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach was one of the victims of Hurricane Irene as it destroyed his Red Bank, New Jersey home.

He writes on his Facebok page, “I am numb, in shock and devastated to report that my home of 21 years has been destroyed, condemned and deemed uninhabitable due to the extreme flooding courtesy of Hurricane Irene. In the two decades I have lived in this home, there has never been a single drop of water in the basement or anywhere else in the structure. Now Irene has overflowed the reservoir adjacent to my house. The surging waters have snapped the bridge in half next to my house and sent the bridge straight into my garage, knocking the house off of its foundation. The basement that has been dry for over two decades is now overflowing with water and I am not even allowed to start pumping the water out due to fears of electrocution.”

He also says that he lost lots of memorabilia, including “KISS gargoyles from the 1979 tour, a KISS pinball machine, Skid Row master tapes, video and audio, concerts and memorabilia… We will salvage what we can, of course. But how I wish there was a reason to do a box set or something before Hurricane Irene hit. Nobody cared. Now it’s too late. Don’t know what you got till it’s gone, indeed.”

However, he says there is some good news. “All my father’s artwork, including the 16-foot Slave to the Grind mural, is all okay. My sons and friends moved all my dad’s art to the second level of the structure before Irene destroyed our home… But we are not allowed into the house yet to retrieve everything because the foundation has crumbled and the house could conceivably collapse at any second. We are working with the police and fire department to get the electricity turned off so no one gets electrocuted entering the premises. As soon as the power is off, we will pump out the basement and salvage what we can. Everything will be put into storage and then it looks like we will level the house…”

“This has really taught me that the best things in life are indeed ‘free.’ What makes me happy is that my children and ex-wife are safe. My dad’s art is unharmed. No one got hurt. My scrapbooks of memories of my life are dry and safe… I have been holding on to my house since December, when my divorce papers were filed. I just could not let go of the only home I had ever known. Well, God has other plans for me it seems. He has made his decision for me… New Jersey, thank you all so much for 25 years of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all over now. I will always love New Jersey, but now there is literally nothing left for me here except memories of a past life. Hello, Los Angeles. Hello, new life. Here I am. It’s time for a new start… like I have a choice.”

Bach performed in Colorado on Saturday.

If you missed the new Sebastian Bach solo single I’ll play part of it during Sit N Spin tomorrow.

Cheers,
Jolene

“Hola,

TIME MAGAZINE just ran a quick article reminding us of something we already know; good looking people, generally speaking, make more money than ugly people over the course of a lifetime.  They quote University of Texas economist and author of Beauty Pays:  Why Attractive People are More Successful, who says that good-looking men and women (also known as ‘people’) can expect to earn an average of $230,000 more in a lifetime than “those who are plain or homely”… or as we like to say, ‘fugly’. That would explain how actresses like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston can command $20,000,000 PER movie, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of their films are cinematic flops.  Let’s assume that it’s true, and good- looking folks make more dough than their ugly counterparts; think about everyone you’ve seen in your life, whether they’re famous or they’re someone you know personally.  Now take the time to answer this question:  WHO SHOULD BE THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD AND WHO SHOULD BE BROKE?

I know she has a chest the size of a 7 year old boy, but I think Natalie Portman should be a billionaire.  Always have.  If Natalie can take the riches, Zoe Saladana should get the money.  I think these women are so hot it’s painful.  On the other hand, the poorest person this earth should be Sirgouney Weaver.  I like her, I really do, but she looks like something I stepped in in a meadow.

And here’s what you think:

Donald Trump should be dead broke… several people agreed

Jolene should be a millionaire, we should be broke

Amy Lee (lead singer of Evenescence) should be rich (amen) while Sylvester Stallone should be dead broke

Believes that Steve Buschemi should live in a cardboard box

The richest person in the world should be a random woman he saw in Victoria.  Said she looks like she just stepped out of ‘super- model school’.  Meanwhile, the poorest person on Earth should be Janet Napolitino

Mila Kunis should be worth millions, while Gadhafi should be broke.  Gadhafi’s looks explain a lot about his disposition

Hilary Clinton should be broke while Rhona Mitra should be a billionaire

The baristas at Bickford Esspresso should be extremely wealthy (or so our horny friend says) while his fellow truck drivers must work pro bono

Believes Raiders owner Al Davis should live in a tent city… if you’ve seen him lately, you might wonder if he can afford a tent Adam….

Woody Allen should be broke… based on looks or his movies?  I think his movies suck so, so bad

Russell Brand should be broke

Steven Tyler should be broke, while his daughter, Liv, should be a multi billionaire

OK bitches, I’m going home to watch some football.  Yea, I know, it’s preseason but A), I don’t care and B) my brother will be part of the officiating crew tonight.  Gotta support the family.

Until tomorrow, turn off your camera and STAY BEAUTIFUL!”