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Roots Remembers Edward Lodewijk Van Halen | on SiriusXM

Chief — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:01:30 +0000

Roots Remembers Edward Lodewijk Van Halen | on SiriusXM Week of October 10, 2020 Sat 10/10, 6PM ET Sun 10/11, 1PM ET Mon 10/12, 9AM ET Tues 10/13, 4PM ET Thurs 10/15, 9PM ET Streaming On-Demand on SiriusXM This week we remember Eddie Van Halen, the king of heavy metal guitar, with rare tracks, live material, otherworldly guitar solos, and tributes by Pantera, Annihilator, Lich King…

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DIRTY DEEDS: Mark Evans and Angry Anderson Bring on Blood Sweat & Beers

Chief — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:31:37 +0000

Australian bass legend Mark Evans, author of Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC, is hitting the road with Blood Sweat & Beers, his rip-roaring Down Under supergroup that features on vocals no less a wailing Oz icon than Rose Tattoo’s Angry Anderson. By way of refresher on recent history, when AC/DC went through its recent singer troubles, Anderson’s name “rose” to the surface frequently…

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Sound of the Beast: Ian Christe on the Danko Jones Podcast…Twice!

Chief — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:46:16 +0000

By now, your ears have likely been singed once or twice by the Danko Jones Podcast—hosted by the tireless Toronto rock ‘n’ roll provocateur and full-bore metal maniac. Bazillion Points publisher Ian Christe (also host of Sirius XM’s Bloody Roots and author of Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal) has guested twice on Danko’s robust and engaging show, and here’s a…

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Bloody Roots Salutes Forty Years of Twisted Fucking Sister on Sirius XM

Chief — Sat, 21 May 2016 20:59:04 +0000

BLOODY ROOTS SALUTES FORTY YEARS OF TWISTED FUCKING SISTER on SIRIUS XM Week of May 21, 2016 Sat 5/21, 6PM ET Sun 5/22, 1PM ET Mon 5/23, 9AM ET Tues 5/24, 4PM ET Thurs 5/26, 9PM ET Before striking multi-platinum as monstrous MTV metal video stars in 1984, New York’s raucous Twisted Sister mastered its sound, image, and live show as hungry regional club superstars. On early albums…

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Summer Scratch & Dent Special: 48-Hour SALE on Bazillion Points Books Display Copies

Chief — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:18:14 +0000

Bazillion Points has consolidated warehouses, and in the process we discovered several boxes of bookstore display copies. These are essentially unread, excellent condition books with slight marks on the covers or bent corners from bookshop browsing. Current titles available for as little as $5.00 (updated hourly, contact us with your requests): Heavy Metal Movies Sub Pop USA Metalion: The…

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New Van Halen Music?

Chief — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:49:31 +0000

Eddie Van Halen let one rip last night on some TV sitcom. The show stars Charlie Sheen, and I think each week the plot involves a setup where Sheen ends up needing to go to the bathroom very badly. This week his relief is delayed because Eddie Van Halen is already in the john with his guitar, writing new material to play with Roth, Alex, and Wolfgang. EVH: “That’s called ‘Two Burritos and a Root…

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Michael Jackson beat it today.

Chief — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:50:10 +0000

Here’s a video of Michael Jackson with his brothers on the Jacksons Victory tour in 1984, joined onstage by Eddie Van Halen to play the guitar solo in “Beat It.” This is the best tribute this death metal demo blog can muster — and why not, it’s public shred and excess at its finest! Rest in peace, zombie king.

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Somebody Buy David Lee Roth a Beer

Chief — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:26:09 +0000

I have a hard time convincing skeptics of the fury of Van Halen in its prime, and the band in its current non-incarnation isn’t helping any. Like I just told main Everybody Wants Some photographer Kevin Estrada, the upcoming VH Guitar Hero game is far short of the kind of polishing these guys need to be giving their blazing legacy. For his part, I believe that David Lee Roth understands this. He’…

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AT THE GATES: Sirius Bloody Roots Interview, July 2008

Chief — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:04:40 +0000

Here’s a rip from the Sirius live stream of my slickly-produced July 19, 2008 interview with singer Tomas Lindberg and guitarist Martin Larsson of AT THE GATES. This has been floating around the black market for a while, so I might as well give it a legit home. Plus it’s a good blast from the recent past while my Bloody Roots radio show graciously steps aside for the surprise “Mandatory Metallica”…

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Grim and Big Mac-bitten Kingdoms

Chief — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:52:30 +0000

Here’s an outtake photo of Eddie Van Halen from Everybody Wants Some. Contact Redferns for your own licensing needs. For the uninitiated, this looks like Detroit, MI, or Rochester, NY, or Niagara Falls — a Buick-ridden hellhole circa November 1979 where shut-in guitar prodigies from Pasadena, CA, have to put on a parka and nurse a deep hangover in a dirty, wet and freezing parking lot.

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