Posted on 10/25/2005 12:43:48 PM PDT by Wolfie
Poison guitarist sentenced to jail
C.C. DeVille gets 80 days for DUI charge
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille was sentenced to 80 days in jail after pleading no contest to driving while intoxicated.
The 43-year-old rocker known for his over-the-top antics hit a parked vehicle August 24 while he was backing out of the driveway of his girlfriend's home, prosecutors said. He allegedly rammed another parked car, deploying his vehicle's air bags and injuring his girlfriend.
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MANOWAR!!!!! I thought I was the only one!
C'mon, nu-metal was what killed Rock. Admittedly, the hair-band phase wore itself out beyond comprehension, but the earlier stuff especially (Dokken, Ratt, early Crue) was good work.
yeah isn't that Alice Cooper with the Blonde wig?????
Maybe I am getting my hair bands mixed up....
My mother was horrified that her 12 year old son was looking more and more like Nikki Sixx...
But in 8th grade I did a 180 and turned "preppie" for a while. But that's another story. Think Zack Morris with brown hair.
Here's Alice (the Republican):
ahh there you go.
I wasn't really into music of any kind until the ealry 90s :)
I'll give you Dokken (I secretly own all of their cassetts)
But Poison, Warrant, Skid Row ect. just blow.
"This clown should be in prison for the murder of Rock and Roll."
I couldn't agree more. In eight short years metal went from Zeppelin, Purple, Sabbath, etc. to Poison, Winger, and Guns and Roses. It became such a farce that we fans no longer could defend the queer-glam monstrosity it had become. I hold the Hollywood moguls responsible for the whole pathetic manipulative trip.
Skid Row, OTOH, is very underrated. I assume you've never heard their second album, Slave to the Grind.
Whitesnake and Def Leppard were the original Led Zeppelin ripoffs.
I hated to admit that I liked Metal during the Hair Band days. I was considered a little strange by my buddies in the early 80's. Then as now I love good old fashioned Honky Tonk, the twangyier the better, and Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Dio. I got alot of strange looks at concerts, wearing boots and Wranglers along with my grungy old Worley Mills Feed baseball cap!
I'm still diggin' metal hair bands even now!
~ Blue Jays ~
"Whitesnake and Def Leppard were the original Led Zeppelin ripoffs"
God, I hate Def Leppard. Everything about them, guitars, vocals, the fact that they only actually play one song, no matter how many albums they have.
Even more I hate that many people consider them a credible Metal Band. I'd rather listen to cats fornicate.
Whitesnake-Coverdale was good when he was with Deep Purple, but became a Robert Plant clone after Whitesnake got established (Commercialized).
I think GNR are more in the first category than the second. At least, before they recorded "November Rain."
Nope. I saw them live once in 1989 and I've got everything they've put out in one form or another(except videos). I just listened to a 90minute TDK tape of their "best" at work today.
I've been looking for a 9/11 video someone put together with their song "Courage" as the background. It was shown in the Portland Trailblazers arena in their first game after 9/11. I had it saved on my HD but got a new PC and can't find it anywhere on the net.
Hell yes Twisted Sister! The album "Stay Hungry" ranks up there with 1984 as one of the top hard rock albums of the 80s.
Hey watch it! My band plays "Still of the Night" in our set, and it's the Kashmir of the 80's babay! Oh, I might be making your point. Doesn't matter though. It's a million miles from Poison and Def Leppard, which were The Archies of the 80's with Marshalls.
And Sean, if you like Dio and Purple both, you should definately check out early Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (with Dio on vocals). Although Zep was more eclectic, Rainbow was unapproachable as a kick-ass prog-rock band.
Rising, On Stage, and Long Live Rock 'n' Roll, along with the eponymously titled first record are the ones to get.
~ Blue Jays ~
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