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Motley Crue/Def Leppard Stadium Tour: DC Show Review

Published

2 years ago

June 25, 2022

Ron

Motley Crue and company not only brought to DC the good tunes they also brought the rain and lightning with them. The day started off with lots of sun and the weather being hotter than balls in leather pants.

Classless Act opened up the show coming on right as fans were emerging into the Nats Stadium. I got to interview them 2 months prior and was excited to see them on this huge stage. Classless didn’t disappoint and for all the fans that didn’t come in early to watch them, they missed out on a band that’s gonna be huge and going places and could have seen them on the ground level. With songs like This is for You and Time to Bleed, Classless Act is the next generation of rock and roll.

Next up was Joan Jett. I wasn’t able to photograph her on this tour but she always puts on a hell of a show. Joan still looks amazing and still rocks that guitar like nobody’s business. I did get to watch some of her set and still kills it on songs like Cherry Bomb, Crimson and Clover and I Love Rock and Roll. Ending the night with Bad Reputation.

Next up was Poison. Bret still amazes me how awesome he sounds and how cool he is. Coming out to the edge of the stage ramp and giving high-fives to fans and giving metal horns to us photographers. CC DeVille, Bobby Dall and Rikki Rockett are such a powerhouse. Opening up with “Look What The Cat Dragged In” Poison were killing it on the stage. Songs like “Your Momma Don’t Dance”, “Unskinny Bop” and ending the night with “Nothing but a good Time” it’s great to see to see Poison just rock out and the fans were right there with them.

Def Leppard was next and for us photographers we were going to shoot the last two songs of the night but unfortunately Mother Nature had different plans and brought down the rains and the lightning cutting their set two songs short. I did get to see a bit of them playing, opening up with “Take What You want” and rocking out some of my favorite Def songs like “Animal”, “ Foolin” and “Armageddon It” before I left to make my way to the photo area. Joe Elliot still sounds great, Phil Collen still looks great and Rick Allen still kills it on those drums. Def Leppard was a huge crowd favorite. Now while we didn’t get to photo Def, fans and us photographers had to seek shelter from the heavy rain and lightning.

Motley was suppose to go on at 9pm. While fans left and all hope was not looking good, the Metal Gods said no more lightning and let’s play some rock. Motley Crue hit the stage at 10:30 and played the full set in the rain and didn’t end til 11:50. While still hurting from the broken ribs we did get to see Tommy play a few songs then come back of course for “Home Sweet Home”.

Opening up with “Wild Side” and “Shout at the Devil” I thought Vince sounded good, he was moving around the stage and looked like he genuinely was having fun. Nikki Sixx was amazing so cool to see him upclose and just rocking that stage and Mick Mars is so damn killer. It was hard shooting Tommy in the back but you could see he was enjoying himself while you know he’s in some pain. The end of the night ended with a bang of great Crue songs like “Dr Feelgood”, “SOS”, “Girls, Girls, Girls” and ending with “Kickstart My Heart”.

I believe this was my only second time seeing Motley but damn was it a great time even though the weather was trying to beat us down. I got to photograph a Legendary band and one of my highlights for sure. Now we just have to wait and see if this “Destroyed” Contract that Crue had is still intact somewhere in a dark vault or will the Crue do another tour?

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Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour

Published

3 months ago

August 21, 2024

Josh Drespling

Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!

The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.

To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…

• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.

• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!

• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.

• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.

W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!

To enter all you have to do is visit and enter your email address:
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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”

Tickets and VIP packages available at WASPnati on.com/tour

THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:

10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*

10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre

10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre

11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre

11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre

11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore

11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History

11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS

11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole

11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre

11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center

11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall

11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater

11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater

11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore

11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore

11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live

11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues

11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre

12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum

12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall

12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion

12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL

12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre

12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre

12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues

12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino

12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl

12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

* No support acts.

About W.A.S.P.

Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.

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Josh is the Publisher and creator of Empire Extreme and it’s sister publication Kingdom Extreme Magazine. He is an accomplished writer, photographer and graphic designer. He is always conjuring up new ideas and has a amazing passion for the music industry and all the things that surround it.

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CD Reviews

Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

Published

6 months ago

May 20, 2024

Ron

Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.

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Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”

Published

7 months ago

May 8, 2024

Ron

Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.

The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.

Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.

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