Lizzie Grey - RIP

Lizzie died just the other night...RIP.
Read Nikki's post on Instagram
Watch the video for one of his finest tunes on YouTube

Faster Pussycat 6/28/19 Hollywood

Taime and the gang kicked off their summer tour in Hollywood at The Whisky on 6/28/19. The band was in top form and on point from start to finish. Taime totally enjoying being on stage. New guitar player filling in should be a regular addition to the band, solid player and humble with no posing around. Highlight was an unexpected cover of INXS' "Don't Change."

Blackboard Jungle Reunion 6/1/19

Ol' friends and new faces crammed the Viper Room on Sunset Strip for the yearly "must see" reunion show of Blackboard Jungle.

Also featuring Stars From Mars, and Fizzy Bangers.
Viva Hollywood!

GLAMBONE!

Guitars Stolen from Public Storage in Gardena, CA - April 2019

GLAMBONE IS CALLING OUT FOR YOUR HELP!!!

Some time between March 30th and April 2nd, the Public Storage unit in Gardena, CA belonging to Kenward Cooper was broken into, 3 of his prized guitars were stolen. The Gretsch guitars (White Falcon II, and Anniversary Model Two-tone Smoke Green) are the instruments he uses on all his music projects - as seen in the Soft Open video for 'My Favorite Records.' 

The Gibson L50 acoustic in particular belonged to his father and is the one thing in his possession to carry him forward with after he’s gone.

We are grateful for NBC News for covering this story. Please share on every social media platform you possibly can to help recover these irreplaceable instruments!!!

Forward any information you have to Kenward or the Los Angeles Police Department:

Kenward/Attn: Glambone
glambone@hotmail.com

Harbor Station Police Dept

(310) 726-7700

The Dirt - Netflix - Motley Crue

Like an after show party on Clark St. that ends the day after, Crue week on Sirius XM is over. The Dirt has arrived.

As a kid growing up with Motley being my favorite band (1st concert I ever went to was them opening up for Kiss on the Creatures tour), the objective for me was to watch this movie at face
value without trying to scrutinize every detail of the stories and history of my own tattooed beliefs
of this band. If you're able to do that, you're in for a fun ride. The Dirt is highly entertaining and enjoyable. The film makers did a great job recreating all the periods of their career. Looks That Kill particularly looks bad ass. Sure some things are out of sequence in the timeline, such as Doc McGhee managing Kiss after Crue, not before. Or the band playing to a huge crowd for the first time was not The Forum, it was the US Festival. But so what. For the sake of movie making/story telling, it's forgivable.

Applause for giving a nod to Nikki's early band with Lizzie Grey, London. You'll find their poster on Tommy's bedroom wall, and in the narrative as well.

Sure it would've been cool to see Nikki with Blackie Lawless, as it's so colorfully depicted in the book, and give a wink to where the use of the pentagram came from. But this is something only a Cruehead would think about.

First thought of seeing Vince portrayed by Daniel Webber was this guy is playing Jeff Spicoli. As the film progresses, the actor does a good job capturing his stage antics and persona.

Music wise, love the version of Livewire sung by Meghan Kabir. Why this wasn't included on the soundtrack release is a real shame.

The Dirt movie leaves me reminiscing about growing up in the 80's and my days on the Sunset Strip as a young teen. Helluva time. It's a different playground now, and a different business model. The days of building a scene pre-internet no longer exists. I'm not talking about being a band in your hometown and having a fair draw show up when you play out. I'm talking about a community of hundreds of bands in the same city, on the same mission, on the same streets, trying to stay alive and get attention and make it. There were a slew of bands from the same era/same scene that achieved success, Motley however were the leaders. There won't be another like them who lived and breathed the way these guys did. Each member had their own personality. Collectively they were a gang. Something bands today simply lack. Most people today don't even know the names of all the band members in their favorite bands, no matter what the genre. If there was a gun to your head and the shooter was going to pull the trigger if you couldn't name all the guys in Coldplay, ten out of ten would have a bullet in the head because you probably could only name Chris Martin. Forget about The Struts, you don't even know the name of the singer. You're dead kid. But you do know Vince, Nikki, Mick and Tommy.

Kenward of Soft Open interviewed by Jimmy Thrill 2019

Look What The Cat Dragged In, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Suede, these records normally don’t belong in the same collection. They do if your moniker is Soft Open, and the single/video is called “My Favorite Records.” It’s only music, and music is a mood, and this single celebrates influences and inspirations. Take a bow.

Who is Soft Open you might ask? This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife. How did I get here? Or how did Glambone? Long before this podcast/blog I was a kid in the city of Vegas getting my American kix off with weekly trips to the record shop, buying every LP and magazine in sight, until I started my own called Rockstar. Oh, and Mark Slaughter was my guitar teacher.

Jimmy Thrill knows Rockstar Magazine. He was featured in it. Throughout the years we’ve become bros. In this interview we turn the mic around and Jimmy asks me the questions. Stories and facts you may not have known. The slyest rhymes, the sharpest suits, in miracles made real.

From the zine, to my own bands, and projects along the way.  Listen to the interview by
clicking here.

GLAMBONE!

softopen.net

Soft Open

New Year for new music. Check out the single "My Favorite Records" by Soft Open.
Produced by Rick Parker, and featuring Michael Lockwood on guitar. The closest thing
to a Lions & Ghosts reunion you're gonna get!

Watch the video here, guest starring
Charlie Overbey. :)           

How many of your favorite records can you spot?

Download available on iTunes.