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Kudos to you for sitting through it's entirety.

That's my Film Watcher's O.C.D. at work. No matter how bad a movie is -- even if I'm praying for the sweet release of death to free me from its torment -- I still feel like I HAVE to watch it all the way thru to the end. Somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my mind, I suppose I'm afraid that if I don't know how the movie ends it'll bother me for the rest of my life. I know it's a totally irrational impulse but I gave up trying to fight it a long time ago.

First new one in a while... I have been having a ton of fun digging into my recently acquired mini-box set of vintage Krokus albums this week so I wrote some blah-de-blah about 'em...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/KROKUS-Original-Album-Classics-Review

Fat Freddy wrote:

First new one in a while... I have been having a ton of fun digging into my recently acquired mini-box set of vintage Krokus albums this week so I wrote some blah-de-blah about 'em...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/KROKUS-Original-Album-Classics-Review

Another great article!

Why in the world did they ever write and record "Smelly Nelly?"

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Why in the world did they ever write and record "Smelly Nelly?"

Yeah, that was not exactly their proudest moment ... and considering that it's on the same album as a song called "Mr. 69," that's really sayin' something.

Fat Freddy wrote:

First new one in a while... I have been having a ton of fun digging into my recently acquired mini-box set of vintage Krokus albums this week so I wrote some blah-de-blah about 'em...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/KROKUS-Original-Album-Classics-Review

Awesome and interesting article as usual FF!! Love all three of those albums, and a few other Krokus records.

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Awesome and interesting article as usual FF!! Love all three of those albums, and a few other Krokus records.

Thanx! I hadn't even really thought about Krokus in dog years, but I picked up a cheapie "best-of" from them awhile ago and it re-ignited my interest in'em, so now I'm trying to build up a Krokus collection. Next on the must have list would be Headhunter.... then maybe I'll explore some of their more recent releases...

Been listening to my Divebomb Records reissues of the first two Shotgun Messiah discs all week and said to myself "Self, that band would make for a great new installment of your Forgotten Hard Rock Albums series!" ... and so it was done!



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-The-SHOTGUN-MESSIAH-Discography

New entry!

In "Mosh Pit Memories," I reminisce about the first and only time I ever stage dived, at a Scatterbrain gig in NYC in 1992.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Mosh-Pit-Memories-My-First-and-ONLY-Stage-Dive

Cool story FF - interesting and well done article as usual!

Was never brave enough to stage dive but I did enter the pit on more than a few occasions.In the late 80s early 90s there was a club for teens in my hometown that had some bad ass local Hardcore Punk bands and early Death Metal bands playing every weekend. Great times!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

New entry!

In "Mosh Pit Memories," I reminisce about the first and only time I ever stage dived, at a Scatterbrain gig in NYC in 1992.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Mosh-Pit-Memories-My-First-and-ONLY-Stage-Dive

Cool story, dude. I've gone into the mosh pits a few times back in the day, but never had the cojones to stage dive.

Thanx fellas. Yeah, looking back on it 20+ years (!) later, stage diving was dumb as hell but at least I got a good story out of it. Haha.

I searched in vain for a video of that Scatterbrain gig for years 'n' years after that show. I wish Scatterbrain had been more popular, cuz then maybe someone would've bothered to bootleg it.

New one... been digging the hell out of the new Whitesnake album so I wrote me a review:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Whitesnake-THE-PURPLE-ALBUM-2015-Review

Fat Freddy wrote:

New one... been digging the hell out of the new Whitesnake album so I wrote me a review:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Whitesnake-THE-PURPLE-ALBUM-2015-Review

Great review! I still have to pick this one up.

New post about a cheesy dinosaur movie from SyFy and The Asylum...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Great-Bad-Movies-AGE-OF-DINOSAURS-2013

Fat Freddy wrote:

Thanx fellas. Yeah, looking back on it 20+ years (!) later, stage diving was dumb as hell but at least I got a good story out of it. Haha.

I searched in vain for a video of that Scatterbrain gig for years 'n' years after that show. I wish Scatterbrain had been more popular, cuz then maybe someone would've bothered to bootleg it.

I had a few goes at stage diving it was fun! But they really clamped down after the first year of the thrash thing in the U.K. After that we developed a new tactic where a big guy would squat down cupping his hands and a little squirt like me would take a running jump onto his hands and get catapulted into the air (you'd be surprised how well this works! ) I never had the parting crowd thing as I was about 15/16 when doing this kind of thing and really small so no-one was going to let an insane child hit the deck   

One large fat guy at an Onslaught gig in Bristol was not so lucky and i vowed never again after seeing that.

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I never had the parting crowd thing as I was about 15/16 when doing this kind of thing

Years ago when I saw Dark Angel, Gene Hoglan (who, as you might recall, is a rather large dude) came to the edge of the stage at the end of their set and he motioned like *he* was going to stage dive. The dance floor immediately in front of him cleared out.

Here's another new one. First time in a while that I've posted two new entries in the same day... I've been cleaning out my closet of half finished/unfinished entries. This one's about the time I tried to sell my RV on Craigslist, and hilarity ensued.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Craigslist-Ad-Leads-To-Flood-of-Creepiest-SPAM-Ever

^^^ That was hilarious FF

Thelemech wrote:

^^^ That was hilarious FF

Thanx dude.

New one! I was gonna do a run-down of all the movies that SyFy premiered during their 2015 "Sharknado Week" whoop de doo but all of them pretty much sucked except for the not-at-alll-shark-related "LAVALANTULA," so I decided to focus on that one instead.

Seriously, how could anyone possibly resist a movie in which earth's only hope against an invasion of fire-breathing giant spiders is ... the cast of "Police Academy?"



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Lavalantula-the-Next-Sharknado

Love the cast of Police Academy. Great read FF, I will have to check this movie out.

Thelemech wrote:

Love the cast of Police Academy. Great read FF, I will have to check this movie out.

I'm sure that SyFy will be milking the hell out of this flick by re-running it to death over the next couple of weeks, so check your local listings, as the saying goes

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Here's another new one. First time in a while that I've posted two new entries in the same day... I've been cleaning out my closet of half finished/unfinished entries. This one's about the time I tried to sell my RV on Craigslist, and hilarity ensued.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Craigslist-Ad-Leads-To-Flood-of-Creepiest-SPAM-Ever

I think you did that one before.

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I think you did that one before.

Sorta. I had posted an early version of it on a different site a year or so ago but they went belly up so I took all of my stuff down from there and now when I have a few minutes to burn I expand/tweak/update 'em and repost em as HubPages.

My son and I picked up the new "Scooby Doo and KISS" movie earlier this week, so of course I had to write a review of it. We both give it two paws up.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Worlds-Collide-in-Scooby-Doo-and-KISS-Rock-and-Roll-Mystery