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First post of 2017... nothin' fancy, just a review of some bargain bin metal I got from Perris Records before the holidays...



http://hubpages.com/entertainment/My-Cheap-Heavy-Metal-Haul-from-Perris-Records

Nice job, however if I could make one, small suggestion.

One of your YouTube samples should have been a song from the Nasty Whores album, thus preventing me from doing my own web search and getting my computer red-flagged at work. Just sayin'.

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One of your YouTube samples should have been a song from the Nasty Whores album, thus preventing me from doing my own web search and getting my computer red-flagged at work. Just sayin'.

Haha, I hope you're kidding, if not... sorry!

Coincidentally, in my first draft of this piece I made a joke about making sure your Google Safe Search was ON before looking up Nasty Whores, but I cut it out because the article was running way too damn long already

No worries. I'm sure my computer was red-flagged long before this.

Precisely why I don't visit this board anymore during my work day since I now use a work-owned computer from home. Who knows what kind of "spyware" or tracking our security team has put on the thing.

First new entry in a while...in honor of the forthcoming "Logan" movie, I reminisce about the time I let a highly collectible Wolverine comic book slip through my fingers....



http://hubpages.com/literature/The-Incredible-Hulk-181-The-One-That-Got-Away

Made me think of my brother who worked at a comic store before he was 15 and they paid him in comics. He estimates he had over 10,000 dollars in comics until they got burned in a fire.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Made me think of my brother who worked at a comic store before he was 15 and they paid him in comics. He estimates he had over 10,000 dollars in comics until they got burned in a fire.

Ouch, man!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

First new entry in a while...in honor of the forthcoming "Logan" movie, I reminisce about the time I let a highly collectible Wolverine comic book slip through my fingers....



http://hubpages.com/literature/The-Incredible-Hulk-181-The-One-That-Got-Away

Damn that is a sad story - interesting read as usual FF!!

Interesting story. My comic collecting history mirrors yours exactly. I love going into the comics store in the mall to browse but I just can't bring myself to buy anything. Books are way too expensive for my blood now. And it's a shame because I wouldn't really mind collecting.
And as for the subject of the story, that and Giant-Size X-Men #1 were always the holy grails for me. I've read both stories in reprints but have never seen actual copies.

The current silliness in the Quiet Riot camp was too good not to write a Hub about.



https://hubpages.com/entertainment/The-Strange-Saga-of-Quiet-Riots-Road-Rage

Why do I feel like i've read this before?

Dark Horseman wrote:

Why do I feel like i've read this before?

Heh! Yea, for those of us "in the know" most of this prob feels like a rerun.

Most of the time tho, my "audience" isn't as up on 80s rock stuff. Most of the other bloggers on HubPages are housewives sharing Mommy tips, religious/political nuts, foodies posting recipes, etc.

I'm aiming for that soccer-mom demo that might have rocked out to Quiet Riot at the US Festival but have no idea what they'Re up to nowadays.

Interesting read on QR, I didn't even know there was so much drama since DuBrow's passing. I don't think I've heard anything past QRIII.

^^ from what little I've heard of their post QRIII stuff, you're probably not missing much.... haha

Updated this one with updates on the QR's first gig w/Durbin and their singer-swap with Ratt:



https://spinditty.com/genres/The-Strange-Saga-of-Quiet-Riots-Road-Rage

You fun fact about Durbin's age wasn't that fun, just made me feel old.

Fat Freddy wrote:

^^ from what little I've heard of their post QRIII stuff, you're probably not missing much.... haha

Honestly, reading your post on QR is making wanna at least check it all out.

akeldama wrote:

Honestly, reading your post on QR is making wanna at least check it all out.

Yea, QR is one of those bands I've always meant to dig back into too, but I still haven't gotten around to it.

I was really into Metal Health and Condition Critical (aka Metal Health Part II: Electric Boogaloo) when they were current, but Quiet Riot fell off the radar w/me around the time of QRIII, which was 1986 -- by that point I'd discovered Metallica and other thrash, so guys like Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, etc. weren't really cuttin' it for me anymore.

The 1988 album w/Paul Shortino on vox seems to rate pretty highly among the melodic rock/AOR crowd but it never did much for me - it sounded like watered down Whitesnake.

I haven't heard "Rehab" but I remember liking what little I heard from "Terrified" and "Down To The Bone" back in the 90's. If memory serves they were heavier than I'd expected.

Right now the only QR's I own on CD are a cheapie best-of ("Winners Take All") and an "Extended Versions" live disc (which is quite good). I get the feeling that they were probably one of those bands who were better live than on record.

akeldama wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

^^ from what little I've heard of their post QRIII stuff, you're probably not missing much.... haha

Honestly, reading your post on QR is making wanna at least check it all out.

Besides their Greatest Hits, the only other QR album I have is Rehab and I find it quite enjoyable. It has more of a 70's rock-vibe than 80's metal, but I don't mind.

I'd also recommend Kevin's lone solo album, In For The Kill. It's all covers of 70's rock tunes, which gives you an idea of his mindset for the Rehab album, released 2 years later.

I never really checked out Rehab, might need to.

New one, reviewing one of my favorite trashy B-Movies:


https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Great-Bad-Movies-Starcrash-1979

'nother new one, reviewing two more trashy B-Movies. Remember when you could get DVDs with two movies on'em at the dollar store? Good times, good times.



http://hub.me/al4IA

Been a long time since I've seen Creature but zI remember liking it OK. I've never even heard of Slipstream. Sounds interesting enough.

Time for another installment of "Great Bad Movies"



https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Great-Bad-Movies-Jason-X-2002