More "That Metal Show" updates. Ace, Rush, TS, Piazza, AC/DC, More!
10/9/08: Tons of great stuff going on, here's a quick update:
Shot two more episodes of my upcoming new VH1 Classic TV show "That Metal Show" yesterday. The guests were JJ and Dee from Twisted Sister in one show, Mike Piazza and Angus and Brian from AC/DC in the other. We had a standing room only studio audience and the buzz was tremendous. Had many emails from the audience that was there all pumped about what they saw and heard. JJ and Dee talked about the future of TS, the state of the music business, their Christmas show and thoughts on many other bands like Kiss, Scorpions and others, and trust me, they do not pull punches. Entertaining as always. The AC/DC guys will appear in the show with Mike Piazza in a taped segment and talk about the new CD, tour and more. Mike Piazza was great as always and talked GnR, VH, his favorite songs to hit to and much more. I am so happy with how things are going with this show and have my good friends Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson as co-hosts. The ball busting that goes on is awesome and many in the audience and crew at the tapings so far say they have never seen a show like this before. Even those not into metal seem to be loving it. I've been working on developing this for almost two years, and now that it's real and we are close to debuting the first show, it's really getting exciting! And if all that weren't enough I just scored two HUGE guests for the final two shows of season 1. I am so proud to say that we will be doing a show with my good friend Ace Frehley, and I am honored to say that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush will be coming in from Canada just to do the show! I've had the privledge of working with the Rush guys several times, and I can not thank them enough for making the effort to do the show. Needless to say this will be a HUGE one. Sorry to say that the slots for the in studio audience are SOLD OUT, but you will see all the action when the shows air. The premiere/pilot episode of That Metal Show airs 11/15 at 11PM ET/PT and will repeat several times through the week on VH1 Classic. A new episode every week after on Saturday nights at 11PM. It's 30 minutes and been called "The View" for rockers. More details soon. To all who have been in the audience for tapings, thanks. I'll have a special section of this site soon dedicated to this new TV show with updates and exclusive photos from the set!
My FM syndicated show premieres on a brand new station this Saturday night at Midnight. Pleased to welcome KDKB/Phoenix as our newest station affiliate. Spread the word if your in that area. So psyched to be on this station and connect with all the AZ rockers!
Uli Jon Roth on at 8P sharp this Saturday night at BBs. No opener. Alex Skolnick and Chris Caffery will play with Uli.
Joe Lynn Turner and Frank Hannon of Tesla were both on my XM show this past Monday. They were scheduled for the FM show but will be reschedule. This week on the Q104/NYC show J J from Twisted Sister drops by. Also the guys from Z02 stop in. Hopefully you have caught their great TV show on IFC.
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