Axl Rose's Birthday!

Axl Rose

Axl Rose dosen’t need much of a presentation. Guns N’ Roses is one of the most iconic rockbands, with songs that everyone knows and they created one of rock n’ rolls most epic albums, ”Appetite For Destruction”. 

Now, I know there’s a lot of opinions to the bespoken Guns N’ Roses reunion. Some thinks they should do a ”Mötley Crüe” and end it before they become a bunch of watered down, old has beens. 

Me, on the other hand, are quite exited about this reunion. 

Most people wants to see Axl and Slash on the same stage again. I would love to see the original line up reunite. This reunion will, so far, ”officially” only feature Duff McKagan and Slash as ”original” members, apart from Axl Rose, but he is Guns N’ Roses. Who knows, Izzy and Adler might join them... Fingers crossed. 

If you’re a bit tired of Guns N’ Roses (how can you possible be?) and you’d still like to hear Axl Rose sing, you can hear him on Sebastian Bach’s (first lead singer in Skid Row) second solo album, ”Angel Down” from 2007. Axl Rose participated on three songs on the album. He actually wrote and sang on the song ”Stuck Inside” and sang on a cover of the Aerosmith song ”Back in the Saddle” and he sings on the song I think is the best one on the album, ”(Love Is) A Bitchslap”.
It’s a swingy and appealing rock song with great music and lyrics filled with attitude. It’s perfect if you’re a fan of both Skid Row and Guns N’ Roses.  

Happy Brithday Axl Rose! 





I couldn’t resist, it can never be to much of Guns N’ Roses!

Johnny Rotten's Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Johnny Rotten!

Today on January 31st it’s Johnny Rotten’s birthday. I'm going to celebrate that by playing one of my favorite Sex Pistols songs, "No Feelings" from the epic punk album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols". It's also the only official full length album that the Sex Pistols ever did, released in October 1977. 

You can hear "No Feelings" and see the video to the song in the clip below.

Tom Keifer's Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Tom Keifer!

Today 26th of January we celebrate Tom Keifer, who is most known as the singer and guitar player in the American 80’s glam band ”Cinderella”. After the Heartbreak Tour with Cinderella in the 90’s, Tom lost his voice do to paralysis on one of his vocal cords and that made Cinderella split up. Tom worked on his health and soloalbum. Later on Cinderella got back together and started to tour again. Depending on Tom’s voice they’ve toured a bit back and forth since then. 

In April, 2013 he released his solo album ”The Way Life Goes”. A soft rock & blues album with hints of country. Basic music where Tom’s love for the guitar is shown/heard and the music and the vocals are working together. Despite his voice problems he sings well and he uses his voice as an instrument to the music. 

I recommend the songs ”Mood Elevator” which is great and in the clip below you can see the song ”It’s Not Enough”. 

Last year Tom did a few selected shows in Europe and only one in Scandinavia, Stockholm with Swedish Close Quarters as support. Tom will do shows in the USA this year. For more info you can go to his website. 

Follow @TomKeiferMusic

Steven Adler's Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Steven Adler!

Today we are celebrating Guns N’ Roses first and original drummer, Steven Adler on his birthday! 

Instead of playing or writing something from Guns N’ Roses I will tell you about Steven’s own band, named ”Adler”. The band have been around since 2011 after Steven’s other band ”Adler’s Appetite” broke up. ”Adler’s Appetite” is worth looking up, they have some good songs too, for example ”Alive” and  ”Fading”.

The band ”Adler” are Hollywood based, with four members, Jacob Bunton, on lead vocals and guitar who also writes most of the lyrics, Johnny Martin, bass and vocals, Lonny Paul, guitar and vocals and of course, Steven Adler on drums. In 2012 the band released their first album, ”Back From The Dead”. It’s my new favorite album! It dosen’t have one bad song on it and ”Back From The Dead” is an album where you don’t have to skip any songs. 

It’s a perfect mix of cool guitars, great drumming, nice lyrics and vocals. This is pure rock music with energy, the right amount of attitude and punch in the music, while still being fresh and interesting. 

Something I’m missing in todays music scene. 
I think it's a good mix of music and lyrics. Sometimes the lyrics seems to be inspired by Steven Adler’s book, Adler’s Appetite. If you hope to find Guns N’ Roses here, you will be disappointed. I think Adlers solo album is much better then Slash solo album, because the singer doesn’t (try to) sound like Axl Rose. No hard feelings to Myles Kennedy, who is great live. Steven Adler said in an interview how he like to be in this band and the energy this band have hasen’t he felt since the earlier days of Guns N’ Roses. 

Since the whole album is so good it’s hard to choose one song that stands out, but if I had to choose one, it would be the title track ”Back From The Dead”. This song is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. They have not made so many videos to go a long with the music. But here is the video for the song ”The One That You Hated” in the clip below.

Adler will play at the M3 Festival in Columbia, Maryland, US in April, 2016. 

For more news about Adler check out the bands Facebook , twitter or blog/site.