Mullets are due for a big comeback. Even though many have never given them up, its been 20 years. Its time for a mullet-style resurgence.

Crap like this gets made, but White Trash Wins Lotto can’t get beyond off off off off B’way?

Finally! I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to break out the ol’ parachute pants gathering dust in the back of Hatmandu’s closet. Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto Maroulis!

Seriously, Tbogg, either kill me now, or put up a Modest Mouse video to ease the pain.

Alterman is always bragging about how much better NYC is than any other city. I think this pretty much negates any cool hapening in the Apple for, or, about a century.

Any city that would let something like this happen, to borrow a phrase from Mojo Nixon, has no Elvis in it.

Well, now, were these really “1980s hair bands?” Styx peaked in the 1970s didn’t they? And I always thought hair bands were folks like Poison or the Scorpians. They can’t even get their copy right.

As foul as this is, Tbogg, how have you forsaken me and failed to comment about Sherry Johnston’s House of Meth Oxycontin????

Bet Kristen Chenoweth is pissed she didn’t get the lead. Mark Platt is hearing footsteps.

Did you watch the video of the “preview”… ? Hysterical. I can’t wait to break out the shoulder pads and hair spray.

Can I please just die now, or do I have to live long enough to see the national touring company with Dee Snyder and Tiffany?

What a great spot for Britney Spears or a LiLo comeback!

In case you are interested, Constantine Maroulis has snagged the lead role in the upcoming Off-Broadway production of the Musical Rock of Ages….

…Which is wrong on SO many levels….

It sounds like American Idol welfare. Like wingnut welfare, but for no talent wanna be’s that wingnuts probably love.

This makes me feel really icky.

I’m waiting for the Asia/Flock of Seagulls/Human League/Night Ranger reunion tour, meself.

ALL:
When you aren’t stealing that extra bow
There’s no people like show people
They smile when they are low

MEN’S CHORUS:
Yesterday they told you you would not go far

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
That night you opened and they were right…

No, American Idol welfare consists of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

Since when is Styx a “hair band”. They were always ever a 70s hard rock group that tried to transform itself into a Prog Rock band by adopting bits and pieces of old Yes, Genesis and ELP. They were also-rans in all of those sweepstakes and their main writer, Dennis DeYoung, missed his calling for writing bad Broadway rock musicals.

Not a band mentioned had anything to do w/ the Hollywood clubs of the era, or who anyone in the Hollywood clubs of the era wanted to a) look, & b) sound like.

Other than that, it’s a horrible idea. (Typed as one who had nothing to do w/ the Hollywood “scene” of the era, but viewed it from as far away as possible while still existing in Hollywood.)

Actually, it sounds boring to me, but it has won some awards (back when it opened in LA, ‘natch) and if you check out the audience reactions on their website, it reeks of attracting a kind of “WICKED”-like groupie… of course, the Rock of Ages groupie is over 40 and probably gets drunk during the performance, but you get the idea…

Rock of Ages will breathe new life into America’s dinner theaters.

Good links there, jacqrat. I like the “backstage tour” that requires “parental guidance.”

“Groupies in their forties drinkin’ at the show?” Take back all I said, I’m there w/ my hair-farmer wig on! How’d I miss this in L. A.? Oh, right, I gave up reading the Weekly yrs. ago.

I’m waiting for the Rock of Love Musical. Have the perfect old raincoat to wear.

Here’s the score … er, excuse me: the set list:

“We Built This City” – Starship
“Nothing But a Good Time” – Poison
“Keep On Lovin’ You” – REO Speedwagon
“(Just Like) Livin’ in Paradise” – David Lee Roth
“I Wanna Rock” – Twisted Sister
“Too Much Time on My Hands” – Styx
“Renegade” – Styx
“I Hate Myself for Loving You” – Joan Jett
“Oh Sherrie” – Steve Perry
“Waiting For a Girl Like You” – Foreigner
“Shadows of the Night” – Pat Benatar
“Don’t Stop Believin’” – Journey
“Heaven” – Warrant
“The Search is Over” – Survivor
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” – Twisted Sister
“High Enough” – Damn Yankees
“The Final Countdown” – Europe
“I Want to Know What Love Is” – Foreigner
“Harden My Heart” – Quarterflash
“Here I Go Again” – Whitesnake
“To Be With You” – Mr. Big
“Every Rose Has Its Thorn” – Poison
“Hit Me With Your Best Shot” – Pat Benatar
“Can’t Fight This Feeling” – REO Speedwagon
“Wanted Dead or Alive” – Bon Jovi
“Cum On Feel the Noize” – Quiet Riot
“Any Way You Want It” – Journey
“Heat of the Moment” – Asia
“Sister Christian” – Night Ranger
“More Than Words” – Extreme

I sure hope that Mr. Big song segues into the one they used to play with a power drill, just so there’s a chance of a really dangerous accident.

I meant to include my response to that “set list,” but I couldn’t find the emoticon for projectile vomiting.

This sonic landfill leads off with “We Built This City”?
Ranked appropriately as the worst rock song of all time: “Purporting to be anti-commercial, it reeks of ’80s corporate-rock commercialism. It’s a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the ’80s.”

Surprised they left out “The Heart of Rock & Roll” by Loopey Lewis & The News and Eddie Murphy’s “Party All the Time”.

ai-fucking-eee…

Here’s where I have to defend the 80’s from this crime against everything and everyone I hold dear. Well, not really. I mean these songs were either all or mostly from “the 80s”, but I had the same relationship to them as I had to Patrick Swayze movies — they made everything worse, but it was basically an annoyance rather than an epoch-defining cultural moment (’cept that Joan Jett song. She’s the fucking balls).

But to me, and I suspect most of you, the 1980’s were a massively underrated time for music. The Mats, Husker Du, Joy Division/New Order, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Black Flag, Minutemen, Bad Brains, The Smiths, The Cure, etc. Your milage may vary, of course, and there are tons of bands I’m not thinking about or listing at the moment. To think that London Calling came out around the time of those Journey songs should put it in a better perspective.

You could have grown up and existed in a happy (well, slightly angsty and rebellious) alternate universe from this broadway shit, which was even at the time thought of, and known, as broadway-style bullshit.

What I really dread actually, is that Broadway decides to take on CBGB: The Musical.

Maybe they should upgrade the lead – Clay Aiken!

sorry. should’ve issued a barf alert…

I saw “Eric Clapton is dead” and thought OH SWEET JESUS. Don’t do that.

Chris Daughtry can play the dad, Taylor Hicks can play the gay uncle.

Grace Slick can play crazy great-aunt Wanda, Tommy Shaw can play her tetched-in-the-head boarder Gus, and Dennis DeYoung can play Rev. Wiener, the strange Episcopal priest at St. Dominatrix parish.

And BonJovi can play Spud, the bartender.

Now that you mentioned Chris Daughtry, I just want to chime in and wish Scott Stapp a hearty FUCK YOU!
Merry Christmas!

This tripe exists solely to extract money from tourists bused in for that explict purpose. In might be playing on Broadway, but it is most certainly not of Broadway.