Yuto Miyazawa is a 10-year-old Japanese guitar prodigy. Yuto started playing the guitar when he was 3 and has primarily learned to play on his own. He’s already done things that most musicians can only dream of. He’s performed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” twice and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.” He also performed at Connecticut’s Gathering of the Vibes festival and jammed with legendary guitarist Les Paul. When he was 8 years old, he was named the youngest professional guitar player on the planet by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Now Yuto can add another accomplishment to list long list of goals. He got the opportunity to play along his his musical idol, Ozzy Osborne. Yuto was brought on stage at the August 21 Ozzfest stop in Hartford, Connecticut and joined Ozzy on Crazy Train. Yuto looked like a young Randy Rhoads and even used a black-with-white polka-dotted flying-V guitar that Rhoades was famous for.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a one-hit wonder in the vein of the lost multitudes of bands that hit and crashed in the eighties. But now we have a bonafide eighties-style one hit wonder in the bizarre electro band La Roux, who have scored a big hit with the eighties handjob Bulletproof. It has everything one recalls about the worst eighties one-hitters: tinny beats, snaky bass lines, silly effects, clappy snares. It’s essentially the Send Me An Angel of 2010.
Who knows what the hell that lead singer is, but I know she doesn’t have the range or power to endure like some other eighties singers like Annie Lennox. The music is mostly a joke as well. However, it’s kinda fun to reminisce about a more innocent and fun time in pop music for a few moments. And so I’d like to thank La Roux for bringing back that nostalgia momentarily before they disappear into obscurity.
This past Friday night, Canadian metal band Anvil made a stop in St. Louis. They played in front of a fairly large crowd at one of St. Louis’s top concert venues, The Pageant. The crowd was full of metal-heads of all ages and while it was obvious that most of the fans there had never heard of Anvil before the documentary “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”, they were loud and into every note the band ripped out.
Rob O’Connor of Yahoo recently took the time to put together the 25 Worst Hair Metal bands of all time, for his List Of The Day blog. The great thing about list is the fact that they almost always seem to spark some sort of debate or discussion. This list though, comes across as being written by somebody who doesn’t really know much about the subject and that makes the list come across as stupid.
The biggest problem of the list is putting Poison #1.
That seems to be the safe pick, for everybody. You mean to tell me that Poison were worse than Trixter or Slaughter or Winger? Winger isn’t even on the list, but I’ll get to that later. By putting Poison #1, it proves that he really knows nothing about the type of music. Yet the average music fan listens to this opinion, because he must know what he’s talking about. After all it’s his job to know, right?
Yes, Sebastian Bach is an arrogant egotistical jack-off, but Skid Row aren’t a hair metal band. I know they get lumped into the category, but they shouldn’t. It’s kind of like in the mid 90′s when every band that came out of Seattle was grunge. Seriously, who in the hell really thought that Candlebox or the Screaming Trees were grunge. So again to say that Skid Row is “hair metal” is wrong and to say that they were worse than Bad English, Bullet Boys or Slaughter is ridiculous.
The other problem I have with the list is the bands that were left off. How does Winger miss making the list.
How about Nelson, Faster Pussycat, or Kix? These bands not only should have made the list, but they should have been way above Poison, Skid Row and Whitesnake. I wish when people make a list they would actually put a little thought into it and not just take the easy route and throw the safe picks at the top.
I’m sure Rob O’Connor is a knowledgeable guy, but this list would suggest otherwise.
St. Louis Cardinals fan favorite and utility player Scott Spiezio is not only a clutch hitter of the bench, but he is also a hard rocker. Do you think he has a career after baseball?
