CANTRELL & IAN JOIN FORCES… BUT NOT IN A SUPERGROUP
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 2:47pm by Axl Rosenberg
When Vince and I saw Alice in Chains last month, there was a lot of hub-bub in the crowd ’cause Scott Ian and his wife, Pearl “Meatloaf’s Daughter” Aday, were very visibly sitting in the VIP section of the balcony. But seeing Scott Ian at a New York metal show isn’t really that unusual, so I didn’t think much of it at the time.
As it turns out, though, Ian and AIC’s Jerry Cantrell are, indeed, friends – and now business partners. So says a press release:
Two icons of rock have joined forces to create a new rock bar and performance space in Las Vegas. Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian plan to launch the venue, Dead Man’s Hand, in November.
The bar will feature none of the trendy décor, snobby attitude and outlandish prices so prevalent in Vegas. Instead, Dead Man’s Hand will favor grit over glitz, providing customers great music, cool atmosphere and affordable drinks all year long.
“We want this to be a place that we would want to hang out in,” Ian says. “There’s a huge segment of the music audience that likes to go out but doesn’t want to go to places that only play Lil Wayne and Lady Gaga and charge $750 for a bottle of vodka. We want to be the opposite of that.
“I always wanted to have a cool joint with some friends that would be a great place to go at night,” adds Cantrell, “It’s close to Los Angeles, and a lot of cool bands and people hit Vegas. We wanted to make a fun place for everybody to hang.”
I don’t quite buy the whole “Hey we’re a Vegas club but we’re a cool Vegas club” but – the press release then goes on say that “The venue’s first event will be a November 7th party for Bluff Magazine,” which already strikes me as pretty fancy schmancy; so those bottles of vodka might cost $200 instead of $750.
Still, anyone who goes to Vegas thinking it’s gonna be cheap was fooling him or herself to begin with. I haven’t been to Sin City since much earlier this century, but I had a great time when I was there. I might check this place out if I ever make it back.
-AR
Maybe they can book Gwar then?
A fake dive bar, how original
truth
place will be cool. we need more rock bars out there. they are few and far between. most clubs just play pop BS.
as if i didn’t already have enough reasons to go to vegas. now this place. I can go back and forth between there and the hard rock
Is Scott Ian still a food critic for Suicide Girls? When I saw the headline, I was kinda hoping for a restaurant.
Bullshit, ill believe it when i see it. Love Cantrell, i kinda think all the VH1 Stardom has gone to Ian’s head.
Like AXL said, aint shit in Vegas cheap, and you can bet your mamas sweet ass any Bar/Club ran by Cantrell/ Ian whether you like it or not is gonna be scene.
I will check it out next time I’m in Vegas but I do suspect there will be a lot of Affliction shirts in the house.
Ian opened a bar in New York a few years ago called Retox. It was moderately cool, but it wasn’t cheap. It was also an ‘upscale rock and roll club.’ But upscale rock and roll was more like douchy people ’slumming it’ from going to bottle service bars and ironically throwing devil horns while trading their Brooks Brothers shirts in for Ed Hardy for a night. Ian might be an authentic rock and roll dude, but the people that went to his NYC club weren’t.
I believe it.
who gives a fuck if they were spending money
If you want to goto a Badass hole in the wall, check out a Bar in Amsterdam called The Cave. Its no bigger than your average 2 car garage but the folks who work there are cool as fuck, drinks are decently priced. And well maybe im biased but my friends and I met Randy from LOG there and did shots for an hour or two. If you’re ever in Europe check it out.
Are you sure you didnt meet a random guy named Andy Blythe and you were just too drunk to hear the R? lol just kidding but thats really cool he seems like a cool guy.
Nah it was him. He is VERY down to earth. No rockstar trip with him. We just sat..drank..talked metal…drank…drank….drank…drunk…..