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Hipsters Out Of Metal!, Reunion Mania, What the fuck??

WILL TRADE LEFT NUT FOR BLUE MURDER TOUR

 Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 3:00pm by

For metal fans over the age of 30, there’s little fresh news to be found on VH1′s That Metal Show; the weekly show functions mostly as a clubhouse for “remember when?” type gab with flabby old-timers. (For metal fans under 30, TMS provides a peek back in time to when the term “metal” meant “heavier than Paul McCartney & Wings.”) So I was one of tens of viewers of the TMS season seven finale, in which former Ozzy drummer Carmine Appice (above, big brother of Heaven & Hell skinsman Vinny Appice) shot ropey jets of great and hilarious news all over the sweaty boobs of the dinosaur metal world.

Wow, that’s a clusterfucked metaphor, but ahem the important thing is that the unconvincingly bewigged Appice addressed the status of Blue Murder to TMS host Eddie Trunk, who along with me makes up about half of the post-Whitesnake John Sykes supergroup’s restless, rabid fanbase. But that was only the happiest news, not the weirdest. According to Appice:

  • His ’60s band Vanilla Fudge once took a then-fledgling Led Zeppelin on tour, where Appice forged a friendship with (and arranged a Ludwig endorsement for) Zep drummer John Bonham. On at least one occasion, Zep was “booed off the stage.”
  • At a New Jersey gig supporting Black Sabbath (with newcomer Bruce Springsteen in the opening slot), his band Cactus nearly came to blows with Sabbath members and crew over “a bag of marijuana.”
  • When reassembling his post-Cactus/pre-Blue Murder band King Kobra in 2010, Appice met with KK singer Mark Free, who has since become a woman and taken the name Marcie Free, and offered her the gig anyway. Class!
  • On Blue Murder: “All I can say is we’re talking. We’re talking about it. John [Sykes, writer of your favorite Whitesnake songs] emailed me the other day and said, ‘Let’s talk about a couple things.’”

YES! YES! YES! B’Murder only managed one major record (their half-hearted sophomore album is meh), but it’s a titan and a face-blaster. The power trio went nowhere, but to know them is to love them, really really love them (more here). So I have a request, dear MetalSucks reader: Where there are rock star egos and inertia, an extra cosmic push is necessary. So please take a moment at your leisure to help me will a Blue Murder tour into existence. Don’t laugh! This is my life we’re talking about! I ask so very little of you!! Wherever you are, chant along with me, “We’re screamin’ Blue Murder. We’re screamin’ Blue Murder. We’re screamin’ …”

-ADF

King Kobra’s first album since 1986, King Kobra, is out May 5 on Frontiers Records.

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  • BlackVomit

    The first Cactus album rips!!!!

    • David

      ‘Restrictions’ is good too.

      I agree, Carmine is pure class. He was great playing live with Shenkar, though somewhat underutilized, imo (Shenkar’s kinda ‘dumbed down’ his playing lately).

      David

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Erik-Nowak/1002131521 Erik Nowak

    My favorite Paul McCartney & Wings song is “Love Take Me Down (To the Streets)”.

    • mynutz

      Hahaha Role Models….nice one…

      • Strapping Young Lad

        such an underrated movie. I haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in…well, forever.

  • Fistful of Dave

    Sykes only writing credits are on the 1987 album. Sure he revved up the “Slip It in songs” but he didn’t write any of them. Unless you are suggesting that the 1987 album is the only good one.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamel-Banner/731572742 Jamel Banner

      1987 has all the Whitesnake songs 99.9 percent of people give a shit about……

      • Fistful of Dave

        Slide It In, Slow an’ Easy and Love Ain’t No Stranger I would say are on most peoples lists.

  • Trux

    hell yeah Anso… I am chanting….I am chanting!!!

  • Chris Timbó

    Count me in if it involves a tour to Brazil.

  • lost goat

    reading this article,and realizing hes been in bands since the 60s,its a trip that he looks the way he does- imagine him w/o the wig and dying his moostache…like a old man

  • Mcmetal

    Count me among the few Blue Murder fans as well. That self titled album was among the best that came out at the time. Especially when you ignore the puffy pirate shirts on the back sleeve.

  • enemyofgod72

    I was never a Blue Murder fan but I’m for any band making metal music, more power to them if it happens.

    What I want to comment on is “That Metal Show” — Is this the worst “metal” show ever or what? I’ve tried watching a few times but I find it to be about as “metal” as Brittany Spears. It’s like watching your grandfather on the front porch with your uncles giving endless proclamations of “well back in my day…”. TMS is serious awful and I’m nearly 40, I can’t stand people my age and older that are stuck on the bands they listened to when they were teens. MOVE ON ALREADY!!

  • Lucifersmile

    I’m 39 and I know more real metal history than those 3 jack offs combined. I fucking hate that show.

  • Dick Johnson

    You can say all you want about the show. BUT remember folks everyone of us will get old. In 30 years do you think people will give 2 fucks about some emocore band? Doubt it.

  • lost goat

    on “that metal show”,they DO go on and on about a buncha old fogey shit.

    but id rather hear about foghat and foreigner than metalcore/deathcore beeber hair bs

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/EternalServantJPN?feature=mhum Eternal Servant

    John Sykes is one of my favorite musicians/composers & heroes!
    I met him as a winner of an event hosted by BURRN! magazine in Japan in ’95.
    It was such an honor to meet him coz his contributions to that mega hit Serpens Albus was huge! His return to Japan is expected by lots of loyal fans!!!!