Rock Sugar, Travis, and CF

[goosebruce]

Uh yeah... steve perry like quit. You don't head up a freggin stadium rock band and one day go, oh, i think I'll quit and do my own thing. It took 20 years or so to find a 19 year old phillipino replacement, but I can in all honestly say right now, steve perry, you can suck it. Neal schon is not of this earth... he looks EXACTLY the same as he did on the album cover I was looking at the night i touched my first breast (that wasnt mine...). He hasnt aged a bit since 1982. Pretty sure hes an alien. He tried a solo gig for like 9 minutes, then went back to searching for a new steve perry that didnt suck. time well spent.

Never figgered out why sammy hagar was cool on his own, but sucked it as van hagar? And dlr was cool for like 12 minutes after he quit van halen. Eddie didnt age for like 20 years.. the past 4 or 5 have been HARD on him.

I think Im gonna watch joe dirt with the volumn down, and my ROCK SUGAR cd cranked all the way up. Who hasn't listend to the hook in sandman, and said IM YUR COUSIN IM YUR COUSIN. bwhahahahahahah!

trans cameros rule. One of the best pieces of my proud southern white trash hertiage. travis

[SkippyJ]

Packing my bags as I type this.......

[skuna]

80’S METAL BAND “ROCK SUGAR” RESCUED AFTER 20 YEARS ON DESERTED ISLAND. BRAINWASHED AND CONFUSED, ROCKERS RETURN TO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SHOCKING NEW MUSICAL STYLE.

1989 should have been the best year ever for Rock Sugar, the big haired heavy metal band that had just broken the top 41 on the rock radio charts with their solid brass debut album “Bang You Like A Drum”. But instead of headlining concerts, Rock Sugar made the headlines when they were presumed lost forever after playing an extremely ill advised gig celebrating the bat mitzvah of 13-year-old Lisa Rosenberg.

The show was performed miles out to sea aboard the private luxury yacht of Lisa’s father, schnapps millionaire Schlomo Rosenberg. Assuming that Rock Sugar was some innocent boy band, Schlomo had no idea who they actually were or what they actually sounded like. He only knew from his extremely spoiled daughter that they were “really cute” and he figured that must mean she would love their music. She didn’t, and judging from the stunned expressions on their faces, neither did her prepubescent little friends.

Shortly after the chorus of Rock Sugar’s second song “Nail You Like A Hammer”, a drunken and violent brawl broke out involving the band, the rabbi, a clown, the captain, a guy in an Smurf costume, Schlomo and well over a hundred infuriated and now thoroughly sexually confused children. In the midst of the fight, as Jesse, the lead singer, was pummeling the Smurf and no one was steering the damned ship anymore, it struck an undersea stone wall. As the boat was sinking, the extremely unhappy and now yacht less Schlomo refused to let Rock Sugar climb aboard the life rafts to safety.

Having been denied rescue, the band credit their miraculous ability to make it to the shore alive only because of their firmly held belief that “sharks don’t eat metal”. Left to their own extremely questionable survival skills, Rock Sugar managed to salvage several items from the sunken yacht. In addition to their instruments, they retrieved a hot pink battery powered boom box covered with stickers of Hello Kitty, a crate of batteries, 158 cases of schnapps and numerous articles of teenage girls clothing, most of which the band admit to trying on and several pieces of which apparently fit and looked “pretty frickin’ awesome”. But things got worse when the horrified rockers discovered that the only music available for them to listen to was little Lisa Rosenberg’s very pop, very 13 year-old girl’s, very ‘80’s CD collection.

And so, the hardcore degenerate heavy metal members of Rock Sugar spent the last two decades stuck on an island with nothing to do but drink schnapps, catch hard to digest wildlife, befriend monkeys and dream of their long lost groupies while listening only to, and being slowly and systematically brainwashed by, every favorite pop song of a 1980’s preteen girl. Bored, full of schnapps and wasting away on a tropical oasis, they built a stage out of driftwood, bamboo shoots and tree sap and got to work. Against the odds, Rock Sugar was alive… and they were practicing.

Fast forward twenty years when a tuna boat with a screwed up compass discovered a group of long haired castaways on a deserted island far out in the middle of the Pacific. Finally rescued and now violently thrown back into the real life of present day Los Angeles, and with absolutely no clue whatsoever of anything that’s happened, developed or changed in the world since 1989, Rock Sugar is back and ready to electrify audiences with their brand new, razor sharp, psychotically original sound.

The first twenty years of their lives spent listening to heavy metal followed by a twenty year forced diet of little girl pop, their own influences have permanently collided with the unknowingly very influential 13-year-old Lisa Rosenberg. And now Rock Sugar is performing “re-imaginings” of the world’s favorite songs in ways that the world has never even dreamed of. Twenty years of what started with a shipwreck and turned into history’s longest reluctant rehearsal has paid off and the band, as well as the wild originality of what they have created, are beyond belief or explanation.

But while you may be able to at last take the metal band off the deserted island, apparently you can’t take 20 years of exposure to 80’s pop out of the metal band. Prepare to have the line between pop and metal blown to smithereens and pour yourself a shot of Rock Sugar.

Because Pop Rocks.

[skuna]

All I can say is WTHell?

[skuna]

And just listened to some samples on the web site..........bout like half of the hiphop crap out there, they basically rip off other peoples stuff.......and make it worse than it was to begin with.

[goosebruce]

dude.... rip off? omg... they are sampling, they're MASHING, meshing, I dunno whut ya call it, but its boss. Its like a montage, but cool. And they take the songs that sucked, and make them cool. You probably need to listen to it for real.... spend 10 minutes in my truck listening to it like God intended, and you'd be a convert... puter speakers and i phones don't do them justice. travis

[CF]

It's a matter of time trav...


I've witnessed several initially try to fight it only later to realize how wrong they were...


...it's only a matter of time...

[goosebruce]

i was one of those... my wifey showed it to me, i thought it a puter trick at first and was un impressed.

BTW, speaking of youtube, ck out united breaks guitars... apprently this country music singer saw united crew throwing their guitars around, complained and got the blank stare. he made a song and a video, which was funny enough it was on the freggin today show. Pretty sure this guys ticket to the top is gonna be written by the rude booty folks that broke his stuff and then looked at him like he was crazy. man what a country we live in. travis

[MRC Dream]

Rock Sugar on facebook..... http://www.facebook.com/RockSugarBand?ref=nf

[skuna]

Did Travis say it was "Boss".......dude, talking about 1980 something. Guess you need to be a child of the 80's to appriciate, and I was born circa 78 so I'm more of a 90's dude. But if I wasnt they would still suck.

[ragon]

NEWS FLASH new group taking the world by storm, COUNTRY SALT slammin together old country with watered down country, George Jones and Billy Ray, He stopped loving her Achey Breaky Heart

[goosebruce]

Im a 71 model.... so I was deifnelty a child of the 80's.. I came in on the back end of stadium rock, but with an older brother it was all I knew as a small child, and of course graduatin hi school in 89, the songs featured by rock sugar are forever ingrained in my mind. Funny cause jimbo is so much younger than me, but it was the same music for him cause of all the 'cover' bands they had to listen to in college, its the same music to him. ha. I guess yur stuck in the spot between us benjy... ya can see whats kewl you just can't reach it! ha. travis

[skuna]

I hear ya. Either way I could not be as cool as you bro.....it just aint in me. I did like and still do dig late 80's metal....metalica, G&R, AC/DC, Ozzy......all though most of them have rocked for 20 or 30 years.

[goosebruce]

If you watched half of joe dirt before you figgered out dude was making fun of him on the radio interview you probably got musical tastes like me.... course that was just one side, ya had lynard sknard & hank & waylon & dac. I remember when dwight yoakem came out, it was the first country that sounded right thru a pair of 15's (i sang dixie 1984...). I remember thinking how pop bon jovi was until I saw how freggin crazy chicks went for it, and no chick ever wanted to hear your iron madien or your ratt tape. I never got into KISS. Not sure why, just never got into them even though Beth was like the orignal rock ballad that many others followed (and who didnt think a chick named beth you could sing that song to would be awesome).

You cant talk 80s without the bestie boys or night ranger.... but thats another whole topic. travis

[skuna]

I still dig the beastie boys! Sabotage is in my top 10 songs.