Loyal K*N*G — Rock/Metal Edition

Seeing how I am still on my high from just finishing up “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Adventure”, I decided to go above and beyond by posting up Kiss’ “God Gave Rock & Roll To You” as a follow-up to our previous post, where we had Poison’s “Every Rose has Its Torn“. This soundtrack by Kiss was the final anthem for the epic movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. And fittingly so!

So I just finished watching Bill & Ted’s Bogus adventure, and after hearing the infamous dialog exchanged between the receptionist of heaven and the three stooges (Bill, Ted, and the Reaper); “Every rose has its torn, every night has it dawn, and every Cowboy sings a sad… sad… song.” I just had to post this music video of Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Torn”.

Our previous weekend, we headed out to our local town’s annual Alleyfest festival. The festival itself is full of booths filled with a great variety of arts and crafts, clothing, food, turkey legs, pizza, gadgets, toys and all kinds of random tidbits. There’s are ranges of various activities, but the headline of the night was no doubt the live-performance of the legendary rock band, Blue Oyster Cult! I grabbed my camera and headed to the front of the concert to watch this band up-close-and-personal. Their performance in our town was literally a surprise appearance. I only attended the Alleyfest to just hang out with friends and family, but was pleasantly surprised that the band who “needed more cowbells (SNL joke)” was in town. They played various classics for a good 1-2hrs on stage, and it was an incredible night for all the local attendees. This was a big deal, especially for our little town in Longview, Texas.

Check out some of the Alleyfest stuff that I managed to grab below:

Grabbed a quick photo of some of the workers serving up some tasty food to the attendees!

I even ran into one of my good photographer buddy, Tony Gomez of Shoot and Destroy photography!

These are our good friends, Astha (left) and her husband, Anup. They are both incredible artists, and they were showcasing their craft at the Alleyfest!

Click through for more coverage and Blue Oyster Cult!

Hevisaurus has created a new genre of metal called Dinosaur metal, Hevisaurus is made of the legendary band members of Sonata Arctica and Dio. The reason for the creation of Hevisaurus was to make heavy metal music for kids, a strange thought to have when they are from a legendary metal band. The dinosaur suit idea came from one of the band members, and after that the suits just stuck with them.

The lyrics usually deal with popular children’s stories and, you know, dinosaurs. Because that’s the heart of metal.

This is one of Hevisaurus concert video, they are win.

Rolling Stones’ songs are like every where in the cinemas. When ever I’m flipping to some short of television show, such as Entourage, Flash Forward, and moar, or movies, such as ones directed by Martin Scorceses, I’m always hearing Rolling Stones songs being rocked. And how can you blame them? Rolling Stones are risk-free, it’s like an automatic cheesy, but awesomely cool scene in the making when you embed Rolling Stones’ songs. So I’m just going to leave this thread embedded with Rolling Stones’ “Like a Rolling Stone.” So does this make this post anymore cooler? Yes.

Today’s track of the day is “Use Somebody” by the Kings of Leon. And if you guys have heard this track, then you’ll probably understand just what make this song such a great listen. Everything is on point with this track, from the guitars, drums, to the buttery smooth vocals. Not much else I can say that hasn’t already been said.So with all that said, here’s the lyrics to the track so we can all sing together:

I’ve been roaming around
Always looking down
And all I see
Painted faces
Fill the places
I can’t reach

You know
That I could
Use somebody
You know
That I could
Use somebody

Someone like you
And all you know
And how you speak
Countless lovers
Under cover
Of the street

You know
That I could
Use somebody
You know
That I could
Use somebody
Someone like you…

Off in the night
While you live it up
I’m off to sleep
Wagin’ war
To shake the poet
And the beat

I hope it’s gonna
Make you notice
I hope it’s gonna
Make you notice

Someone like me,
Someone like me,
Someone like me, somebody.

Go and let it out…

Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody

I’ve been roamin’ around
Always lookin’ down at all I see

The kings of guitar shredding, Paul Gilbert and Shawn Lane, has joined forced in this epic Beatles’ tribute with “Let It Be.” These guys are living legends, and if you are any fans of rock and metal, then you most likely have heard of these guys. Paul Gilbert is just ridiculous with the way he rips through his guitar, and don’t get me started on Shawn Lane, the dude was a living prodigy before his unfortunate passing…Let this video be a reminder of what legends can do. Paul Gilbert and Shawn Lane are at the 1993 NAMM convention.