I was listening to a radio station one day and i heard the dj mention a song called teazen’ pleazen’. I don’t if it’s a real song or not.

Thanks,
Headbanger Jayne Guns!!!

Hey, Headbanger Jayne, the answer is Dangerous Toys “Teasin’ Pleasin’ “.

Rock On! BuzzChic

From our longtime HOH headbanger fan, Derek R., comes this good question.

Hi, It’s ok if more then (1) family member enters the same contest, as long as they use their own email address, correct?

- Derek

YES! It’s totally fine for more than one family member to enter BUT they all must have their own email address. Thanks for asking so we could make this clear. Rock On, Derek! — BuzzChic

Dear BuzzChic,

hi, there’s a song i’m trying to locate. i don’t know who recorded it, but it was kind of like a tribute to glam metal or something like that. the song mentioned the bands twisted sister, kiss, gnr and the crue i think. any help?

Dave

Hi Dave, we gotcha covered. The song is “American Hair Band,” a parody of Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” (both of which incorporate the instrumentals of Metallica’s “Sad But True”) by the band TUFF. It was released in 2001 on the compilation CD The History of Tuff. “American Hair Band” makes references to numerous U.S. bands such as Motley Crüe, Skid Row, Guns N’ Roses, Warrant, Twisted Sister, Poison and KISS and even the non-American bands Def Leppard, Sleeze Beeze, and AC/DC, while at the same time, deriding 1990s grunge and alternative rock.

Thanks for trying to Stump the BuzzChic! — BuzzChic

Some great shout outs from our HOH Headbangers!

Thanks for the BuzzCut! I have been listening to House of hair for many moons and the buzzcut is the only way that I get your weekly news cuz Your website was determined to not be suitable for the work environment BUT I still listen to you at my desk and they cant stop me from getting my metal from Dee, You guys make the week start and end with style, Keep up the good work, and if its not metal its crap!

Sean from Phoenix on KDKB

Thanks, Sean, keep rockin’ it in Phoenix with us!

Hey this is Eric Hinkle half the vocals and guitar for BLACK MAGICK http://blackmagickonline.com, I see our video Haunted House was the featured video and my profile had made it into the future stars! I just wanted to tell you that it is truly an honor that we are there .
We listen too DEE every Sunday night on 101.5 Johnson City, TN
Thank you Buzzchic for being so cool!

Eric, glad to have you on our Headbangin’ crew! Rock on! BuzzChic

Oh, Yeah, Steve, you can bet we’ll keep rockin’ it out here at the HOH! Headbangers Unite! BuzzChic

Doro Pesch Interview for House of Hair Online
By Ray Van Horn, Jr.

HOH: Obviously you’ve been pounding the pavement on tour, doing a lot of EPs and DVDs since your last record Warrior Soul, which leads us to your new album Fear No Evil. How would you describe these past few years in this ever-changing metal climate; have things been a little easier, harder or not much different for you?

DORO: I must say, the time for metal right now is so good. We’ve been touring nonstop; it truly feels like the eighties almost! Now being able to do a record which represents all I’ve done in the past 25 years, I wanted to write good metal anthems that were really hard and have lots of double-bass stuff. Plus I love those soulful, melodic ballads. I wanted to have a record which represents all the many years I’ve been in the business. We wrote all the songs we could and I picked the ones I loved the most.

HOH: Fear No Evil is one the heaviest solo albums you’ve ever done. Your band has been well-seasoned working together so long on the road with you, but do you think they stepped things up a notch for you on this album?

DORO: Yeah, yeah. Usually every record has been a hard record to make; it’s never been easy. This one was really smooth, very easy and it was a lot of fun. It had a couple of things which I wanted to write songs for, like we did one for the 25th anniversary (“25 Years”) which was in my hometown in Dusseldorf. People from all over the world came last December and we were actually preparing this huge concert for a whole year, so I came up with enough ideas to write songs for this special event. For example, “Celebrate” was written for this anniversary gig and “The Night of the Warlock,” for the first time we had this big warlock onstage…it was huge! It took a year to build. Some of the ideas just came out very naturally. My guys and I get along so good and we’ll always play together. We know each other so well we can work with each other without talking about it. We just play and perform.

HOH: Definitely “Night of the Warlock” is a song a lot of people are talking about for obvious reasons. I know better than to entertain speculations, but would you at least see the Warlock guys coming onstage again and joining your current band like they did a few years ago?

DORO: The guys in my band are so tight and we work so well together. I would never want to jeopardize my relationship with them, but maybe a couple more Warlock gigs having them come onstage again could be a possibility. The Doro band, however, we’re really the best of friends and I want to think very carefully how to juggle it all. They come first because we’ve been doing this for so long, through ups and downs. With the Warlock name we’ve always had a problem, but in the past two years I got the rights to the name back so now it’s a little easier to use the name Warlock. Thank God; it’s been a really long time! (laughs) It’s here where it belongs. I’ve heard of many bands having these problems; it’s pretty common, I think.

HOH: I can appreciate your decision because I think this band is in there for you and I hope you keep this lineup together as best you can. This is definitely the tightest band you’ve had since Warlock.

DORO: Yeah, man, I’m so glad you said that! Since you’ve seen us play live, I think you can see that. Nick Douglas, our bass player, has been with me for over 20 years and Joe Taylor (guitar) has been with me since 1993. I definitely want to try and keep them together for many, many more years! (laughs) Then Johnny (Dee, drummer) made a great tour manager for our last tour in America; he was a great drummer and a great tour manager!

HOH: Following up your mention of “Celebrate,” we have a traditional Doro power metal anthem, which is something we’ve always come to expect on your albums delivered just by yourself. Yet this time you have a whole slew of guests such as Saxon’s Biff Byford, Girlschool, Holy Moses’ Sabina Claussen, Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow, just an entire entourage of metal stars. What was one of your favorite moments getting “Celebrate” put together?

DORO: I wanted to write a song like “All We Are” from (Warlock’s) True as Steel where everybody can sing along, so we wrote “Celebrate” and I invited all the fan club members to participate. They came from all over the world, we met in this one club and we were singing. My engineer said ‘You need to give me enough choices’ (for background vocals), some with five people, some with ten, some with just the men and some with just the ladies. So we had a couple of versions and there were the females singing where I thought, ‘Wow, this calls for an all-female version!’ I then called up all my friends and people we’ve had a long history with or just from being on tour with and I called Sabina Claussen, whom I’ve known since the eighties. Girlschool, I flew over to London to meet them, Benedictum’s Veronica Freeman I got from her doing spots on our last tour. There were all these people I knew and I asked if they wanted to sing the chorus and that’s really special, because it’s the 25th anniversary. I sent out the demos and some people came into the studio and other voices came back and the mix of them all together…ahh, it’s oh, so good! Then we had Biff of Saxon and oh, man, now we had to have one mix with the fan version, one female version and one Biff version! They all make great versions but on the record we put them all together. It was probably the most fun song to make. It went pretty fast and easy too. I want to thank all the people who participated; it was so great! On my 25th anniversary show, they all came out onstage and did the all-female version in Germany. It was wonderful! It was the longest show we’ve ever done, over three-and-a-half hours.

HOH: Your ballad “Herzblut” I think should be your “Fur Immer” for the next quarter century of your career, it’s that strong. As you’ve obtained an American green card on top of maintaining your German heritage, did you feel a need to honor your roots with “Herzblut?”

DORO: Oh, yeah, I love it so much! It’s one of my favorite songs from Fear No Evil. We actually made many more versions in different languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French…it’s very touching and “herzblut” the word, I actually just learned exists in German. “Blut” means blood, but when you put it together it has a specific meaning. When you do something with “herzblut,” it means you’re giving it your all, you’re giving your whole soul and blood. I’ve always thought we have been working in the manner of giving herzblut to the fans, always. This is definitely one of my favorite ballads on the album. I must say, ever since Rammstein had their hit “Du Hast” in German, things have not been so…

HOH: Not so threatening anymore! You know how it is over here! (laughs)

DORO: (laughs) I know, but I feel there’s much more acceptance now for other languages and stuff. When I do a record I thinkonly one song in German is enough. It’s cool to do it, but I’d rather do it in English. Usually all the heavy stuff sounds so much better in English, though it’s awesome when it’s meant to be sung in German.

HOH: “Caught in a Battle…” Doro, I think you’re going to cause a mosh pit with this one! (laughs) This is one of your fastest songs ever, even with “Running from the Devil” and “I Lay My Head Upon My Sword” on Fear No Evil. We’re used to a fist-pumping, headbanging crowd at your shows; are you ready for the pits to open up?

DORO: (laughs) Yeah, I actually wanted to bring the mosh pit back in our sound! We’ve rarely had that and I used to love it in the eighties, so “Caught in a Battle” I would agree is probably one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever done, including the Warlock times. We haven’t played it live yet. We’ve played many of the other songs, “Night of the Warlock” and stuff, but I do want to play this one on our next American tour and see what happens! (laughs)

HOH: Do it! I’ll take the bruises just to see! (laughs)

DORO: (laughs)

HOH: Your duet with Tarja Turunen (former vocalist of Nightwish) for “Walking With the Angels” is one of those standout ballads you’re historically dead on the money with, and you get to share the spotlight, so to speak, with Tarja. How did find working with her?

DORO: It was great. It was the first time I’ve collaborated with another female singer on one of our albums. We did do a collaboration with After Forever once which was great, and I thought “Walking With the Angels” had room for an angelic voice. I’ve actually been friends with Tarja for a long time, and I called her up and pitched the idea and she said ‘Oh, I love it, let’s do it!’ Then she gave me one of her songs called “The Seer,” which I sang on and then she sang on “Walking With the Angels,” so we swapped songs. We did it live at the festival, we did it live at the anniversary show, we want to do it again in Belgium; there’s a female metal band show, so we definitely want to do more stuff together. She’s very nice and she’s the former singer of Nightwish. I saw Nightwish for the first time at Wacken in 2002 and I was blown away, especially by her talent, so it was great singing together with her. I love having highlights of the record and collaborations. Usually I do it with guys like Lemmy and Udo Dirkschneider, but this was the first time it was with another lady. I think the song is perfect for it and Tarja was super, super fun and super sweet.

HOH: We’ve talked in the past about your time in heavy metal and the song “25 Years” is reflective of all you’ve experienced in a quarter century performing in this business. With Fear No Evil, you’re making a statement you’re going to be hanging around the metal scene for quite a bit still. What is one of your proudest moments as a musician making it this long in the industry?

DORO: Actually, I think one of the best moments is hitting the stage at the legendary Monsters of Rock Festival in ’86 (with Warlock). We played three shows including Castle Donnington and Germany. It was the biggest crowd we’d ever seen and it opened so many doors. I don’t think I was ever more nervous than on that day. Going onstage my knees were like pudding, but everybody thought the gig went well and people were so into it and then we got the best and biggest tour with Judas Priest in 1986. Priest were my idols and heroes and we’d gotten to tour with them! Just this one day in my life changed everything, the Monsters of Rock Festival. It was a long time ago, but still it’s one of the proudest moments of my life and most important.

HOH: Thanks, Doro for taking the time to chat with us and the HOH listeners!

WAITE WATCHER

Who’s the best rock vocalist in the world? Robert Plant? David Coverdale? Paul Rogers? Steve Perry? For me it’s none of the above. For my money the best rock vocalist in the world is John Waite. No, I’m serious. Given the body of work that he’s produced the 54-year-old Lancastrian takes the ultimate accolade in the HoJo ‘Golden Pipes’ Hall Of Fame.

You might think I’m taking the piss. After all, there are probably plenty of you who might only be dimly aware of Waite’s work and some of you who will never have heard him sing a single note. Waite’s star hasn’t been rising for 20 years already. His last big hit was back in 1989 when as frontman of AOR supergroup Bad English he hit the US Number One slot with ‘When I See You Smile’. But if you really want to hear why Waite is the best of the best that’s the very last place you should start. No, if you want to discover why White has the voice to die for, then you need to either a) go back to 1976 and Waite’s first major project The Babys or b) head to the late ’90s and the numerous solo albums he recorded after the massive success of the US Number One ‘Missing You’. While the style of music he performs varies massively – The Babys were Free goes poppier, the solo stuff classic American rock with a country tinge – Waite’s performances are never less than a sight for sore ears! This is a man who can reach into every corner of a rock singer’s canon and pull out a gem each time. He’s not a screamer by nature, but he can do a raw rocker like ‘Love Don’t Prove I’m Right’ with almost nonchalant ease. He’s not a country balladeer either, but listen to ‘Bluebird Café’ from his 1997 solo album ‘When You Were Mine’ and you’ll recognise instantly that this guy can turn his voice to anything he pleases. His is a rare talent.

So here are my five favourite John Waite vocal performances of all time. I could have chosen hundreds, but I do like to make things simple for you! If you’ve never heard John Waite sing before let’s hope this makes you check the man out. It’s easily done – three Babys CDs have just been reissued by our favourite label, Rock Candy (with liner notes by yours truly). If you already know his work, say hello to an old friend. And while you’re about it, why not show your appreciation of the man with our ‘Isn’t It Time?’ Saltyrockz T-shirt?

1) Isn’t It Time – The Babys – From ‘Broken Heart’ (1977)

A classic. Rock, pop, soul and blues rolled into an utterly irresistible piece delivered with total confidence by a vocalist at the very peak of his powers. All together now, ‘I just can’t find the answers to the questions that keep going through my mind’!

2) Change – John Waite – From ‘Ignition’ (1982)

New-wave tinged pop rock from the time when Waite was burning the candle at both ends in New York and discovering himself as a solo artist. Features a vocal that adds a touch of bitterness and danger to the mix to startling effect.

3) Fly – John Waite – From ‘Figure In A Landscape’ (2001)

A song of yearning and redemption in equal measure, delivered with just the right amount of controlled pathos to hint at loss and hope for better days. A vocal that’s so confident it hurts.

4) A Piece Of The Action – The Babys – From ‘Broken Heart’ (1977)

Unashamedly pompous balladry with strings sweeping all over the place and a big, thick drum wallop keeping the rock end of things up. It needed a brilliantly OTT vocal performance to do this monster justice and Waite provided it – with ease…

5) In Dreams – John Waite – From ‘Temple Bar’ (1995)

Waite gets to grips with a ballad that could have been a tad too schmaltzy had it not been for a brilliantly constructed arrangement and a simply dazzling vocal. Oh, and for the line “The world out there can kiss my ass”! No wonder Quentin Tarantino used it in on the soundtrack to True Romance.

Want to email me about this blog? Get in touch at hojo@saltyrockz.com

HoJo rocked as a top journalist on legendary UK metal magazine
Kerrang! and now runs a way-cool rock T-shirt site at www.saltyrockz.com.

PLAYLIST July 27, 2009 – August 02, 2009

• SKID ROW   YOUTH GONE WILD
• CINDERELLA   COMING HOME
• SLAUGHTER   SPEND MY LIFE
• PAT TRAVERS   BOOM BOOM (OUT GO THE LIGHTS)
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• REQUEST OF THE WEEK
• TWISTED SISTER   I WANNA ROCK
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• RICHIE SAMBORA   STRANGER IN THIS TOWN
• WHITESNAKE   STILL OF THE NIGHT
• TORA TORA   WALKING SHOES
• DANGEROUS TOYS   TEAS’N PLEAS’N
• VIXEN   EDGE OF A BROKEN HEART
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• 3RD DEE-GREE
• JUDAS PRIEST   BREAKING THE LAW
• THE CULT   SHE SELLS SANCTUARY
• RATT   LACK OF COMMUNICATION
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• KILLER CLONE
• VAN HALEN   ERUPTION – YOU REALLY GOT ME
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• DIO   MYSTERY
• SCORPIONS   THE ZOO
• GREAT WHITE   ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY
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• GREASY ROOTS OF METAL
• BLUE CHEER   SUMMERTIME BLUES
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• L.A. GUNS   THE BALLAD OF JAYNE
• METALLICA   SAD BUT TRUE
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• HAIR PAIR
• BON JOVI   BAD MEDICINE
• BON JOVI   RAISE YOUR HANDS
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• AC/DC    THUNDERSTRUCK
• DEF LEPPARD   ANIMAL
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• RARE HAIR
• SALTY DOG   COME ALONG
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• TESLA   ROCK THE NATION
• IRON MAIDEN   THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
• WARLOCK   ALL WE ARE
• KINGDOM COME   GET IT ON
• ZEBRA   TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT
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• REQUEST OF THE WEEK
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• I work as a mechanic at a local truck stop, and my fellow mechanics all listen to country. I grew up in the ‘80s with your band, Dee, and Kiss and Skid Row, and I love my hairbands to this day…I say if it AIN’T METAL, IT’S CRAP. So, as I drive to work to work my midnight shift please give me the inspiration to get through the night with some real ‘80s metal. Dee, your show rocks! I love listening to you every Saturday on my way to work.
  
  –Gary in Dover, OH, listening to Rock 106.9 WRQK

Do you want to take metal to the max? Then the House of Hair is the place you need to be…where all the wild things come to play!

I’m your host with the most for this twisted ride into the lipstick-coated, guy-liner smeared heart of hairband paradise. Twisted Sister, Ozzy and Warrant are all waiting to blow your mullet in the air along with some of your own requests . And, we continue our giveaway bonanza with custom HOH car and truck accessories, plus the new AC/DC Live Rock Band Track Pack. You’re gonna wish the ‘80s never ended! Be sure to check out this week’s House of Hair!