We get fan mail…

and we love it!! Here’s one from BuzzChic’s mailbag this week -

To: info@houseofhaironline.com
Subject: HOH Kicks ASS!!!!!

ttsays69 from The House of Hair sent you this message:

I am so glad I found HOH and who better than Dee Snider to host??? Thanks for not forgetting all of us loyal metal heads who rock, roll and bang better than anyone!!!!!! It’s great to know that the great music I grew up on hasn’t been forgotten!!!!!

Thanks, ttsays69!

Rock On,
BuzzChic

Name that tune!

From the BuzzChic’s HOH mailbag, comes this letter:

Hello,

My 15 year old son and I listen to your program every Sunday morning on WRIF in Detroit and love it. On last weeks show (Oct 26 at about 40 minutes in) you played an instrumental song that just rocked. Unfortunately I didn’t get the name of it but I think Dee was talking about some girl that requested it.

I would really appreciate it if you could let me know who the artist and song is as the playlist feature is not active on your website.

Thanks very much and keep on rockin!

Juergen D.

Well, Juergen, that’s an easy one for ol’ BC – the tune is Dokken’s “Mr. Scary”! Remember, headbangers, you can always check our Playlists page, they get posted the week after each show airs (hey, we wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise of what Dee’s gonna play by postin’ them early!).

Rock On,
BuzzChic

Show Us your HOH Halloween!

Winners Announced! Thanks to all our HOH diehard fans who entered our Halloween photo contest.

Drumroll, please! The winners are:

* Winner – Rocker Chic division – Meridien P. of Foxboro, MA who was an awesome female version of Nikki Sixx.

* Winner – Our Bonus “WTF” division! – Apocalyptica of Sebastopol, CA. We ALL thought she was the male winner for the Ozzy costume, because the costume was soooo good, we thought she really was a guy!! LOL! So, we just created a new category – costume greatness like that deserves a reward!

* Winner – Rocker Guy division – cajunman2’s son Brandon (who actually is a guy) of Florence, AZ as Pumpkinhead.

Our winners each scored themselves an HOH T-Shirt of their choice!

Best Men’s and Women’s Costume wins a new HOH T-Shirt!

Do you rock Halloween? Well, prove it! Show us your best Halloween costume! Just post your photos or videos of yourself in costume to our HOH Headbangers Community. We’ll pick the best guy and the best chic’s getup, and they’ll each win the HOH T-Shirt of their choice. Not to mention being mentioned and immortalized on the HOH website!

What do you win?

1 Winner in each Category (2 winners):

Best Men’s Costume and Best Women’s Costume

– Receive their choice of ONE (1) HOH T-Shirt (Long sleeve, shortsleeve or tank top) from our HOH store.

How to Enter:

Join our HOH Headbangers Community – It’s FREE and easy. Then upload either your best Photos and/or Videos – be sure to tag them “Halloween Contest” and put them in Category = “Contests”.

How we choose the winner:

Only entries received by 11/5/08 will be considered. (We’ll give you a few extra days after Halloween to get your photos uploaded.) The HOH staff will choose the winners based on what we think are the most creative/funniest/most rockin’ Halloween costumes. Please try to keep entries PG-13, no nudity!

Contest Start Date: Friday, October 24nd , 2008

Contest End Date:Wednesday, November 5th , 2008 at midnight

Did I win? We will EMAIL YOU through the community to confirm your shirt choice and sizes. Winners will be announced and the winning costumes posted on the website. You must respond to our confirmation winner’s email within 30 days to receive your shirt as we do not have your address in the Community profile.

Questions? Email us at info@houseofhaironline.com

This contest is open to residents of the USA and CANADA only.

Winners Posted for Uriah Heep CDs!

We’ve just posted our 10 winners of the Uriah Heep “Wake the Sleeper” CD and album, so go check out the Uriah Heep Contests page and see if you won! No new contests this week, but stay tuned, BuzzChic hears we have a real metal one coming up here soon!

Winners Posted for Foghat Guitar and Ozzy Black Rain!

More winners posted! We are making it through our contest backlog, and have just posted the winners for Foghat and Ozzy’s Black Rain… check it out and see if you made the cut… Keep it tuned for more winners, we’re finishing up our backlog here asap!

Winners posted for Wii and Lillian Axe Contests

“Where the Frak are the Contest Winners” is certainly a popular question for BuzzChic lately. Hey Headbangers! We’re getting our *()#$#!@!! together and posting all our backlog of contest winners. Check out winners just posted for the Aerosmith Wii game and for Lillian Axe. Yes, Beatallica winners are next up asap! Motley Crue contest CDs and Night Ranger and Man Raze contest prize CDs shipped out right on time, so we are stayin’ up late making sure you get those HOH prizes in your hot little hands ASAP. Be watchin’ this space for more winners announcements, and a new contest starting next week!

Rock on!
BuzzChic

Name that Rocker…

For you BuzzCut newsletter-heads, you’ll remember last week we asked you to identify this Rocker:

In reply, we heard from one HOH listener -

I just wanted to say that I think the Name that Rocker for this week is AWESOME, brings back some memories, but did you know that Tommy went to South Hills High School in ‘77, his freshman year?! My Alma mater! I may have been a few years later, but still a classmate, and that Royal Oak was concidered the remedial school… there is other things that I have been lucky enough to see, and find out but that is neet for me but not so wanna know for others, but I think that was cool that you had that lil bit in this weeks BUZZ… Keep up the great work.

Lisa

Guess those lyrics…

From HOH listener M.Raphael, we get this question:

Dear BuzzChic,

Greetings and peace.

Last weekend while driving around listening to your broadcast a
song came on that I can not find. The lyrics were basic.

“We are, we are
We are all we need.”

Thats pretty much the chorus.

thanks in Advance,
M.Raphael

Well, “M”, that one was a snap for ol’ Buzzie…

The band is Warlock with the tune “All We Are”.

Rock on!
BuzzChic

The BuzzChic Knows Everything…

…or at least can work the Google on the Internet machine pretty damn well. We received this email from HOH listener Lisa in Portage, Wisconsin, who needed an answer:

The Question: I need help! I’ve been searching for a song for so long and I have no clue who sang it or what the title is! It is a song that came out in the early ‘90s I am sure.
Here are the starting lyrics: “Just a pretty thing, dressed to please, got ya on your knees, digging the pretty things if ya can, baby. You can sleep alone if it’s good that way what ya ain’t got ya don’t need anyway, yeah! If ya dig the pretty things…yeah. Now ooh, come along……I got a dollar in my pocket for you. Ooh, come along and you can have it if ya want it!”
That is respectively how I think the lyrics are with a wrong word or seven! Pleas tell me you know it!!!!!!! Thank you. – Lisa in Portage, Wisconsin

The Answer: “Dollar In My Pocket” by Big House.

You’ve gotta wake up preeeeetty early in the morning to stump the giant, hairy brain trust at the HOH. Got a question? Have an opinion on something? Drop us a line at buzzchic@houseofhaironline.com.

Why is BonJovi a Hair Metal Band?

We love getting fan mail.

From Zombienum2 via our House of Hair community, we get this question:

“Dee ? I really am disturbed, I have been a headbanger since birth, and I have never considered Bon Jovi as metal. I have the utmost respect in you and your music. I love Twisted Sister, as well as 99 percent of the “hair” metal bands, but Bon Jovi? I just can’t wrap my head around that. If it ain’t metal its crap.”

To answer your concerns, Dee asked BuzzChic to list the reasons why Bon Jovi does indeed ROCK:

1) Because only guys who sing metal can hit that high note in “Runaway.”
2) If anyone had good metal hair, Jon did. It’s not called the House of Hair for nothin’.
3) Rumors of Richie’s endowment rival those of Tommy Lee’s confirmed schlong.
4) Jon Bon Jovi acts as chum for very hot chicks for any rock band that tours with him. Hot chicks ready to party + Jon Bon’s married status = SCORE for bands touring with Bon Jovi. They can call themselves metal all they want.
5) Jon Bon Jovi discovered Cinderella at a club in Pennsylvania.
6) Did we mention hair?

If you wanna mouth off to BuzzChic, drop us a line anytime at buzzchic@houseofhaironline.com!

WHAT THE *&>†#!

Well, they got it wrong…absolutely wrong! Crosby Loggins won MTV’s “Rock The Cradle” – who the hell voted for this wussie? BuzzChic is appalled, dismayed and disgruntled!

Jesse Blaze – you sang great, made us believers in the fact that young up and coming rockers are still creative, and we look forward to buying your music in the future! And, more words of wisdom from daddy Dee who had this to say, “Jesse, never bore the crowd and always speak your mind. I sound like a broken record…Jesse you kick ass!!!” We couldn’t agree more. How much you wanna bet that Jesse Blaze comes out on top on the road and in music sales??

Jesse Blaze, the HOH loves ‘ya – you’re the winner as far as we’re concerned!

Kevin DuBrow Tribute Show on HOH Scheduled for Jan 18th, 2008

The H.O.H. will be honoring the late Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow with this special edition of the HOH airing the weekend of 1/18/08. This special show is packed full of live interviews with Kevin’s friends and fans. We’re gonna spend two hours remembering Kevin’s life in music. Don’t Miss it!

Kevin DuBrow Update

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 – Nevada’s Clark County Coroner has ruled that singer Kevin Dubrow, from ’80s metal band Quiet Riot, died of an accidental cocaine overdose. The cause of death was confirmed after toxicology results came in Monday.
The 52-year-old singer was found dead in his Las Vegas home on November 25.

GOODBYE KEVIN – WE WILL MISS YOU!!!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 – Dee Snider’s Eulogy for Kevin DuBrow

Link to video from Quiet Riot’s press conference at Rocklahoma, courtesy our HOH friends at KXUS-FM “US 97″ in Springfield, MO

Link to the New York Times’ Obituary for KevinDuBrow

“Kevin DuBrow is dead. This is hitting me pretty damn hard. Which is kind of strange because Kevin and I were not “hanging out,” calling each other regularly kind of friends. But we respected each other. When we would run into each other at airports, concerts and other events, Kevin and I would have an immediate rapport and fall into easy conversations about the business and “life after rock n’ roll.” The basis for this commonality came from the fact that both Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister formed in 1973–long before the rebirth of heavy metal or “hair metal,” as it came to be known, in the 80’s . When Quiet Riot (on the West Coast) and Twisted Sister (on the East Coast) were formed, it was an outgrowth of the glam rock movement of the early 70’s and both our bands fought the good fight against the onslaught that was disco (ugh!). When most other bands gave up or switched allegiances to what was more commercially viable at the time, both of our bands refused to bend–or break for that matter–and carried the torch for heavy rock through the dark days of the mid to late 70’s.

As a result, Quiet Riot were not only at the forefront of the LA metal scene, they were the inspiration for many other bands who went on to find fame and fortune. If you were to look back at old issues of LA music papers, you’d see every band who ever became anything out of LA opening for Quiet Riot, including Van Halen. And it was Kevin DuBrow and Quiet Riot’s perseverance and refusal to take no for an answer that literally destroyed the barriers of the record industry, television and commercial radio and opened the door for all metal bands to follow into the promised land. And we all know the glory days of metal that followed. Thank you Kevin.

And because Twisted Sister was doing and had done the same thing for the music scene on the East Coast, Kevin and I always shared a mutual respect for one another, because we knew that none of the other bands (with the possible exception of Y&T who were doing pretty much the same thing in Northern California) had been through the shit that we’d been through. We had earned our battle scars and our right to stand on those coliseum stages…while we felt many others had not.

After the demise of the 80’s metal scene, both Kevin and I sought careers in radio–both of us doing morning drive time (which was a bitch for vampires like Kevin and me) for a number of years. Again, we walked the same path and had much in common.

It’s because of this connection, that the passing of Kevin DuBrow hits me particularly hard. You’ve all heard the saying, “There by the grace of God go I.” Well, it’s never been truer for me than now.

I’d like to end by sharing a story. Kevin and I were talking one day and he told me about some Girl Scouts coming to his house to sell cookies and when he opened the door, they started singing “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” much to his chagrin. Kevin told me that people were often getting Twisted Sister’s song confused with Quiet Riot’s “Cum On Feel the Noize” and asked if that ever happened to me. I proudly (and smugly) told him it had not. I could see Kevin was a little embarrassed by this…even better.

From that day on, I have often had people confuse my song with “Cum On Feel the Noize” culminating at a major sporting event where the cameras picked me out of the crowd, put my face on the Jumbotron…and started blasting “Cum On Feel the Noize” while thousands cheered! Now it was my turn to be embarrassed. It was like God was getting even with me for being such a smug asshole. Sorry about that Kev.

The metal community has lost a powerful voice and a great front man, but let it never be said that Kevin DuBrow did not leave his mark. You kicked our asses Kevin, you really did.

Dee Snider
November 2007

hoh skully icon For more news information about Kevin Dubrow, see BuzzChic’s blog.
The House of Hair mourns Kevin’s passing and sends our condolences to his family, friends and fans worldwide. We will keep you updated with more information when we receive it.

Plans are underway for a HOH tribute show dedicated to Kevin.

Go to BuzzChic’s Blog page to leave a song request and/or your remembrance of Kevin DuBrow to be included in the tribute show OR click on the Kevin Dubrow icon above on the home page.

Go to the HOH Commmunity/Blogs – to the BuzzChic Tribute Blog Post to leave a comment (or post your own Blog post on Kevin) if you would like.

It is now confirmed that Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. Dubrow was 52. Determination of the cause of death was pending an autopsy and toxicology results, Clark County coroner’s spokeswoman Samantha Charles said. First reported on The Vegas Eye website, DuBrow was found in his Las Vegas home. At this time, we have no further information.

Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali confirmed DuBrow’s passing in an email to Spain’s “The Metal Circus” with this comment:

“I can’t even find words to say. Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend Kevin DuBrow.” This statement can be found on Frankie’s official website, and on The Metal Circus website in Spanish .

The band has not issued a formal statement yet, but ex-member and founding bassist Kelli Garni had this to say on the Randy Rhoads site

“I ask this to all of you not only for myself but for other friends and family. I ask that no one here offer any speculation or opinions, theories or other things that could be construed as negative or, and I’m sorry for this, even sympathetic, right at this immediate time. I am already within hours of this having to deal with untrue rumors and speculation and that only adds fuel to that. There is a tendency for the subject of Kevin to incite flames on every board and now is not the time for that. I will explain to everyone here the facts and the truth in the next 24 to 48 hours as I realize this will effect us all. So please, until then, be patient. All details and other pertinante info will be passed on to you here when it becomes available to me. Thank you.”

Chavis Records owner Bill Chavis, who released the band’s last album, issued a statement regarding the singer’s untimely demise.

“As I mourn his death with a heavy heart, I will remember hearing his voice and the music for the very first time on the radio back in 1983. I will remember all the great music Kevin and Quiet Riot gave to so many of us over the years and I will say, “Thank you, Kevin. May you rest in peace.”

Rehab, Quiet Riot’s latest album, was released in late 2006. The lineup on the CD consisted of DuBrow, Banali, Tony Franklin, & Neil Citron. Glenn Hughes, former Deep Purple bassist and singer, also made a guest vocal appearance on the album. The House of Hair and many of you last saw Quiet Riot perform on July 13, 2007 at Rocklahoma.

The House of Hair mourns Kevin’s passing and sends our condolences to his family, friends and fans worldwide. We will keep you updated with more information when we receive it.

Plans are underway for a HOH tribute show dedicated to Kevin.

R.I.P. Kevin DuBrow, from all your Friends and Fans at the House of Hair.

“And remember, IF IT AIN’T METAL…IT’S CRAP!!”

Your HOH Webmistress,
The BuzzChic

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