Tag: Warrant

  • #album of the day: Warrant’s Dog Eat Dog

    #album of the day: Warrant’s Dog Eat Dog

    Today’s album of the day is one of my top five favorite albums of all-time, Warrant’s masterpiece Dog Eat Dog. This was the band’s third album and the final record that frontman Jani Lane wrote entirely by himself. After this album flopped, he lost his confidence and the other guys in the band started co-writing…

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  • A MACHINE FOR THE END: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT MASON OF THE END MACHINE AND WARRANT

    A MACHINE FOR THE END: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT MASON OF THE END MACHINE AND WARRANT

    interview by Michael McCarthy The End machine – that’s how they stylize it – is a new band featuring some familiar players, namely George Lynch and Mick Brown of Dokken and Lynch Mob fame, Jeff Pilson of Dokken, Dio and Foreigner fame and Robert Mason of Lynch Mob and Warrant fame. Some listeners will surely…

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  • LOUDER, HARDER, FASTER: AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIK TURNER OF WARRANT

    LOUDER, HARDER, FASTER: AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIK TURNER OF WARRANT

    interview by Michael McCarthy It’s no secret that Warrant are one of my favorite heavy metal bands. They’ve been one ever since I saw the video for their first single, “Down Boys,” on MTV back in the later part of the ’80’s. Their blend of melodic vocals and sonorous music has always impressed me. And,…

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  • #songoftheday = WARRANT: “ONLY BROKEN HEART”

    If you like old school heavy metal you’re in for a real treat with this one. It’ll have you dreaming about hanging out on Sunset Strip in the hair metal heydays even if you’ve never actually been to Los Angeles. It’s cool like that. A slick, anthemic beast that proves that Erik Turner (guitar), Jerry…

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  • #songoftheday WARRANT: “THE BITTER PILL” (1993)

    “The Bitter Pill” is a gorgeous ballad from Warrant’s 1993 album Dog Eat Dog, which came out just as Nirvana and Pearl Jam were taking over the radio, ushering in the grunge era. “Hair metal” ballads do not get better than this gem. And this version, performed acoustically solo by the late singer Jani Lane,…

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