Jake E Lee...

"Happy 54th Birthday"

Jake E Lee

Jake E. Lee was encouraged by his mother to take classical piano lessons as a child. With a lack of interest in piano, 13 year old Lee found that he enjoyed playing his older sister's guitar. His older sister influenced his desire to play by introducing him to some old Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin records. The first song he learned was "No Time" by The Guess Who. From there, he used what formal training he had from piano, along with a Mel Bay guitar method book and concentrated on becoming a self taught, rock guitarist. Obviously catching on and quickly developing a talent for the guitar, Lee played in several high school bands. And so, teenaged Jake E. Lee was already turning heads and wowing fellow San Diego musicians with his impressive style of playing. -Wikipedia.com

My Thoughts: A legend in his own right, Jake E Lee is one of the greats.

From playing with Ozzy Osbourne in the late 1980's to the forming of his own band 'Badlands" with former singer Ray Gillen from the band Black Sabbath...Jake in my eyes has an amazing talent and will be remembered for his awesome guitar work for many many years to come. Keep on Rocking man~

Whitesnake...

Whitesnake...

"Is This Love"

The song is taken from their self-titled album, which released in 1987.
The song was written by vocalist David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes during the albums early writing process (which took place in the south of France), but it was long rumoured that the song had originally been written for pop artist Tina Turner. Coverdale confirmed these rumours in the booklet of Whitesnake's 20th anniversary edition, by saying:
"Before I'd left for the south of France a friend at EMI had asked me for any ideas that would work for Tina Turner. So that was where the original idea for 'Is This Love' came from."
"Is This Love" became one of the most popular Whitesnake songs. The song reached #87 on VH1's "100 Greatest Love Songs"-list and #10 on their list of "Greatest Power Ballads". -Wikipedia.com


My Thoughts: One of my favs from them, It's a classic for me...This song is great to listen to when you want to relive the memories of when Mtv actually played rock videos, It's a very powerful ballad that stands the test of time. And of course It featured David Coverdale's hot Girlfriend who was every young man's and maybe a couple ladies fantasy rock chick actress/model and Coverdale girlfriend Tawny Kitaen~

Rob Thomas...

'Happy 40th Birthday"

Rob Thomas...

Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album Supernatural in 1999.

He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.

Since 1995, his band has released a string of hit singles to radio including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", "Back 2 Good", "Bent", "If You're Gone", "Mad Season", "Disease", "Unwell", "Bright Lights", and "How Far We've Come". In 2004, the Songwriters Hall of Fame awarded Thomas its first Starlight Award, recognizing young songwriters who have already had a lasting influence in the music industry. -Wikipedia.com

Bullet For My Valentine..."Happy V Day"

Bullet For My Valentine...

"Hearts Burst Into Fire"

The song was released as the second single from their second album, Scream Aim Fire. The song is featured in the video game NHL 09. Unlike many of the band's songs, the song is played in a major key. The video of the song is a montage of clips from the tour accompanying the album. It features many fans displaying support for the band, many of whom display logos and tattoos featuring song names and lyrics by the band. Wikipedia.com

My Thoughts: This is the 1st song I heard from these guys, Instantly liked their sound.

I love the story behind each song & video, I'm of course a fan for as long as they keep recording~

Saliva...

Saliva

"Always"

"Always" is the first single off the album Back into Your System by alternative metal band Saliva. It made it to #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for one week in February 2003, and has been Saliva's most successful hit.
The music video for "Always" focuses on a young man who appears to be haunted by a woman of his past, sporadically appearing throughout town. The video ends with the man, enraged with emotion, destroying a telephone booth before collapsing to the ground. MTV requested an edit of the lyrics in the final verse. The line "the pistol shaking in my hand, and all I can hear is the sound" was edited to replace the word "pistol" with "anger" in the video version. Also, this song was played on Music Choice Television.
"Always" was the theme song for WWE's Survivor Series Pay-per-view in November 2002.
The song is also featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock as a downloadable content song. -Wikipedia.com

My Thoughts: 

Saliva got my attention with the song, "Click Click Boom"....Josey Scott is an awesome singer, I love it when he does duets with other artists, Such a talent..You can definitely be assured the the Rocker will not be going away anytime soon~

Rachel Bolan...

"Happy 45th Birthday "

Rachel Bolan

Rachel Bolan is a bassist who rose to fame in the late 80’s as bassist and founding member of heavy metal band Skid Row. Besides currently playing in Skid Row, Rachel has appeared on two of Ace Frehley’s (Kiss) solo albums as well as forming a side project in the mid 90’s called Prunella Scaleswith future Skid Row drummer Phil Varone. He currently has a side project with current Skid Row drummer Dave Gara called the Quazimotors. -www.last.fm.com

My thoughts: Very talented man, I remember watching the Skid Row videos on Mtv & thinking what's up with the nose/chain piercing thing he had going on, But it fit Rachel's persona.  He races cars in his spare time, What a multi-talented sexy musician~

"Porn Star Dancing"

My Darkest Day

"Porn Star Dancing"

Canadian rock band based in Toronto, consisting of lead singer Matt Walst, lead guitarist Sal Costa, Bassist Brendan McMillan, Drummer Doug Oliver, and keyboardist Reid Henry. They were discovered by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, who signed them up for his production company, 604 Records.

In June 2010, the band went on tour with Sick Puppies, Janus, and It's Alive, and shot a video in Las Vegas to support their first single, "Porn Star Dancing," released on June 21, 2010. Kroeger appears in the "Porn Star Dancing" video, as does American rapper Ludacris and Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde. -Wikipedia

My thoughts:  1st time I heard this song I was driving in my Jeep when it came on my Sirius Satellite radio station 'Octane'..fell in love with it Immediately.

As I started dancing in my seat to the beat and I knew it would become one of my favs to dance too when out & about. Of course I love that Chad Kroeger is involved in the song as well as the video, being as he found the band...and as an added extra, The great guitarist Zakk Wylde lending his talents, I was hooked~