Friday
Aug312012
Dj Ashba and Marq Torien Jam With The Sin City Sinners
Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:01AM Dj Ashba lives in Las Vegas, so I'm surprised we don't see more clips of him jumping on stage, jamming with Glam bands. Of course, The Sin City Sinners are a Las Vegas based cover bands of sorts. The band always invites guests stars and performs famous songs. Sin City Sinners features Brent Muscat of Faster Pussycat fame. When Dj jammed with the band, Marq Torien of the Bulletboys got on stage, too! The clip below was shot just last weekend. Enjoy!
Reader Comments (26)
spot on analysis, HIM...although, we are the same person, but let's keep that a secret, too.
anyway, back to your quote as it got me thinking. As some people know, I was a profsssional david lee roth stalker (I jest) throughout the 1990-2000's. Early on into this stalking career, I tried meeting him several times, but to no avail. During my attemptes though, I met several of his bandmates, entourage and roadies. And, I also met many other fans, like me, who were trying to meet him, too.
Moreover, in about 1999, I discovered the Internet and David Lee Roth's then website, which had a message board. (The website only lasted a couple of years but it was almost identical to Cinderella.net). Occasionally, DLR used to come onto to this website and answer our questions and explain different things. Over the next few years, I found through "talking" to people on this website and meeting fans like me at his shows, that there were so many stories of him being rude and sometimes, quite mean to his fans.
There were a few times subsequently, that I was almost guarenteed to meet him, if I just hung out a bit before or after the show, but I chose not to, as I often thought of my encounter with Marq Torien coupled with the horror stories I heard about DLR, that I didn't want to sour my image of him, so I purposefully chose not to try to meet him and instead chose the ideology that I'd rather "rock out in the audience" than to "hang out backstage". Because, the former is usually much more fulfilling.
But again, HIM, back to your point. I have also heard many horror stories about Stephen Pearcy. But, I have met him about a half-dozen times or so and every encounter has been pleasant. Conversely, I have heard that nothing negative can be said about the guys in Cinderella as every member is fan-friendly.
um, no. I think only half of the band is fan-friendly and Jeff Labar is head and shoulders above most, if not all, of his contemporaries as far as being fan-friendly. His comrades should take note and follow his example.
Also, just as you (Fletch) and HIM are one and the same person, Torien has always been accused of aping DLR. I can tell you first hand, having gotten drunk with DLR in a bar in Manhattan at an event, he was totally cool. (Weird how you can die to meet someone -- for me, that's Jimmy Page -- but then just randomly bump into another hero and wind up drinkin' with 'em all night!)
I'm also beginning to think half the people commenting on this site are actually all you, Fletch, hahaha!!! I laff, but it wouldn't surprise me!
I haven't seen Jeff spit on the audience, but I believe you that you've seen him do this and it does sour my image of him. I am actually shocked that Tom Keifer hasn't gone to him and said, "Look buddy (or asshole), these are our (my) fans...don't disrespect them." If he was as clueless about this as I was, I am hoping that Tom or someone in Cinderella management sees these posts and takes "corrective action" immediately.
Back to DLR for a moment. My wife and I saw him for a string of shows one year (circa 2002). During this tour, he would come onstage with a bottle of Jack Daniels, simulating that the bottle was his penis. He would "jerk off" the bottle and then "orgasm" the whiskey all a lady in the front row. I had seen him do this a few times and one time, I was in the second row when he did his 'act". After his "performance", he launched into song. Meanwhile, the fan was left drenching wet in whiskey and she was crying that it had gotten into her eyes and was stinging very badly. Her boyfriend (or husband?) didn't seem to care and she looked visiably upset the rest of the show.
A few nights later, my wife and I were in the front row when he played Trump Marina in Atlantic City. Half-way through, DLR swaggers onto stage with whiskey bottle in hand and starts rapping (conversing) to the fans in the front row. (It was actually REALLY funny what he said to me and he got thunderous applause). He then started his sexual misogynist schtick (all in good fun) with my wife and then starting masturbating the whiskey bottle directly in front of her. I knew what was coming (pun) next. I jumped in front of my wife, gave dave two (2) middle fingers and mouthed to him, "Don't you fucking dare." Dave looked caught in the headlights (or strobelights) for a second, then moved to the end of the stage and "ejaculated" the whiskey off the side of the stage. I am hoping that he realized that some people don't like it when he acts that way, although, each and every other night, he received penetrating (pun) ovation from his legions of fans- myself included before I saw the results of his actions.
Sheesh, we aren't attending a GG Allen concert! Well, he's dead anyway. OK, we aren't attending a [prop comic] Gallagher show either.
Allyson has written some articles about deploable fan behavior (i.e. throwing bottles at the stage), she should write some articles about our beloved rock stars mistreating fans during shows- not simply refusing to sign an autograph (heck, sammy hagar signs autographs 'during' shows!), but as MB points out, spitting at fans or other acts of mistreatment. Nikki Sixx is infamous for this.
After I confronted dave about getting ready to douse my wife with whiskey, I often credited my former teacher for giving me the courgae to do so for I know that given my level of admiration I had for him at the time, coupled with the situation and my insecurities, I would have never done so. Further, I don't know if I would have analyzed the woman from a few nights before whose evening was ruined because Dave had to act like a jackass.
p.s. I asure you, I have never commented as anyone else other than "Metalboy!". Unfortunately, someone else has commented as me before several times. I hope you noticed, if you happened to read any of those bogus comments, the difference in the messaging, as, though I may be self-deprecating, I don't really trash myself in my commentaries. Fletch, I'm sure I am not alone in expressing the fact that I thoroughly enjoy your perspective and stories and I respect your opinion, especially when we are engaged in a logical fact based argument. Your "Open Letter to Jack Russell" stands as one of THE BEST written pieces to ever be posted on this site, right up there with some of Allyson's best posts through the years.