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NEWS Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Poison’s C.C. DeVille (left) and Warren DeMartini rockin’ The book on Billy TOWERS OF LONDON CALLING: The British punk upstarts brought their mayhem Bret Michaels blast out of the Hollywood back in the day. Gibbons: legendary and cacophonous din to America’s shores with a tour that included a stopover at past in a CD extravaganza. guitars and cars. L.A.’s famous Troubadour nightclub. The Towers barely made it out of their own country after lead singer Donny Tourette pleaded guilty to criminal damage and was fined 775 pounds ($1,327) for swinging from and subsequently trashing the scaffolding and canopy at one of their gigs. —Tom Farrell

SUNSET STRIPPERS: Cleopatra Records has released the ultimate compilation of the ’80s Sunset Strip hair band experience with Hollywood Rocks, a handsomely packaged four-disc set. The music takes you back, and sometimes leaves you there, with tracks by Axl’s pre-Guns N’ Roses outfit Hollywood Rose, pre-Ratt band Mickey Rat, Plain Jane (Jani “Warrant” Lane’s first Hollywood band), Candy (featuring Gilby Clarke), Farrell Tom Photos by Dokken, the purple-haired Zeros, Poison, Quiet Riot, Faster Pussycat and just too many hair farmers to list. If you were there (and don’t pretend you can’t remember), then you must get this CD. —T.F. CARS, GUITARS & TEXAS ROCK STARS: The famed ZZ Top axeman gives an insider’s look into his true loves: cars and KOTTONMOUTH KINGS—PUT THIS Kottonmouth Kings’ guitars with Billy F Gibbons: Rock and Roll Gearhead from IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: Brad “Daddy” X and Motorbooks. This 192-page color coffee table book reveals Members of the Southern Califor- Pakelika on the front tales behind the creation of dozens of the bearded one’s nia rock band Kottonmouth Kings lines. God made pot; unique guitars—he owns 600—including the “Furry One” joined forces with the AAMC Bush made laws. Who (made famous in the Texas band’s video “Legs”). There’s also (American Alliance for Medical do you trust? a rundown of ten of Gibbons’s slickest hot rods and custom Cannabis) at a recent demonstra- cars, as well as highlights from his 40-year recording career. Towers of London’s Tommy Brunette (left) and tion in front of the Federal Building —Michelle McCarthy Donny Tourette on their best behavior. in West Los Angeles. The gathering Photo by Annette Ovanessian Photo by was in protest against a recent A HALF-DOZEN DVDs YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT U.S. Supreme Court ruling that per- mits the government to block Def Leppard Various Artists Pixies Rock of Ages— Taste of Chaos Pixies Sell Out physicians from prescribing mari- The DVD Collection Image Entertainment Rhino Home Video juana for patients suffering from Bludgeon Riffola/Universal If you missed last year’s sold-out Frank Black once told Rolling cancer, glaucoma and other seri- Stone that he’d only play with The definitive video collection from Taste of Chaos tour, here’s your ous illnesses. Ten states, including the group that put heavy metal pop chance to check out a sampling of the Pixies again “if I were pen- on the MTV map. Spanning 20 the bill at a stop in Asbury Park, niless or a family member California, have legalized marijua- years, you get the teen idol tracks New Jersey. Powerful perfor- needed a kidney transplant.” na use for medical purposes. Thankfully, that’s not what it like “Photograph” and “Rock of Ages” and more—18 mances by bands such as My The Kottonmouth Kings, whose all-time favorites, plus the previously unreleased 2002Chemical Romance, The Used, Killswitch Engage andtook for the band to reunite in 2004 for a string of video for “Now” and the rehearsal video for 2005’sAtreyu make you wish you had been there. Bonusdates. Pixies Sell Out captures the seminal indie latest record entered the charts at chart-topping “No Matter What.” —T.F.features include extended interviews and behind-the-band live in Belfort, France, but you can also check number 50 on the Billboard Top scenes footage. —M.M.out bonus performances at such gatherings as 200, have been proactive in their Samhain Coachella Valley, New Orleans’s Voodoo Festival and Live 1984 Stardust Ballroom Various Artists the Fuji Rock Festival. —M.M. support of the legalization of mari- Music Video Distributors Rockin’ the Corps: An juana since the band’s 1995 inception. They frequently join forces with cates the use of medications like OxyContin or Adderal, denies med- Looking past the far-from-profes- American Thank You Buddy Boy the AAMC, which provides education, advocacy and awareness about ical marijuana. There are hundreds of accidental deaths every day sional camerawork and shoddy Image Entertainment Image Entertainment the benefits of medicinal marijuana. from taking these other pharmaceuticals, yet there is not one docu- sound, this DVD serves as a piece Hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, Sire Records of punk rock history. You not only this mixed bag USO show was Catholic mama’s boy screws hot Voices AAMC Los Angeles chapter head J.P. Mohr: “How can a mented case of toxicity or fatality from cannabis usage.” get to witness the goth-punks’ recorded live at Camp Pendleton epileptic vegan and starts think- nation based upon principles of individual liberty, personal responsi- “Kottonmouth Kings have always been on the front lines, fighting to first L.A. gig, but also the show is as a tip of the hat to the families ing she’s a cannibal. Meaty pitch,

DVD SIX-PACK DVD bility and care of the sick and disabled possibly ban a medicine whose make marijuana a legal substance,” says frontman Brad X. “When we filmed at the now-defunct but once- of troops stationed in Iraq. The ham-fisted picture. And not a sin- legendary Stardust Ballroom in Hollywood. It’s a nos-star turnout was enviable, with performances by KISS,gle nude seizure! Talk about use harms no one, while relieving suffering? Marijuana is a beneficial, got the call to join the AAMC rally, we jumped at the chance to be a talgic glimpse of a post-Misfits Glenn Danzig, before allDestiny’s Child, Hootie & the Blowfish, Ted Nugent,missed opportunities. Ditch this natural medication that deserves further medical research—research part of the war on drugs by verbalizing our dissatisfaction with the the muscles and long hair. —M.M.Godsmack and more. —Keith Valcourtand rent a real Polanski flick. —Mark Johnson that our government won’t allow. The same government that advo- recent Supreme Court decision.” —T.F.

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