Posts Tagged ‘white lion’

With the recent ousting of James Lomenzo, or whatever happened, I got to thinking about something I wrote about him awhile ago. In fact it was only a year and three days ago that I wrote it. It was originally posted at Metal Martyr and part of another post, but I picked apart the section about Lomenzo.

Now I’m not picking on or disrespecting James Lomenzo here. He’s a great Bass player, but I started to look at his history and images of the like and found it kind of funny. Lomenzo during his White Lion days took on the semi-glammish look of White Lion. No big deal, that was the look back then in bands like that. Then I kind of remembered him in Black Label Society, with David Lee Roth and now Megadeth. Check it out.

James Lomenzo the glamster with White Lion from ‘84 to ‘91. (Second to the left)

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Time for another list. Not a best of or anything, but as the title says, 10 Hair Band Ballads You Just Can’t Help Liking. Unless you’re t00 Br00tal or under the age of let’s say 25, then you have heard and probably liked these hair metal ballads from way back. That’s what sold the cd’s for those bands back before illegal downloading and singles. The ballads are what bands and producers relied on in order to win over the fans. It’s wasn’t the big hair, make-up and pants so tight that they showed Bret Michael’s man-camel toe. It was the ballads. So…here it is.

1. Warrant: Heaven. Back before Jani Lane made Cherry Pies, he made killer ballads like Heaven on their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich.

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