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From Drummer TPF over on the Metal Sludge boards.


EMPTY V (Mtv) will be a focus on all the cool panty dropping songs of the early 80's on Music Television.

Max Headroom, Dire Straights, Video Killed the radio star, Billy Squire, The Kinks, The Outfield, Space Shuttle Launches, the Cold War...Molly Ringwald, Pretty In Pink, Back to the Future, Ronald Regan, Cabbage Patch Kids..you get the drill---

DRAGONFLY
6510 Santa Monica Blvd
LA

Every Wednesday in JUNE starting JUNE 3 with special guests from the 80's each and every week--

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

A new live TV station will launch in Los Angeles Live @ the Dragonfly June 3rd for Wayback Wednesdays with EMPTY V, the new trip down memory lane featuring DIZZY REED (GUNS N ROSES), TROY PATRICK FARRELL (WHITE LION/PRETTY BOY FLOYD), SCOTTY GRIFFIN (LA GUNS), and ERIC DOVER (SEXTUS, JELLYFISH). The band will perform the 1st songs played on Mtv (Music Television) and mainly focusing on the songs from the early 80?s.

Special guest themes will include Max Headroom and the VJ?s of the past in some form or another. This is not your normal tribute or cover band. This is something special, time travel to a safe place we once loved, and now it?s back, 6.3.09 @ the DRAGONFLY in Los Angeles.

You can find out more about the band as they slowly reveal more each day at http://www.myspace.com/emptyvtheband

Cool shit.   :beer:

Wow, I cant wait to not see this. 

Dizzy always puts on a great show, I'm sure this will be no exception.  If anyone is anywhere near the shows you won't get a better bang-per-buck that's for sure.

Saw Eric with Dizzy earlier in the year, and it was a GREAT show.   : ok:

Wasn't Eric Dover in "that former Guns N' Roses' guitarist's band" back in the mid-90's?

You can't say Slash's Snakepit? WTF? I guess Dizzy and Dover have played together for a while. No big deal just as it wasn't when BBF played with Duff. I have seen Dizzy solo and he kicks ass, this should be no exception. From what I understand this is only (for now) the month of June

You probably can, but don't be surprised if you're told to "fuck off" to some other section of the board. 

I'm starting to realize that being a GNR fan these days is a pretty political affair. :hihi:

Yep. Falun Gong won't be too happy about that.  :rofl:

Who gives a shit if he played with Slash, Dover is an amazingly talented singer. If someone doesn't like him because he played with the big bad Slash, that person is not a fan of music. Judge the guy based on his pipes/songwriting not who he played with.,

Are they stripping?

I am surprised nobody has said anything about the whole "every Wednesday in June" part...IMO that makes any GnR dates in June unlikely...unless they were warm-up gigs near LA.  I continue to hold out hope that these side-projects do not affect GnR, or worse yet, are not born of frustration/inactivity with GnR.

As for Dover, I don't find it at all unusual or disturbing that he played in Snakepit...seems all these guys run in the same circles, or perhaps it is just a smaller industry/talent pool than I would imagine.

The masses have spoken, so back by popular demand, at a bigger and better location, it's the return of...

"TOTALLY WAYBACK WEDNESDAY'S"
80's Night... "Grand Re-Opening Party !!!"

Hey Buds, Let's Party !!!

Wednesday, JUNE 3RD at THE DRAGONFLY in HOLLYWOOD.

"Mr. 80's"... Julian Douglas presents a radical night of the music of the Eighties featuring the freshest bands and coolest fun...

Featuring:
eMpTy V

It's a trip down memory lane, to the place we loved so much, starring those 80's hit makers...
MARK'D BADMAN
(Dizzy Reed of Guns 'N Roses/Psychedelic Furs)
CURT LOADINHER
(Eric Dover of Sextus/Jellyfish)
NITA BLACKOCK
(Troy Patrick Farrell of White Lion/Gene Loves Jezebel)
MARTHA QUIMM
(Scott Griffin of L.A. Guns)
...performing the hottest hits of the Eighties, first played on MTV, everything from Huey Lewis, J. Geils & The Outfield to .38 Special, Billy Squire & Tom Petty to Loverboy & Styx to Prince & Abba... excellent !!!

With Special Guests:
GRETCHEN BONADUCE'S
"Ankh"
(on at 10:15 PM)
A New Wave, Punked-Up 80's Tribute
Featuring Gretchen Bonaduce of Breaking Bonaduce and the new hit show, Re-Inventing Bonaduce on Fox Reality, Saturdays at 9:00 PM
www.FoxReality.com/Gretchen

DANGER ZONE
A tribute to the music of the most awesome movies of the 80's, like The Breakfast Club, Top Gun, Footloose, Back To The Future, Ghostbusters and more.
(on at 9:30 PM)

Like, Oh My God...
No Cover Charge on Opening Night*
Awesome, Totally Awesome !!!
(*RSVP at LALongHair@aol.com by 5:00 pm on Wednesday June 3rd, otherwise Cover Charge is $10.00)

80's Music & 80's Prices...
$4.00 Pabst Blue Ribbon
$5.00 Jagermeister
$7.00 Jager Bombs
Plus Bitchin' Drink Specials between 9:00 and 10:00 PM.

With CD's, clothing & concert ticket give-a-ways, contests and more... like gag me with a spoon, duh.

As if, anyone else would host this night but yours truly,
"Mr. 80's"... Julian Douglas, gnarly.

Don't be a dweeb and forget to break out your Rubic's Cube, Cabbage Patch Dolls and your Atari system.

So all you bodacious babes & cool dudes, mousee up that doo, apply a lil' extra Aquanet, gel that mullet, put on your best day-glow, fringe, spandex, pastel suits or leg warmers and come on down for a fer sure good time.

THE DRAGONFLY - HOLLYWOOD
6510 Santa Monica Blvd. (at Wilcox)
Hollywood, CA 90038 (323) 466-6111
www.TheDragonfly.com
Doors open at 9:00 PM. 21 and over.
Valet Parking available, yeah, that's the ticket.

I hope you can all make it out and join in the fun of this non bogus night...
 JULIAN

I'm all for this, but I have one complaint.  Even in the 80's, $4 for a PBR would not be considered a deal.  I'm sorry, there's a bar in town here you can get a can for $2 and I wouldn't even consider that a deal 20 years later.

yeah quarter and that's if there's nothing else.

haha, yeah, those prices are quite expensive.

You make a good point about these side projects that have sprung up after the rehearsals stopped. Is it possible that the rehearsals stopped because he decided not to go forward with a tour? I hope not, but it is a possibility. It is already June ans not a peep about a summer tour and the summer is pretty much hear. It is also possible because just look at what has transpired the last couple of months..Did Robin quit because there was no tour in sight? Maybe...Is Frank still here because Brain feels like there is no tour coming? Maybe...Richard, Ron, and Chris keeping busy with other projects...All of this outside activity does not seem to bode well for a tour anytime soon....

I think the plan was to tour, and maybe that still is the plan but the summer doesn't look very likely at this time.  Brain seemed excited at the prospects of a tour.  Azoff hinted at a tour, Axl said there were no plans but they were in negotiations or something to that effect.  They added DJ to the fold.  Why add a guitarist if there were no plans to tour?  Unfortunately plans change, as is often the case in the land of GNR.  Whatever the plans were, it appears that they have changed.

the prices are great for the location.  We are talking LA here not the Midwest.
Hell I can get good mixed drinks here for under $3 but I don't expect to get that deal in a major city.

This is AMERICA, FREEDOM OF SPEECH allows you to say SLASH'S SNAKEPIT!!!!!!
He also sang in Jellyfish...

That's all well and good, but I don't think a respectable bar in a major city even carries PBR.  That's like a 500% markup on a low class beer.

There goes tonight's sponsor  :hihi:

I don't want to stray OT - but just what defines 'respectable'?  I don't think the Whiskey, Rainbow, or most of the other Sunset Clubs would have been labelled 'repectable' in their day!  In some of the best joints to see a band, you would get a bottle smashed over your head if you called them respectable, or tried to order a tuna-tini or whatever the fashionable drink of the month is!   And they probably have PBR on tap...  :hihi:

this is america? wtf...I had no idea!
I better get out then.