Also on their way to board ShipRocked are WBWR/Columbus, OH, listener Lisa Berger and her husband, Phil. Lisa won part 1 of our contest earlier this year.

Enjoy your deluxe cabins, ocean views and 24 hour partying all the way to Jamaica (with a couple of stops along the way!) and feel free to submit photos of your onboard heavy metal high jinks!

Here’s a look at Dennis’ winning entry:

“I am a hardworking blue collar metalhead from the ‘80s. I currently work as a police officer, but beneath the clean pressed uniform, shiny gun belt and short cropped hair is a leather pant wearing, teased hair maniac that has to repress the feelings to jam an iPod down the throat of some yuppie drinking a Starbucks listening to the latest Maroon 5 album. Instead of drinking free coffee and eating donuts I should be pounding Jack Daniels and trashing a hotel room!

I’ve spent the past three months working nights — “Walk(ing) In The Shadows” – and I need five days of Caribbean sunshine. I’m a 39 year old “Modern Day Cowboy” fighting against the evils of country music and easy listening adult contemporary radio stations. The “Revolution’s Calling” and I want to be on a cruise instead of standing on the thin blue line between total chaos and order.

So, for five days let me fight the man instead of being the man. I know that these contests are “Ez Come, Ez Go,” but I would prefer to go. So, do the right thing and look into the “Eyes Of A Stranger” and tell him that he’ll be listening to Operation Mindcrime instead of fighting actual crime.”

Congrats to both winners and their spouses – Dennis + Ann and Lisa + Phil – have a great time and happy headbanging on the ShipRocked cruise!

Bands already booked include Queensryche, Tesla, Ratt, Skid Row, Lynam, Broken Teeth, Stereoside, Endeverafter, Stone Rider and the Niki Barr Band.

“ShipRocked a special kind of multi-day music festival,” explains promoter Alan Koenig. “You live at the venue, much like you would at other events around the country. But the difference with ShipRocked is that instead of having to sleep in a muddy tent and use public facilities, fans get to stay in a luxury floating hotel, with free room service, all you can eat buffets, swimming pools, spa services, plus a vacation to Jamaica and Grand Cayman in between the shows.”

ShipRocked ports from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and makes stops at both Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Georgetown, Grand Cayman. Passengers can expect special parties and contests during the cruise in addition to the special, ShipRocked-only concerts and artist meet-and-greet sessions.

Pricing varies by cabin and starts at $799 (per person, double occupancy) for an interior stateroom. Prices include cruise, all concerts, and room and board. ShipRocked sails aboard the MSC Poesia. And don’t forget, a valid passport is required for each passenger.

SKID ROW SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR presented by 5 PRODUCCIONES

Saturday 21 Bogota, Colombia – Metropol
Sunday 22 Medellin, Colombia – Calle 57
Monday 23 Lima, Peru – Oceanus Bar -acoustic show
Tuesday 24 Lima, Peru – Voce
Thurs 26 Quito, Ecuador – Teatro 24 De Mayo
Friday 27 Buenos Aires, Argentina – El Teatro Colegiales
Saturday 28 Sao Paulo, Brazil – Manifesto
Sunday 29 Santiago, Chile – Teatro Caupolican

For a limited time, you can save $100 on your cabin when making a new reservation, just by emailing proof of your Rock Gone Wild ticket purchase to rgw@getshiprocked.com, or by faxing it to 615-250-7983. If you’re already booked on Shiprocked but have a worthless Rock Gone Wild ticket, no worries! Simply send an email or fax and you’ll receive a $100 onboard credit, to spend as you wish during the cruise. A very generous, yet jilted Rock Gone Wild ticket holder (who wishes to remain anonymous), is sponsoring the cost of this special promotion as a way to “spread the rock” to fellow frustrated fans!

This offer is only valid through September 30th, so don’t wait! Cash in your discount today and get booked on the ultimate rock and roll vacation with a backstage pass, featuring intimate concerts, exclusive meet and greets with all artists, heavy metal karaoke, guitar hero competitions, theme nights, contests, charity auctions and so much more!

ShipRocked is a five day floating festival that departs from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on November 15, 2009, and features onboard performances by Queensryche, Tesla, Ratt, Skid Row, Broken Teeth, EndeverafteR, Lynam, Niki Barr Band, Stereoside and StoneRider. ShipRocked sails November 15 -20, 2009 on the beautiful MSC Poesia. The Poesia is the third vessel in the MSC Cruise Line’s “Musica” family of ships. This ship features MSC Cruise Line’s signature Italian inspired decor, impeccable service, sumptuous cuisine in multiple restaurants, beautiful swimming pools, hot tubs plus a full-service spa and fitness center. Nearly two-thirds of the ship’s staterooms include private balconies!

Pricing varies by cabin and is subject to availability – and very few remain – but starts at only $799 (per person, double occupancy) for an interior stateroom. The price include your cruise (room and board), all the concerts, meet and greets and other exclusive events during the trip. For booking and more information, call 877-855-5502.

Throughout all four days of the festival, we will be on site registering fans for the chance to win a FREE trip for two on-board ShipRocked! Then on Sunday night, our good friend Eddie Trunk will do us the honor, and announce the winner live from the stage!

One winner and a guest will receive round-trip coach airfare to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, a hotel room at the luxurious Harbor Beach Marriot Resort & Spa the night before we sail, and a free Oceanview stateroom onboard ShipRocked, the ultimate rock and roll vacation and backstage pass!

Heralded by Rolling Stone as one of the top music festivals in the United States, and by fans as the “Woodstock of 80s Rock,” Rocklahoma is the largest of its type, with attendance from all fifty states and multiple continents. This year’s fest will have over ninety bands on four stages, including favorites from previous Rocklahoma festivals, Beautiful Creatures, LA Guns featuring Tracii Gun, Britney Fox, Bang Tango, Lillian Axe and Faster Pussycat. Included on the side stages are bands from all over Europe.

The main stage lineup on each of the four days is as follows:

Thursday: Anthrax, Saxon, Overkill, Anvil, Metal Church and Leatherwolf.
Friday: RATT, Night Ranger, Warrant, Danger Danger, Helix and Hurricane Alice
Saturday: Stryper, Jackyl, KIX, KEEL, Lizzy Borden and Gypsy Pistoleros
Sunday: Twisted Sister, Skid Row, Great White, Nelson, Bonfire and Vixen

Tickets are still available, so be sure to visit www.rocklahoma.com to buy yours today, or if you’ve already got tickets, consider upgrading them to VIP!

Jul 6th, 2009 | By Loose Cannon

The economy has taken it’s toll on many industries, but nobody has been hit harder than the publicity department at Broken Teeth LLC. It is quite sad, but this company cannot even afford plastic cases or original copies of it’s artists music.

Broken Teeth is one of several lesser known bands playing on ShipRocked, a rock and roll cruise departing from Ft. Lauderdale in November. They are playing with headliners Queensryche, Tesla, and Skid Row. We are doing “13 Stupid Questions” with all of these bands and, besides the headliners, we hadn’t heard of the bands and/or their music. Because of this, they all sent us their latest CD, T-shirt, DVD, or concert tickets if they happened to be touring near one of our writers. This was cool because we always like hearing new music.

Last week, in our headquarter’s mailbox, we found a package postmarked from Texas. We opened it and inside there was just the front and back of their CD artwork with a BURNED COPY of their latest release, Electric. Yes, besides having the least marketable band name in history, they also did not fit jewel cases or original CDs into their quarterly budget.

Broken Teeth believes in paper, not plastic.

We knew immediately that this album would be fantastic. It did not disappoint as the music contained on it rivals the work of Spinal Tap and Steel Panther…. but not intentionally (we think). They should put a comedy routine together like the before mentioned bands and go on tour. It would be incredible. Let us explain.

The cover shows a skull being electrocuted in an electric chair (get it? Electric!) and the back artwork has a man face down in the dirt being hit by lightening. That coupled with the fact that the band was called Broken Teeth led us to believe that the music would make Slayer sound like Jack Johnson.

Nope! It sounds like exactly like AC/DC …… if AC/DC decided to produce their albums in my cousin’s tool shed and had even cornier lyrics. Like I said, we knew it would be fantastic.

We have several concerns with this interview with Broken Teeth for several reasons:

• They all look like they recently escaped from prison and murder people on the weekends.
• They are all from Texas where everyone over the age of 6 owns a gun and is trained to kill.
• They will be on the same cruise as us and we will have nowhere to escape except to jump overboard.

On the left is Hasbro’s “Sack of broken glass.” Dangerous!

Regardless, here’s our “13 Stupid Questions” with lead singer/songwriter Jason Mcmaster.

1. You were once the lead singer for the band Dangerous Toys, a band famous for having scary looking clowns on their album covers and songs with outrageous lyrics and spelling errors like “Teas N’, Pleas N’ .” Besides Lawn Darts and Hasbro’s “Sack of Broken Glass,” what are some other toys parents shouldn’t let their children play with?

-i still am in the toys. we have been doing all the summer festivals the past couple of years. its been a blast. broken teeth has been on a couple of them as well,double duty on those particular fests with broken teeth. parents should not let their children play with marital aids during any dinner parties.

2. Please explain the brainstorming session that made you decide that Broken Teeth was the best possible name for your band. In addition, during this band meeting, were the names Inflamed Incisors, Moldy Molars, and Corroded Cuspids close runner ups?

-no band meeting, just had a couple of ideas of what conjures up in your head when you think of a name like broken teeth, a bar fight? passing out from sheer massive volume of rock n roll? alot of things can make you break your teeth. i think the name describes danger,as well as bad hygiene,which alot of rockers seem to have. no other names were anywhere close by, there might have been one option, and i don’t remember what it was.

3. We notice from your publicity shot that none of your are smiling. Are you just an angry bunch or do you all actually have broken teeth?

- as it is a known fact that smiling in a rock band pic is not that popular, but, its OK sometimes. bad boy image is just as important as not taking yourself too seriously.at least we weren’t standing near the railroad tracks wearing trench coats.

“For the last time, we don’t play Big Bottom!”

4. Why is their no obvious cover of Spinal Tap’s “Big Bottom” on “Electric?”

-i guess the good ideas like that don’t come when you need them the most.

5. Besides Spinal Tap, you are heavily influenced by AC/DC. You have a song called Bonfire which is also the name of an AC/DC box set that honors the late Bon Scott. However, the lyrics A witches brew for me to chew doesnt lend much to this theory. Are we looking too deep?

- yes, that’s the kind of tongue in cheek nod to acdc we seem to have throughout.bonfire is about a super sexy girl from Vermont,who’s name in bonnie,get it? bonfire? she was very deserving of having a song of her own. the title was obvious, and like i said, seem to fit what we do already.

6. We like to truly understand the meaning of songs. What are the tracks “Shes Gonna Blow” and “Stick it In” all about?

-shes gonna blow, could be about a storm, or something about to explode, -and stick it in….i talk about candy, and playin in her sand box…all of those sexual innuendos start to paint pictures.

7. We dont usually talk about lyrics in our interview but since Broken Teeth are quite the wordsmiths, we really have no choice. In the before mentioned track Stick it In you say I wanna smell your breath, I wanna crystal your meth Genius! Where do you come up with this stuff?

-i think i stole that from a motorhead song. some think i say, “i wanna cripple your pet”.

8. The title track Electric sounds slightly (read: exactly) like AC/DCs classic song Let There Be Rock. To get away with this, are you obligated to purchase all of Angus schoolboy outfits until he dies?

-your wrong, the song”blood on the radio”..(not the song “electric”)..sounds exactly like “let there be rock”.

funny, our ex-guitarist for teeth(paul lidel,former dirty looks,but who plays in dangerous toys) plays angus in an acdc tribute called “big balls”.

9. Back to lyrics. In the song Bonfire you say It was 1977, I was about to hit my stride. This album came out a year ago. How fucking old are you?

-try harder next time, but i will let you in on it… bonnie was born in 1977, i was already born and doing my thing. i am old.

10. On this album you have the songs titles Hell for Sale and Devil Money. This begs the question: Is it possible to buy Hell with Devil Money and do you get frequent flyer miles with this method of payment?

-devil money is money made by strippers,dealers,and bartenders who sell legal as well as illegal opportunities, or tools that create welcomed havoc. hell is a small town in Michigan. you can buy a lot of land in hell for almost nothing these days. blood money, devil money, its all green and dirty.

11. Your management company is Tone Deaf Touring. Did you select this based on your singing style or it just a coincidence?

-booking agent, management, call them what you will, we are all just trying to get our music heard.and they’re helping us as well as the entire roster they have. not because i think that i might not be as good a singer as i think i am, or because i thought that tone deaf touring had to be my agent because its name. nice try.this joke isn’t even funny, but…you gave it hell.

12. We cant stop with the lyric questions. In the song Hangin By The Skin you state “She said she practiced basic dentistry, she had the cavity, but she was ready to receive, but the doctor bill cost as much as a Lamborghini.” Wow… I mean…wow. What in the name of Thor happened to all of your teeth?

-high price hookers running behind guise of a doctors office is a pretty good scenario for a fantasy brought thru a rock n roll song.teeth, or just a physical of some kind(wink).

13. Please confess that Broken Teeth is actually an undercover collaboration between Steel Panther and Spinal Tap. Please let this be true. It is the only reasonable explanation.

-i can see why the comparisons might seem close, being that i obviously write some silly lyrics, with the typical sexual inuendos found in all fun rock and metal songs, acdc, motorhead, the list is too huge…but your suggestion is pretty funny, i can see how that would seem logical to you as your questions have been quite entertaining, there alot more to all of this than funny words put together.

Thanks, Jason! You were a great sport. Please don’t kill us/throw us overboard on the ShipRocked cruise.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s5u6BUEcvM

My friends Lynam have exciting news: Tragic City Symphony will be re-released on Mascot/Megaforce records. Some other legal mumbo jumbo thrown in and the crux of the matter is that the album will be distributed by Sony/Red records.

The band is giving fans/grassroots support all the credit: we made the single ‘Save My Soul’ go all the way to number five on the active rock independent chart!
The band’s next single is ‘Lindsay Says.’

If you’ve never seen Lynam live, you’ll have the chance this summer. The band is playing with Framing Hanley and Red. Plus, Lynam is on the Shiprocked roster – meaning five glorious days with the Birmingham natives. Shiprocked will be the highlight of my year. So far, Lynam is my favorite band on the bill. You can still get cabins for that cruise, but the floating festival is selling out fast. Other bands on the Shiprocked bill include Queensryche, Skid Row, Tesla and more.

Queensryche (L-R): Scott Rockenfield, Eddie Jackson, new guitarist Parker Lundgren, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton, and new keyboardist/vocalist Jason Ames

Lisa and hubby will be taking a VIP cruise to the islands and headbanging en route to live concerts from Queensryche, Skid Row, Tesla, Broken Teeth, Endeverafter, Lynam, Stereoside, StoneRider and more! They’ll be flying to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, checking onto their luxury liner and setting sale in a deluxe cabin with an ocean view and 24 hour partying all the way to Jamaica and Grand Cayman! You can check out Lisa’s winning entry, below!

Queensryche heard they were coming and have already rolled out the red carpet. The HOH caught up with them just this week at their show in Stamford, CT (where they ROCKED the new American Soldier CD) and they sent their best!

Winning Entry from WBWR/Columbus, OH listener Lisa Berger:

“When my husband and I first met, our first common interest was rock-n-roll. We’d talked for hours about our favorite bands and our first gifts to each other were concert tickets to various heavy metal bands, including Queensryche. Since then, we got married and have 3 lovely children but not a moment to spare to spend together other than our Sat. night ritual of listening to House of Hair and having a beer or two while the kids watch a movie. I would like to get shiprocked with my husband and go down memory lane. We’ve seen Tesla and Queensryche in the past years but are way over due to see them again. Actually the last time we saw Queensryche was in Columbus, OH at least 7 years ago and the biggest bummer was that Geoff Tate had a sore throat and only sang 3 songs then had to cancel the rest of the show. We totally understand his dilemma but we were really looking forward to the show. Since our kids have been born (our oldest is almost ten years old), we had “gotten away” from them once when my husband had his 20th year high school reunion this summer for one overnight. (Actually we had two other overnights if you count when we had our second and third child at the hospital which I do not count!) 

Sincerely,
Lisa Berger

The students from the School of Rock are singing for their supper and raising money to attend the cruise. American Idol winner and Kansas City native David Cook recently lent his support by autographing a Les Paul guitar donated by Gibson for a special raffle – tickets are only $5 each, and can be purchased at any Kansas City School of Rock show or by calling (816) 842-ROCK.  Not to be outdone, Queensrÿche recently dropped by the school for a quick photo-op and mini-concert to help raise awareness for the fundraiser, performing three songs before being joined by the school’s “house band” for an additional three tracks.

Paul Green founded the first School of Rock in Philadelphia in 1998. Since that time, satellite campuses have opened across America, helping students develop stage presence and musical skill. Students at the School of Rock take part in both private lessons and larger jams to prepare for a capstone performance. Students have performed at major concerts and festivals around the world and are proud to add Shiprocked to the list.  For more information, visit www.schoolofrock.com, or the KC school’s fundraising site at www.schoolofrockkc.com.

Here are some YouTube vids of the band’s recent visit and jam session with Queensrcyhe!