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jamester

WARRANT: 'Rockaholic' Track Listing, Audio Samples Available - Apr. 20, 2011
Californian rockers WARRANT will release their new album, "Rockaholic", in North America on May 17 via Frontiers Records. At the helm of the CD is mega-producer Keith Olsen (OZZY OSBOURNE, WHITESNAKE, SCORPIONS), with the mixing duties having been handled by Pat Regan (KISS, DEEP PURPLE, TED NUGENT).

"Rockaholic" track listing:

01. Sex Ain't Love
02. Innocence Gone
03. Snake
04. Dusty's Revenge
05. Home
06. What Love Can Do
07. Life's A Song
08. Show Must Go On
09. Cocaine Freight Train
10. Found Forever
11. Candy Man
12. Sunshine
13. Tears In The City
14. The Last Straw

"Sex Ain't Love" audio sample:
"Dusty's Revenge" audio sample:
"Life's A Song" audio sample: nice 80's soft rock sound imo.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbe … mID=157048

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jamester

WARRANT Guitarist Talks About Early '90s Death Of 'Hair' Metal And Rise Of Grunge - May 1, 2011
Brian Fischer-Giffin of Loud magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Erik Turner of Californian rockers WARRANT. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Loud: There's probably people surprised that there still is a WARRANT.

Turner: We live in our own little bubble called the United States of America. There's where we play anywhere from 50 to 75 shows a year. We're definitely not as popular as we were in the United States, but we play a lot of festivals, a lot of casinos there and I'm happy to say we're still keeping the dream alive all these years later. Yeah, as far as the rest of the world's concerned, Europe and Japan and Australia, South America... we've never really toured outside the United States. We go to Mexico once in a while and to Canada quite a bit, but mainly you know we've concentrated on playing the States.

Loud: I was going to ask you about grunge, actually, because it's 20 years since [NIRVANA's] "Nevermind" [an album widely associated with the death of "hair" metal] came out this year. Obviously you would have heard the album when it came out. What did you think of it?

Turner: I loved it. It was a great record. But obviously I didn't like the fact that the industry had to sell only one type of music. Just one type of music, grunge. Too bad that the world is big enough for all kinds of music, whether its grunge or rap or dance or pop or rock. In America they don't promote music on merit, it's more based on selling a brand, something that they've branded. They might as well be selling toothpaste. It's just a product to the record labels. It's the new improved Crest! Now whiter. We no longer sell that other Crest. That other Crest sucks. Now we're selling this Crest. They just don't have any soul.

Loud: Is that kind of what happened with bands like WARRANT? You were just a brand they were selling at one time?

Turner: Yeah. If the music industry was a church, we would've all been excommunicated. You are no longer welcome to come bow at the altar. We were branded as harlots. It's funny but it's true. That was it. Bam! You're no longer wanted or needed around here. Bands started getting dropped like flies, and then they went around and signed bands that sounded like NIRVANA! And there were some really good ones that I loved... SOUNDGARDEN, I love ALICE IN CHAINS. ALICE IN CHAINS actually got signed opening up for WARRANT, ironically.

Loud: Does it still frustrate you that many people still know you as the "Cherry Pie" band?

Turner: It doesn't frustrate me. I feel lucky that we're able to be known as anything! [laughs] It is ironic that that wasn't our biggest song on the charts. "Heaven" was our biggest-charting and -selling song. But for whatever reason, the video and the innuendo and stuff, well, we embrace it. We play the song every night. We're lucky to have that. The "Cherry Pie" thing kind of overshadowed our first record which had our biggest hit on it, and it had "Down Boy" and "Sometimes She Cries" and our first record actually sold as many CDs as "Cherry Pie", but that goes largely unnoticed. That goes to show you how big the shadow of "Cherry Pie" is.

Axlin16

Other than Down Boys, and there was a ballad I can't remember, I just never could get into Warrant. And I do like their style of music.

RussTCB

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metallex78

Good to see someone from a hair metal band not completely dismissing the grunge movement that killed them.

It took me a long time to appreciate Nirvana, I absolutely hated them during the height of their popularity. Not because of the music being bad, but just because Kurt Cobain was so up himself about how uber-cool he was compared to all the other popular rock bands of the time.

I loved Pearl Jam, AIC and Soundgarden, and other various bands from the grunge movement. If Warrant took a Metallica or U2 style direction and updated their rock sound, maybe they too would have survived through all that.

RaZor

I’m getting really into Warrant lately; exploring their back catalogue. I really dig what I’m hearing, old and new.

Russ recommended Belly to Belly a few months back, and I thought it was great. It’s their stab at grunge and I think they did a great job at it. They nailed the mood and themes of grunge, but musically it’s not as simplistic as grunge was. I’m preferring the classic rock of the rest of their catalogue though, but maybe it’s because I’m not digging grunge much lately.

Hope we see a follow up to Rockaholic soon, though I haven’t heard any news on it.

RaZor

Found this posted on the sleazeroxx.com forum:

playitloudmutha wrote:

http://www.bravewords.com/news/209107
WARRANT Video Vixen Bobbie Brown's Dirty Rocker Boys Book Now Due In November
Rock Hard
Posted on Monday, August 19, 2013 at 20:37:41 EST

An uncensored Hollywood tell-all filled with explicit tales of love, sex, and revenge from the video vixen made famous by WARRANT’s rock anthem 'Cherry Pie'.
Dirty Rocker Boys by Bobbie Brown was originally scheduled to hit store shelves on December 24th - Christmas Eve. Publishers Gallery Books recently amended the on-sale date to November 26th; an Amazon pre-order is available below.

Since the dawn of music videos, scantily clad girls have captured viewers’ attention, but only a handful have become bona fide video vixens like Bobbie Brown — the star of Warrant’s infamous 'Cherry Pie' clip. When Bobbie and Warrant’s lead singer Jani Lane married in 1991, after he proposed live on the Howard Stern show, she became one half of the hottest rocker/model couple in Hollywood.
But three years and one baby later, the marriage imploded. Enmeshed in the rock and roll lifestyle, Bobbie then became engaged to MÖTLEY CRÜE’s fast-living drummer Tommy Lee. A year into the relationship, someone held a gun to her head, and Bobbie decided it was time to move out, sick of the drugs, the jealousy and the violence. Just four days after their break-up, Tommy Lee exchanged wedding vows with Bobbie’s friend and Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson. The double betrayal sent Bobbie into a spiral of self-destruction.
In a pattern of sexual revenge, she methodically slept around, bedding a slew of other rockers and A-list actors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashley Hamilton, Mark McGrath, Shane West, Stevie Rachelle and Jay Gordon. In the span of a year, she earned herself a reputation as one of Hollywood’s wildest serial daters, becoming an expert on the sexual tastes of some of the most famous men in Tinseltown. No man was off-limits as Bobbie sunk into the depths of excess, anger, and addiction.
Riveting, hilarious, and completely uncensored, Dirty Rocker Boys is a heartwarming comeback story filled with some of the most explicit Sunset Strip sex tales ever told by a woman.

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