Post by Gilby Admirer on Aug 18, 2015 14:05:09 GMT -5
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"It is not 2015. It is 1986. And we are not in Irvine. We are in the smelly, stinky streets of a small town called Hollywood, California," announced Riki Rachtman, former VJ for MTV's 'Headbangers Ball,' at the first annual Cathouse Live festival, a one-day-only revival of the infamous L.A. nightclub he ran in the '80s/'90s with Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe.
It was true that both the artists onstage and the veteran metalheads in the crowd at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre were definitely no longer the "youth gone wild" that Skid Row once sang about. But with Rachtman's well-curated killer lineup of Cathouse regulars (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach, Cinderella's Tom Keifer, Jetboy, Junkyard, Enuff Z' Nuff, Gilby Clarke, and of course Faster Pussycat, among others), it was easy to feel transported back in time to the big '80s era of big riffs and big hair.
Of course, a 91-degree festival in the hot-orange Orange County sun wasn't exactly the most accurate recreation or celebration of Cathouse's glory days; many of the marathon day's rockers, in their melting makeup and wilting hairspray, were probably regretting wearing so much unbreathable leather and denim-on-denim. Joking about how he used to refuse to turn on the air-conditioner at the Cathouse club, Rachtman quipped, "I apologize for doing that now. [Today's heat] is f---ing ridiculous!"
And the fun ended much, much earlier than Cathouse's all-nighters did back in the '80s, when at exactly 11:30 p.m. -- right in the middle of Gilby Clarke's All-Star Jam, with Sebastian Bach singing KISS's "Deuce" assisted by Ace Frehley on guitar -- the rotating stage flipped around, the house lights turned on, and the sound abruptly cut off. But up until that bummer moment, there was much good rocking to be had.
And at least the early end time allowed middle-aged concertgoers to get home at a decent hour and relieve their babysitters.
"It is not 2015. It is 1986. And we are not in Irvine. We are in the smelly, stinky streets of a small town called Hollywood, California," announced Riki Rachtman, former VJ for MTV's 'Headbangers Ball,' at the first annual Cathouse Live festival, a one-day-only revival of the infamous L.A. nightclub he ran in the '80s/'90s with Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe.
It was true that both the artists onstage and the veteran metalheads in the crowd at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre were definitely no longer the "youth gone wild" that Skid Row once sang about. But with Rachtman's well-curated killer lineup of Cathouse regulars (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach, Cinderella's Tom Keifer, Jetboy, Junkyard, Enuff Z' Nuff, Gilby Clarke, and of course Faster Pussycat, among others), it was easy to feel transported back in time to the big '80s era of big riffs and big hair.
Of course, a 91-degree festival in the hot-orange Orange County sun wasn't exactly the most accurate recreation or celebration of Cathouse's glory days; many of the marathon day's rockers, in their melting makeup and wilting hairspray, were probably regretting wearing so much unbreathable leather and denim-on-denim. Joking about how he used to refuse to turn on the air-conditioner at the Cathouse club, Rachtman quipped, "I apologize for doing that now. [Today's heat] is f---ing ridiculous!"
And the fun ended much, much earlier than Cathouse's all-nighters did back in the '80s, when at exactly 11:30 p.m. -- right in the middle of Gilby Clarke's All-Star Jam, with Sebastian Bach singing KISS's "Deuce" assisted by Ace Frehley on guitar -- the rotating stage flipped around, the house lights turned on, and the sound abruptly cut off. But up until that bummer moment, there was much good rocking to be had.
And at least the early end time allowed middle-aged concertgoers to get home at a decent hour and relieve their babysitters.
