Who the Fuck is Failed Bands of Oklahoam?

I cannot believe those loser Okies sometimes. First of all they whine about their football team, then steal a NBA team from a FAR SUPERIOR city, and now I see some idiot is trying to put together the 'failed bands' of their state for some show in the Butthole Panhandle. Fucking idiots. Kansas gets the butt of a lot of jokes, but one thing we know is that we're better than Oklahoma. Failed bands? Yeah, right -- whatever, dumb Okies. I'll be watching this site. If they need to know how it'd done, come up to fucking Kansas City.

There site is at www.failedbandsofoklahoma.blogspot.com.

Whatever.

-Tim

Old Shit I Found on an Envelope

When Acid Rage were playing, Jeff would usually start the riffs and I would add some bass lines before we would even BEGIN to think about lyrics. Those bands that start with words first, I don't know how they do it to be honest. Not my thing. If the music isn't going to pull people in, then the words won't either. You HAVE to make sure you have something worth LISTENING TO FIRST.

That said, we did create a big folder of lyrics that I stuffed in a folder in my pedal bag. I found this scribbled down on the back of some unpaid bill from 1990 or so. I have NO MEMORY of it all. But I guess I have about NO MEMORY of anything that happened back then.

Like a kiss of the devil, it sucked me in.
A creeping paranoia, it will seize me day by day.
Like the deadly viper with poisoned teeth
it is getting in my blood, like a brain desease.

Oh no, the thrill has become a curse,
oh no, the right has turned to wrong.
Oh yes, I had only myself to blame,
oh yes, I should have seen it coming.

I think it was about one of my exes!

-Tim

Metal Mark is a Poser

How big of a fucking wannabe is Metal Mark? I finally caught his Monday night show at the Riot Room on Monday nights a week ago. M&M seems more keen to show off his tatts than focus on ball-sweat-smoothie hard rock. You'd think that with Axl finally back -- and that Chinese Democracy fucking rocks, even if it can't sell a piece of what G'n'R did with Izzy and Slash around -- that there'd be some new hard rock blood to check out. I'm disappointed with the new KC offerings.

Anyone here willing to fly the banner for us?

-Tim

Hey Frat Parties, Heeeeere's Fat Finger!

It's been too long since I've seen Simon Wonder Brown play at McCoy's in Westport -- like I would HAVE EVER SEEN THEM COVER 'I Will Survive' or whatever. And now comes good news and bad news. First the good. I never will see those guys. The bad is they ARE STILL PLAYING. Now doing their down songs, regrouped as 'Fat Finger'. Fat Finger? Really?

Kansas, can't we do better than this?

Fuck that.

-Tim

ROCK & ROLL NEVER QUITS

Hey all. This site's just getting going -- I have loads of ACID RAGE photos and tales to tell. If you're from Kansas, and want to post some things here, let me know.

Meanwhile here's a photo ACID drummer Scott Hardin's older brother took with Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynot a couple years before he OD'ed. How fucking cool is that?

-Tim