"BLUE" JIMMY: CERTIFIED BLUESMAN CHEAP BEER TASTER
BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA
"BLUE" JIMMY: I'm starting to see Guns N Roses mania man! They get inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame this year and Slash gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next month.
BD OZZY: Little flat-chested girls wearing GNR t-shirts never realizing their moms probably shot up with Axel Rose in an alley somewhere on The Strip.
"BLUE" JIMMY: It's getting a little out of hand brother, Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time ranks Slash above Leslie West, T-Bone Walker and Robert Johnson!
BD OZZY: Que lastima!
"BLUE" JIMMY: They were a good, solid band but like the Sex Pistols, all their notoriety came from just one debut album, "Appetite For Destruction."
BD OZZY: After that, it was all "November Rain" and movie soundtrack music.
"BLUE" JIMMY: For my beer money, the real Kings of Hollywood were and still are, L.A. Guns, The Hollywood Vampires!
BD OZZY: Most people don't know that GNR were an offshoot of L.A Guns.
"BLUE" JIMMY: And their new album, "Hollywood Forever" sounds like they never left the Sunset Strip since '88. It reminds me of the time I woke up clueless and hungover at the Sunset Motel and had a ten dollar bill left in my pocket. I could either use it for the cab ride home or buy some beer. Needless to say, I was stuck in Hollywood for a while.
BD OZZY: I walked home.
"BLUE" JIMMY: You have four legs f****r!
BD OZZY: The album kicks off with "Hollywood Forever" roaring like a runaway train through your speakers as the song pledges allegiance to the decadence and ruin of our favorite town, capped off with a Stacey Blades guitar solo that would make Michael Schenker drop his pick in frustration.
"BLUE" JIMMY: Dude!
BD OZZY: The song titles say it all, "You Better Not Love Me," "Eel Pie," "Vine St. Shimmy," "Dirty Black Night," "Crazy Tango," let you know where this album is going musically and I especially like the way they steal the riff from Tesla's "Rock Me To The Top" for the heroin nod off ballad "Sweet Mystery."
"BLUE" JIMMY: You caught that too! I also dig how Phil Lewis sings "Arana Negra" entirely in white boy Spanish.
BD OZZY: Como No!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Even though Tracii Guns still tours with his own version of L.A Guns, this is the band that stays true to the roots of L.A. hard rock -- guitars in your face, heavy bass & drums and cigarettes and whiskey vocals singing odes to the town that even Jesus couldn't save.
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BD OZZY: Wow! Wow!
