Scott and Slash Dance With Mr. Brownstone
Professional Bad Boy of Rock, Scott Weiland, also famous for being the vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Stone Temple Pilots, has managed to stay alive long enough to turn another year older, having been born on October 27, 1967. I guess you might know you have a drug problem when you are kicked out of a band that’s made up of former heroin addicts. Happy Birthday, Scott!
Aggronautix Toys have just released their very first female “Throbblehead” Bobblehead doll, the infamous late Plasmatics’ frontwoman Wendy O. Williams. ” Wendy O. Williams 1982″ – which captures Wendy’s incredible 1982 look – stands at 7 inches tall and is available in the limited capacity of 2000 numbered units. Displayed in a tri-windowed box, she is accurately sculpted right down to the platinum blonde Mohawk, spiked arm bands and tattered post-apocalyptic bikini. I swear to god, when I look at this doll I can almost hear her belting out “Sex Junkie” right now. Punk Rock! Wendy is the sixth punk personality to be polyresinated by Aggronautix.
On This Day, June 5th, in 2002: Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Colvin) was found dead by his wife Barbara in his Hollywood, CA home. An autopsy would reveal the cause of death to be a heroin overdose. It’s sort of interesting timing that Poisoned Heart, a very gritty but also very loving biography written by DeeDee’s first wife, Vera, will be in stores next week.
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