Gene Simmons Guest Judging On Dancing With The Stars

I’m not a huge Dancing With The Stars fan.  But I’ll tell you when I heard this - Gene Simmons Guest Judging on Dancing With The Stars, I thought, that I needed to see it!  It’s part of hair metal night and it sounds like a lot of fun.

The problem I have with Dancing With The Stars is not about being too cool to ballroom dance, or thinking the show is too girly.  It’s that when you have the word Stars in your title, you should bring you’re a-game.  And sadly with each passing season, there are more D-List celebrities and even people that are barely recognizable to the average person.  When I saw the list of “celebrities” for this season, I had to google over half of them to see what they do and why they’re famous.  I think that’s a little ridiculous.

That aside, I can tell you that I think this special night tomorrow (Tuesday night) is going to be a lot of fun with Gene Simmons of Kiss!  Apparently, there will be an opening dance extravaganza set to the classic Kiss tune “Rock & Roll All Nite”.  The show will also feature Warrant’s Cherry Pie, Poison, Bon Jovi, and who knows what else.

To be quite honest, I don’t even know who left competing on the show.  And even if I did, I most likely wouldn’t know who those people were and what they do.  But with a soundtrack like this, I still think it’s going to be a lot of fun!

Not to mention that Gene Simmons is a character as well.  I think he’s going to have some fun with it and of course, be quite opinionated when it comes to judging.  It’ll be interesting to hear what he has to say.  So, tomorrow night, throw up the horns, turn up the TV, and bang your head as the “stars” dance to hair metal!

We saw the Linkin Park countdown and then counted up. And now we are waiting for a Linkin Park special event on YouTube This Thursday.

The event will take place at 6pm EST on Youtube Thursday. More waiting , I know, but at least we know something is definitely coming. Or at least we think!

I was hoping that Linkin Park would be announcing either a tour with rotating vocalists or maybe even an album of new music starring guest vocalists throughout the album.  I thought that would be something really fun and not take away from Chester Bennington’s legacy.

A tour would be fun to see the rest of the band.  They are super talented and play so well live.  I thought it’d be cool to have a tour with revolving singers at different locations or something like that.  An album of new music would be tremendous as well, however instead of announcing one new singer, I thought they could just have different guests on each track.

What makes Linkin Park so special is their ability to craft songs that are all over the map sound and no two songs sound alike.  There’s always a unique spin and they could go from ballad to in-your-face, loud, and heavy guitars in a matter of minutes.  But of course, to me, the band was and always will be Chester Bennington.  His voice was so extraordinary.  He went from melodic, soft singing to near screams in just seconds.  And live, he always sounded flawless.

The Linkin Park sound couldn’t be defined.  It had elements of hip hop sure, but it was straight-up hard rock at moments - trippy, experimental tribal anthem the next.  You really got a good mix that was so interesting!

What a cool, interesting vibe. It's got a lot going on in this tune, with some cool drums and a relatable lyrical theme from Chester. Really cool stuff!

Such a dark sounding song.  Yet it's hopeful and intriguing, and emotional all at once.  A real masetrpiece.

This one pumps me up.  From the album that left fans divided "A Thousand Suns".  There's no denying that this song is filled with hope and passion in Chester's voice.

This is really a rare example of hip hop - metal.  It's got elements from both genres and is so angst ridden, that it fuels and pumps you up.  Such great screams towards the end!

A really nice ballad that just has a lot of heart and emotion.  Really a cool laid back vibe with a nice melodic hook!