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Just some bands/ musicians you dont hear from much anymore, and just kinda wondering what happened to them....
Ace Frehley
The Tubes
Damn Yankees
Black Oak Arkansas
Slade
Black Sabbath (with or w/o Ozzy)
Robin Trower

(aw hell, just getting old, I guess.....)

I saw Ace a couple of times on the first to KISS reunion tours. He hasn't been doing much since he left them the last time.

Fee Waybill was writing music for pop stars the last I knew. I can't remember what songs he was involved in lately, but I'm sure they ones you turned the station once you heard the beginning...yeah THAT kind of pop.

Ted is still doing the Ted thing, I saw Jack Blades as a commentator on some "100 best of..." VH1 show the other week. Tommy Shaw has been back with Styx for a long time now. Can't remember who else was in the band.

BOA is still playing shows in Arkansas. I opened for them decades ago in Little Rock, and a friend just opened for them last summer, so they're still around. Jim Dandy reunited with Hacksaw Reynolds back in the 80's. Shawn Lane was a guitarist in that band during the 80's too Tommy Aldridge is still playing around but not much.

Slade? Good question. Haven't heard crap about them in a LONG time.

Sabbath, not sure where they are today but they rejoined Ozzy for a while in the 90's in the 2000's. I saw them in 2000 or 2001 and they were VERY good. It was tons better than I thought it was going to be.

Trower still tours. He just blew through my hometown about a year ago. He pops up about ever 5-7 years or so.

Hey Thanks for the updates... I do get regular email updates from the Tubes, but mostly they stay out in CA, occasionally going to other places. I saw them about 6 years ago in a small club in Nashville, and they were just AMAZING!!!

I was always hoping to see the Damn Yankees again, too... They were GREAT!!!!

And I did see that Trower is coming back to tour the US this year...Hope he makes it to Nashville too!!!

I know TED is still TED I wish his last CD "Craveman" got some airplay, it was one of his better ones actually.

Once again, Thanks for the updates.....

Sabbath alumni Toni Iommi and Ronnie James Dio just put together a band called 'Heaven and Hell' Either Bill Ward or Geezer Butler died in the last 10 or so years. Dunno if the other one is in this Sabbath project.

Heaven and Hell is touring this year! you do know that Heaven and Hell is what Black Sabbath calls themselves with Dio on vocals, right?

Yeah, I read that....apparently some legal bullshit... I got to see them too (Sabbath with Dio, the Heaven and Hell tour) it was GREAT!!!! I hope they play the old stuff. I just doubt they'll make it to Nashville.....

you never man, it's Sabbath!

Slade are no longer together. Noddy Holder has a radio show on local radio in the UK and also plays a part in a sit com as a school principle.

The rest of the band sometimes play the odd gig as Slade without Noddy on Vocals, which for me defeats the object.

heaven and hell are using that name because Black Sabbath with Ozzy were inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of fame and they thought it wouldn't be right to use that name with Dio any more.

I am going to see them in November at the Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester UK,,,,,,I cant wait

Ace is still solo but hasn't realesed any material although apparently an album is iminent

http://www.spaceaceonline.com/

The Tubes are still at it

http://www.thetubes.com/

The Divinyls?! I loved I touch myself.

Jacquee Rae wrote:The Divinyls?! I loved I touch myself.

OMG!!!!! I wont TOUCH that with a 10 foot pole!!!! HA HA HA HA HAHAH AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Sorry, something about that struck me as TOOOOO HILARIOUS!!!!!!
(and welcome to my myspace page, BTW!!!!)

Guitarzan6000 wrote:

Jacquee Rae wrote:The Divinyls?! I loved I touch myself.

OMG!!!!! I wont TOUCH that with a 10 foot pole!!!! HA HA HA HA HAHAH AHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Sorry, something about that struck me as TOOOOO HILARIOUS!!!!!!
(and welcome to my myspace page, BTW!!!!)

Yeah that was the point. LOL! Thank you for the myspace welcome. Welcome to my collection of friends as well.

I actually seen Ace shooting up heroin in the restroom at the 84 NAMM Show in Chicago.

DOH MAINLINE!

I saw Slade in 1974 with Peter Frampton and The Strawbs, they were so loud they made me sick.

jimmydanger wrote:I saw Slade in 1974 with Peter Frampton and The Strawbs, they were so loud they made me sick.

But if your ears don't bleed, that doesn't count.