Rock “N” Roll is a hard life. And many of the best just don’t make it… while still alive.
Here’s an awesome set of famous Record Covers with the deceased members removes. Pretty heavy stuff.

Live – I See Dead People

Man Arrested For Paying With $1 Million Bill At Wal-Mart…

Ok… so this has very little to do with Rock ‘N’ Roll… but it has everything to do with Van-Holiday attitude!!!!

A Lexington man is accused trying to use a fake $1 million bill to pay for his purchases at a Walmart.
Read the article from www.disinfo.com here…

Word on the street is that the demigods of gigantomegarock are back… Van-Halen has announced their upcoming 2012 tour this week with a hint of a new record to drop any day now. Does anyone care? Sammy Hagar seems to… sort of… Read his article in Rolling Stone mag here.

Should be interesting to see if Diamond Dave continues to borrow Elvis’s leather gear to rock in the New Year.

The lead singer for “classic” hairband Warrant, Jani Lane, moved on to the Pearly Gates last week after a brief stay at a Comfort Inn Hotel in Woodland Hills, Ca…. Death is a hallowed and sacred thing for most… but not if you are the lead of a one-hit wonder like Warrant! TMZ reports that 911 tapes indicate hotel staff were too uneasy to touch the dead guy’s body to see if he was even alive. Now that’s Rock ‘N MuthaFuckin’ Roll!

TMZ – Jani Lane Found Dead

Rarely does such a talent reach such heights of greatness….

Come on… just do it for the band, man!

What do you get when you cross Legos with Heavy Metal?
Pure Awesomeness!!!!

METAL LEGO VIKING ODYSSEY – Watch it now

Check out this receipt from one of the band’s outtings in Norway….

Rock on! Rock On!

Marvin Isley, the youngest of the R&B siblings who provided the thumping bass lines that helped drive the band’s chart success in the ’70s and early ’80s, died Sunday morning. He was 56.

Read more: E-Online

Always on the ONE.

Phelps “Catfish” Collins, the legendary funk guitarist who played with James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic, died Friday in Cincinnati after a battle with cancer. He was 66. “My world will never be the same without him,” said his brother Bootsy Collins in a statement. “Be happy for him, he certainly is now and always has been the happiest young fellow I ever met on this planet.”

The creative force of Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995, is being made into a movie for 2012.

One catch… there will be none of Jerry Garcia’s music or that of the Greatful Dead in the film.

Amir Bar-Lev will direct the film, based on Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia by Robert Greenfield. Variety’s article includes a statement from Garcia’s estate:

“We want to make clear that neither Grateful Dead Productions nor the Jerry Garcia Family LLC are in any way working with – or are in any other way affiliated with – the supposed upcoming Amir Bar-Lev-directed biopic about Jerry Garcia. We will not be licensing any recordings from Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia’s music library for this production, nor will we provide the producer/director with access to any Garcia family members.”

Perhaps another sign of the End Times.

R.I.P. Starchild

Funkadelic and Parliament guitarist Garry “Starchild” Shider died yesterday at his home in Upper Marlboro, Md, according to the AP. In March, the longtime sideman of funk legend George Clinton was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer.

Link To The Washington Post

http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/17/garry-shider-parliament-funkadelic-dead/

Ronnie James

Well, that about says it all.

Devil horns to you, Ronnie

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1639314/20100516/ronnie_james_dio.jhtml

On the Eve of Van-Holiday, Cracked.com writes an incredibly well informed article on the subject of Progressive Rock. Topics cover “Instrumentals”, “Concept Albums”, and “How to Form Your Own Prog Band”. This article is a “Must Read” for anyone beginning their exploration of Progressive Rock.

Stinkhole | MySpace Video

Clearly, if you play rock music backwards you open direct link to the Dark Master himself. But what if you learn to sing backwards?

It’s with great pleasure that I introduce Don Wrege… today’s V-H Day Honorary Front Man… and Ozzy Osborne Look-A-Like. His story is too unreal not to be true…. so bizarre and disturbing that he had to write a book about it…

http://www.ozzylookalike.com/

More people throw the Devil Horns Handshake than you’d think…. but probably no one more than the Bush clan.
Honestly, as an educated individual how… how could you bust this move in a professional photo and not know what you are doing? And NO… the “Texas Hold ‘Em” is not a justifiable excuse… Long live rock ‘n’ roll anyway. It get’s a bad rap.

Thank you Facebook for one of the internet’s most rockin’ memes!
These are album covers for bands that don’t exist… but with the power of “Random” we can all be superstars….
Kudos to the random folks who compiled beautiful album covers… better than most commercial releases.

1. Go to the Wikipedia random article page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random . The title of the article is your band name.

2. Go to the very last quote on random quotations http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 . The last four words of the last quote are your album title.

3. Go to Flickr’s “interesting photos from the last seven days” page http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ . The third picture on the page is your album cover.

Put them all together in Photoshop or whatever, put them up here and look all cool like you’re in a band and that.

SEND US YOUR COVERS… We’ll post ‘em…

Rock art rocks harder than most art. Check out this gallery of album covers that is so damn Van-Holiday it may be damaging to your eyes… or your soul.

Sifl & Olly are the unofficial sock puppet demi-gods of Van-Holiday. Worship with us.

Technology at it’s finest! Flash design by Tyser.

It’s true… Jesus loves rock and roll.

If you haven’t already seen it, this video is pretty damn Van-Holiday.

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