Alex Skolnick: blogger and secret bon jovi fan!

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28-03-2009:

Alex Skolnick is a blogger: http://skolnotes.blogspot.com/

All of a sudden, like a speeding time machine bound for 1987, Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" came over the speakers. As the 'whoa' sound of the guitar (courtesy of a nifty device known as a 'talk box') permeated the lounge, we were faced with a dilemma: should we be good little metalheads and request a 'fast forward' to the next song? Should we walk out the door and continue visiting the other buses? What should we do?



In a show of mutual solidarity, a split second decision was made. Several of us, including myself, Jason Bittner from Shadow's Fall and Matt Zebroski from AS Trio, who was visiting, locked arms and started singing the first line "Tommy used to work on the docks...the union's been on strike, he's down on his luck it's tough." As the song reached the chorus, we were all singing to the camera (held by our friend Frankie, who was filming everything) screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs like European soccer fans. It was as if we were the striking union workers in the song, and we banded together to fight the system. For these few moments, the world was ours and we could do whatever the we wanted, even committing the ultimate metal crime: rocking out to Bon Jovi.

"Guilty as charged. But dammit it ain't right.**"

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Alex Skolnick - The Evil Has Landed solo (Testament)