Smigg.

I only know about her because of guitar hero, because you could unlock actual rock stars, and the amount of times I ended up having to play Paramore, and she comes bounding out and me thinking "Fuck sake, again?!" Do you know who I wanted to unlock?! Zakk fucking Wylde!

Hayley Williams

Looks like we've got an HDTGM band in the making Cam Bert on the Trumpet Smigg on the Bass (and possible vocals)

Okay, back to my copious amounts of notes that I have here. I noticed the overusage of the "Metal Horns", actual metal guys don't use them that much. If anything, doing it as much as the people in this movie did just makes you look like a poseur. However, that's just tangential to the thing I wanted to talk about, who actually invented the metal horns? There are two men staking their claim. The first being the late, great Ronnie James Dio of Dio, Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Elf (not the movie) fame. His version of the introduction of the metal horns comes from his Italian heritage, he was always see his grandmother giving the "Devil Horns", which from my rudimentary understanding of Italian culture, is something you do to ward off bad people, Dio thought that looked cool, "metal", so would do it on stage. The other is Kiss bassist, and notorious huckster, Gene Simmons, who claims to have invented it entirely by accident, after a show he was waving to the audience, but he was still holding his pick with his middle two fingers, and noticed people in the audience were doing it back to him, and said that it looks like a demon. He also tried to trademark the gesture, in a move similar to Paris Hilton's claiming "That's hot" as her's. However, James Hetfield of Metallica may have debunked both of those claims, and joked that it was none other than Spiderman who started it. This picture does lead me to an important thing to say. If you insist on doing the metal horns, KEEP YOUR FUCKING THUMB IN! Thumb in, that's the metal horns, thumb out, that's the sign language for "I love you", if you're telling someone you love them in sign language, then keep that thumb out, and tell people you love them because that's a beautiful thing, however, you want to show the world you're metal, thumbs in.

Okay, a little more from my notes, in the tribute band's rehearsal room, they have a sign that reads "Rock & Roll Ain't Blood Pollution!" What kind of sense does that make?! They've taken an AC/DC song title, "Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", slapped the tribute band's name "Blood Pollution" (which is also the name of a Steel Dragon song). The problem is, it just makes it sound like a bad review. "Rock & Roll is a lot of things, but Rock & Roll Ain't Blood Pollution".

I was an adequate bass player in my day, playing thrash and some Death Metal, playing with my fingers, not a pick. So, any band with a shitty bass player. I'm an okay singer, but I doubt I could replace anybody with my voice.

I watched this fucking movie twice and didn't even notice that Rob was dating anyone.

What was Rob doing in Seatlle? The guy's from Pittsburgh, and he just happens to bump into his friend from home? Maybe he always had a thing for Emily, and he found out that she was moving to Seattle so he said "Hey, I gotta go to Seattle... I got a... thing... what? Emily? I don't know an Emily... Oh, the chick who managed us? No I didn't know she was opening a coffee place there... how did I know she was opening a coffee place? Well, who doesn't drink coffee?!... I'm not being weird... YOU'RE THE STALKER!!" and just runs off.

Fun fact about Zakk Wylde, he's good friends with WWE legend, Stone Cold Steve Austin. However, Zakk's wife, Barbara-Anne, banned the pair from drinking when they're together, because Steve is a bad influence on Zakk, and the pair always got absolutely shit faced when they were together.

I dunno, I quite liked Semi-Charmed Life.

"I buys myselfs a solid gold telephone!"

A Metalocalypse Banana Sticker?! Okay, we've become good friends.

It's weird, the only real "good guy" in the movie is Timothy Olyphant's character "Rob". When Chris is in the tribute band, he's a dick to everybody else. Even chastising Rob because his pinch harmonic wasn't good enough, despite it sounding the same as it was on the tape. Then when they have their concert, it's Chris who spoils everything because Rob isn't playing the song EXACTLY as it was originally recorded, going as far as to break Rob's Marshall stack, those things aren't cheap. Even when he's kicking him out of the band, Rob is saying "I love you, but you're going mental with this" Then, when Chris joins Steel Dragon, Rob seems genuinely happy for him, not many people would be so charitable in that situation, considering they had a falling out the last time they saw each other. Then, after everything is said and done, Rob's still willing to start another band with Chris. Every other major character in the film isn't a good person.

What's that? Is there a Zakk Wylde song that has a slight hint of country music? Why, of course! Not just one song, a whole album! The Zakk Wylde Train rolls on!

Did anyone else see the subtle foreshadowing of the end of the glam metal fad when Mark Wahlberg said "What's happening in Seattle?"

Jason Flemyng's performace in the movie was really good. His delivery of "Kim's a guy?!" when he was mocking Mark Wahlberg was absolutely perfect, I don't know why I found it funny, just hit the right note with me.

Yes, I think so. It was kind of foreshadowed earlier in the film where Tim Spall, when asked by Mark Wahlberg for a backstage pass "Not without a blowjob and a sex change", and then talking about how she dated Bobby Beers, which I think was a clumsy way of saying that he dated Tanya, because he couldn't be seen as gay publicly. That's what I'm extrapolating from it anyways.

Going back to my notes, during the piercing scene, I actually wrote "I hope his nipple falls off".

I don't get the reference. But, fuck it, Rockstar inspired Zakk Wylde Jukebox continues

Here's one thing I picked up on as well. When Mark Wahlberg is kicked out of the tribute band, and when Jennifer Aniston is told "You can still manage us if you want to", she tells them "I'm a businesswoman, and you follow the talent, and all the fucking talent just walked out the room!" How can she say that? The tribute band are incredibly talented, especially the two guitarists, because they're keeping up with Zakk Wylde's guitar playing, Zakk Wylde is one of the best guitar players in the world, so to say "All the talent just walked out the room!" is just blatently false.

So, what does Tim "Ripper" Owens think of the movie that is loosely based on his life? "They fabricated things and decided to pull away from my story and make their own because I guess mine was too normal... There's no telling what they put in there. If I could sue, I would!"

Did anybody else notice that Chris's brother was a cop in the "Keystone" Police Department?

She probably heard that they're doing this episode, she sat Justin down and said "Jason Mantzoukas acknowledged my existence, and I think I might have a shot with him, so... we can still be friends."