Monsters of Rock Cruise

Um, someone said to me, he said, like, so that's, that's the end of Rose Hadu.

I said, as a, as a full-time, so, so to speak, full-time performing band, we may do, um, the odd run here in Australia or, or, you know, if we get invited back to do the Monsters of Cruise and Monsters of Rock Cruise, um, I

thought you were going to come over my house and play my porch because you're not touring America.

I hope I could see you finally.

We've got to go see these fans.

That's why we're going to Monsters of Rock Cruise in May of 2027.

Go see this stuff.

That's my report.

So, you know, and I've been thinking this, even while we were talking to Mick, I was going, man, they would be such a good fit.

I don't know if they are out of the price range of the promoters, but you know what? Monsters of Rock Cruise.

They're a perfect fit for that.

Yeah.

Perfect.

Yeah.

And maybe they could start a U.S. tour by debuting on the Monsters of Rock Cruise.

yeah

Number of weeks that Mr. Mister had the number one song in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985.

Number of times that the entity known as Firehouse has been involved in the Monsters of Rock Cruise, and we're only measuring from 2012 to 2025, which was 14 opportunities.

Number of Grammy Awards won by the Foo Fighters.

Number of studio albums House of Lords released in the 2000s.

Number of weeks that Mr. Mister had the number one song in the U.S. on the Hot 100 in '85, that was two weeks, so that was under.

So we've had three under so far.

Number of times that the entity known as Firehouse has been involved in the Monsters of Rock Cruise, that number is six, so that number was over.

Number of Grammy Awards won by the Foo Fighters, that number is 15, so that number is way over.

congratulations

yeah thank you man so that was a really cool story there and uh you know really good friends with uh with the guys you know ryan and steven from the label uh and they they took this album on and right now it's doing very well i just came back from the monsters not monsters i'm going to the monsters of rock cruise that's another conversation next next year uh we're probably gonna do a jam session there But Monsters of Rock Cruise, yeah, that's going to be next year, May 6th or something like that.

That should be an exciting opportunity.

It's going to be great, man.

I was like, you know, right up front side stage too, watching Sebastian Bach and Jekyll and lynch mob and you name it, all those guys is right there.

So it was so, so cool.

Um, and, uh, you know, my bass player, he's going to the monsters of rock cruise next year.

He goes, that was cool.

and uh coming out of 2024 we felt like we really had an album that we were ready to do um and then in 2025 um we were like you know we're like okay let's record this so we went and found our producer uh named keith armstrong we got in the rehearsal room for maybe like two months and um rehearsed all the music and that's kind of really like was the last phase of where everything really came together We feel like we're predominantly really a live band, and so when we can actually get together and play the songs in a room, play loud, and really workshop them, that was a really special time for us to be able to do that.

We also were really fortunate because right in the middle of our rehearsals for the album, we played the Monsters of Rock Cruise in 2025.

Hell yeah.

Yeah, so we got a chance to go and play the songs live, um see get some of our fans response like get a feel for what it actually the songs actually feel like out in the world and then um after that we came back finished up rehearsals uh started doing pre-production in april of 25 recorded the whole album in uh may of 25 and you know uh did some post-production and stuff like that after that and then have been sitting around waiting for like eight months for it to come out now so

Well, yeah, we do.

So Punchlines and Backlines, we mostly do on the Monsters of Rock cruise or a KISS convention.

We just did it at the festival in Tennessee, the Mountain Music Festival.

And it's basically like, you know, the old saying of like, you know, every every comedian wants to be a rock star.

comedians and that really that kind of entails like what you just did with me yeah like we just get on a facetime together and we say hey tell us some stories tell us some funny stuff if you have backstage stories that you tell that are funny like just you know and and her and i sit there and we take notes the whole time And then we kind of just, you know, chop it up, tighten a few screws, edit it a little bit, and then present it in a more stand-up comedian way.

So in other words, like my biggest... thing about your your joke is like the the beginning needs to be chopped down to one one line for a setup right but but there's there's a great nugget in there so that's you that's really what we do so these rock stars are kind of writing their own material and um you know we just give them We just give them structures and, you know, we put them, you know, in front of their fans.

You know, everybody on the Monsters of Rock cruise loves, you know, Todd Latore, the singer from Queensryche or Red Beach, the guitar player from Winger or whoever it may be.

And they really score up there, man.

yeah.

Ari, ironically fitting this part of the story, Ari, the singer for Adler, which I saw on the Monsters of Rock Cruise earlier this year, standing next to Johnny Kelly, and Alex, ironically, was filling in on guitar because they were missing a guitar.

Adler, one of the guitar players, couldn't make it or something.

And so I had just seen Quiet Riot on the boat, and then Alex had to, thank you, good night, grab his guitar and run to the pool stage and get up on stage and play Adler's set.