W.A.S.P.

There's stories of how, you know, Sammy Kerr's look came from what Mickey Six looked like.

There's, you know, I wish there were a little more talk about there are stories that Blackie Lawless from Wasp was going to originally be Sammy Kerr, but the filmmakers did not want.

a Wasp soundtrack, and Blackie didn't want to sing, you know, or didn't want to lip-sync Fastway's songs.

It's interesting that Fastway was chosen for the band, and it makes sense based on something else you learn in this documentary.

I always thought that especially, you know, After Midnight sounds like an ACDC song, and at the time, ACDC were doing the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive, which was another Dino De Laurentiis film.

Talk to me.

What do we got? Donny Osmond, Wasp, Ricky Martin.

Dude, no, wait.

Save this for Friday's show.

of our music, we were sick of your music.

So we made like a treaty where it's like, all right, we won't play Go West, but you can't play Wasp and blah, blah,

blah.

Yeah,

And...

You know, Kiss to Wasp and Motley Crue and all that kind of stuff.

Quickly, you know, being on the bus and wearing my Kiss t-shirts and stuff.

And some guy talking about Iron Maiden and me arguing with him that Blackie Lawless is a better bass player than Steve Harris.

And, yeah.

But it was just a shift.

So now, on any given day, I could be listening to the debut Wasp album, or I could be listening to Power Slave, or Screaming for Vengeance, or Peace sells, but who's buying, or Master of Puppets.

It's just slowly...

Right.

Or Blackie Lawless, the lead singer of the heavy metal band Wasp.

And you turn it into a Trump rally.

Right.

It kind of spun me for a loop.

I liked it, but it still spun me for a loop.

I was not expecting Wasp to turn a show into a Trump rally back in 24.

That check might have hit the account.

Or Led Zeppelin, who in the following decades would rent out six floors to the Hyatt on Sunset, a.k.a. the Hyatt House, a.k.a. the Riot House, and initiate a groupie-shagging, television-smashing, motorcycle-down-the-hallway den of debauchery.

A lot to live up to, perhaps, but it was a challenge that Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Rat, Wasp, Poison, L.A.

Guns, Faster Pussycat, and the rest of the 80s glam lot were more than happy to take on.

You had to be able to put up not 100%, but 1,000%, says Poison singer Brett Michaels, or, as Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil put it in the band's gloriously degenerate 2001 autobiography, The Dirt, we'd get drunk, do crazy amounts of cocaine, and walk the circuit in stiletto heels, stumbling all over the place.