The "Best Songs With The Worst Lyrics" Awards

In the spirit of the recent 2010 Olympics, I'm awarding figurative Bronze, Silver and Gold medals for the best songs with the worst lyrics. These are three undeniably great hard rock songs by three of the greatest bands in hard rock history with lyrics that can be described as dubious at best.

Try reading them out loud as poetry. All are basically about the same thing (you know what). This is meant to be taken with a sense of humor and an understanding that I'm not putting down the music. In the next post I'll have some reflections on hard rock songs and why they're great even though some of them have embarrassingly bad lyrics.

Feel free to add your own selections to the comments section. Keep in mind, the song has to be good. For example, I didn't include my choice of song with the worst lyrics because I and many other fans of the band consider it a bad song:

"Baby, let's put the X in sex. Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex."

Way to go, Paul and Gene. You really made us Kiss fans proud with that one.

BRONZE:

BAND: Scorpions
SONG: "Rock You Like A Hurricane"

Lyric: "The bitch is hungry, she needs to tell, so give her inches, and feed her well...He's licking his lips, he's ready to win. On the hunt tonight for love at first sting"

SILVER:

BAND: AC/DC
SONG: "Let Me Put My Love Into You"

Lyric: "Let me put my love into you babe. Let me put my love on the line.
Let me put my love into you babe. Let me cut your cake with my knife."

GOLD:

BAND: Kiss
SONG: "Love Gun"

Lyric: "I really love you baby. I love what you've got. Let's get together we can get hot....No place for hiding baby, no place to run. You pull the trigger of my...love gun!"

AS Trio To Tour Europe With RyG.

3/19/10

       Hey everyone-  just a quick announcement from the tour with AS Trio and Rodrigo Y Gabriela. Right now we're in Miami where everyone's been enjoying much needed time off. Tonight we play the historic Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theater.

      It's been quite an experience doing our modern acoustic jazz w/rock energy (or whatever you want to call it) for crowds in the thousands who are reacting tremendously, then sharing the stage with RyG for a few tunes. We're grateful to Rod, Gab, and their crew for making us feel so welcome on this tour. Things have been going so well in fact, that we've been invited to continue to tour throughout Europe with Rod Y Gab. We'll be playing huge venues such as the Olympia Theater in Paris (already sold out), as well as shows in the US through May. These dates will be added to our website, FB pages etc...as they become available.

     Apologies to those who were disappointed I couldn't make Testament's current tour, which was booked after I was already committed to the tour I'm on right now. I appreciate the understanding and look forward to making it up to Testament fans on the American Carnage Tour this Summer. None of these new dates will affect any upcoming commitments with Testament.

       Thanks to everyone we've been seeing on the road thus far, and we look forward to bringing the AS Trio to Europe for its first ever proper tour. See you soon!!

                         Alex

Guitar Player

My First Post As Blogger For Guitar Player Magazine

Nashville

I've decided to revamp this story and make it just about Nashville. There are photos and video added. The Guitar Player story is it's own post now.

Hi everyone- sorry to disappear! The AS Trio is on tour with my good friends, instrumental superstars Rodrigo Y Gabriela. It's been an amazing experience performing to thousands each night with AST then sitting in with RyG during their set. Yesterday we played the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Earlier in the day, Rodrigo and I went on a guitar outing. First we hit the Gibson custom shop. The folks working there were very gracious, some of them confessed to being fans and none of them seemed to mind that I endorse Heritage, a company their bosses have had their differences with. He bought a Les Paul (his first) from the retail shop.

Later, we hit Gruen Guitars, Nashville's famous guitar store (anyone remember them from that old Visa ad?). I've always wanted a great tele and I found a vintage blonde beauty. Did I need to spend $2500 on a guitar? No! But encouraged by my inner voice (and Rod, who'd just spent more than that on his Gibson), I went for it. What better place to get one? And how often do you get the chance to debut it on the same stage where the ghosts of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and countess other legends can still be felt, their pictures surrounding the backstage? The crowd loved it when I told the story and used it for the slide guitar romp of our trio tune 'Western Sabbath Stomp.' It was a great day in Nashville. (Photo's: Rod at Gibson and me showing Gab the tele backstage)


When I posted this the first time, I'd forgotten to mention that the night before, we'd stumbled into a bar and heard an incredible group, the Don Kelly Band (pictured above). Their guitarist, JD Silo, is a quintessential Nashville tele player. Quite honestly, I can't remember the last time I've heard someone who so represents everything that is great about the guitar. Seeing him certainly helped enhance and inspire the whole Nashville
Telecaster experience. If you're ever down in Nashville, drop by Robert's on Broadway, where he can be heard several nights a week. Here's a clip I found on YouTube.

The only downside to this tour is that it's been really hard to write. However, I have managed to finish a piece which appears courtesy of Guitar Player Magazine, where I've brought aboard as a guest blogger. You'll be seeing more of my guitar-centric pieces over there, but we'll always have announcements links here on Skolnotes.

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