Rock This House

It's Rock week on American Idol. What does that mean? Rock n Roll is about 50 years old. Do they really mean any song in the past 50 years? This week's mentor was Slash. I'd love to be able to listen to the phone call to Allison's parents telling them that her mentor is Slash!

Hopefully Slash means that it will be a good week and there will be some real rock n roll tonight.
Slash was born in England. He has an African American mother and a British father. He's best known as the lead guitartist for Guns and Roses. After a very public fight with Axel Rose, he started Slash's Snakepit. They put out a couple albums. Currently he is in a band called Velvet Revolver. For my readers under 30, you probably know him best as a playable character in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. By the way, Guitar Hero is my new favorite game. With the Wii, even I get to be a Rock Star. Slash was involved in so many great rock n roll songs, they should have made it simply Slash Week on IDOL.

We know all the finalist are really good at ballads, but how will they handle Rock? Before the contest started, I'd say the edge had to go to Adam and Allison. They are both really good rockers. So how did they do tonight?

1. Adam - Whole Lot of Love - Two historical firsts tonight. The first time a Led Zeppelin song has ever been on American IDOL! And you wonder why I'm not a big fan of the show. And the first time I've ever agreed with Paula. Whole Lot of Perfection tonight.

2. Allison - Cry Baby - We knew she would do Janice Joplin and she nailed it. The judges weren't very impressed and they think she will be crying tomorrow. I don't think so. After tonights performance, her and Adam will be the final two.

3. Danny - Dream On - it was OK until the end. OMG, what was that at the end? He shows that he's got big ones, even to try this on national TV. He may be dreamin on at home next week.

4. Kris - Come Together - I knew this was going to be a tough week for Kris, but I couldn't even imagine that it would be this bad. But Kris is still very hot, and the title of his song, says it all for me. But he may be coming at home tomorrow.

Because they now have 4 judges, the producers don't know what to do about the time difference. In previous years the 4 finalist used to do 2 songs each. This year they did duets. It really didn't prove anything except that Adam and Allison are better than Danny and Kris. To make it interesting they should have paired Adam and Kris and Allison and Danny. I think this was AI's way of influencing the vote.

You all know that I never ever watch the Wednesday Results show. Paula Abdul will be singing her new song, "I'm Just Here For The Music". And I thought it was because she needed the money or easy access to drugs. Anyway if you are a Paula fan, you might want to watch tomorrow.

Next week I'll be flying my mom to Minnesota for a week. There will be no blog. I'm not even sure they have internet. It's not in Minneapolis. You fly into the cities (that's what northern Minnesotans call Minneapolis/St. Paul), you rent a car and drive north almost 200 miles to Duluth and turn left. Then you go almost another hundred miles west. It's a very small town. Without my guidance, you will have to decide on your own who should be in the final two. Come on! you can think for yourselves for one week. I of course will be back in time to tell you who should actually win American Idol 2009.

Gotta go now, Happy Hour!! To quote one of Slash's great works:
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere".

Until Two Weeks - Wise OUT