Members wheresgrant3 Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/11/warrant-singer-jani-lane-dead-dies-died-hotel-ventura-los-angeles-cherry-pie/ I know it seems cruel to poke a little while the corpse is still warm, but did anyone NOT see this coming? For those who haven't kept score, Lane, who was once married to one of the biggest sluts in Hollywood to NOT do porn, has had an up and down... but mostly down, post career as the former lead singer of Warrant. He just got his second DWI a few months back and I've read in many interviews where he could complete shows or finish tours because he was a walking distillery. A part of me feels a little sad for these blokes... then again, they got to see the world, tour, make money, impregnate thousands of women... and still do something with their lives. Duff McKagan is an established writer and founder of a wealth management firm. Steven Adler is an addict with such aggression he gets kicked off a show that's designed to profit and exploit his very addition. Who would believe these guys were in the same band together. Go figure! Sorry if this post offends any fans. Warrant wasn't my cup of tea. In his day he was a good singer and songwriter, but after seeing a legend like Ronnie James Dio succumb to cancer last spring and to think of his influence in modern rock/metal... dying in a Comfort Inn in Woodland, CA seems wholly unavoidable. Christ... even Bret Michaels has died nearly 50 times and survived according to his autobiography. BTW... the 'Frog' reference dates back to Metal Sludge about a decade ago who said he looked like a bullfrog onstage (his bloated appearence from alcoholism) trying to sing Cherry Pie in bars back near his hometown in Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim_7string Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 Warrant and Skid Row are playing in town tomorrow night, but neither band has the original lead singer. It's sad to hear that Jani Lane died. I got to see Warrant in their heyday on their Dog Eat Dog tour (1992) and again in 2001 with the original lineup. He was a hell of a frontman in '92, not so much in 2001 (just kinda stood there). Very sad news. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chadd Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 Jani was a good guy, treated me well and was a great interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jwlussow Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 He really was a good guy. While they were touring with Motley Crue (1990ish) he stopped by at Excalibur in Chicago while we were playing. He came up and sang some great classic rock and blues stuff. Really surprised many people there. He was a bluesman at heart. We sat and talked with him for hours after the show. While I wasn't a huge Warrant fan, Jani was a decent guy and I am saddened to hear of his passing, especially since it was totally avoidable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 I met Lane briefly once at a New Years Eve party in Vegas around about 1992 where Sam Kinison was the headliner and some members of Warrant and others LA big hair types were his "backing band". My band at the time loaned our gear in exchange for tickets to the event. Kinison was too drunk to perform and the whole thing ended up being a big disaster where a lot of the guests were demanding their money back. A lot of drinking going on, but the Warrant guys, including Lane, all seemed like good guys. They were nice to me anyway, and this was when they were probably at the peak of the rock-star-ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 Live by the sword, die by the sword. I didn't care for that band, but it's a shame to see anyone go from such a high to the ultimate low. All things considered, the guy probably lived 5x as hard as I, banged 100x as many chicks, and probably had experiences worth dying for. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alex_SF Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/32502/klosterman-remembers-warrants-jani-lane I saw Warrant in '89, opening for Queensryche (in their pre-"Silent Lucidity" period as a cyber/sci-fi metal band). Warrant wasn't my cup of tea, and wasn't a great match on that roster, but I did appreciate their genuine enthusiasm and effort to put on a good show for a crowd that wasn't very into them -- I had the same impression as Klosterman (who normally gets on my nerves) in that article. I won't say they won me over, but I at least respected what they were doing. Too bad for Jani. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanlatte Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 " no official cause of death has been released."This is about the 5th forum today I have seen with this news, it's like people couldn't wait for it to happen or something. Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 I'll always remember Warrant as the last "big hair" band and "Cherry Pie" as the song that seemed to be the one-big-hair-band-song-too-many that finally made everyone sick of the genre. They snuck in under the wire. "Cherry Pie" was huge at the end of 1990 and through most of '91. "Nevermind" was released at the end of '91 and by the time Warrant released their next album in the summer of '92 they were pretty much over. I remember them coming to Vegas to tour that next album and they came and did a concert with Firehouse and Britney Fox (IIRC) at a medium sized hall. I was the buyer at the Tower Records store at the time and the rep from Sony gives me like 20 tickets to the concert that I literally could not give all away. Most of the kids working at the store wouldn't have been caught dead at a Warrant concert at that time. Amazing how fast things change in this business. Or at least back in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 They were the middle of the end. Warrant Slaughter and Winger led to things like Pretty boy Floyd, and all those last dying gasp of hair metal. Ironically, the first nail in the coffin, was Home sweet home. It opened a floodgate of power ballads that got worse and worse. Nirvana was a breath of fresh air. I never cared for warrant or Jani when he was alive, don't care now that he's gone, but it's still a shame. It sounds like he was a good guy. The problem with music is this. With sports teams, there is a unifying body for each sport. If an athlete is caught using drugs, they will be suspended, sent to rehab etc etc. There is a support system available. The music industry (and it is an industry) has no such entity. As an artist, if you get into trouble, there no help, except maybe from a manager etc. But you are just a cash cow to them, when you are famous, and nothing after that. Be it Jani Lane, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, whoever, when one of them passes away, all the industry has is a one word response.... Next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 These things are supposed to come in "threes" aren't they? So now after Amy and Jani, can we expect all sorts of threads and blogs taking guesses on who the third one will be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 They were the middle of the end. Warrant Slaughter and Winger led to things like Pretty boy Floyd, and all those last dying gasp of hair metal. Well, what created those dying gasp bands was the fact that the record companies, in their infinate wisdom, went out and signed pretty much every big hair band in the country during that Warrant/Slaughter period. So there were a ton of records to be released by bands already signed that NOBODY wanted. So there was still a lot of sludge out there for the next couple of years, but the end of Hair Metal had to have been one of the most abrupt genre-shifts there have ever been: MASSIVELY huge one year/dead as toast the next. Maybe the end of disco was the only thing that compared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 Well, what created those dying gasp bands was the fact that the record companies, in their infinate wisdom, went out and signed pretty much every big hair band in the country during that Warrant/Slaughter period. So there were a ton of records to be released by bands already signed that NOBODY wanted. So there was still a lot of sludge out there for the next couple of years, but the end of Hair Metal had to have been one of the most abrupt genre-shifts there have ever been: MASSIVELY huge one year/dead as toast the next.Maybe the end of disco was the only thing that compared? Exactly. Every label wanted "a motley cr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J.Paul Posted August 13, 2011 Members Share Posted August 13, 2011 These things are supposed to come in "threes" aren't they? So now after Amy and Jani, can we expect all sorts of threads and blogs taking guesses on who the third one will be? I'm guessing Larry King or Courtney Love.....is it too late to add Casey Anthony? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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