The Shallow End of the Pool

For those interested in these kinds of things, VH1 last night aired the first "VH1 Rock Honors." It was a two hour program designed to pay tribute to KISS, Queen, Judas Priest, and Def Leppard. Each band's segment took up 30 minutes, which included a brief video retrospective of their careers, a cover performance by another band, and a performance from the honorees themselves.

I would recommend everybody check this special out, if only for the show-stealing performance during KISS' segment. No, not their performance, but the cover song. A one night only "supergroup" was put together to play "God Of Thunder," and they absolutely blew everybody else off the stage. The band featured Rob Zombie on vocals, Tommy Lee on drums, Scott Ian on bass (yes, bass), and guitarists Slash and Gilby Clarke. But wait, there's more...Zombie announced that they needed one more guitarist and bought out Ace Frehley. It was absolutely surreal to see the Spaceman himself rip up the stage (and he looked better than he has in years, by the way) only to be followed by KISS playing with Tommy Thayer in Ace's old makeup. Weird stuff.

At any rate, that one song is worth looking through the TV listings to see when the show is on again.