Revisiting Stay Hungry after all these years does bring a smile to my face, but one can also understand why they were such a flash-in-the-pan outfit. Like Quiet Riot and Kiss, the phenomenon was mainly visual, and outside of the hit songs (and I will admit "Were Not Gonna Take It" was an iconic single) this was a lot of hype and controversy stirred up in part by the band itself.

The early 80's saw an alarming growth in the "here today - gone tomorrow" rule as it applied to the music business, and it was applied - from all angles - to Twisted Sister in late 1985. Their follow-up to 1984's MTV hit Stay Hungry was supposed to consolidate them as mega-stars, but instead, it dropped them far down the ladder to mid-card status. A few listens to Come Out And Play explains why: Snider's presence here is more exasperating than usual, while the band is out to lunch. The most notable track here is a dumb-rock cover of "Leader of the Pack".

The second made-for-TV Kolchak movie - even though it has more than its share of thrills and chills - functions better as a grand send-up of the original, with all of the arguments between him and Vincenzo. It's also a reasonable glimpse into what a lot of the episodes of the TV series what look like, right down to an early, bratty archetype of the Emily Cowles character (here played by Kate Murtagh).

Every symopsis I have seen makes the claim Holmes moved back in with his MIL which was not really the case. Obviously done to drum up interest. The doc itself is more promo film than anything else. Mean Man was a WASP song and the moniker of Holmes band. Overall, a yawner that contains the occassional laugh or two.

There was a period of time when Leon Russell was the most inventive piano player in pop music, bar none - and this 26-minute collaborative slate of overflowing psychedelic-shaded revelations with fellow L.A. scenester Marc Benno was the opening stake in that claim.