Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, will embark on the “Winter Wasteland” solo tour next month. The trek will kick off on November 10 in New Orleans, Louisiana and conclude on December 18 in Angola, Indiana.

Nita commented: “Because who needs time off after the last year and a half??! Where will we be seeing you??!!!”

2021 “Winter Wasteland” solo tour dates:

Nov. 10 – New Orleans, LA @ The Hangar
Nov. 11 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
Nov. 12 – Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live
Nov. 13 – San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box
Nov. 15 – El Paso, TX @ RockHouse Bar & Grill
Nov. 16 – Tuscon, AZ @ Encore
Nov. 17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
Nov. 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Whisky A Go Go
Nov. 21 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlows
Nov. 22 – San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
Nov. 24 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick
Nov. 27 – Denver, CO @ HQ
Nov. 30 – Destin, FL @ Club LA
Dec. 01 – Orlando, FL @ The Haven
Dec. 02 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Dec. 03 – Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero
Dec. 04 – Greensboro, NC @ The Blind Tiger
Dec. 07 – New York, NY @ Market Hotel
Dec. 08 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Dec. 09 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Jergels
Dec. 10 – Harrison, OH @ Blue Note
Dec. 11 – Flint, MI @ Machine Shop
Dec. 12 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
Dec. 14 – Cleveland, OH @ The Odeon
Dec. 15 – Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club
Dec. 16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theater
Dec. 17 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Back Room @ Colectivo
Dec. 18 – Angola, IN @ The Eclectic Room

Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 8.

Nita’s live show is mostly instrumental in nature, combining originals with covers.

In a May 2021 interview with Kylie Olsson’s YouTube show “Life In Six Strings”, Nita spoke about the progress of the writing and recordings sessions for her follow-up to 2018’s “Controlled Chaos” solo debut.

“That’s been really an interesting experience, writing and being creative when you really are sort of stuck in this bubble and you have no stimuli to get you inspired to do things,” she said, referring to the coronavirus crisis. “It’s been an interesting process being creative in this time, but ultimately I’m really proud of how everything is coming out. I think it’s some of the most interesting stuff I’ve done musically. And I’ve been focusing a lot more on the song. My first album was kind of, like, ‘How much cool guitar stuff can I do?’ And this time there’s a lot of cool guitar stuff, if I do say so myself, but there’s also a lot more of a focus on the song and the songwriting and the journey that it takes the listener on. I’ve been working with different songwriters and producers to sort of help me refine my skills in that area and not just be vomiting guitar all over the song. [Laughs] And it’s been a really good growth process for me. So I’m really happy with how it’s coming out.”

Asked if her second album will once again be an all-instrumental effort, Nita said: “I will have some guest singers on it this time. There are a couple of names that are attached that, one in particular, if this happens, will be a really, really crazy crossover that people wouldn’t expect, and then some of the others more people that vibe with my personal style. But whatever it is, I can promise you it will not be boring and it will not be what you would expect.”

Strauss went on to say that she happily delegated some of the responsibilities with the production and engineering side of the upcoming album to other people. “The first one, I did absolutely everything, and that was more out of stubbornness than anything,” she explained. “I wanted to make my own statement; I wanted to do it all myself. I didn’t want any external influence telling me how it should be done. So I produced it, I engineered it, I played everything that I could play. I’m not a good enough drummer or keyboard player to play that stuff, but anything that I could do myself I did. And this time around, I’m really happy to take a step back from the engineering bit of it and really just focus on being a guitar player and songwriter. So I’m still engineering my own guitars, I still engineered the keyboards and stuff like that, but I’m not gonna be engineering the drums. When Josh [Nita’s longtime boyfriend, manager and drummer Josh Villalta] goes in and plays the live drums, I’m not gonna be the one miking them this time, so you’re welcome. [Laughs] And then the same thing with the vocalist. I don’t know how to record vocals. I feel no ego about taking a step back and letting somebody that really knows what they’re doing do it. I think that’s good growth for me, because I would have stubbornly flailed around on my own until I made it sound decent. And now I’m really just happy to step back and embrace the process and work with some really good people.”

Nita also confirmed that she will not handle any lead vocals herself on the new LP. “I can hold a tune enough to sing a little bit on the Alice tour, but I’m not a good enough singer to actually sing a whole song,” she said.

In April, Nita told Wrestling Inc. managing editor Nick Hausman that her next LP will feature a guest appearance by one of her “favorite female singers out there on the scene right now.”

Strauss has been playing with Alice Cooper since 2014 when she replaced Australian musician and former Michael Jackson player Orianthi. She joined Alice in time for a mammoth MÖTLEY CRÜE tour. She was recommended to Cooper by the legendary rocker’s former bass player and WINGER frontman Kip Winger.

It’s been a long time, but the wait is almost over……..
The first single from my next solo album drops this month ?

Do you guys want an instrumental song first or one with a guest vocalist??

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IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson spoke to Pablo of the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station 93X about his current spoken-word tour, which kicked off in his native United Kingdom in August. “It’s hopefully reasonably amusing,” Bruce said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “It’s a look at how a spotty kid from the middle of nowhere ended up being the singer in IRON MAIDEN wearing crazy trousers, and all points in between. And it covers the cancer thing. It covers a lot of the early-days stuff, like how I learned to sing, all the weird stuff that happened to me at school and what formed your personality [and] character — all done with a very dark sense of humor, I hope. And then we take a break, and then the last 45 minutes, one hour-ish is basically improv. And so what I do is I take cue cards from the audience they write on the night, and I arrange them into kind of an improv script. Then I do that. That’s the show.”

Asked if there is a chance that he could bring his current spoken-word tour to the U.S. in the not-too-distant future, Bruce said: “The answer to that is we haven’t actually done the press release yet and tickets aren’t on sale yet, but there’s a possibility of around about 35 shows in the depth of winter… So, I’m just saying that, I’m raising that possibility, I’m flagging that up so people can get their winter woolies out and think how they’re gonna get to the middle of nowhere when it’s raining and snowing. Just pretend you’re a postman.”

Back in October/November 2017, Dickinson read from his autobiography, “What Does This Button Do?”, talked about the experience of writing it and answered questions from the audience at half a dozen U.S. appearances, including in New York City and Los Angeles.

Dickinson is considered one of the world’s most storied musicians. Aside from decades spent delivering high-octane performances with his larger-than-life persona in IRON MAIDEN, Bruce has lived an extraordinary off-stage existence too. A true polymath, his accomplishments include: pilot and airline captain, aviation entrepreneur, beer brewer, motivational speaker, film scriptwriter, twice-published novelist and Sunday Times best-selling author, radio presenter, TV actor, sports commentator and international fencer… to name but a few.

So there’s plenty to be entertained by, throughout the evening’s cornucopia of fascinating tales and derring-do exploits, all delivered by Bruce with characteristically infectious enthusiasm and wry wit.

Split into two parts, the first section of the show sees Bruce taking a humorous and often satirical look at the world from his own very personal perspective, treating the audience to private insights into his drive and ambition, peppered with plenty of MAIDEN anecdotes, and a myriad of other experiences encompassing not just the giddy heights but also the extreme lows, as told first-hand in his inimitable anarchic style, punctuated with photographs, videos and sometimes even erupting into song a-capella, to illustrate a point.

The final section of the evening is devoted entirely to the aforementioned question-and-answer session, with the opportunity to pose questions on any subject whatsoever. As Bruce’s answers will all be completely improvised — the more left-field and quirky the question, the more interesting and compelling the response is likely to be.

Six years ago, Dickinson had surgery to remove a cancerous lump on his throat. The rocker, who had a golf gall-size tumor on his tongue and another in the lymph node on the right side of his neck, got the all-clear in May 2015 after radiation and nine weeks of chemotherapy.

Bruce previously told iNews that he wanted to cover his cancer battle in his 2017 autobiography to raise awareness of the condition, which affects people who often have no or minimal history of tobacco or alcohol abuse. The individuals with HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer who undergo treatment have a disease-free survival rate of 85 to 90 percent over five years. Dickinson also expressed disdain for some of the media outlets that suggested he may have gotten tongue cancer from performing oral sex on women.

IRON MAIDEN’s 17th studio album, “Senjutsu”, was released on September 3 via BMG. The band’s first LP in six years was recorded in 2019 in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris.

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Venice, California crossover thrash/hardcore punk legends SUICIDAL TENDENCIES have regained control of their Instagram after recently being locked out of their account due to the band’s name.

Earlier today, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES shared the following message via the Facebook-owned app: “So as a lot of you already noticed, our Instagram account was down for the last 3 weeks. Long story, this had nothing to do with ‘us’, but everything to do with our name 🙂

“This isn’t the first time we’ve been flagged but hopefully it will be the last,” the band added.

In the mid-1980s, just as SUICIDAL TENDENCIES were seemingly in ascendancy into the big league their controversial name made them ripe targets for the moral majority. California’s police department, fearing singer Mike Muir’s crew was merely a front for a Los Angeles gang, even went so far as to ban the band performing in their hometown. The notorious moral campaigner Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator (and later vice president) Al Gore, led pressure group the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) to keep up a campaign against the band claiming that a number of teenage suicides were directly attributable to the band.

Muir previously told Australia’s Beat about SUICIDAL’s battle with the PMRC: “The record label didn’t want to release our album because it had ‘Suicidal’ in the title. We said, ‘If you get Tipper Gore to say to kids not to buy the record, then millions of kids are going to want to buy it. And I’ll go out and appear on every talk show, because I can talk the language of middle America and I would rebut everything the PMRC was going to say.’ So the label went back to the PMRC and said, ‘You’re going to have a war on your hands.’ So Tipper Gore and the PMRC retreated and they never mentioned the band’s name.”

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES’ latest album, “STill Cyco Punk After All These Years”, was released in September 2018. The LP was a re-recording and re-imagining of a Cyco Miko (Mike Muir) solo album recorded in 1995, “Lost My Brain! (Once Again)”.

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During the first week of September, NONPOINT was on tour for the first time in two years. While traveling from one show to another, the band’s trailer unhitched and crashed into a wooded area, damaging equipment and merchandise. While all of this was going on, two of the bandmembers also contracted COVID-19 and had to leave the tour altogether.

NONPOINT singer Elias Soriano told Tucson’s rock station Rock 102.1 KFMA about the band’s recent mishaps (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It started out as health concerns. Robb [Rivera, drums] wasn’t feeling well, and I wasn’t feeling well. A couple of tests came back positive, so we decided to pull off for a couple of days, hopefully, and see if we can get back on. We started kind of routing towards Blue Ridge [festival in Danville, Virginia] to hopefully continue and have some guest drummers to do our set for us on Blue Ridge, we hit Tennessee and we lost the trailer on the highway. We hit a bump that apparently was a common place where there’s constantly accidents. The bus hit a bump, the trailer hitch hit the road really hard and completely broke off. The gear went off into the forest in Tennessee.”

Soriano went on to credit NONPOINT’s fans for making it possible for the band to “recover” and get back on tour.

“We put up a fundraiser to kind of fill the hole that we made, trying to get everybody back home, trying to get back out on the road, trying to replace the gear,” he said. “So we put up a special shirt and priced it a little higher and let people know, ‘Hey, this is priced higher because we’re gonna try to take some of this and turn it into repaired gear,’ I guess. And people came to bat for us, man. It was great… We wouldn’t be here without ’em, for sure.”

In early September, NONPOINT rescheduled just under a dozen shows on its current tour after “multiple members of the band” tested positive for COVID-19.

Prior to the launch of the trek, Soriano told Bernard Cana of The Photo Pit about his band’s plans to offer “VIP experiences” to its fans on the tour: “I’m nervous because of what’s going on with COVID, to be able to be that up close and personal on this next run. We’re having a VIP experience where we’re trying to give them some kind of experience where they get to see us up close and ask questions and take pictures with us without possibly catching it from one us, God forbid — if we happen to catch it. So, what we’re trying to do and what we’ve done and decided in our camp… We’re all vaccinated. We’re gonna stay inside the bubble. We’re gonna make sure that the backstage area is pretty much situated and taken care of, keep our crew — especially our tour manager and our merch person, who’s really gonna be in and out the crowd a lot, try to keep them safe and keep people around them masked up, hopefully, if there’s that ability to do so.

“Our fans are very understanding; they always have been for years,” he continued. “So I think they’ll understand what we’re having to deal with. I’m hoping to God that [the pandemic situation] starts to turn around very, very fast, but if it doesn’t, we already have a very, very strong Plan B that’s gonna keep our fans very excited and happy that isn’t gonna cost ’em an arm and a leg.”

NONPOINT has toured with major acts like DISTURBED, PAPA ROACH, MUDVAYNE and SEVENDUST, to name a few. They have also been featured on the main stages and support stages of iconic festivals like Soundwave, Rock Am Park, Rock Am Ring, Ozzfest, Rock On The Range, Welcome To Rockville and many more.

In June, NONPOINT released the music video for “Ruthless”, the title track off the band’s upcoming EP. The single was made available through the group own label 361 Degrees Records LLC and was this year’s featured track on AEW’s “Blood And Guts” on TNT.

NONPOINT launched its independent record label 361 Degrees Records LLC in January of this year. They filmed the process of starting the label and making new music in a docu-series titled “A Path To Independence” that can be seen on the band’s YouTube and official web site.

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Underground metallic hardcore killers Jesuit continue to enjoy a vibrant and murderous life after premature death.
The post Burning Down the Hermitage: Jesuit Marks 25th Anniversary with Vinyl “Discography” Reissue appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

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During an appearance on the October 4 episode of SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS guitarist Dean DeLeo spoke about how he and his brother, STP bassist Robert DeLeo, have managed to avoid the spectacularly intense fallouts that have plagued other musician brothers, namely Ray and Dave Davies of THE KINKS, Noel and Liam Gallagher of OASIS, and Chris and Rich Robinson of THE BLACK CROWES.

“Things have been pretty good,” Dean said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Things are pretty good. The creative process that takes place between Robert and I, and the rest of the band for that matter, it almost adds to our relationship.

“Look, man, being in a band with my brother is extraordinary,” he continued. “I’m a firm believer that you’re only as good as those around you. And Robert is extraordinary, man, and it’s amazing to be in a band with him and what he brings to the table. And it really does strengthen our relationship throughout this whole creative process.

“But you hear stories, man. How about the stories — I don’t know the validity of it — but the Davies brothers? I heard there was actually punches thrown, man.

“When you’re doing something that intimate — writing music together — it can go one of two ways,” Dean explained. “And I surely had experienced it in my three decades with STONE TEMPLE PILOTS. You can walk in with something that is really part of you. You could walk in with a song, like, ‘Oh my gosh. This is one of the greatest things I’ve written. I can’t wait to bring it to the band.’ You bring it to the band, and they go, ‘Eh, it’s okay.’ [Laughs] So, you have to have thick skin, so you really have to be, like, ‘Okay. I’m gonna pick up the pieces and move on from that and we’re gonna go to the next song.’ So, yeah, man, it’s just this whole creative process that kind of takes place, and to kind of share that with somebody is pretty special.

“I used a word earlier describing this, and the word was ‘intimate.’ I mean, it really is intimate. You’re really laying yourself out on the line, depending on the piece of music you’re bringing forth. So, there’s a lot there, man. And getting to do that with Robert is interesting in the respect that it really is like one mind. I almost know what he’s gonna play, and vice versa — he knows exactly what my next chordal change will be. So it’s really nice in that respect.”

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS features three original members — Dean, Robert and drummer Eric Kretz — plus lead singer Jeff Gutt, who joined the group in 2017.

Gutt, a 45-year-old Michigan native who spent time in the early-2000s nu-metal act DRY CELL, among other bands, and was a contestant on “The X Factor”, joined STONE TEMPLE PILOTS after beating out roughly 15,000 hopefuls during an extended search that began more than a year earlier.

Original STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland, who reunited with the group in 2010 after an eight-year hiatus but was dismissed in 2013, died in December 2015 of a drug overdose.

Chester Bennington, who joined STP in early 2013, departed nearly three years later to spend more time with his main band LINKIN PARK. Bennington committed suicide in July 2017.

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Corey Taylor’s wife has shared a video of their wedding memories to celebrate their second anniversary.

The SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman married Alicia Taylor, a professional dancer and a member of the all-girl dance group CHERRY BOMBS, in October 2019 in their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. The reception was reportedly held in their home and was attended by a number of their friends and fellow musicians, including Roy Mayorga of STONE SOUR, Kyle Sanders of HELLYEAH, and Lajon Witherspoon of SEVENDUST.

Earlier today, Alicia uploaded the one-minute clip to her Twitter and captioned it with the number “2” alongside a “heart on fire” emoji.

Corey also commemorated the anniversary by sharing a wedding photo and writing in an accompanying message: “2 years. 50 to go. Happy Anniversary, my Everything. L’adorilust.”

Last year, Alicia recounted a hilarious incident that nearly derailed the couple’s wedding day. She took to her social media to share a photo of the iconic 1960s Shelby Cobra vehicle she and Corey rented for the occasion, and she revealed how car trouble almost ruined the end of one of the important days of their lives.

She wrote in a series of tweets: “This photo is from our wedding day. We rented this car to take photos with, and it sounded like a good idea, until the end when everyone left. All that remained was CT in this car, and myself in mine (we arrived to the site separately).

“Valley of Fire was now closed, it was getting dark, and we had dinner reservations in a little over an hour- perfect amount of time to drop this rental car back and make it to our favorite romantic restaurant and continue our dream day.

“But the universe had other plans,” she continued.

“As I followed CT in the little sports car down the longgg lonely road leaving Valley of Fire, I noticed he was going slower, and slower… until the car let out a sound of defeat- a pathetic little ‘put put put’ – and came to a complete stop in the middle of the road.

“Before I could pop my head out of the window the ask if he was okay, I saw him grasp and attempt to shake the steering wheel, as he screamed, ‘FUCKKKKK!!! YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT! AHHHH!!!’ into the deep dark abyss of the desert.

“No cars in sight. No lights. Pretty sure I saw a flock of birds take off as the sonic waves of his echoes hit their direction. Then silence. Oh man.

“But! Aha! We looked a little further into the distance and saw a teeny tiny glow of what looked to be a Chevron sign. Yes!

“We couldn’t leave this 1965 or 68 or whatever Cobra in the middle of the road, so he popped that sucker in neutral, and we – he in his gorgeous suit and myself in the one thing I splurged on for this wedding, a designer dress – pushed the car off the road and to the side.

“We must’ve looked so ridiculous,” she added. “My dress was now completely covered in dirt. I ripped it with my heel while trying to dig my feet into the ground as I shoved this damn vehicle. Corey is also covered in dirt and sweating like he’s attending a southern Baptist church in July.

“We hit the Chevron at the end of the road, fill up a couple plastic gas cans, and head back to the car towards Valley of Fire.

“I watch from my car with the headlights shining on CT to give him light- and I see him attempt to fill the car with gas. I check the clock. Shit.

“I call Nobu and tell them that we are not going to make our reservation. They are understanding and push it back an hour. I glance up at CT, who is pouring gasoline as best as he can, except the nozzle broke and he is now drenching the side of the car, and his pants… in fuel.

“A couple more echoey loud expletives are sent into the universe, and I jump out to assist,” Alicia wrote. “He smells like someone on a pit crew. He gets the other cans in the tank, tries to start the car- dead. Nothing. Battery? Starter? What could it be?

“We sit in my car to take a breather. It’s the first time we have stopped and REALLY looked at one another since this clusterfuck began.

“And we laugh. Hysterically.

“Tears are streaming down my face from laughing so hard, and in that very moment, I knew he was my perfect match.

“Wrap up: waited another hour and a half to two hours for tow truck. Pushed our reservation during that time again but didn’t make it. We were too exhausted and hungry to care, so we ate at a Thai place in the hotel we were staying at.

“The server looked at us with a raised eyebrow as we sat down in our gasoline and dirt covered fancy wedding getups, our hair disheveled, I had a burn on my leg from the exhaust. He probably smelled us before he saw us. ‘Did- did you guys just get married?’

“Yep.

“‘Congrats…?’

“So now we blew that first photo up REAL BIG and it’s in our dining room.

“Moral of the story: Find someone that you can laugh with, especially when shit hits the fan. This can be a partner, a friend, a coworker… anyone. Find that person and cherish them.”

Corey and Alicia began dating after the breakup of the singer’s eight-year marriage with Stephanie Luby, whom he wedded in November 2009 (the couple had a daughter named Ryan). Corey was previously married from 2004 to 2007 to a woman named Scarlett, with whom he shares a son. The rocker also has a daughter from an earlier relationship.

Corey released his debut solo album, “CMFT”, in October 2020 via Roadrunner Records.

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— uh-lee-see-yuh Taylor (@AliciaETaylor) October 6, 2021

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Untamed Land “seeks to capture the spirit and energy of the mythical Old West by creating a dreamlike and dark sonic landscape.”
The post Full Album Stream: Untamed Land – “Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms” appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

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Former QUIET RIOT and current ROUGH CUTT singer Paul Shortino has railed against the federal and local vaccine mandates that have been implemented across the U.S. over the past few weeks.

The 68-year-old Shortino, who frequently “likes” tweets that amplify Republican talking points and that are derogatory to Democrats, discussed his stance on the issue during an October 5 appearance on Robby Lochner’s YouTube livestream.

He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “What’s interesting to me is that when you have to bribe people to take something, you kind of wanna question it. Maybe it would be a good idea [to find out] why they want me to take this so bad.

“People have had different reactions from both sides of it,” he continued. “People that have taken it have been cool. Some people have taken it — the jab or whatever. I won’t call it a vaccine because you have to take a booster, and then you might have to take another booster. So it’s kind of like a flu shot to me.

“I just found out I’m allergic to the flu shot, so every time I took the flu shot, I got deadly sick. I had to freakin’ sing for eight and a half weeks [as part of the Las Vegas production] ‘Raiding The Rock Vault’ six nights a week. And I had walking pneumonia from the flu shot.

“I’m not in a hurry to get the COVID thing,” Shortino added. “It might kill me. If the flu shot is doing this to me, who knows? I should probably be a little bit more informative in what’s going with what they’re giving people and stuff.

“But it’s messed with a lot of people’s lives. It’s insane — it really is. With restaurants, bars, music…

“If they’re telling us what to teach our kids, maybe the next thing they’ll be telling us what kind of music we can play.

“Is it right for the party? It’s almost like we’re kind of swinging that pendulum so close to Marxism to where they’re in control of everything. It’s pretty crazy. It’s happening so fast.

“I’m 68,” Paul said. “I never thought that at 68 I would see this stuff going on. And they’re just testing the waters to see how many people will comply to whatever they want to do. And I think Americans need to stand up and start saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute.’

“Doctor [Anthony] Fauci [the country’s top infectious-disease expert] is actually selling candles. They made him almost like a God. And it’s really kind of crazy.

“But who knows what’s gonna happen?

“People need to speak up and say what’s on their mind, if they can. They’re trying to shut down those avenues for people to do [it].”

Two months ago, Shortino claimed that he beat COVID-19 by taking ivermectin, a cheap, widely available, anti-parasitic drug that has been touted by some on social media as a COVID-19 “miracle cure.”

While there are approved uses for ivermectin in people, including for the treatment of some parasitic worms, it is not approved by the FDA for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. The FDA says that you should not take any medicine to treat or prevent COVID-19 unless it has been prescribed to you by your health care provider and acquired from a legitimate source. Ivermectin is prescribed at very specific doses for some parasitic worms. It is not an antiviral drug.

This past February, before he got infected with the coronavirus, Shortino told the “Ouch, You’re On My Hair” podcast and radio show that he was not concerned about contracting COVID-19. He said: “I’m not really afraid of it. I think [other] people are more afraid of it. I’m such a believer in the law of attraction that if you’re not afraid of it, and you put out there that you’re not afraid of it, I don’t think you’re gonna contract it. I know people that have contracted it who were so afraid of getting it. And then they just put it out there.”

The singer continued: “Everything begins with a thought, and everything’s on a frequency, so if you put out something there, you’re gonna get it back. So you should only think about what you want, not what you don’t want. [Don’t think] ‘I don’t wanna get this. I don’t wanna get the COVID.'”

A Fox News poll released last month showed clear majorities of Americans back mask and COVID-19 vaccination mandates. 54 percent of people favor proof of vaccination in indoor spaces like restaurants and gyms while 66 percent said they favor businesses requiring masks for customers and employees. 67 percent said they support mandating that students and teachers wear masks in schools. According to the poll, which included interviews with more than 1,000 registered voters conducted between September 12 and 15, 56 percent of voters supported President Joe Biden’s directive to companies with more than 100 employees to require proof of vaccination or regular testing.

Dr. Arturo Casadevall, chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told CNBC that COVID-19 vaccines “are extremely safe,” noting that the risks of the side effects from the vaccines are significantly lower than the health risks posed by the virus. “COVID, on the other hand, is deadly, unpredictable.”

COVID-19 vaccines have been studied in humans for more than a year now, and more than 182 million people have been fully vaccinated in the United States alone. There are several robust safety monitoring systems in place for these vaccines that can detect the very rare adverse events.

With the original strain of the virus, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were about 90% to 95% effective in preventing symptomatic disease. As a result of the delta variant, that efficacy rate has dropped to 66%. Still, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that unvaccinated people are almost five times more likely to contract symptomatic COVID compared to a fully vaccinated person.

Fully vaccinated people are 29 times less likely to be hospitalized because of the virus compared to those are unvaccinated, according to a study released by the CDC.

Research shows that fully vaccinated people experience milder symptoms and are half as likely to develop several symptoms in the first week of illness compared to unvaccinated people.

Various polls have consistently found that Democrats are much more likely to report having been vaccinated than Republicans, and Republicans are much more likely to say that they definitely do not want to get vaccinated.

QUIET RIOT’s fourth album, 1988’s “QR”, was the band’s only LP to feature Shortino. Prior to joining QUIET RIOT, Paul sang on two acclaimed studio albums from ROUGH CUTT, 1985’s self-titled effort and 1986’s “Wants You!”

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