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| Bananiversary Celebration, 7/6/06 |
BANANIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 5 YEARS OF THE ROCK & ROLL FRUIT!  |
| We recently received the following e-mail from our 2003 Sludgeaholic of the Year, C.C. Banana. It seems that this month the Banana will celebrate 5 years of doing... well, whatever the hell it is he does. We're still not quite sure how to describe it. |
| For that matter, has it really been 5 whole years since we ran our account of him stalking C.C. DeVille around a Poison concert? Man, time sure flies when you're always drunk! Anyway, here's a link to that first unbelievable story, in case you have no idea how all this banana nonsense got started: |
| http://www.Metal-Sludge.com/AdventuresOfCCBanana.htm |
 C.C. Banana with C.C. DeVille, Bobby Dall and Bobby's son Zack in 2001 |
| You'll notice that the very last sentence of the article said the following: |
| "I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of C.C. Banana." |
| Talk about an understatement! At most, we figured maybe he'd be back to bother Poison again the following summer (which he did). We honestly had no idea he'd find a way to keep milking this idea for years and years to come. Since then C.C. Banana has gotten smacked around by Sebastian Bach for wearing our T-shirt, written a tour diary about his experiences hosting our first Metal Sludge Extravaganza Tour and released his very own home video. He's also conducted a boatload of cool interviews for us, including Jani Lane, Phil Lewis, Steve Riley, Kevin Dubrow, Jizzy Pearl, John Corabi, Eric Brittingham, Fred Coury and a bunch of other people. He even slipped a one-liner past George Lucas and interviewed Blackie Lawless' mic stand! Who knew one retarded gimmick could be taken so far? |
| Anyway, here's the announcement C.C. Banana recently sent out. Looks like the yellow freak paid somebody a couple of bucks to write him up a fancy-ass press release: |
| For immediate release: |
| Bananiversary Celebration: 5 Years of the Rock & Roll Fruit! |
| July 6, 2006 |
| Hard though it may be to believe, it's been 5 full years since rock & roll comic C.C. Banana was set loose upon an unsuspecting scene. On the fateful afternoon of July 6, 2001 an ordinary man gave way to become an extraordinary fruit. Donning a tattered old banana costume and inexplicably choosing to lampoon Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, the newly christened C.C. Banana would soon make fast friends with the hard rock elite. This July, C.C. Banana commemorates 5 years of rock & roll irreverence with the appropriately named Bananiversary Celebration, a 5-star salute to the fabulous fruit. Throughout the month-long event, C.C. will issue a series of new interviews with some of his favorite hard rock heroes, the identities of whom are being withheld until publication. Additionally, the official C.C. Banana website has been updated with dozens of new and archived features, including interviews with the members of Cinderella, Ratt, Quiet Riot, FireHouse, Warrant, L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P. and Metal Church. To further commemorate this personal milestone, C.C. Banana has arranged a string of live, radio and podcast appearances, details of which can be found in his weblog. Additional information about C.C. Banana and the Bananiversary Celebration is available at CCBanana.com. |
| www.CCBanana.com |
| Sounds like C.C. Banana has a bunch of cool stuff on tap to celebrate his anniversary this month, so check back throughout July to see what surprises he has in store. In the meantime, below we've collected a few of C.C. Banana's more memorable contributions to Metal Sludge from the past few years. We still don't know how he manages to pull off these stunts, we're just glad he keeps sending them in to us. |
| C.C. Banana interviews Phil Lewis of L.A. Guns! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=52 |
| C.C. Banana interviews members of Cinderella, Ratt, Quiet Riot & FireHouse! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=748&Itemid=42 |
| C.C. Banana interviews members of L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P. & Metal Church! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=747&Itemid=42 |
| Bananakin Skywalker chats with George Lucas! (includes audio) http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=863&Itemid=42 |
| C.C. Banana interviews Jani Lane of Warrant! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=52 |
| C.C. Banana interviews Craig Gass of The Howard Stern Show! (includes video) http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=52 |
| C.C. celebrates Banana Birthday Blowout with Enuff Z'Nuff & Mike Tramp's White Lion! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=918&Itemid=85 |
| C.C. Banana appears on Sirius Satellite Radio! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=580&Itemid=39 |
| C.C. Banana invades Ted Poley concert! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=808&Itemid=42 |
| ASK THE STARS featuring C.C. Banana and John Monaco of Enuff Z'Nuff! http://www.MetalSludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=533&Itemid=38 |
| Metal Sludge Almost 3 Full Years Older Than C.C. Banana |
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