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Blue By Name, Not Blue By Nature.

Posted by Headbangerwoman on October 18, 2012
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“It’s just not good to be full of shit, in either sense.” Susan Blue Ashley, shared with Headbangerwoman.com recently.

You just know that Ashley has encountered more than her fair share of constipated people, asshole connected or otherwise in her 40 some years.

The Ex-Wives Of Rock

Ashley, most recently known for her part in the Slice TV, Tricon production Ex-Wives of Rock, was asked to be a part of the cast because she was married to Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon. The two have a son together. Grady has just turned 19 and made his TV debut on the show.
Back in the late 80’s it was only right that a member of Warrant was with a hot looking girl. Hot looking girls wanted to bag a member of Warrant…..

Blue and Jerry. The early days!

Dixon and Ashley met in New York, away from the kafuffle that was Hollywoods infamous Sunset Strip. She was hot, still is in fact. He was in Warrant. He remains a part of the band. “You know, Warrant had just released their first single, they were starting to tour. Jerry had seen all the other kinds of women on the strip. It was different for us. I was working at MTV, we met in an elevator at ABC. I was a VJ on the show Remote Control. Recording six or seven shows a day, I had no time for anything else, other than grabbing a pizza at the end of the day and going home to sleep. For four months or so we had nothing more than a relationship by phone. He was amazed by the fact that he could call me from any time zone and I would be home at night!”
The relationship ended when Blue Saw Red after Dixon introduced additional boobs and butt into the relationship. Some would say he was a Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking, Bitch. Whatever the case, Ashley took their son and left Uncle Toms Cabin, headed for a different kind of Heaven.

Warrant bassist. Jerry Dixon.

“I totally removed myself from that lifestyle.” Ashley tells.

“Fortunately we were able to work things out as far as Grady is concerned. I give Jerry a lot of credit for being willing for us to work together and put Grady first. Grady is a sensitive, mindful and thoughtful, gosh darn nice person. You know, I was a single Mom for twelve years, we have a special bond. Even now if he calls me when shit has hit the fan, I will drop everything to be there for him. When your kids start to grow up, It’s hard to let go, but I want him to have a life, you know? I will go to concerts with him when I have no idea about the band. I don’t understand the music, these days! We have movie night. You know, a movie we have seen a thousand times, no cell phones. I see him pushing away from the dock, and becoming his own man, but it makes the transition easier when you make time to spend together.”

After twelve years as a single Mom, Ashley and Tripp became partners and Tripp became part of the family. Ashley describes Tripp as “An amazing person. Grady is a credit to Tripp too. They have a special bond. Tripp is a motivator, Grady is more of an old school lawnmower and he needs that extra push to get going. We recently went on a deep sea fishing trip. We love to do that kind of thing as a family.”
It seems though that Ashley is not as keen to share when it comes to organising her home.
She appeared on TV as a quite controlling individual with a serious case of OCD. “It’s all about me knowing what is going on.” Ashley is quite jovial about her portrayal. “These days I am constantly running around, with a new business and taking care of my families needs! I need to plan and I like to know what’s happening. I do laundry every day; my clothes need to be in the right place. I teach and exercise so much that I have a bag for the gym, a bag for aerial classes and yet another one for the studio! I double check everything. My OCD actually means I function normally!”

Photograph by VeroFotoRock

In addition to her TV appearances Ashley is the owner of Metamorphosis; mind, body and pole, exercise facility in Los Angeles. “I was in my forties when I stated Polling.’ Ashley tells with the enthusiasm of a child with a shiny new toy. “I just knew it was for me.”
With the goal of empowering clients and helping them to be physically and mentally strong, Ashley describes her classes as, “Getting super fit and feeling sexy at the same time. We want to focus on the whole demeanour. People need to make time for themselves. We help them feel good about their body and it translates to the mind. Myself, I still attend at least three spinning classes a week. That is where I get my clarity of mind, I reach the zone. There is a rush, a high and then everything makes sense and becomes organised there. I’m not one for sitting in the back yard and trying to find my inner self!”

Blue shows her pole skills
Picture by VeroFotoRocks

SO…. what happened to clarity when the episodes of Ex-wives of Rock were being filmed at around the time of ex-Warrant singer/songwriter Jani Lanes death in August 2011? Ashley was seen to make allegations against Bobbie Brown and tempers appeared frayed.
“Jani was married to my best friend at the time of his death. I had the ear of two friends and was caught in the middle. It was a difficult time for everyone involved. We were all in a very different place then.
It was very hard to watch back, but Bobbie and I knew it was coming. People don’t know all the dynamics, but they just need to know that we are all much closer as a result of all we have been through and it wasn’t all plain sailing.”
Even Ashley and Sharise Neil, ex-wife of Motley Crue frontman Vince are in business together now. The Kandy Wrappers owner and designer finally said yes and is in development with Ashley for a line of exercise clothing in conjunction with Metamorphosis. “We are developing a great line of Pole & Aerial Wear!” Ashley reveals. “I am very excited about it! Sharise is an amazing designer!”
Ashley laughs as she tells, Sharise is also the queen of no. She is slowly teaching me to say no. Not to say yes to everyone, to only do it if there is time, if it is on the schedule!” Neil attends Pole classes regularly.

One thing Ashley will never say no to is a good diet. Even though her cast mates were seen joking about her poop talk and gas issues on the show, it makes a lot of sense when it is explained properly. “It is really important that I eat well and have a good poop daily. Really, when you have to spend half a day with your butt over your head half way up a pole it just makes sense! Of course a good diet aids sleep and better mind function too.”

Interestingly, Ashley had been spending a lot more time with her ass above her head recently as she prepared for the live show of Once upon a Pole. A live Ariel performance brought to life by Kelly Maglia Vertical Theatre.
“It is the first time for me to make a live performance and I was really nervous,” Ashley admitted. Not only that, but she was also in a lot of pain with a rib area injury as she spoke to Headbangerwoman. It didn’t stop her and the show went on!

Sharise, Bobbie, Athena and Blue

In closing this article it should probably be explained that giant tubes of lubricant can be used in maintain good condition of patent leather, which is why it would be easily found in the shoe closet!

We love Blue Poo!

Metamorphosis; mind, body and pole
Kandy Wrappers
Ex-Wives Of Rock

By Karen Graham 17 October 2012

Believe it. Bobbie Brown is back!

Posted by Headbangerwoman on September 20, 2012
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Botox, bums and boobs, BUGGER….It’s Bobbie Brown!

Norma Jean liked it hot.
Billie Jean was not Michael Jacksons lover.
Bobbie Jean is my Cherry Pie.
So, can Ms Bobbie Brown actually roller skate? “Well, I could, back in Junior High,” Brown giggles,” I had the skates, with the hot pink laces, but you have to keep practising, right? I think in that scene from Cherry Pie someone had pushed me, but I really was falling over!”
There has always been something about Bobbie Jean Brown that makes it difficult to stop looking at her. A true Southern Starlet, she made her mark modelling and then a little later as the roller skating hottie in the Warrant video, for the song Cherry Pie back in 1990. Brown was 20. She of course went on to marry and have a daughter with then Warrant front man Jani Lane, the two divorced not much later.

Young and in love
Bobbie Brown with Jani Lane

Lane died from alcohol related causes in August 2011.
Brown is now appearing in the Tricon Films and Television/Slice Network Friday night new release, Ex-Wives of Rock, airing in Canada only, at this time.
In the TV show Brown sometimes appears insecure. She is in a relationship with yet another addict and is finding it difficult competing with her former self. Is her attraction to addictive personalities something that just happens by accident? “I don’t know, I guess, although Matthew Nelson was sober when I was with him. People say you are attracted to men like your father. Mine was an alcoholic and an abusive man, so it may be right.” Brown told Headbangerwoman. Her relationship with former Warrant front man Jani Lane was often fuelled by his anger, usually when Lane and his alcohol were in partnership.
Maybe there is a part of her that thinks she can help to make these addictive personalities well? “It could be that, you know I am a very concerned person. I am motherly, cooky, dorky and care taking. Of course I sometimes get sucked right in and then people just expect me to care for them.” Despite the turbulent relationship Brown still had contact with Lane when he died, she shares, “I think Jani knew he could call me any time up until the time of his death. We spent his last Thanksgiving together and would sometimes have lunch, however his drinking did still cause him to fight with those he loved. In the month of his death he called and asked if he could move in with me. My boyfriend was in re-hab and we actually had a basement suite for rent and a spare bedroom. Jani asked if he could have the spare room, his suggestion made it seem as though he wanted to live as part of the family in the main house. I still find it perplexing that he would come to his first wife for help after all that time! Of course I couldn’t say yes, I had a boyfriend. That decision still makes me feel guilty, but I know I must rationalize it.”
It would appear as though Lane realised that Brown was the person he most trusted, the person he could reach out to. The one person he realised would care for him even after previous circumstances had forced them apart.

Family ties

“You know I tried said and did everything to try to make him stop drinking. I still have guilt, I fight with it, but you sometimes have to do what you can for self-preservation.” Brown endured the tumultuous relationship for many years and the couple had a beautiful daughter Taylar, a credit to both parents, now 20 with whom Brown has a friendship type relationship.
Brown spent a further year, after the split with Lane engaged to Tommy Lee, another musician, also well-known back in the day as a bit of a drinker!

Leather and Lace
Bobbie Brown with ex-fiance Tommy Lee

Lane died in a Comfort Inn hotel room with no ID on his person, Brown is not as misfortunate. She is still recognised everywhere and is gaining back her self-confidence after having it destroyed by former abusers.
“I was over confident in my younger years.”… Brown was the girl every 80’s rock chick wanted to be and she was judged on the fact that she was, still is, beautiful and she was with the guys every girl wanted to fuck. “I was oblivious to the judgement back in the day and I still am really easy-going. I myself don’t like to see people judged. It’s also pretty easy for people to change my mind!”

Busting Out!

After recent comments from a woman on Facebook were not so nice about the Ex-wives of Rock, it was interesting to see that Brown was complacent and forgiving when she returned comment about the posting. “I get where people come from when they judge, we are not going to be for everyone.”
Wanting to keep up with her former 20-year-old self has led to some pretty drastic actions and they are out there for the world to see as part of the show. Botox injections and hair extensions are on a regular agenda. “The results are so worth it!” exclaims Brown, “so why not? After seven years of daily abuse I wouldn’t look in the mirror. I was told I was fat and ugly on a daily basis. I was put down daily. It is so fucked up. I never have my hair the same in two episodes of the show. I have Trichotillomania, a hair pulling disorder, so I have had periods in my life where I had bald patches on my scalp. Recently it has not been so bad, but I still get extensions. I rarely wear a wig; they are so claustrophobic, hot and itchy. They don’t move like extensions either.”

Still beautiful, still blonde, still the one and only Bobbie Brown

Brown stars in the reality show with three other likely lasses. Sharise Neil, Susan Blue Ashley and the once seen, never forgotten Athena! “We are not four strangers,’’ explains Brown “and it shows through. There is a history, camaraderie, a real bond. It is great that we all relate. Also I think it has helped air my fears and insecurities.”
Jealous woman, you should remain that way, this gal is HOT. Mid life men, you still need those tissues!
All four women have experienced life in the fast lane, married to musicians; they were part of the rock n roll lifestyle.
All four have since come to their senses, moved on and are now living a more real reality.
You can read more in a book by Bobbie Brown; COMING SOON!
Bobbie Brown is certainly alive and well and she loves Cherry Pie ;)~
By Karen Graham 17-09-2012
Pictures 1 and 2 courtesy of Bobbie Brown

The Goddess Hits Hard

Posted by Headbangerwoman on August 14, 2012
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Girls Do Drum…. and This Goddess Hits Hard!

Have you ever wondered whether Athena (born Bass but often known as Lee) was the only chick on the strip in the 80’s not to fuck MOTLEY CRUE?

Well, the Answer is “Yes”, from the horses mouth….. So no more sleepless nights pondering that one.

Also, for the record Athena never had a bowl cut.  That is almost a certainty!

Athena does have shiny ball syndrome.

Get your filthy heads out of the gutters people that is not where this article is going…. Well maybe a touch?

Athena admits “I am so easily distracted.”

What a great thing then that the new show Athena will be co-starring in, Ex-Wives of Rock with Susan Blue Britt, Sharise Neil and Bobbie Brown, co-produced by Femme Fatale front woman Lorraine Lewis and Lisa Brucker, is fast paced and changing on a daily basis.  “No writers on this show,” the long legged blond share with Headbangerwoman just recently.  “It would have been impossible, there were so many different things happening every day.  Of course there are things I haven’t even seen yet.  There were days the others were there and I was not!”   Filming of the first season of the new and eagerly awaited show has now concluded.

Athena is a proud Mom to three children and though she filed on December 31st 2010, she is not yet divorced… that makes her the only ex-wife that does not have the all-important legal document, but it is fairly obvious that she is ecstatic to be well away from her former room-mate.

Her inclusion into Ex-Wives Of Rock, a show that will be brought to Canada by Slice and Tri Con, can only add to the entertainment.  Athena is well known for her energy.  “I am really very active, always on the go. But I’m also pretty good at lying around in my undies, watching movies and being a lazy-ass too when I can.”

This then could be a surprise that Athena only quit smoking in early 2012.  “I was starting to feel it, even walking up a few flights of stairs.  Of course watching my Mom sick for so long from smoking, finally made me make the decision to quit.  I wanted her to see that I could; that I had.  It was such a horrible way to die.  I will never ever watch anyone go through that again, OR let anyone who loves me watch that happen to me.   You know, I continued to smoke after I was sick with Breast Cancer, how fucking STUPID is that? That’s how EVIL it is.  We all seem to think we are indestructible and that it could never happen to us.”

When asked about the Sunset Strip and her personal experience Athena is very candid.  “When I was much younger I was out on the strip every night.  Because I was a musician I had like thirty big brothers from the other bands we played and hung out, it was great.  You really did not have to be all that tough.  It was not nearly as hard being a female musician as people made it out to be back then.  Of course I didn’t really hang out with my brothers girlfriends or band wives back then.  I didn’t need to though.  I was out there doing my own thing.  I didn’t meet the other cast members of the show until a little after the strip scene and they were pretty much already ex-wives, but we all knew each other for a long time before the show, so we fit in really well.  There was definitely no awkwardness on set.”

Athena is hoping for another season of the show and screening in the US too.  “I’m up for whatever life throws at me, BRING IT!  Once the show airs there will be much more going on.  My book is also being completed right now.  It was going to be titled Coming In Second, but it wasn’t about being second best, not about feeling sorry for myself because I was the younger child, less famous.  It was a personal thing.  I realised the public might not realise that, so I have changed it to Girls Don’t Play Drums.  My Mom would say it all the time when Tommy (Lee; Musician, DJ, Drummer for Motley Crue and Athena’s older brother by two years) and me were kids.  Boy’s drum, not girls!”  Seemingly not satisfied with a book and TV show Athena added, “I have a few really cool things I’ve been up to as well, but I have been focusing mostly on the show and my book, but I have some fun surprises coming soon too!”

Athena’s Mom may have been very smart, but fortunately she was wrong about her daughter not being a drummer!  Athena has been a part of many successful projects and was the first woman to be nominated best drummer at the LA music awards.  Recently she became affiliated with http://www.rockettdrumworks.com/ headed by Poison drummer Rikki Rockett.  The company makes made to order, finely crafted, handmade drum kits.  Each kit is made specific to requirements, each very individual. You can hear the pride in Athenas voice when the Rikki and his company are   mentioned.  “Rikki and I have been friends for a long time, he really is the best.  It is great how he has managed to have this amazing drum company while keeping up his touring schedule with Poison.  The company really is great.  Rikki has specialists for each particular job.  You can’t just pick them out and go home, they are custom.  That is what makes them better than the rest.”

With the entire hectic goings on in her already full and fast paced life, you will probably be surprised to know that Athena is also working out furiously in the gym to get the butt she always wanted.  Of course she already has the butt that many guys want…..

Catch up with Athena and her butt on Twitter @Athenamintpatty

Ex-Wives of Rock will air double episodes on Fridays @ 10pm starting August 31st on the Slice Network in Canada

Support Ex-Wives Of Rock by visiting here….    http://www.facebook.com/ExWivesOfRock

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by Karen Graham and Athena