WARRANT Career Burning Strong For Veteran Guitarist

March 17, 2007

Dan Craft of Pantagraph.com reports:

When a Malibu wildfire is just a half-mile from your home, it's probably no consolation to be reminded that a band named FIREHOUSE is on your tour.

Which was the case this past week for Joey Allen, founding member and lead guitarist for veteran '80s rockers WARRANT, heading up the triple-threat "'80s Invasion Tour" taking over downtown Bloomington's U.S. Cellular Coliseum for a St. Patrick's Night show (6 p.m. Saturday; with openers L.A. GUNS and the aforementioned FIREHOUSE).

Last Sunday night was the point at which it appeared Allen's condo might go up in flames.

"I was home getting ready to go into L.A. for a rehearsal type of thing, and I had to call the guys and say, 'Uh, we may have to reschedule — my hill's on fire.'"

But then fires on your hill go with the territory.

"It almost happens yearly. It's just a part of living in Southern California, where it's beautiful 99 percent of the time, and where you have wildfires and earthquakes the rest of the time," says Allen.

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