OFFICIAL ROCK & ROLL REHAB MERCHANDISE
THE OFFICIAL THEME SONG FOR ROCK-A-HOLICS
The ultimate tribute to all the musicians out there who have chased the Rock & Roll Dream only to ultimately discover
the real success was in experiencing the journey itself.
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Paid To Die: The Exploits Of A Rock & Roll Bodyguard
In 1978 a new style of music came
to America from England. It was rude, obnoxious and confrontational and the
band spearheading this new British Invasion was set to tour the South, the
least likely place they’d be welcomed. Anticipating a violent backlash to this
coming culture clash, the band’s record label needed to hire a security team
that could handle any situation that may arise. The man they chose for the job
was Dwayne Warner, a bouncer in some of the toughest biker bars in Los Angeles
County.
Paid To Die novel on Amazon.com
For twenty years after that historic tour, Dwayne’s brother, Neal Warner, co-founder of the L.A. multi-media band The Tooners, insisted Dwayne’s ever expanding and exaggerated stories of life on the road needed to be recorded for posterity. But being a biker, the idea of being perceived as a “rat” was unacceptable and as a professional bodyguard who worked with bands such as Steppenwolf and Van Halen, telling tales about his employers was unprofessional so he adamantly refused to write about his experiences.
Neal, a professional cartoonist and writer, decided an acceptable alternative could be to write Dwayne’s stories in the form of a novel. Names, except for Dwayne’s, would be changed and the “facts” of what happened on the tour would be buried under a mountain of action-adventure movie-style scenes. Dwayne had imagined his memoir being titled Paid To Die and Neal’s band, The Tooners, had already record a CD (Rocktasia) which included the theme song to Paid To Die so that was chosen as the novel’s title.
The novel was written in 1999 and was intended to be an elaborate joke for Dwayne’s eyes only. Stories of experiences shared by the brothers were included in the book knowing that Dwayne would recognize, and hopefully appreciate, this very personal novel which included a lot of something the two brothers had in common; a very sick and twisted sense of humor. However, the joke was ultimately on Neal, the author, when his brother refused to read the novel citing plausible deniability fearing those caricatured in the book might recognize themselves and sue. The joke fell flat and was locked away on a hard drive from another 22 years.
Sometime in the year 2020, fourteen years after the sudden death of Dwayne Warner at age fifty, Neal Warner was self-quarantining in his home when he realized that if he were to die from the Coronavirus pandemic, his finished novel, Paid To Die, the story about his only brother, would die with him. And so, on May 30, 2021, the 65th birthday of the late Dwayne Earl Warner, a limited edition printing of the novel Paid To Die along with a release of the single Paid To Die from the album Rocktasia by The Tooners will be made available for the first time.
There Is Still Time For No Time To Die
It has been about a year since the name for the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, was announced. The movie was scheduled to premiere in April so that didn't give us, The Tooners, much time to write and record our own theme song to the movie and be able to include it on our latest CD, Theme To A Dream. There are several "theme songs" written over the years for various reasons that are included on that album so a James Bond movie theme seemed to fit right in.
And then the movie's premiere was pushed back one whole year. That means that although Billie Eilish has already written the official opening theme song there is still plenty of room over the movie's ending credits to include The Tooners' song.
So, we are now asking all of you out there, like us, with nothing better to do because we're all shut-ins now, to help us start a "grass roots" campaign to get the producers of the James Bond movies to include The Tooners' No Time To Die in the new movie since there's still time. Russia, if you hear us, please help us get our song noticed by the Powers That Be. Спасибо (Thank you).
The Tooners' No Time To Die video.
The TOONERS' James Bond Theme Song
The L. A. rock band The Tooners have released a new single that
is their original take on a theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie
starring Daniel Craig. No Time To Die is the 25th James Bond movie and
will hit theaters this coming April. However, The Tooners’ song No Time
To Die will probably not be heard in the film.
The Tooners' No Time To Die lyric video.
Although the band members and the song’s co-writers Neal Warner and
Greg Piper are life-long Bond fans, their Bond theme is actually more
inspired by shock rock group Alice Cooper. Also fans of the movie
franchise, the original lineup of the band Alice Cooper wrote and
recorded the song The Man With The Golden Gun as a proposed theme song
for the film of the same name starring Roger Moore as secret agent 007.
The producers of the Bond films felt using pop acts such as Paul
McCartney, Carly Simon and Lulu (who sang the actual theme song for The
Man With The Golden Gun) for the movie theme songs was appropriate but a
hard rock band such as Alice Cooper didn’t fit the James Bond image and
the song was rejected. The band went ahead and released it on their
1973 album Muscle Of Love anyway.
This inspired the independent band The Tooners to record their own
Bond theme inspired by Alice Cooper’s initiative and even the Salvador
Dali inspired look of their song’s logo has an Alice Cooper connection
as Alice Cooper, the man as opposed to the band, is the only rock
musician known to have ever collaborated with the surrealist painter.
No Time To Die is also included on The Tooners' full length CD, Theme To A Dream, available everywhere starting April 1, 2020.
The Live Rock & Roll Rehab Show Tour
The Rock & Roll Rehab Show is a live multimedia rock music show that is the story one man's life wasted chasing the Rock & Roll dream through the Classic Rock Era illustrated with big screen fully animated music videos.
Hosted by Greg Piper of The Tooners who narrates his journey from The British Invasion through the New Wave Era while performing all original music created in and inspired by the times of his life.
"real underground rock and roll theater"
"sex, drugs, rock & roll and cartoons"
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