Prince's performance at The Superbowl. Remember that kick-ass purple guitar in silhouette?

Radiohead freaking out the entire music biz by self-releasing their new album on line and letting the fans name their own price for downloading it. Genius!

Van Halen getting their collective shit together and hitting the road with Diamond Dave at the helm, first time since '84. The Police doing the same with Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers kicking butt and taking names on tour.

The reunion of the decade when rock icon Led Zeppelin played a charity event in London this month. Critics raved and fans wept. If you saw any of the concert footage, LZ proved they still can bring it!

(Oh, and Britney Spears completely losing her mind in 2007. Yeah, um, whatever...)

My favorite quote this year was Tommy Lee (you know how I loves me some Tommy!) talking about the altercation between him and Kid Rock, apparently over their ex-wife-in-common, Pamela Anderson: "I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble... I stand up and embrace him with a semi-hug and say 'Hey dude...What up?' He punches me in the face... well, if ya wanna call it that!?... more like a bitch slap!... Wuss!" Ah, boys will be boys.

So today I took down my little rock n roll Christmas tree, packing away gently the miniature Fender guitar ornaments, gothic black and silver glass balls, and the hanging laminated concert ticket stubs til next year. My tree was schweet!

Reflecting on my alter-ego rocker chick life, 2007 was pretty darn good! The hottest concert I saw this year was Chevelle; however Alter Bridge, Staind, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace were a four-way tie for second. Others were unmemorable.

Mostly, my SixxRoxx weekends were spent taking in the local music scene here in Mayberry By The Sea. For me, the more metal-er the better!

New Year's Eve a year ago, I went out to a club to see the headliner play, but became totally intrigued by the opening band who blew everyone else out of the water with their tight performance. Thus began my year-long love affair in 2007 with those five upstart dudes whom I affectionately now call muh boys. With adoration I watched their band evolve white hot by summer, and with sadness I watched it self-destruct in November. I've been a friend, cheerleader, confidant, big sister, and lover, respectively. It will be an emotional moment on the big stage next month as they play their final gig, then go their separate ways. So many stories behind the music... of dreams, brotherhood, and betrayal.

And life goes on.

I've happily taken on the role of PR person for another local band I've gotten know along the way. How poetic that they were themselves a head-turning band who happened to open for muh boys at a gig last summer. They really know how to bring it, and they have a good following. Between an arrogant guitarist, and a sensitive singer who's a giant heart with legs... I've got my hands full!

I'll be back at the original club tomorrow night, New Year's Eve, where it all started a year ago. My new dudes are the opening band...

Happy New Year, see you in 2008! -Sixx ♥

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Led Zeppelin in their 70's heyday

They got together secretly during June for a few preliminary practices... just to see if they could still do it. After all, they had not performed professionally together since 1988... though the band officially split up in 1980, shortly after drummer John Bonham died following a drinking binge. Bassist John Paul Jones, in particular, was not eager to ever be a part of performing with Led Zeppelin again.

But this time it was for a very special cause, and the concert promoter asked them for a minimal 30 minute set. However, after a week of rehearsing and re-bonding with one another again, Led Zeppelin told the promoter they would give him a full, one-time-only, rock and roll show instead.

Zepp's three original members, singer Robert Plant, now 59, guitarist Jimmy Page, 62, and bassist John Paul Jones, 61, will perform with Jason Bonham, 40, on drums, who is the son of their late drummer John Bonham. Led Zeppelin will also be joined by the likes of Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings, Foreigner, and Paolo Nutini at the "Tribute To Ahmet Ertegun Concert", a charity event for music education, on November 26th at London's O2 arena.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, Ahmet Ertegun was the founder of Atlantic Records, who signed on R&B singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, as well as the monsters of British rock such as The Rolling Stones, Cream, Genesis, and Led Zeppelin. Ertegun was also the founder and chairman of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He died last year at the age of 83, when he fell at a Rolling Stones Concert. In a moment of dark humor, I wonder if he was in the mosh pit or crowd surfing... seems he was in his element at the end, either way, so here's hoping he is hoisting a brewski with Janis and Jimmi in Rock And Roll Heaven.

So last month, on the heels of Led Zeppelin announcing they would reunite for the first time in 19 years, 25 million fans logged on to the arena website in a feeding frenzy for just 20,000 concert tickets selling for $250 each. Limit two. At the rate of 100,000 hits a minute, it didn't take long for the computers to have a melt down and crash, resulting in a subsequent email lottery drawing system to decide who got tickets. Hooray for the chosen ones... older fans, as well as a new generation of rock lovers who'll be hearing them for the first time.

Led Zeppelin has a new greatest hits compilation coming out, tentatively entitled "The Mothership", which is to include a DVD of exclusive footage from the upcoming November charity concert. I know that will be one for my own "must have" list!

Can Led Zeppelin resist a lucrative reunion tour in the making, or will this really be a one-time-only gig? Time will tell...