Rock Star - Supernova Review

Carla Lynne Hall is our Featured Rock Star SuperNova Guest Reporter.

August 8, 2006

Some of the week's backstory - Magni's wife and baby arrived in LA, and Magni is filled with wonder and pride for his son. It was quite lovely to see, actually. Zayra was shown preparing for her next performance, choosing her wardrobe. She says that she dresses for herself. "I want to wow myself", she says. So of course we can't wait to see what she'll be wearing tonight!

The next part of the behind the scenes videotape showed The Rockers in song selection. Dilana, wearing granny glasses, is looking
through the songs, and finds that The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" comes attached with Gilby Clark playing guitar. Dilana asks the other Rockers if they want the song. Considering that she is even nice enough to ask them says a lot about her, but NO ONE RESPONDED! People just looked around, mumbled under their breath, and said nothing. Dilana asks not once, but TWICE more if anyone wanted the song. No one said anything, and all I could think was, "ARE YOU GUYS TAKING CRAZY PILLS???" Or maybe, I'm the crazy one?

Ok, maybe I AM crazy, but didn't Jason just tell them last week that they all should be JUMPING at the chance to play with the band? So what, Patrice played with Tommy Lee last week, KILLED the song, and still got put into Bottom Three. So what? She got to play with Tommy Lee. She had the world's eye on her performance. She had the moment to show Supernova that she had the balls to be thier frontperson. She won them over because she had the guts to take it, and go for it. That attitude is what Supernova wants. If you don't give them that,
they won't give you the gig. Period.

Regardless of what they'll say publicly, I'm sure that Dave Navarro and the members of Supernova already have opinions, if not personal favorites. Plus, the audience may vote on the individual performances, but Supernova (the all-star band, not my new CD) has the final decision. They can review the Rockers' behind-the-scenes videotape, and decide to themselves if they want to be bothered with a Rocker. Like Santa Claus, Tommy, Gilby, and Jason can see if the Rockers are being naughty and nice, and you BETTER believe that crap like wussing out (I'm sorry - that's what it is) will be hard to
forget. I could probably go on about this, but I'll never get to
bed. Suffice it to say, Dilana's doing The Who tune with Gilby. WUSSES!!!!

Ahem...As a sidenote, it was also cool to notice the cool uses of technology in the show. Dilana was shown downloading her tune to her Comcast phone, and then we watched a little video note from Gilby to Dilana, saying that he was looking forward to playing the tune with her. That's pretty cool. Did you also see that commercial for the "chocolate" phone that also plays music? I'm not promoting any products on this blog for general consumption (except for my
new Supernova CD, of course), but I was digging that phone.

So we're back at present day after watching the Rockers wuss out, and Dave was pissed that no one but Dilana wanted the song with Gilby. "If it were up to me, Dilana would win this right now!" Don't let those tattoos fool you. Remember, Dave is also the executive producer of Rock Star. He has a stake in this show being successful, and he has every right to be pissed. So he reams out the Rockers before Dilana opens up the night.

Dilana - Won't Get Fooled Again

Gilby starts the song on semi-dark stage with cool tone, and then Dilana's voice (and the stagelights) explode in brightness for the verse. Did anyone notice the "Gilby Cam" (that's what I'm calling it!) attached to Gilby's guitar? The little camera taped what you'd see Gilby playing if you were sitting on his guitar frets - kinda cool! Nice touch, Mark Burnett Productions! We can give you some
love too for your work.

Dilana wore her red and black streaked hair in dreadlock extensions, and kept her outfit rocker simple with vintage t-shirt and red leather pants. Of course, Dilana sounded great, and Gilby even joined her on the mic for harmonies (Note to Gilby: you were a little pitchy yourself, Sweetheart, but we love you anyway!)

I love Dilana's swagger, her voice, her presence, her energy - her whole package. I was actually unimpressed with the song itself - it doesn't do much for me, personally (I know, who cares, but Dilana can make anything work.

Dave: "That didn't look like an audition. That was a rock show!" Then he reamed the Rockers out even more: "If it didn't already suck to follow Dilana, now you have to follow Dilana with Gilby." He asked Dilana what it was like to play with Gilby. "I wanted to be able to look back, and say that I played with Gilby Clarke," she said.

Gilby just beamed: "Dilana, you're a star! I have no doubt that a woman can front our band."

[Carla's note: A Star, hmmm? Like a Supernova, maybe???]

Jason even called Dilana's performance one of the "15 Killer Supernova Moments"

You know what I'm thinking, but I'm not gonna say it...

Jill Gioia - Mother Mother

I forgot all about this song! Anyone remember the violinist/guitarist
chick rocker Tracy Bonham who came out with this song a few years back? Tracy is this petite thing, but she could roar, and this song was her breakthrough hit. People often wondered if she was related to the the legendary I made yet another delay on tonight's blog to find Tracy's CD, which was actually in the stack of used CDs that I'm currently selling on Amazon.com (check Amazon if you don't believe me). "Mother Mother" turned out to be the only song on the CD that I liked.

Of course, this was back in the day when you had to buy a whole CD to
wade through the filler to get to the good songs. I hope the major
labels have learned something from the whole Napster/MP3/filesharing
experience. If a music fan is going to plunk down anywhere from $8-16
bucks of their hard-earned money to buy a CD, he or she wants to enjoy more than just one song.

So back to Jill. I thought this song was an awesome choice for her.
She gets to use the lower tones, yet she can also give it that
rock growl that she's so good at. Her eyes were smoky and mysterisous, to match her black outfit. Jill was also working a new
version of THE HAIR: straight, but with black and red streaks
in her blond hair. She seemed to enjoy throwing her hair around
tonight, which seemed a little contrived, but since she's so cute,
I'll overlook it.

She finished the song by jumping into the audience pit, and playing
to the camera as she ended the song. At first, I think everyone wondered if she was going to do a stage dive, but we didn't exactly expect it either. However, her move worked for me.

Tommy jumped right in: That was one of the best performances I've
seen you do. Well done!"

Jason: "You have great energy and great presence, but your vocals may have suffered. Pay attention to that." Good old Jason Newsted. We can always count on Uncle Jason being a stickler for musicianship and technique. I'm not mad at that. As he's said himself, he's played with one of rock's best vocalists (and musicians). If Jason wants to preach about musicianship, LISTEN.

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