Uh oh. Looks like there's trouble in Paradise City.
We haven't brought you a good WTF in a while -- well, besides anything Courtney Love said -- so I thought I'd share this video of a guitarist in a hair metal cover band having a bit of a change of heart with regards to his career path. In other words, he's going solo!
And just before they played "You Give Love a Bad Name," too. Rats!
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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.
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