DETHKLOK's BRENDON SMALL To Perform On PAUL GREEN SCHOOL OF ROCK ALL-STARS Tour

March 12, 2009

The Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars are about to experience the "Metalocalypse" in the name of Brendon Small.

Small, co-creator of "Metalocalypse", the smash hit animated series on Adult Swim featuring the fictitious metal band DETHKLOK, is the latest and, in many ways, the greatest "guest professor" ever to lead the School of Rock's best and brightest students from 45 nationwide schools on tour. Recently voted "Best New Guitarist" in Guitar World, Small will be performing and teaching the music of DETHKLOK, and joining the All-Stars in other metal classics on this very special trek through the Northeast. The weeklong U.S. tour launches Monday, March 30 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. and includes stops in New York (B.B. King's),Boston (Showcase Live),Philadelphia (Trocadero) and Sayreville, NJ (Starland Ballroom),with special question-and-answer sessions between Small and his rabid fans at each performance. Most of the shows will be opened by TRAGEDY, the all-metal tribute to the BEE GEES, with select appearances along the route by all-girl tribute bands MISSTALLICA (METALLICA) and QUEEN DIAMOND (KING DIAMOND).

"It'll basically be me and a bunch of bad ass 11- to 17-year olds playing music that I really dig," says Small. "I should remind everybody this isn't a DETHKLOK show — just me and some kids having a blast!"

Small's love affair with the Paul Green School of Rock began when he became a fan of the acclaimed 2005 documentary "Rock School" — long before he ever met Paul Green. Once the two music titans were finally introduced during a recent All-Stars tour stop in Hollywood, Small turned on Green to "Metalocalypse", he fell in love with the TV show, and a "bro-mance" quickly blossomed.

In "Metalocalypse", DETHKLOK is "the world's most popular band" — so popular that thousands of fans will travel to remote areas of the globe just to hear them perform a single song, and sign "pain waivers" in case anything truly horrible happens to them at a show (which invariably occurs). The band members are also incredibly selfish, stupid, and oblivious to anything that happens outside their rock 'n' roll bubble.

Aside from being co-creator of "Metalocalypse", Small writes and performs most of DETHKLOK's music whether it's on TV or album. In 2007 DETHKLOK's debut album, "The Dethalbum", became the No. 1 selling death metal album of all time. Small writes and performs most of DETHKLOK's recorded music, whether it's on TV or album.

"Brendon Small is an absolute genius,'' says Green. "Not only has he co-created the first true rock show on TV since 'WKRP in Cincinnati', but many of my students agree with me that he's also an outstanding guitarist and songwriter."

As the Paul Green School of Rock enters its second decade, Green's dream has become a national phenomenon — a vision that has since produced an explosion of schools nationwide and a number of future rock stars, many of whom have traveled quite far along the trail he blazed when he took music instruction out of the classroom and onto the live rock stage by founding the original and premier performance-based rock music school in the country for kids 8-17 in 1998.

"Even after all this time, all our expansion, and everything we have achieved," says Green, "the best way to teach kids to play music remains the same: load a bunch of them on a bus and take them out on the road to PLAY music."

He adds, "I put these shows together with real music fans in mind. Any true rock fan who comes to our show will be delighted by the deep cuts these kids take on, the difficult material they tackle, and the love and enthusiasm they bring to the stage."

The Paul Green School Of Rock All-Stars "guest professor" series with Brendon Small:

Mar. 30 - 9:30 Club - Washington DC (w/ TRAGEDY)
Mar. 31 - The Note - West Chester, PA
Apr. 02 - Showcase Live - Foxboro, MA (w/ TRAGEDY)
Apr. 03 - B.B. King’s - New York, NY (w/ TRAGEDY, MISSTALLICA)
Apr. 04 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
Apr. 05 - Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA (w/ TRAGEDY, QUEEN DIAMOND)

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