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HOT FOR TEACHER - NAMM 2010 "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" (2of2) hftrocks 1,855 views HOT FOR TEACHER - Don't Tell Me You Love Me @ NAMM 2010 with Night Ranger's Brad Gillis and Joel Hoekstra (video courtesy of Cerezita111).
HOT FOR TEACHER - NAMM 2010 "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" (1of2) hftrocks 403 views HOT FOR TEACHER - Don't Tell Me You Love Me @ NAMM 2010 with Night Ranger's Brad Gillis and Joel Hoekstra (video courtesy of renegade79).
NAMM 2009 You Really Got Me hftrocks 1,796 views HOT FOR TEACHER brings the party to NAMM 2009 Video and editing by Steve Skrivanek
NAMM 2009 Eruption hftrocks 545 views HOT FOR TEACHER's Jude Gold rips out Eruption at the Hilton for the NAMM crowd. Video and editing by Steve Skrivanek
NAMM 2009 HFT with Brad Gillis and Izzy Osbourn encore hftrocks 622 views NAMM 2009 Hilton Anaheim encore. Video and editing by Steve Skrivanek.
NAMM 2009 HFT & Night Ranger hftrocks 1,030 views HOT FOR TEACHER joined on stage by Brad Gillis & Joel Hoekstra of Night Ranger and whip out a killer performance of Don't Tell Me You Love Me at Winter NAMM 2009 Anaheim Hi...
NAMM 2009 I'm the One hftrocks 396 views HOT FOR TEACHER tears up the Anaheim HIlton during Winter NAMM 2009. Video and editing by Steve Skrivanek.
NAMM 2009 Somebody Get Me a Doctor & Everybody Wants Some hftrocks 372 views Friday Midnight Show 1/16/09 at the Hilton in Anaheim. "Some people go to the party, HFT is the Party"! Video and editing by Steve Skrivanek.
Van Halen Hot For Teacher LIVE hftrocks 77,193 views Van Halen in the United Kingdom at Castle Donington Park Leicestershire, UK August 18, 1984; a couple of weeks before the end of the ol' DLR VH era!
HFT 2007 - 2006 Promo Video hftrocks 988 views HOT FOR TEACHER's 2007-2006 Promotional Video with vocalist Randy Monroe, bassist Jesse Scott and drummer Edward Studebaker with former guitarist Terry Lauderdale. Video co...

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Sep 25, 2011

Date Joined

Aug 2, 2006

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Formed in 1999 to showcase Van Halens David Lee Roth-era hits, HOT FOR TEACHER has been relentlessly performing throughout the western United States, thrilling concert-goers and generating legions of dedicated fans every time their raucous rock and roll flying circus act rolls into town.

HOT FOR TEACHER features four explosive performers that are not only among the most talented musicians on the West Coast, but are also dedicated scholars of the Van Halen musical legacy. These rock and roll ninjas bring to the stage everything fans of the worlds greatest party band crave, including roaring lead vocals, note-for-note renditions of Eddie Van Halens most stunning guitar riffs and solos, thundering bass, massive drums, stunning vocal harmonies and best of all... one hell of a good time.

With an uncanny knack for channeling David Lee Roth, singer and bandleader Randy Monroe belts out Van Halens powerful vocal rants and irreverent lyrical sound bites with the same volcanic intensity of the original recordings, all the while conjuring Roths none-too-serious, get-all-the-girls-dancing, F--- yeah this is real Jack Daniels party vibe in a way the world hasnt known since Roth left Van Halen in the mid 80s. (fun fact: in a tie-in with the bands name, Monroe is also an award-winning science teacher).

The ripping, virtuosic guitar parts of Eddie Van Halen are handled by 6-string sharpshooter Jude Gold, whose spot-on renditions of Eruption, Mean Street, and other hugely influential riffs get even the most finicky Van Halen fans playing air guitar along with him. Director of the prestigious Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) part of Hollywood's Musician's Institute (MI) and the Los Angeles Editor of Guitar Player magazine, Gold is also known for his touring and recording with BX3, the band in which he plays lead guitar for the absolutely over-the-top, rock and jazz star bassists Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth & Mr. Big), Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani), and Jeff Berlin (Allan Holdsworth - a one-time mentor to EVH). *Also just to note: from time to time and due to some of Gold's scheduling conflicts, eight year HFT veteran guitarist and founding member, shred-master Terry Lauderdale steps back up and into the call of duty.

Four-string super hero and Musical Director Jesse Scott not only brings the Michael Anthony thunder on bass, but he also amazingly nails Anthonys near-inimitable ultra-high vocal harmonies, a crucial sonic element of every Van Halen song. While, drum genius and perfect meter-man Eddie Studebaker evokes Alex Van Halens skin-bashing with an authenticity and power you can only see to believe. His mind-boggling intro to the bands theme song, Hot For Teacher, is alone worth the price of admission.

When HOT FOR TEACHER was invited to perform for Michael Anthonys bass guitar dedication at San Franciscos Hard Rock Cafe in 2003, the already frenzied crowd was pushed into sheer delirium when the mighty bassist stepped on stage with HOT FOR TEACHER and ripped through a white-hot set featuring "Unchained, "Dance the Night Away, "Panama, and countless other Van Halen hits. The band even performed VH II's "Women In Love" in which afterwards Anthony jovially exclaimed, "Man, I haven't done that song in twenty years [1983]!"

No other Van Halen tribute performs the technically complex music of Van Halen better than HOT FOR TEACHER, perhaps that's why HFT has also been joined onstage by other rock legends Pat Travers, Brad Gillis and Joel Hoekstra (Night Ranger), and Joey Alves (Y&T), and has shared the evening's stage with many greats including Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Peter Frampton, Dennis DeYoung (Styx), Nazareth, Great White, Hollywood All-Stars Chas West (Bonham/Lynch Mob), Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot), Jimmi Bain (Dio), Blues Traveler, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Y&T, Night Ranger, Pat Travers, Tesla and countless others!

HOT FOR TEACHER was also featured in the book, "Everybody Wants Some, the Van Halen Saga" by Ian Christie, magazines such as FHM, news periodicals such as The Contra Costa Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News (and their related papers). In 2008, HFT was voted Best Tribute Band by the East Bay Express and became the first tribute ever invited to perform at the prestigious NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants in Anaheim, CA and after three years running is now an annual part of the event. "Some people go to the party, we are the party!"

HOT FOR TEACHER also appears on local performance market television programming including Comcast's CC Rocks and Reality Check and in a variety of television advertising commercials. HFT is also a regular on radio stations such as San Franciscos 107.7 "The Bone, San Joses 98.5 KFOX, and Los Angeles KLOS 95.5 (on the syndicated Mark and Brian Show), and in a multitude of other rock radio markets spanning America's northern and southern borders from Nebraska to Hawaii.

Hometown

Northern California

Country

United States

Occupation

Song and Dance Man, Musician, Manager, Booking Agent, Science Teacher & Scientist

Companies

HOT FOR TEACHER, the Van Halen Experience, www.HFTROCKS.com
Rockin' Randy's Flying Circus, the Classic Rock/Dance Experience, www.ROCKINRANDYSFLYINGCIRCUS.com
Monroe Science Educational Services www.MonroeScienceEd.com

Schools

UA, DVC, CSUEB - B.A. , Teaching Credential & M.S.

Interests

Rock and Roll, jazz and music in general.

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