In classic rock circles if the right ears overhear you talking about the band Angel, or its front man Frank Dimino, heads will most likely turn. If you watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand religiously you probably saw Angel all dressed in their signature white outfits performing one of their hits. If you dig Zappa then you know "Punky's Whips": the song that satirically immortalizes Angel and its guitarist Punky Meadows in the hallowed halls of the Frank Zappa library. But if you dove deep into a love of the heavier side of rock music of the late 70's, then you probably pressed your headphones close to your ears to get lost in songs like "The Tower", "White Lightning" and "Feelin' Right", not to mention the dozens of other fan favorites from this legendary and quite influential rock band. Though never really winning the commercial success it so much deserved, Angel, with its core members Punky Meadows, Mickie Jones, Gregg Giuffria, Barry Brandt and lead vocalist Frank Dimino did win the respect and admiration of musicians and die-hard fans the world over, and almost single-handedly ushered in the new breed of heavy metal hair bands that dominated the 80's. An alumni of Boston's Berklee College of Music, Frank Dimino parlayed his education, a dynamic stage pressence and powerful vocal ability into a career that most musicians could only imagine. With his trademark suspenders and white microphone stand, Frank had record deals with major labels, was mobbed like a Beatle in Japan, and earned several album and song writing credits spanning decades. After Angel Frank gained commercial success writing and performing in television and feature films such as "Foxes" with Jody Foster and the iconic 80's dance movie "Flashdance". Frank currently teaches vocal lessons and mentors up-an-coming performers via his company Dimino Enterprises. But above all, Frank DiMino is a solid old-school rock star most at home on a stage, big or small. Though much of the glam-rock fanfare has passed, Frank is still hard at it working stages throughout Las Vegas with other veteran rockers. He performing occasionally with various bands including The Sin City Sinners but works mostly with his own band Vinyl Tattoo, featuring Stryper guitarist Oz Fox. Hold your lighters up high! Episode 22 is legendary rocker Frank Dimino.

Monrockers unite! Peter is in the house. Actually he's out of the house and on the loose. After 8 years of performing 5 nights a week at the prominent Venetian Casino Resort, Peter Monroy, with his powerful rock show, is finally able to spread his wings and he's landing on some of the hottest stages in Las Vegas. Audiences at The Palms, Planet Hollywood, The Paris, and Fremont Street just can't seem to get enough of this powerful entertainer. Since moving to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in the late 90's. Peter Monroy hit the strip running as a popular rock singer and never stopped. With his dynamic stage presence and ability to consistently sing material that is completely out of range for most working male rock singers, Peter began working steady right from the get-go. When other acts haunting the strip avoided the best hits from bands such as Led Zeppelin, Guns And Roses and Queesnryche, due to their difficult vocals, Peter Monroy embraced them and rocked them out nightly, effortlessly. After performing at various top venues throughout Las Vegas Peter reluctantly agreed to sign on to perform exclusively at the prominent Venetian Resort Casino, a move that worked in his favor after strip properties began cutting back on live entertainment soon after. Now, after 8 years of bouncing between the La Scena Lounge at the Venetian and the Zebra Lounge at the Venetian's sister property The Palazzo, Peter is quickly making a new name for himself as the "gotta-see" performer for classic and current rock hits in Vegas. Episode 21 is veteran Las Vegas Rocker Peter Monroy.

Musicians are magicians. They conjure. They can make things appear that weren't there before and produce sights sounds and feelings that were once hidden. Seth Turner is wizard. He can turn a Vegas lounge into an old honky-tonk somewhere outside of Dallas. With the flip of a pick and a twang he can bring a dead room to life. When he sings his own brand of country music he takes you to that place where you really live. He brings you down dirt roads past open fields and mountains scenes to that place in your heart where horses run and cowboys mend fences, where saloons pour whiskey for good people living the good life. Seth's style, sound, and music conjures that kind of country magic. Today's country music has evolved into a new pop-rock genre of music that many say ain't really country. Though Seth Turner and his band The High Desert Drifters can rip that new country style like nobody's business and bust out requests from Segar to Springsteen, Seth shines when wielding the Haggard and Jennings magic wand. The real Seth Turner magic comes alive, however, when his original music appears on stage. Ladies and gents, cowboys and cowgirls, episode 20 is Seth C. Turner.

He's been beat up, run over, set on fire, attacked by ninjas, dissintergrated by flying orbs and killed in other ways more times than he can count. But these days, when Kimo Maiwela is not rocking out with his Las Vegas classic rock band Rock Karma, chances are good he might be watching your every move from a high-tech surveillence room. As a kid in Oahu, Hawaii, Kimo started haunting the sets of the very iconic televison show Hawaii 5-0 with Jack lord and James MaCarthur. He matured as a stunt man learning how to take a puch, roll off a car and take full advantage of craft services. His stunt career spans several shows including Raven with Lee Majors, Jake and The Fat Man, and Magnum PI with Tom Selleck. His work is also highlighted in commercials and in the TV movie Escape From Atlantis with action/adventure star Jeff Speakman. After moving to Las Vegas several years ago, he began working in casino security eventually rolling that job into a career in casino surveillience. Kimo currently works for Cesars Entertainment as a surveillence supervisor at the Paris Hotel and Casino. Always a fan of music, Kimo also played bass in bands in Hawaii opening up for artists such as Bryan Adams and Ted Nugent. He currently performs part-time with his friends in Rock Karma at various venues around the Las Vegas Valley. Mahalo, my friends, Episode 19 is Kimo Maiwela.

Chris Fenimore and Friends is a group of talented musicians and singers who perform occasionally throughout Las Vegas. The group is comprised mostly of buddies and fond acquaintances of the group's leader and namesake Chris Fenimore. Like many so inhabitants of Sin City Chris is a refugee of Southern California. He and his family moved to Vegas at the beginning of the new millennium to take advantage of the area's construction boom and affordable housing market at the time. A dedicated family man with a strong faith, Chris' dreams of performing full time as a musician have been put on the back burner more often than not in lieu of the "day gig" to support his family. Musicians are cursed in way. The dream and the desire are strong. Haunting and perpetual is the need of the performer. Talent can reek havoc on a creative soul with no outlet, no stage. Fortunately Chris has a knack for pulling together the like-minded. His revolving cast of performers allows him get his fix. If he's not performing with his friends he is either worshiping with them or writing music with them. If it's true that success is determined by the friends in your life, than Chris Fenimore is doing very well for himself. And what better friends can you have than ones you can perform with on some of the most fun stages in Las Vegas. Episode 18 is Chris Femimore.

It's one thing to have a job you like; it sure beats the alternative. It's another thing though to do what you love as a job. Patrick Puffer is one of those lucky individuals who looks back on his career with a great big smile and looks forward with an even bigger smile for the stages yet to come. When you look back to the 80s hair metal era, you might crack a smile and wonder what the hell we were all thinking. Big hair, tight clothes, all that androgyny and excess. Patrick Puffer gets a kick out of it as well but cracks wise with a fond sense of nostalgia and experience because he lived that life on stage, under the lights, on the road. As lead singer and guitar player for the band Intimate Acts, Patrick toured the states throughout the 80's eventually landing in LA to seek his fame and fortune from catapult clubs like The Whiskey, Gazzarri's, and The Roxy. But like so many other artists of that time still adhering to the Winger, Poison and BonJovi schools of rock, the Nirvana bitch-slap came down hard on Patrick's band. On the verge, with record companies in the audience, contracts nearly in hand, Intimate Acts became just another casualty in the grunge wars of the late 80's. But not one to sit idly by and wax poetic on glory days, Patrick re-invented himself for a new market: cruise ships. For over ten years Patrick performed on ships, first as part of a duo and then as a solo act, an act you can still see today here throughout Las Vegas, primarily at the Cannery Casino. Incredibly likable, talented and happy, Patrick Puffer is episode 17.

Zen refers to the meditative state, to the conscious act of absorbing experiences with the goal of enlightenment. This is Sina Foley's approach to gigging. Anxiety doesn't seem to have a place in the heart of this songstress. In fact the opposite seems true for Sina. She is calm, soft spoken and appreciative of the experiences she's had as an entertainer. Despite a shifting and sometimes unsure gig climate in Las Vegas, Sina seems poised and ready for what ever happens next. She senses when to bring her "A game" and when to re-invent herself. "I never really worried about work. The idea is this: Wow! This is awesome…for now." Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii in a conservative and loving family, Sina was bitten early by the entertainment bug. She went from playing viola in her school orchestra to performing in production shows throughout Hawaii. Education was also a top priority for Sina. Eventually, after moving to Las Vegas, she earned her masters degree in Journalism and Mass Media Communications from UNLV. She even taught for years at her alma mater gigging all the while up and down the Vegas Strip. Sina brings class and elegance to things. She is a pleasure working with and eager to be a part of new things. The Zen master Zhuangzi once said “Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” Sina gigs this way and shines with enlightenment. Namaste, ladies and gentlemen. Episode 16 is Sina Foley.

Wayne Carver is one of those "go-to-guys". When the need for solid bass players arises there's a short list in Vegas of those kind of guys, the kind who can learn a night's worth of tunes with little notice and knock it out of the park. Wayne is on that list. Quick study, hell of a player, sings his ass off and most importantly a great guy to hang out with.  Wayne's "go-to" status was established early on as a young rocker in Louisville, Kentucky. His reputation kept him working in several touring bands in his formative years. As one touring band folded for whatever reason, another wasn't far behind and reached out to Wayne and off on the road he went for several years eventually landing in Las Vegas where he currently gigs when and where he can while juggling the responsibilities of being a dedicated dad and husband. He's had dozen of interesting gigging experiences in Vegas and beyond. He's a solid rocker to the core and actually a fan of great music first, musician second. He is truly on the top of the list of "go-to-guys" for any gig under the sun requiring a rock-solid bass player with killer vocals. Ladies and Gents, Episode 15 is Wayne Carver.

Slapping yourself in the face thirty times with shaving cream while a creepy plastic-faced fast food king dangles a tassel in your face as you're trying to sleep may seem a bit odd, but to Katie Dix it's just another gig. Katie has done her fair share of interesting gigs in her short career to date. She began honing her performance skills in musical theatre as a young girl growing up in Bakersfield, California. As a young woman she performed weekly with late legendary Hee-Haw country star Buck Owens. The lights of Las Vegas beaconed and Katie graced stages throughout the valley first as lead singer in various bands then performing as lead singer in the topless show Fantasy at the Luxor. She then reinvented herself as Carrie Underwood in the Country Superstars tribute show at the Stratosphere. Commercial acting as well as modeling gigs were quick to follow and understandably so as Katie is a very beautiful, articulate, well-rounded and fearless entertainer. From making all the way to the execuative auditions on TV's The Voice to performing piano-side lounge style at Mastro's Ocean Club in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you just never know where Katie is going to pop up. Sexy, funny, sweet and humble, Episode 14 is the lovely Katie Dix.

If you're a fan of hard rock music and spend any time in Las Vegas you will stumble across the valley's most popular hard rock radio station KOMP 92.3, The Rock Station. And if you're able to get up early enough (or if you never sleep, this is Vegas after all) your ears and funny bone will most likely run into KOMP's hilarious morning show with Craig, Al and Andy featuring Sweet Al Miller, as he is more commonly known. But there's so much more to Sweet Al than what you hear on the morning show. A well versed songwriter, singer and guitarist, Sweet Al and his dynamic hard-hitting band 333 has been tearing it up on rock stages for over a decade opening at times for top bands such as Three Doors Down, Puddle of Mud, Tesla, Vince Neil and most recently Guns & Roses. Though Sweet Al composes from the heavy guitar persective with haunting melodies and darker powerful chord structures, the messages he carries are much lighter and uplifting, though far more spiritual than religious. "If I'm gonna go ahead and write something it's gotta mean something to me." says Miller. Not one to follow suit with the trappings of lavish galmour and LA-ish based party and excess lyricism often regaled in popular music, Sweet Al wites from a mature heart about the elevation of other people and the elevation of the "common thread that binds us all together". According to Miller, "Any message we're bringin is just be good to yourself and be good to everybody around you and be kind." Episode 13 is Sweet Al Miller.