Let The Good Times Rock Tour: Warrant with special guests Lita Ford and FireHouse Celebrating 35 years of Cherry pie
Saturday, August 23, 2025
7:00 PM
Amarillo Civic Center Complex Auditorium
Entrance #12 & 1
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Rock 108 wants you to join us at the Amarillo Civic Center Complex for the Let The Good Times Rock Tour: Warrant with special guests Lita Ford and FireHouse...Celebrating 35 years of Cherry Pie.
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About Warrant
At its core, WARRANT is an American rock band through and through. Hitting itbig in 1989, the Hollywood, CA based band rose through the ranks of the localSunset Strip scene to the level of multiplatinum selling, chart-topping success.Theband first came into the national spotlight with their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. This album produced Radio and MTV chart toppers “Down Boys,” “Sometimes She Cries,” and the massive hit “Heaven” which reached #1in Rolling Stone and #2on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in a row. Thesingle “Heaven” enjoyed Gold sales and the Album went Platinum in Canada aswell, eventually selling over 3 million copies. The band toured the globeperforming 262 shows in support of DRFSR and closed the year with a PlatinumHome Video.WARRANT’s sophomore album Cherry Pie was released in September 1990.This album, which spawned the MTV & Radio hits “Cherry Pie,” “Uncle Tom’sCabin,” and “I Saw Red,” all reached the Top 10 in the United States and went onto sell 3 million copies, reaching Platinum sales in Canada and Australia. Theband played 200 shows in support of Cherry Pie and finished the tour headliningsheds all over the USA and ended up being one of the top grossing tours of 1991. Over the course of their career, WARRANT has sold over 10 millionalbums worldwide. The song “Cherry Pie” has taken on a pop culture life of itsown, being featured in countless movies, TV shows, commercials and the hugely popular video game Guitar Hero II. WARRANT's signature style of rock music is very catchy and yet very melodicand remains the band's signature sound today. In September 2008, RobertMason replaced Jani Lane (RIP) as lead vocalist joining the other four originalmembers, Jerry Dixon, Steven Sweet,Joey Allen and Erik Turner. Their currentalbum Louder Harder Faster, released on Frontiers Records, has been highlyregarded in reviews and embraced by fans. WARRANT has been headlining festivals, casinos and fairs all over the countryin support of their latest CD Louder Harder Faster and the 30 year anniversary oftheir debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The band is fired up andtighter than every musically! These rockers can’t wait to play not only ALL thehits fans know & love, but also new tunes/videos like “Louder Harder Faster” & “IThink I Will Just Stay Here & Drink.”
About Lita Ford
Lita Ford’s career began in 1975 as a founding member and guitarist of thegroundbreaking all female group the Runaways. The groups hard rock / punk edgespawned hits like “Cherry Bomb” and “Queens of Noise”. Lita and the Runawaysproved their timelessness in 2014 when “Cherry Bomb” was featured in thecritically acclaimed Marvel / Disney Studios hit movie“Guardians Of The Galaxy”andwas nominated for a Grammy Award.In 1983 Lita launched her carrier as a solo artist with her début album“Out ForBlood”establishing her as the premier female performer in rock and Heavy Metal.Lita quickly followed up in 1984 with the release of“Dancin’ on the Edge”whichearned her a Grammy nomination in the Best Female Rock VocalPerformancecategory.The album produced the world charting single“Fire In My Heart”and theU.S. Billboard top 50 charting hit“Gotta Let Go”.The song, along with the video beingin MTV’s top rotation began to make Ford a household name and face.2018 Celebrated the 30thanniversary of the self-titled multi platinum“Lita”album.Released on February 2nd1988 the“Lita”album boasted four charting hit singles.“Back to the Cave”,“Falling In and Out of Love”(co written with Motley Crue’s NikkiSixx) along with the world wide mega hits“Kiss me Deadly”, nominated for the MTVVideo Music Awards Best Female Video of The Year and the certified gold balladsingle“Close my Eyes Forever”featuring Ozzy Osbourne, which remained in theBillboard top 10 for 25 weeks.The “Lita” album solidified Ford as one of the most influential female performers inthe music industry and earning her the title “Queen ofMetal”. Ford released threemore studio albums following“Lita”.Stiletto, “Dangerous Curves”and “Black”. Thesealbums produced the radio and video hits“Hungry”,“Playin’ with Fire”and“Shot ofPoison” again nominating her for a Grammy.In 1995 Lita Ford took a sabbatical from the industry.But in 2008 Ford answered the calling of her fans and after thirteen yearstriumphantly returned to the stage. The excitement generated by Ford’s returnquickly showed the world that the Queen was back
Alongside her live performances Lita followed up with two new studio albums. “Living Like A Runaway” and “Time Capsule”. With Ford’s long awaited return to the scene, also came the long awaited opportunity by the industry to finally recognize Lita Ford for forever changing the roll of women in music. 2014 saw two of these accolades. At the 50th anniversary of the world famous Whiskey A Go Go Ford was presented with the Guitar Player Lifetime Achievement Award. And in the same year Guitar Player Magazine awarded her the prestigious Guitar Player Certified Legend Award and inducted her in to the Guitar Player Hall of Fame.
Besides her renown musical career Lita has also appeared in numerous movie, television and media rolls. In 1991 She portrayed the roll of the Hitchhiker in the fantasy/thriller “Highway To Hell” starring Chad Lowe. On television Ford has guested on shows such as Fox’s Herman’s Head, Food Networks Chopped and Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush. Ford was also featured along with Bruce Springsteen’s legendary E Street band saxophonist Clarence Clemons as band members of The Howie Mandel Show’s Studio One Band. In 2009 Lita was cast to voice the roll of Rima for the action adventure video game Brutal.
In 2016 Ford released her autobiography “Living Like A Runaway: A Memoir”. Thebooks insight and vivid truthfulness so captured audiences that it quickly became anational best seller and awarded 4.7 stars out of 5 by Amazon. The book reachedsuch critical acclaim that Lita was presented the “Outstanding Writer” award in2017 by the Producers Choice Honors.At 2017’s Fifth Annual She Rocks Awards Lita was chosen as the recipient of thecoveted Icon Award. That evening she was also officially bestowed the title of The First Lady of Rock Guitar by Marshall Amplification and Guitar Player Magazine.Laura B. Whitmore, founder of WiMN and producer of the She Rocks Awards,commented: "Whether as a solo artist, band member, or guitar shredder, Lita Ford isa true pioneer who has broken down barriers and inspires today's female guitarists.I am excited to honor her with an award that really sums up the essence of Lita Ford. Ford continues to encourage and inspire aspiring musicians by teaching andmentoring through here work with Rock and Roll Fantasy Camps.
Since the start of 2018 Lita has been more present than ever in major media andpublications. Filming 24 plus episodes of AXS TV’s hit series “Top 10 Revealed”, NatGeo TV’s “Decades Remixed” and a top BBC series focusing on iconic musiciansplaying styles and their gear. Along with appearances in both the Suzi Quatro andGirls School documentaries. Lita also contributed to two upcoming major releasebooks “The History of Hard Rock” by Tom Beaujour and “No Encore” by DrewFortune.The year finished out with Lita again being bestowed three more prestigious honors.The Hollywood FAME Producers Choice “Icon” Lifetime Achievement Award, the2019 “Legend” Inductee Nomination into the Hall of Heavy Metal History and a lifesized digital portrait of her ionic one of a kind double neck guitar will be on exhibitat London’s Saatchi Gallery presented by “The Art of Capture” photographer KaneHibberd.2021 marked another major milestone in Ford’s career. On July 26th, by request,Lita presented The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland OH, her iconic Morice IIB.C. Rich Warlock guitar. The guitar currently is on exhibit in the main foyer at TheRock Hall.Ford and her band continue to tour and headline major events throughout the United States and worldwide.
About FireHouse
FireHouse has traveled all over the world, rocking fans for over three decades. The band has produced Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum records in the United States and abroad. To date, they have released nine albums and have toured with some of the biggest names in the music business during their successful, award-winning career. They have 16 Gold and Platinum records worldwide, two Top 10 hits (Billboard), four Top 40 hits (Billboard), and seven Top 100 hits (Billboard). They also won the 1992 American Music Award for Best New Artist Heavy Metal/Hard Rock. Their song, Love of a Lifetime, was the biggest wedding song of 1991 according to Bridal Magazine and continues to be played at countless weddings and anniversaries to this day.
For more information about Firehouse,
please visit www.firehousemusic.com
