6/25/2008 The East Bay Express has just voted HOT FOR TEACHER the best cover act or tribute band in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are cover bands and then there are tribute bands. The East Bay's Hot for Teacher, formed in 1999 to pay homage to the classic David Lee Roth era of Van Halen, features not only old-school music but is fronted by an actual teacher, hence the name. The wildly entertaining singer Randy Monroe, a middle-school science teacher by day, pours much energy and enthusiasm into becoming Roth. Along with guitarist Jude Gold, bassist Jesse Scott, and drummer Eddie Studebaker, Monroe and co. take their act on the road quite often, due to demand. Hot for Teacher has played most of the Western US and has upcoming shows from San Francisco to Montana. The next time the urge strikes to hear "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" or "Runnin' With the Devil" live, and if you like VH but prefer to skip the Sammy Hagar years, a trip to see HFT is in order.
1/25/2008 Party animals - With David Lee Roth front and center, the 'new' Van Halen rocks like in the good old days "It's very challenging music, and it also has really good hooks and grooves at the same time," says Randy Monroe, vocalist for Hot for Teacher, a California-based Van Halen tribute band. "I think it just appeals to people because it's good, happy, party rock. It's all about having fun, that's a big part of it." >>Click here for the full article
1/7/2008 HOT FOR TEACHER is a feature at the music industry's NAMM Convention 2008! >>Click here for the Press Release (280KB PDF)
11/10/07 HOT FOR TEACHER's vocalist and award-winning science teacher Randy Monroe is featured in the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute publication called The Primer, "Rock Star Educator Spends Summer at JGI". Since the article was written, Randy has continued to study these novel "critters" and has been made an official part of the JGI Microbial Ecology Team as an adjunct faculty member. With three jobs and a family, do you think the guy has enough to do? Randy responds, "As David Lee Roth says, 'I am looking to the future, not the pasture' and as Sammy Hagar says, 'Are we having fun yet'? I love all the opportunities and both new and old friends that allow me to grow professionally as a Scientist, Science Teacher, and Musician. Ain't life cool"? "To infinity and beyond", Buzz Lightyear >>Click here for the extract (76KB PDF)
4/15/07 HOT FOR TEACHER's singer Randy Monroe is featured in the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District's 2006 Annual Report that comes out each Spring. For the past few years, Science Teacher Randy Monroe and Chris Miller from the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District have been collaborating and have developed a northern California Native Fishes Program. Now in 2008, also "on-board" with the program (pun intended) is the Marine Science Institute, which is offering assistance in collecting specimens from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for study. >>Click here for the extract (792KB PDF)
7/26/06 "I’m like a kid in a candy store", says HOT FOR TEACHER's frontman Randy Monroe in an article which appears in the nationaly published magazine, Education Week today. >>Click here for the full article 7/13/06 HOT FOR TEACHER appear's in today's Maui Weekly Newspaper. >>Click here for the full article 7/11/06 Over 18 International recording and performing artists come together to raise awareness of underprivileged children in need with Artists For Charity - Guitarists 4 The Kids. All net proceeds raised are donated to World Vision - a leader in child sponsorship and emergency aid. >>Click here for the full article 1/6/06 Randy Monroe is going to Pluto! Well, not exactly, but close enough. Randy is traveling to Cape Canaveral in Florida next week to participate in the launch of New Horizons, a space probe headed for Pluto. You can say Randy has a personal connection with the probe since his stepfather, James Christy, discovered Pluto's moon in 1978 and named it after his mother, Charon. >>Click here for the full article 12/29/05 How do you know your Van Halen tribute band has made it? When you spend the day hanging with the bassist from, well... Van Halen.
A nice little write-up appeared today in "The Record", special to the San Joaquin County Newspaper eluding to the big "end-of-the-year monster-blow-out New Year's Ball" with HOT FOR TEACHER and Powerage at The Bob Hope Theater in Stockton, CA. The article goes on to describe Tribute Bands and this weekend's must-see New Year's festivities.
>>Click here for the full article 7/21/05 The Official HOT FOR TEACHER Forum Re: REDWOOD CITY ROCKS!!!!!! Thanks for the compliments, much appreciated."I had a positively raging time playing with HFT". Thanks for suggesting me to Randy when Tyrannosaurus Terry got hired for the big Europe tour with Heathen. And, not to kiss up to the boss, but I hope everybody who never saw Roth-era Van Halen realizes what a treat Randy's giving you -- he's actually SINGING the songs, and he's singing them with same or more volcanic intensity than the original album versions. That's a LOT more than DLR, god bless him, ever used to do or does at live shows. And to be in a room full of true Van Halen fans like that, was like going to church for me. "I've always been a huge VH fan; now I'm also an HFT fan". 1/7/05 >>Click here for the full article 1/5/05 None other than HOT FOR TEACHER's very own, Randy Monroe is featured in the January 5th Contra Costa Times Newspaper! Randy appears larger than life on the front page of the TimeOut section along with a write-up by Tony Hicks. The article goes on to mention Randy's dedication to his job as a school teacher as well as his outlet in the band known as HOT FOR TEACHER. 'Teacher by day channels rocker David Lee Roth by night'. >>Click here for the full article 12/31/04 HOT FOR TEACHER appears in The Mercury News today in an article written by Jim Harrington entitled 'Tribute Bands are Hot'. The article states how tribute bands are growing in popularity and are catching the attention of booking agents, promoters and fans alike. Furthermore, it's the next best thing to the real thing [to attend a tribute band show]. >>Click here for the full article 9/1/02 Article appears in the September issue of FHM Magazine (Anna Kournikova is on the cover). Subject: David Lee Roth. Within the article there is a section with questions from Van Halen Tribute Bands. One of the questions is directed to HFT vocalist Randy Monroe. The magazine contacted HFT about 3 months ago and wanted to know if we had any questions for DLR. Randy called Terry (HFT guitarist) and wanted to know what he should ask, so Terry said to have them ask about tribute bands copying Van Halen. And sure enough, the question ended up in the magazine! There are questions from other VH Tribute Bands as well. There is also a picture of Randy. Let us know if any of y'all see it. So, check it out! |
