“I always wanted to play guitar but I could never quite master the fingering. So I won’t be a rock star. I’ll just have to settle for being a shock star. My groupies. Tonight’s little riff is rife with sex, death and rock and roll. Now, that’s entertainment! You’ll meet a putrefied promoter of pop with an ear for a hit. I don’t want to kill it for you. Let’s just say we come into the story just when his career is getting real hot!”

Directed by Jeffrey Price (the writer of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; this was his only directorial job), who wrote this episode along with Peter S. Seaman (who wrote Wild Wild West, Shrek The Third and How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Price) and Steven Dodd, this is the tale of Marty Slash (Lee Arenberg), a promoter who runs off with all the money from a charity concert only to be blackmailed by a banker by the name of Ms. Kilbasser (Katey Segal) while fighting the voice in his head (Sam Kinison).

It also has Iggy Pop in it, which is fun. I wonder if Katey Segal wondered if she would be in any more projects with Sam after doing Married With Children with him just five months before filming this.

This is based on the story of the same name from Shock SuspenStories #15. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Reed Crandall. That story has no rock promoter but everything else is similar.