Dallas Cowboys' Linemen Sign Heavy Metal Record Deal

Free Reign, a heavy metal band featuring three of the Dallas Cowboys' 300-pound-plus offensive linemen, signed a record contract with Australia's Riot Entertainment, Sports Illustrated reports, making the group — which has been "kicking ass since March 2009," according to their MySpace page — quite possibly the heaviest heavy metal band of all-time in total tonnage. The 'Boys' guard/bassist Leonard Davis, tackle/singer Marc Colombo and center/drummer Cory Procter will play their final gig of the off-season on June 27th at Dallas' House of Blues, with their debut album due out in the fall. As New York Giants fans, here's hoping Free Reign find huge success in the metal scene and embark on world tours that coincide with the NFL season.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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