We still miss the redhead days.

Vegas Uncork’d took a turn for the metaly Saturday night with their first afterhours event — well, afterhours by foodie-event standards anyway. Crushed: Wine that Rocks brought out Scott Ian of Anthrax with band Six Foot Nurse to provide the soundtrack for winemaker Joe Bastianich’s music/food/wine pairing event.

Bon Appetit editor Barbara Fairchild and restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton came out, as did Chazz Palminteri, Jersey Boys’ Rick Faugno and Laura Prepon, plus a host of local chefs like Zach Allen of Carnevino, Vince Chiyuto of Lagasse’s Stadium, Sam DeMarco of First, Frank and Carla Pellegrino of Rao’s, Luciano Pellegrini of Valentino, Tom Moloney of Aquaknox, Scott Linquist and Roberto Hernandez of Dos Caminos and Rene Langer of The Country Club at Wynn.

The idea was to put different wines with the music of say, Led Zeppelin or The Beatles. We’re going to take this idea and run with it tonight, when we pair half a bottle of Carlo Rossi with a Molly Hatchet record and some Totino’s Pizza Rolls.

By Jason Scavone

What, no one from Britny Fox was around?

The latest in rocker-owned bars opened Friday night, with The Playground’s Rock Room giving way to Dead Man’s Hand. The joint, co-owned by Scott Ian and Jerry Cantrell got things started Friday with Kerry Simon and — showing up late, as always — Phil Hellmuth in the crowd to hear John Dolmayan hit the stage.

Dolmayan did a brief set on the kit with his band Indicator before Scars on Broadway guitarist Franky Perez got on stage to kick out System of a Down’s “Lonely Day” and Scars’ “They Say.”

For the second night, it was The Starf**kers with the Stray Cats’ Slim Jim Phantom and Teddy Andreadis, who played keyboards briefly for Guns ‘n Roses. Tera Patrick made the scene, as did former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul, The Apprentice’s Omarosa, and poker pros Annie Duke, Chris Ferguson, Jeff Madsen and Casey Thompson. The full grand opening hasn’t been settled on, but it’s being targeted for later this year.

In just a few more weeks, Ian is going to take over DJ duties on Friday nights in December. This will make the average Friday night 80 percent more metal than your typical Friday evening of sitting at home catching up on How I Met Your Mother reruns.

By Jason Scavone

Scott Ian totally should have had a cameo on Deadwood. (Via Anthrax.com)

When you’re already playing guitar for Anthrax, playing pro poker for Ultimate Bet, writing a comic book and helping kick off the Hard Rock Cafe at new Yankee Stadium, why not go ahead and throw “opening a rock club” into the mix?

Scott Ian got together with longtime friend Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains to turn The Playground’s Rock Room into Dead Man’s Hand — which makes its soft opening Friday night. It kicks off with a performance from System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan and friends, then on Saturday brings up a comedy set from Buffet Jackson, Jason Harris and Brandon “Gooch” Hahn from 8 to 10 p.m. before supergorup The Starf**kers hits the stage. Poker pros Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, Brandon Cantu and Joe Sebok are expected to be there, as are Vinnie Paul and Tera Patrick. After all that, Ian is going to be doing DJ sets on Friday nights in December.

We talked to die-hard Yankee fan Ian, who did a performance at the Stadium Hard Rock with Ace Frehly in the spring, on the eve of Game 1 of the World Series when he was sweating the Bombers. Now that it’s 3-2 and headed back to the Bronx, we hope he’s not as anxious. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone