Anchor Arms

After years of toiling in relative obscurity, Gainesville's ANCHOR ARMS burst onto the rock scene in late 2007 following a successful tour of America's heartland opening up for Jon Bon Jovi's solo project. The ARM's singer/songwriter/lite beer drinker Jim Austin relates a now infamous story from the band's early years: "A lot of people don't know this, but that line in 'Dead or Alive' where Jon sang 'I've seen a million faces/and I've rocked them all-' well, that was a line from a now-deceased ARMS song called 'Torpedos.