Live video of Hank Williams III with Bobby Liebling on vocals

[Demilich]

I just noticed this video on Youtube and thought it was a weird combination. They play "Be Forewarned" and "Forever My Queen."

Bobby still has some of his old personality on stage, and you can actually hear him unlike on the video of him fronting Witchcraft for a couple of songs. He looks really fucking old though.


There it is.

 

[skeptik]

There are rumors that Hank will actually be writing material for Bobby, but whether or not it would be under the Pentagram monicker was uncertain.

 

[Demilich]

^ weird!

I noticed that Hank is actually the one you can hear on a lot of those vocal parts. Bobby still sounds pretty good though.

 

[Carbonized]

very nice, Bobby can get quite the maniacal look on his face. i would have enjoyed it more if Hank didn't sing over the top of him though. i wish they had done the *new* version of the song on the Be Forewarned album too. :/ still, very good

 

[Demilich]

Look! 23 years ago Bobby fronted a band of 80s fashion victims!
(And he looked twice as maniacal as he does now!)

YouTube - Pentagram - Sign of the Wolf

 

[Carbonized]

haha yea i saw that, what a bizarre looking group of musicians he had assembled. The Bass player with his sunglasses, short Tom Cruise 'Risky Business' hair cut, the guitar player with the small pony tail off center near the top of his head and.. make up? lol, but still awesome stuff.. even for 1984-ish

 

[Demilich]

I wish there were some more old vids of them up there. Do you happen to know of any? Or a good bio of Mr. Liebling? He seems like an interesting character.

I've read the liner notes to Death Row's "Death is Alive" (awesome album!), and Pentagram's "First Daze Here" (& FDHT) but I don't think I know the whole story.

 

[Carbonized]

some info here, there's a lot to tell about him.. i haven't seen any other vids of them on YT but that doesn't mean they don't exist of course.
there's just a lot of crap on there with Pentagram for a keyword and i haven't bothred to sort through it all. plus not everyone puts in keywords :/

 

[Demilich]

Thanks! I'm also kind of interested in Liebling's reduction to a drug-addled wreck as a lot of people mention when talking about him. Haven't been able to turn up much...

 

[skeptik]

He was turned on to harder drugs by Randy Palmer I believe, with whom he played in Bedemon. He got fucked up over and over again as so many from that era did, only he took it to the extreme, going back and forth between addiction and withdrawal, trying to quit. It fucked him up pretty badly for a time and put him in serious condition for a while, but he's in the best health now as he's been for some time, from what I understand, though he's obviously appearance-wise rather worse for wear. I believe that he is currently clean or at least off of hard drugs, but I'm not sure of this. At least he hasn't sunken so deep as to be akin to Ozzy, however.