I've been listening to Shark Island quite a bit...You might recognize the singer Richard Black he fronted the band Contraband which featured Michael Schenker and Tracii Guns...
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The 80's hard rock thread AKA Hair Bands
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Racer X \,,/ I still don't know the story behind how they recorded a Priest unreleased track? Yes that's Scott Travis playing drums....
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poundingmetal74
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Rob Halford wrote Heart of a Lion (and as far as I know purposely left it off of Turbo). He was good friends with Jeff Martin (Jeff's not gay BTW) and gave the song to Racer X for them to record. That's also why Priest landed Scott Travis.
Man that track should have been on Turbo! The version Halford did with his band smokes....
poundingmetal74
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Yup. One of the other bonus tracks on Live Insurrection was an unreleased priest track too.
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shark island should have been huge. very underrated
war babies was slightly more connected to the grunge scene. they were friends with AIC and pearl jam and some of the lesser known seatle bands. if you look in the liner notes of the first AIC album and the war babies album they thank eachother. i think AIC got columbia to sign war babies
war babies was slightly more connected to the grunge scene. they were friends with AIC and pearl jam and some of the lesser known seatle bands. if you look in the liner notes of the first AIC album and the war babies album they thank eachother. i think AIC got columbia to sign war babies
There might have been a connection but they are far from grunge. If you look up the singer's previous band TKO you'll see a band that has more in common with bands from L.A. than bands from Seattle. You forget that Alice In Chains started out as a hair band. That's where the relationship started with Warbabies and Alice In Chains.
As for Shark Island theye were fucking great. Their version of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" is phenominal....
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poundingmetal74
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Agreed. I've got Under the Belt on cassette.
Anyone remember / know of No Respect? Those guys were great - had a major Skid Row vibe.
Those have been re-issued I got review copies of two of their albums last year...highly recommended. You know that though...
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I actually like the first wave of Hair bands like Dokken and Ratt..it was in the late 80s that things got out of hand for me, groups like Firhouse and Slaughter make me sick.
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i know a band slik toxik with a huge skid row vibe but never heard of no respect. i know a vain album with that name
i agree-but i also like XYZ,Hurricane,and XIAN Bands Stryper,Whitecross and Holy Soldier
I'm a huge fan of those bands as well...I think as the years went by bands got more and more commercial and more and more outragious with their images...
I wasn't much of a Slik Toxik fan the guy looked like a fucking chick!!!! They were a direct Skid Row rip off it was one of those listen to the real deal rather than a carbon copy. Vain might be the band he's referring to, they had that song "Beat The Bullet" on Headbanger's Ball in the regular rotation....
poundingmetal74
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Loved Slik, they sounded a lot like Skid Row, but so did three other bands who started with the letter "S" from Toronto at that time - Slash Puppet, Sonic X and Sven Gali!
Their singer Nick's new band Revolver is awesome - highly recommended.
...And aren't you a Vince Neil fan? I know you like 80s "Glam" metal and you're giving Nick shit for looking like a chick?
poundingmetal74
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A lot of Christian bands from that era were great: Barren Cross, Fear Not (The best band that wasn't Skid Row - they even had the Slave to the Grind production values!), Final Axe, Recon, Undercover (briefly), Stryper, Bloodgood, Holy Soldier, Deliverance and many others.
QuickNick
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Yeah, I bought "In your face", a few weeks ago. Brings back old memories..! We had a hard TKO-Dokken-Keel-London-Quiet Riot-TT Quick-Icon-Q5-Victory period that days!
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