In our Continuing Series: The Decline of Western Civilization ...

uwe · May 08, 2014, 12:59:36 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on May 08, 2014, 12:53:11 PM
The lyrics are cringeworthy for sure.
"Wielding the axe, the mighty all must die" sounds like a Manowar leftover. Or were they ridiculing them?

Yes, admittedly, it is a bit Manowar with more clothes on ...

... sort of the Mad Max version of them!

But I think that lyric just wanted to insinuate that - Bob Dylan-style - a small guitar/axe can surely change the world for the better?

gweimer · May 08, 2014, 02:24:44 PM

It's a bit dragged out....and P.R.O.G...but they hit a nice groove about 9:00 and just after 11:00, you'll hear the nylon strings kick in.

nofi · May 08, 2014, 03:46:14 PM

smith was from atlanta. he is the brother of the rex smith who did the 'the pirates in my pants' with linda rondstat in central park. doing some research after my blunder i see that smith has become a large, hairless fellow.

Highlander · May 09, 2014, 12:20:56 AM

Hmm... excluding the beard, I'm sure I just saw him in the mirror...?

Somewhat the continuing recycling of scripts in the cinema, how about tribute acts, tributing what was originally a tribute act...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6MKQBok7w

... but for balance, something from his excellent "original material" album, way back when... the solo has a lovely hair standing on end quality when played loud...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRIpO5D3Mg

uwe · May 09, 2014, 04:22:02 AM

Quote from: nofi on May 08, 2014, 03:46:14 PM
smith was from atlanta. he is the brother of the rex smith who did the 'the pirates in my pants' with linda rondstat in central park. doing some research after my blunder i see that smith has become a large, hairless fellow.

While his girth today would be an issue for the teen appeal Starz were supposed to have in the mid-seventies, it wouldn't hamper a career with Molly Hatchet!

OldManC · May 09, 2014, 12:06:16 PM

Quote from: uwe on May 07, 2014, 04:40:26 PM
Now watch George chip in in a little while and dryly remark how he saw them regularly twice a week in his youth community center in LA when no one had yet heard of them ...

I saw them a couple times after first hearing their demo on KMETs local band show (hosted by a ridiculously disguised Jim Ladd, who hated metal and felt it was beneath him). I was lucky to live in the center of where the "metal" resurgence happened in the early 80s, so I saw a lot of bands that way. I bought the vinyl when I came home from England in '86 and found the CD a few years back. I liked them but they were never more than cult status in the day or since. To me, they were on the same level as Rough Cutt, another good band that never blew up but had some great ingredients (including Jake E. Lee before he auditioned for Ozzy). Good playing and above average vocals though, so that CD still gets a listen now and then.

Here's a typical calendar from a local club in '83. I saw two or maybe three of the shows listed, and that doesn't count shows I would have seen at other clubs in the area if the bands I liked were playing.

uwe · May 09, 2014, 12:45:53 PM

Didn't I say so!

OldManC · May 09, 2014, 01:21:03 PM

Come to think of it, the Troub, the Whisky, and the Roxy really were my community centers!

lowend1 · May 09, 2014, 03:43:29 PM

Quote from: uwe on May 08, 2014, 12:43:12 PM
I probably only liked them because their guitarist was called Richie, had sideburns and a receding hairline plus a white Strat ...

Stemming from the Garden State indeed - at the 4th of July parade in my wife's hometown last year - along with Starz' drummer.

Basvarken · May 10, 2014, 02:36:20 AM

Did you ever see Riverdogs live George?

OldManC · May 10, 2014, 10:48:02 AM

Quote from: Basvarken on May 10, 2014, 02:36:20 AM
Did you ever see Riverdogs live George?

No, with Vivian Campbell's previous gig making him so well known I don't think they played around town in the same way up and coming, unknown guys did. At least I never heard about them doing so. I wasn't in Los Angeles much between 1988-92 so even if they did gig now and then, I never heard about it.

Basvarken · May 10, 2014, 11:02:59 AM

Or any of the other bands Rob Lamothe sang in ?

Mac Meda (also with Robbin Crosby)?

Or Aircraft?

To get back on topic:
I think an early line up of Aircraft had some names that would appear in Warrior ten years later (Tommy Asakawa, Parry McCarty)

nofi · May 10, 2014, 11:50:53 AM

is that ben stiller in the middle.

westen44 · May 10, 2014, 01:51:13 PM

I must be not so well-versed in 80s metal as I thought. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that I'm contributing in one way or another to the decline of Western civilization.

nofi · May 10, 2014, 03:29:37 PM

aren't we all!