No Gossip, Just Music !
A music blog about Hard rock, glam rock, sleaze rock, blues... from the late 60s to nowadays. Won't bother to talk about things I don't like, my personal taste is the limit. Kinda a french perspective of the international music scene, mostly underground one.
Expect : The Throbs, Kill City Dragons, Faster Pussycat, Junkyard, Tango Pirates, Sea Hags, Princess Pang, Silverhead...
Seriously, members of Kill City Dragons, The Throbs, Princess Pang, Sweet Pain, L.A. Guns, Saïgon Saloon, Faster Pussycat or even The Misfits have been in this band. Insane.
Founded by Elka Brandt and Steve Von Saint (Kill City Dragons) they've been joined by Brian Keats (The Misfits, Princess Pang) and the Wassif brothers Pete and Paul. But over the 2 years of the band's existence Roger Ericson (The Throbs), Danny Nordahl (The Throbs, Faster Pussycat), Kelly Nichols (Faster Pussycat, L.A. Guns), Scarlet Rowe (Sweet Pain, Saïgon Saloon) and Ronnie Roze (Princess Pang) have been involved.
(Scarlet Rowe)
Several demos have been made but not that easy to hold hand on them now. I'm highly interested of course.
In the meantime I'll listen to the only song I got :
Danny Fury, Dave Tregunna and Timo Kaltio. Enough said, right ?!
If you are familiar with The Lords of the New Church, The Cherry Bombz, Kill City Dragons, Cheap and Nasty you get the picture. If not, well go check those bands and enjoy.
The fact you may not be familiar with is that Danny isn't behind the drumkit this time but take care of the vocals (just like he did in Wild at Heart) and Dave has switch the bass for the rhythm guitar. Formed last year the band has already recorded 5 songs, shoot one video & toured in Finland. You can see them live in London tho'.
And obviously they won't stop there.
Pick the rhythm section of The Lords of the New Church, a guitarist from the cult New-York band Angels in vain and a fairly unknown american singer and you get one of my fave band of the genre.
Kill City Dragons was formed by Danny Fury (drums), a former member of Rogue Male and The Lords of the New Church and Steve Von Saint from Angels in vain. Soon joined by Dave Tregunna (Sham 69, The Lords, The Cherry Bombz...) on bass and Billy G Bang on vocals (Vixen, On Ten Tu). After the recording of demos and succeeding in creating a momentum in London the band get 'signed' onWideboy records.
Unfortunately after 2 official releases KCD members went separate ways : Billy & Dave formed Shooting Gallery with Andy Mc Coy (Hanoï Rocks, The Cherry Bombz) then played inSlumlords with Jam from Cats in Boots fame, Danny & Steve tried to keep up with new members (Johnny Stevenson on vocals & Mark Anthony on bass), recorded few demos but eventually split. Then Danny joined Vain for the recording of the album Move on it ; Few years later Steve and Dave reconvened in The Endorfiends.
In 2007 Danny & Dave played together in Wild at heart and since last year they'd teamed up with Timo Kaltio (Cheap and Nasty) in Tango Pirates. But that's another story to be told...
Kill City Dragons / Harlow - 1990 (Kerrang magazine flexidisc)
Demo version of Devil Callin' recorded in July 1989. This is the song co-written by Dave and Nasty Suicide when they played in The Wyrd Things
Let's them eat cake - 1990 (E.P. - Wideboy records)
What a picture, no glam/sleaze fans could resist to such a thing ! I've been a fan of Danny Fury since his Rogue Male days and familiar with Dave Tregunna who is a legendary character in the UK rock scene. Never heard of the other members so far but I was already a supporter even before I heard the music.
It's the first KCD release and this EP contains 4 studio tracks including a song co-written by Jan Stenfors (aka Nasty Suicide). In my opinion these are classics and it was a great debut record. Kinda Hanoï Rocks with only one guitar (and sax including!) and Billy's voice can remind Axl Rose on few occasions but still very unique (and quite controversial when you check reviews) . A must have.
Kill City Dragons - 1990 (LP and CD - Wideboy records)
A reissue of the previous EP along with 3 live tracks recorded at Camden Electric Ballroom.
t's kinda frustrating to only discover two new songs from the band (the another one is a cover of The Monkeys : Stepping stone) while they've got plenty of them already written. This LP was released after the departure of Billy and Dave.
The Kingdom of Rock - 1992 (LP and CD compilation - Head records - ) including 'Scene of the Crime'
The only song available from the second line-up. Rare compilation including exclusively UK bands.
Don't know if the band had any recognition outside the country but they surely made an unique impression in France during the late 80s / early 90s.
Aiming from Paris, TEARS were tagged 'the french Motley Crüe' -but it was mostly based on their wardrobe- and achieve to get praise by both press and public without no official release.
The band did record several demos but they always refused to sell them to the fans, those recordings were only made to get press and labels attention. And it works pretty well I must say. I heard about them via musical magazines which reported outrageous behavior or more factual deeds with gigs reviews. And always with great pictures of the flamboyant quartet.
I only manage to see them live once. they were the opening act for a D.A.D. concert at l'Elysée Montmarte in 1989/90 and they delivered a cool performance. I was eager to get a hold on their upcoming album but nothing happened and the band finally disappeared.
2013 might be the year tho'. Reunited for a French Hard rock/Metal festival, Tears are actually planning to release a compilation of the demos as well as a brand new album.
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