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Best gay band name I've heard was "Pansy Division" as opposed to "Panzer Division".
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Wilhelm-Scream said:
Yes I've heard of them as well. It's a clever play on words Will because "Pansy" and "Panzer" are similair sounding
. I get it!!
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YOU GOT IT!!!!!
yeah, we played with them at Spanky's in Utah.
They had slickly produced baseball cards made of the band members, with stats on the back, etc.
It was the 90's so that seemed outrageously cool.
Now they have Librarian action figures and s***, so....
yeah, we played with them at Spanky's in Utah.
They had slickly produced baseball cards made of the band members, with stats on the back, etc.
It was the 90's so that seemed outrageously cool.
Now they have Librarian action figures and s***, so....
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Wilhelm-Scream said:
Lol damn, the eighties and nineties were great. I miss them.
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jaguarr said:LOFL! Pink Steel. That's definitely obscure, mate!
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They get the name because the are metal = steel and because they are gay = pink,
I think.- Whirly
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Whirlysplat said:They get the name because the are metal = steel and because they are gay = pink,
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They may also be paying homage to the great Judas Priest album "British Steel" with that name as well. :meow:
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jaguarr said:
They might be, quite prophetic in hindsight. Considering Rob's "coming out"
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jaguarr said:
Agreed
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My very first girlfriend had no idea and often said that she'd love me forever, and stay faithful......unLESS Geoff Tate or Rob Halford ever stole her away.jaguarr said:
LOL.
She was a teen.
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I give you "Big Cock" because "They Rock"
A review of the latest offering from "The Cock"
I've got a Big Cock! Well, that isn't entirely true. If it was I would be performing in low budget amateur porn movies as opposed to reviewing CDs. But what I do have is Big Cock - the musical version.
So what exactly is this Big Cock all about? Well, the band consists of Robert Mason (formerly of Lynch Mob, Cry Of Love and for a millisecond Ratt) and David Henzerling (who was better known as King Kobra's David Michael Philips) which means they sound like Lynch Mob with a sense of humor or King Kobra with a bigger set of balls (I suppose that's only appropriate). Music such as this went out of style around 1992, but over a decade later it still sounds as great as ever.
Right from the opening track Big Cock reintroduces us to the excesses and perfection of 80s hard rock. Solos, hooks, rhythm, sex, fisticuffs, Year Of The Cock has ample amounts of each. They can play a song like "Bad Mother****er" without sounding contrived and pull off the egotistical "King Of Cool". Really there isn't a bad song on this disc, you can safely throw the CD player on random and whatever three minute tune comes up would be a winner.
Big Cock also covers a couple of old King Kobra obscurities in "Mean Street Machine" and "Take It Off", the later of which they completely nail (it may even be better then the original). And I have to say that I almost doubled over laughing at the lyrics to "Hard To Swallow". At first listen it sounds like such a safe love song, but it is anything but - something a little more sinister is lurking underneath.
There is enough macho posturing on Year Of The Cock to set the feminist movement back years! While these guys may indeed have big ***** (I'll let the female audience figure that out), they definitely have big hooks and big melodies and Mason's voice has just the right amount of grit to complement his natural ability. Year Of The Cock is without a doubt a fitting title, because this is one of the best releases of 2005. Get an earful of cock at www.bigcockrocks.com
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A review of the latest offering from "The Cock"
I've got a Big Cock! Well, that isn't entirely true. If it was I would be performing in low budget amateur porn movies as opposed to reviewing CDs. But what I do have is Big Cock - the musical version.
So what exactly is this Big Cock all about? Well, the band consists of Robert Mason (formerly of Lynch Mob, Cry Of Love and for a millisecond Ratt) and David Henzerling (who was better known as King Kobra's David Michael Philips) which means they sound like Lynch Mob with a sense of humor or King Kobra with a bigger set of balls (I suppose that's only appropriate). Music such as this went out of style around 1992, but over a decade later it still sounds as great as ever.
Right from the opening track Big Cock reintroduces us to the excesses and perfection of 80s hard rock. Solos, hooks, rhythm, sex, fisticuffs, Year Of The Cock has ample amounts of each. They can play a song like "Bad Mother****er" without sounding contrived and pull off the egotistical "King Of Cool". Really there isn't a bad song on this disc, you can safely throw the CD player on random and whatever three minute tune comes up would be a winner.
Big Cock also covers a couple of old King Kobra obscurities in "Mean Street Machine" and "Take It Off", the later of which they completely nail (it may even be better then the original). And I have to say that I almost doubled over laughing at the lyrics to "Hard To Swallow". At first listen it sounds like such a safe love song, but it is anything but - something a little more sinister is lurking underneath.
There is enough macho posturing on Year Of The Cock to set the feminist movement back years! While these guys may indeed have big ***** (I'll let the female audience figure that out), they definitely have big hooks and big melodies and Mason's voice has just the right amount of grit to complement his natural ability. Year Of The Cock is without a doubt a fitting title, because this is one of the best releases of 2005. Get an earful of cock at www.bigcockrocks.com
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Big Cock. LOFL! Nice post, Whirly. Always interesting to find out what the 80's washouts are up to these days. A lot of them, along with some of the bigger stars of the era, are back together in their various bands, performing and touring and making some coin on the nostalgia kick.
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Nice post, Whirly. Always interesting to find out what the 80's washouts are up to these days. A lot of them, along with some of the bigger stars of the era, are back together in their various bands, performing and touring and making some coin on the nostalgia kick. jag
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Today, I want to tell you about one of my favorite groups from this time period: The McAuley-Schenker Group.
From Rockdetector:
Michael Schenker would set about auditioning proposed vocalists for what was initially to be a further extention of the MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP. Included in the runners was ex-AIRRACE vocalist Keith Murrell. However, the all new band transpired as the McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP, with Michael's new frontman being Irish born erstwhile GRAND PRIX man ROBIN MCAULEY. The pair built up a completely fresh band comprising of bassist Rocky Newton, guitarist Steve Mann and German drummer Bodo Schopf. The latter's credits include British act JUICY LUCY. Both Newton and Mann had credits with LIONHEART whilst the guitarist could cite prior membership of such esteemed acts as FAST BUCK (with a pre THIN LIZZY Scott Gorham), BANDANA, LIAR, STRATUS, TYTAN and SCORCHED EARTH.
This line-up debuted live in front of an enormous festival audience in Germany at the 'Rock Am Ring' festival billed alongside OZZY OSBOURNE and the SCORPIONS. The group subsequently relocated to Los Angeles and were intent on cracking the American market. The resulting 'Perfect Timing' album, produced by Andy Johns, sold fairly well being backed up with support tours to the likes of WHITESNAKE, RUSH and DEF LEPPARD. Mann was unable to tour due to a family illness and American ex-STEELER and TALAS man MITCH PERRY filled in for live work before Mann's return in August of 1988 in time to record the follow up.
That next album, the Frank Filipetti produced 'Save Yourself', quite unusually, bearing in mind his track record, saw Schenker retaining the same line-up. Touring saw the band opening for GREAT WHITE and going out as headliners with the BLACK CROWES as guests. Between albums Schenker turned up on MTV guesting with RATT for their 'unplugged' sessions and contributed guitar solos to their 'Detonator' album.
The work with RATT led to the formation of an ad hoc 'supergroup' called CONTRABAND that comprised of SHARK ISLAND vocalist Richard Black, VIXEN bassist Share Pederson, L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns and RATT drummer Bobby Blotzer. The resulting album was typically an average affair, but nonetheless CONTRABAND guested on RATT's American tour, but with an ever depleting line-up, as individual members' own band commitments came to the fore with Pederson unable to make the tour at all and Black leaving after two gigs.
In 1991 McAuley and Schenker switched management to Alan Cobeck and immediately fired the rest of McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP with a view to recording the next album with various 'guest stars' rather than hired musicians. As it turned out, DOKKEN bassist Jeff Pilson and ex-KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak did the honours.
Steve Mann later turned up as a member of the SWEET, enjoying a seven year term with the fabled Glam Rockers. He would also find acclaim as a noted producer and put in a stint with German Progressive Rock veterans ELOY.
Schenker once more staggered his fans when, upon the album's completion, he announced he was going on hunger strike in order to draw attention to the worlds's needy. The proposed culmination of this hunger strike was a show featuring the original MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP line-up, UFO and the SCORPIONS at the Irvine Meadows amphitheatre in California. The show never happened.
Rumours abounded that Schenker was now letting a German astrological guru dictate his career as the guitarist underwent rehabilitation to counter his alcohol problem. The guitarist was also earning money by giving celebrity guitar lessons for a whopping $200 an hour fee! It was at one of these lessons that Schenker met his manager to be Bella Piper.
McAuley and Schenker geared up for live action with a sprinkling of acoustic shows. McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP in America were becoming increasingly reliant on UFO covers when playing live and with the reunion of UFO mainmen PHIL MOGG and PETE WAY in the early 90s rumours abounded that Schenker was to rejoin the classic 1978 UFO line up. Although contact was made it was to be a further two years before Schenker reunited with Mogg and Way, during which time UFO released the 'High Stakes And Dangerous Men' album with guitarist Lawrence Archer. Finally, in November 1993 Schenker relented to tour Germany with UFO.
The UFO shows included a sprinkling of instrumental numbers from Schenker's 'Thank You' acoustic album. In an unorthodox move Schenker had asked his fans to pay upfront for the album by mail order and in return they would be peronally thanked on the album sleeve, hence the album title.
The guitarist recorded a superb album with UFO, 'Walk On Water', and the band undertook a lengthy American tour. After more than 70 very successful shows Schenker quit yet again. In 2004 ROBIN McAULEY notably reunited with MICHAEL SCHENKER to front up a cover of IRON MAIDEN's 'Run To The Hills' for a 2005 tribute album. On the live front, a MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP concert at the The Vault in Long Beach, California on 20th January saw McAuley guesting, marking the first ocassion he and Schenker had shared a stage in over 13 years. In June McAuley announced an all new band formation in June entitled BLEED, a union with seasoned musicians guitarist Dave Bates of KILL VAN KULL, second guitarist guitarist Bob Pace, bassist Bjorn Englen of TAKARA, SOUL SIGN, TAMPLIN, WHITE DIAMOND and HEAVEN AND EARTH and drummer Brett Chassen of the BRET MICHAELS band, VELVET CHAIN and BLACK ON BLOND.
In mid July 2006 it was announced that McAuley had joined SURVIVOR as the veteran AOR band's new singer. In October 2006 McAuley vocalised on a cover version of the JOURNEY classic 'Faithfully' featured on the Cleopatra Records homage collection '80s Metal Tribute To Journey'.
To this day I can still put on one of these guys' albums and just rock out. They had a couple of minor hits with "Anytime", "Love Is Not A Game" and "When I'm Gone" but mostly flew under the radar which was a shame because the musicianship and songwriting was far more excellent than a lot of the stuff from this genre and era. McAuley's one of my favorite singers (and talk about big hair in the 80's!
)and Schenker's guitar chops are legendary.
jag
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From Rockdetector:
Michael Schenker would set about auditioning proposed vocalists for what was initially to be a further extention of the MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP. Included in the runners was ex-AIRRACE vocalist Keith Murrell. However, the all new band transpired as the McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP, with Michael's new frontman being Irish born erstwhile GRAND PRIX man ROBIN MCAULEY. The pair built up a completely fresh band comprising of bassist Rocky Newton, guitarist Steve Mann and German drummer Bodo Schopf. The latter's credits include British act JUICY LUCY. Both Newton and Mann had credits with LIONHEART whilst the guitarist could cite prior membership of such esteemed acts as FAST BUCK (with a pre THIN LIZZY Scott Gorham), BANDANA, LIAR, STRATUS, TYTAN and SCORCHED EARTH.
This line-up debuted live in front of an enormous festival audience in Germany at the 'Rock Am Ring' festival billed alongside OZZY OSBOURNE and the SCORPIONS. The group subsequently relocated to Los Angeles and were intent on cracking the American market. The resulting 'Perfect Timing' album, produced by Andy Johns, sold fairly well being backed up with support tours to the likes of WHITESNAKE, RUSH and DEF LEPPARD. Mann was unable to tour due to a family illness and American ex-STEELER and TALAS man MITCH PERRY filled in for live work before Mann's return in August of 1988 in time to record the follow up.
That next album, the Frank Filipetti produced 'Save Yourself', quite unusually, bearing in mind his track record, saw Schenker retaining the same line-up. Touring saw the band opening for GREAT WHITE and going out as headliners with the BLACK CROWES as guests. Between albums Schenker turned up on MTV guesting with RATT for their 'unplugged' sessions and contributed guitar solos to their 'Detonator' album.
The work with RATT led to the formation of an ad hoc 'supergroup' called CONTRABAND that comprised of SHARK ISLAND vocalist Richard Black, VIXEN bassist Share Pederson, L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns and RATT drummer Bobby Blotzer. The resulting album was typically an average affair, but nonetheless CONTRABAND guested on RATT's American tour, but with an ever depleting line-up, as individual members' own band commitments came to the fore with Pederson unable to make the tour at all and Black leaving after two gigs.
In 1991 McAuley and Schenker switched management to Alan Cobeck and immediately fired the rest of McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP with a view to recording the next album with various 'guest stars' rather than hired musicians. As it turned out, DOKKEN bassist Jeff Pilson and ex-KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak did the honours.
Steve Mann later turned up as a member of the SWEET, enjoying a seven year term with the fabled Glam Rockers. He would also find acclaim as a noted producer and put in a stint with German Progressive Rock veterans ELOY.
Schenker once more staggered his fans when, upon the album's completion, he announced he was going on hunger strike in order to draw attention to the worlds's needy. The proposed culmination of this hunger strike was a show featuring the original MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP line-up, UFO and the SCORPIONS at the Irvine Meadows amphitheatre in California. The show never happened.
Rumours abounded that Schenker was now letting a German astrological guru dictate his career as the guitarist underwent rehabilitation to counter his alcohol problem. The guitarist was also earning money by giving celebrity guitar lessons for a whopping $200 an hour fee! It was at one of these lessons that Schenker met his manager to be Bella Piper.
McAuley and Schenker geared up for live action with a sprinkling of acoustic shows. McAULEY SCHENKER GROUP in America were becoming increasingly reliant on UFO covers when playing live and with the reunion of UFO mainmen PHIL MOGG and PETE WAY in the early 90s rumours abounded that Schenker was to rejoin the classic 1978 UFO line up. Although contact was made it was to be a further two years before Schenker reunited with Mogg and Way, during which time UFO released the 'High Stakes And Dangerous Men' album with guitarist Lawrence Archer. Finally, in November 1993 Schenker relented to tour Germany with UFO.
The UFO shows included a sprinkling of instrumental numbers from Schenker's 'Thank You' acoustic album. In an unorthodox move Schenker had asked his fans to pay upfront for the album by mail order and in return they would be peronally thanked on the album sleeve, hence the album title.
The guitarist recorded a superb album with UFO, 'Walk On Water', and the band undertook a lengthy American tour. After more than 70 very successful shows Schenker quit yet again. In 2004 ROBIN McAULEY notably reunited with MICHAEL SCHENKER to front up a cover of IRON MAIDEN's 'Run To The Hills' for a 2005 tribute album. On the live front, a MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP concert at the The Vault in Long Beach, California on 20th January saw McAuley guesting, marking the first ocassion he and Schenker had shared a stage in over 13 years. In June McAuley announced an all new band formation in June entitled BLEED, a union with seasoned musicians guitarist Dave Bates of KILL VAN KULL, second guitarist guitarist Bob Pace, bassist Bjorn Englen of TAKARA, SOUL SIGN, TAMPLIN, WHITE DIAMOND and HEAVEN AND EARTH and drummer Brett Chassen of the BRET MICHAELS band, VELVET CHAIN and BLACK ON BLOND.
In mid July 2006 it was announced that McAuley had joined SURVIVOR as the veteran AOR band's new singer. In October 2006 McAuley vocalised on a cover version of the JOURNEY classic 'Faithfully' featured on the Cleopatra Records homage collection '80s Metal Tribute To Journey'.
To this day I can still put on one of these guys' albums and just rock out. They had a couple of minor hits with "Anytime", "Love Is Not A Game" and "When I'm Gone" but mostly flew under the radar which was a shame because the musicianship and songwriting was far more excellent than a lot of the stuff from this genre and era. McAuley's one of my favorite singers (and talk about big hair in the 80's!
)and Schenker's guitar chops are legendary.jag
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I know this for obscure bands, but while you speak of ballads, I just want to say...
Scorpions......Whistling
Scorpions......Whistling
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i want my hair to look like this
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yes i do. i want a big puff on the top. and i want to wear a fringe jacket with shoulder pads
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Just never let anyone see you from the side.***** Galore said:i want my hair to look like this
I remember all the Mexican girls and Rocker ****s when I was young.Hot chick with a lion's mane from the front, weird unicorn from the side.
Even my first girlfriend who was obsessed with Judas Priest and Queensryche, I was thinking of getting her a 3-way mirror for her birthday or something.
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