[atlantaprog] Re: Country players


Alex wrote:
I saw Warrant at Gazarri's one night, before they got signed in 88. It was a weekday night so the place was not very crowded. THey were horrible! We saw James Hetfield there too. He was laughing his ass of at them, which we thought was kinda funny.

I guess; I'm sorta surprised he was there in the first place. In any event, they must've gotten a helluva lot of practicing and rehearsing done in that year.

What I should ask is: Were they horrible because they didn't do what they were doing well, or because you didn't like what they were doing?

>Warrant was the biggest band on the Sunset Strip for a year or two before their first album came >out; there must've been some reason for it besides being pretty.

>Not necessarily. About that same time Pretty Boy Floyd was the biggest band on the strip.

Well, between them, Tuff, and PBF. I remember that PBF came along a little after Warrant and Tuff. Really, I'm largely going on the size of the ads in the local mags, as well as a small bit of actual buzz.

Interestingly enough, they had a huge following, but only played 9 gigs before they got signed. They would write in letters to the local music rags (like Screamer, Rock City, etc.) as female fans and just rave about themselves. I had to give it to them for cleverly generating a basically non-existant buzz. However, they were a horrible band. All makeup, no music.

TBH, I haven' t heard them, even now. Still, I think an "all makeup, all music" band is possible; the problem is that no one seems willing to bridge the two. It's not a zero-sum thing for me; I want it all, even now.

No, Extreme and Winger were not no-talent bands. THey fell into that midrange category along w/ Dokken, etc. Good musicians, but just under the virtuoso bands.

I'd call a band with Rod Morgenstein and Reb Beach in it a "virtuoso band" any day of the week!



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