How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

Didn't do much for me, I have to say.

esp No's 2,11,15

The divide between the 80s and the 90s couldn't be more stark, could it? Although it would appear that for the guys at Kerrang! the 90s actually started in 1991!

Kerrang 1984 Singles

1. Van Halen - Jump
2. Prince - When Doves Cry
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
4. John Waite - Missing You
5. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
6. Motörhead - Killed By Death
7. Robin George - Heartline
8. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
9. Van Halen - I'll Wait
10. W.A.S.P. - Animal (**** Like A Beast)

Yeah, David Lee Roth better than Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood on the '86 albums list! And who the hell were/ are the Vinnie Vincent Invasion? And was that really the 9th best album of 1986? Interesting to note that Purple Rain did extremely well in '84, as well.

7. Robin George - Heartline?

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I like the way this thread has morphed from dubious rock bands of the 90s to- erm- dubious rock bands of the 80s!

x-post: Gawd, Charlotte Church is looking well rough there.

Robin George was pushed by Kerrang as a rising superstar around 1985, until they realised that no-one liked him. Sounded like Magnum I think.

I remember Kerrang giving Robin George the big push back in the '80's. My memory says aor/pomp-rock w/technoflashy lead guitar playing, but I'm not entirely sure. I do remember this promo photo, where he's standing on a hilltop, bare chested, sucking his cheekbones in, and holding a bc rich guitar. IIRC he wasn't a shredder, '90's style.

I checked his website, and he's evidently still making music, so good for him, I really fucking admire ppl who keep on plugging, even if I'm not into what they're doing. I was going to check his music out on his site, but it crashed not only firefox, but my entire PC! while I was (briefly) staring at the screen, I noticed that they'd misspelled "discography" as "discocraphy" haha.

He was certainly very handsome, probably the equivalent of lisa dominique for Kerrang's (many) female readerz.

Actually my main memory of Kerrang in the '80's was this constant migraineish background drone of grim adolescent mastubatory sexism. If you were into metal & prog rock, it was pretty much the only game in town - especially after someone at "sounds" went batshit insane and handed the editor's chair to g4rry bush3ll - and if you wanted to read abt new metal releases, tour d8s etc, you were stuck w/"kerrang". But, it wasn't much fun. How I wish we'd had "terrorizer" back then.

My ex band played at this big club last year, and in a cupboard in the dressing room, they had a big pile of old "kerrang" issues, starting at something like issue #3. Cover starts liek Asia, or Fish from Marillion, with his sub jaz-coleman facepaint! I decided to rip 'em off next time we played there, but when we did, they were all gone.

We may as well do this now
Pandora Vs Pandora Peroxide.

Kerrang!/NYC memory: It's Only Rock And Roll, a record store in Manhattan, used to sell Kerrang! for only 99 cents as a way to get people in the door. Did anyone else here religiously visit this store for this like I did?

(I found a reference to the store here!)

That sort of continues in "classic rock" magazine, which is pretty much targeted at ageing ex-80's-kerrang readers. They have people covering various sub-genres of metal, and someone covering prog rock. Many of the writers I remember from '80's Kerrang, and "Sounds" before that. They had a feature on all the less well-known nwobhm bands, written by geoff "deaf" barton iirc.

(x-post, yeah, I remember bushell writing for kerrang, but at least they didn't let him edit the bloody thing!)

Kontinuum is officially the worst music magazine cartoon ever. Even worse than those two DJs from Melody Maker.

Nurse! The screens!

Pashmina, throw it all in the bin! Really! You'll never regret it.

Also, Manowar.

Oh yeah, me too

For shame, I once saw Lisa Dominique live, although I'm sure she was supporting somebody I actually wanted to see.

So we don't leave the americans out - What were American metal mags like in the 80s? Which non-memorable bands were covered there?