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.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
We may as well do this nowPandora Vs Pandora Peroxide.
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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!)
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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!)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Kontinuum is officially the worst music magazine cartoon ever. Even worse than those two DJs from Melody Maker.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Nurse! The screens!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Pashmina, throw it all in the bin! Really! You'll never regret it.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Manowar.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, me too
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
For shame, I once saw Lisa Dominique live, although I'm sure she was supporting somebody I actually wanted to see.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
So we don't leave the americans out - What were American metal mags like in the 80s? Which non-memorable bands were covered there?
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think that the Replacements were quite a big influence on those sorts of bands. What Goes On or someone had released all those early 'Placements records under licence (for the first time in the UK?) a couple of years prior to those bands getting big, maybe that was some sort of trigger. Mega City Four always used to dress like they'd just climbed off the roof on the cover of Let It Be.
Anyhow, 'Too Much Kissing' is a great song! The wife has a copy of Postcard CV in the back of the wardrobe I think, maybe I'll have to dig it out on Friday night. Wish I still had Snuff's 'Not Listening' though, cos that was truly a corker.
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Not as good but we tried real hard.
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, at the weekend, I got all my old copies of "mojo", and pitched the lot of them! I don't regret it either.
Pash, you should have bunged them on ebay, they sell quite well, especially the early issues.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I had a bunch of the early ones, starting at nr 3 or 4, but that block of them got ruined when the roof sprang a leak last year! Bloody typical...
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Aust-Kerrang-Mag-Vol-2-issue-6-signed-Metallica_W0QQitemZ7592811283QQcategoryZ70897QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I have a couple of those cd singles I think in a box up in the loft.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
electrafixation : ep + album in my loft too. amongst the 100's of cds i will never listen to again.
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I might listen to the 2 Therapy? eps and Nurse album today if I can look them out.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 7 October 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Saturday, 7 October 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, and also BEST THREAD EVER!
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link