Will play anywhere
Remember that part from This Spinal Tap where they play as support for that puppet show? Yes, that was funny, but now a lot of 80's metal bands are probably having to play at places that are not a whole lot better. I recently saw that Tracii Guns and original LA Guns singer Paul Black were playing some club in Gaithersburg, Maryland which is and hour or so from where I live. I have never heard of too many hard rock bands playing there. Former Kix singer Steve Whiteman's current band Funny Money have played at Genova's Pizza which is near where I live and it's not that big. I happened to be looking at Stephen Pearcy's website and saw that he is scheduled to play the Paducah Summer Festival in Paducah, Kentucky this summer. I lived in Kentucky for a few years and I have been through Paducah and it's not that big. I guess the thing is that if these guys want to keep making a living as musicians then sometimes they have to take what they can get. I just hope that they make sure to learn from Spinal Tap and assure that they get billed above the Puppet Show rather than below it.
posted by Metal Mark at
12:02 AM
3 Comments:
There hasn't been much of a resurgence for Hair Metal bands, no matter how hard VH1 pushes them.
Fred- There's not a lot of people under 30 paying attention to these bands.
King's X was in Roanoke the other night, playing at Awful Arthur's, and several years ago, I saw both Foghat(without Lonesome Dave) and BTO(with only Randy Bachman) play at a hole in the wall club. I guess, if you need the dough, you'll play almost anywhere.
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