An interview I saw a few years ago with Richard Black, he mentioned the band never rehearsed for any live shows. The equipment was a mix and match from each of the other band members gear from their regular bands, sound problems etc. Contraband talk starts at 12:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5...

The riff from T.Rex - 20th Century Boy was used almost note for note on a short lived J-list band put together by a record company, Pleasure Bombs – "Days Of Heaven"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLSnrLiS8I

Tony Visconti was the producer for both songs.

I like this one quite a bit. Half of the songs are great. It did very well in the UK and peaked at #2 on the UK albums chart. There is a much better raunchier version of "There She Goes Again" they released earlier as a single and video on an independent label in 1988, compared to the sub...

Crazy Babies

Listening now.

Also appears this interviewer recorded a discussion with another guitar reckluse from the era, Mark Diglio of XYZ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkS06JafI3w

Sounds awesome! awesome! awesome!

It's actually pretty dumb and annoying for the few of us that actually still use this board. I've bookmarked a few threads about D-list or hidden gem artists that have some good suggestions in them. Try to explore some of them when I have time, go back and check the thread again and it's gone. Can'...

Discovered this band recently going down a YouTube rabbit hole. Sounds like it was a very short lived group. If they had just enough record company support and budget to release one video from the album they did I think they would have had better luck with one of the more mellow ballads on there. T...

Blame Trump for no second Child's Play Album with Brian Jack! :lol: ___________________________________________________________________________ https://www.baltimoresun.com/1990/12/28/rowanne-brewer-donald-trump-match-not-music-to-rockers-ears/ Rowanne Brewer, Donald Trump match not music to rocker’...

Never forget: 8) --------------------------------------------------- I've been waiting for a shining moment to share this gem... Bobby hired a production company to film an intro for his new band's gigs. I have a copy of the story board and it's the most hilarious thing I've ever read. I couldn't ma...

Guy is a millionaire despite his musical output being vanilla/bland/safe/generic as fuck.......... Career built off of soccer Dads creaming their cargo shorts while blasting "the Foos" in the mini van while in the Starbuck's drive through after dropping the kids off at school. So I say &q...

I'll be very interested to see what the differences were between this election and the last, and why the Democrats weren't able to rig it, this time. https://i.postimg.cc/Dz7Lpgxy/pres-raw-vote-2012-2024.jpg I know it's a snarky comment to make anyone that questioned that at the time look stupid - ...

The storyboard for a never produced Blotzer masterpiece: I've been waiting for a shining moment to share this gem... Bobby hired a production company to film an intro for his new band's gigs. I have a copy of the story board and it's the most hilarious thing I've ever read. I couldn't make this shit...

what's the story behind blobby and the cleaning carpet business? From Bobby Blotzer's Poorly Written Book: I didn't finish high school, much less have a college business degree, but I've always had a business mentality. Logic will tell you what will and will not work. It was slapstick entrepreneuri...