I'm just impressed with anybody who is willing to shred their voice like that for several decades.
I think my fav albums are the s/t, Crimson Idol, and Headless Children.
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
huh I Don't Need No Doctor was written by....Ashford & Simpson!tho WASP obv covering the Humble Pie version
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Need_No_Doctor
I've been listening to the Crimson Idol today and loving it - especially side two. Does this album have more tom fills per square metre than any other album? It's absurd!
I have a signed, red vinyl copy of this. One recently went for £500 on Discogs. What a world.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
YOU SAY YOU DON'T WANNA RUN AND HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
CRY OUT!!!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
just how much does Blackie lip sync at shows now, does anybody know? is it like an 'on occasion' thing or a "this is basically the TMNT 1991 Pizza Hut World Tour" thing?
cos they're coming here in November and I feel like I wanna see em before Blackie hangs it up, and I can take a little fakery but if it's the Rockafire Explosion i'm out
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
lol
https://blabbermouth.net/news/w-a-s-p-performs-animal-fk-like-a-beast-live-for-first-time-since-2006-at-u-s-tour-kick-off-video-photos
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 November 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
i guess it's okay as long as there's a historical footage reel playing behind you while you're singing it
also what the fuck is with that mic stand
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
it totally reads as a "reacting to the PMRC, the original wokes" moment and not a desperate old fart trying to juice his flagging career
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 10:06 (one year ago) link
WASP is a great band and Lawless is an interesting cat -- mind you, nobody finds Blackie Lawless more interesting than Blackie Lawless, but for solid hard rock jams with some cool anthemic choruses he's elite in my book
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
I've only ever listened to the first three albums, but they're great. Will check out The Headless Children today, but I don't know how much farther into their catalog I'll get.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
Headless Children might be my fav...other than the s/t
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
even one of their new post-born again albums wasn't half bad.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Animal is a tune sito
― this display name blocked by FIFA (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
I’m glad as hell blackie still out there doin the damn thing
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I'd go see this tour, Blackie seems rejuvenwted amd the setlist is terrific. His last album was very good, too.
The s/t was so huge for me in 1984, but Headless Children absolutely rips. After the band's middling run in 86-87, the ferocity of Headless Children was blindsiding. Banali on drums just elevated the whole thing.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
yeah that was a big moment for me. out west KNAC was really feeling its power & the post-thrash moment while frayed was showing so much promise and here comes this really ambitious record that's loud as hell. and yeah Banali just goes off the whole time
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 November 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
never seen them live, idk if i will see them this time but nevertheless i concur that they absolutely rule
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 01:53 (one year ago) link
I got a ticket. I know he's using backing vocals live to enhance but w/e, Paul Stanley is doing it too. And it's my first chance.
Headless Children has "Rebel in the FDG" which I once played on repeat for an hour while trying to look cool driving a Mitsubishi Lancer.
I did not look cool but my car sounded cool
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
Has he ever spoken in detail about his brief time in the NY Dolls?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 November 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
apparently he did in this interview: https://www.metaledgemag.com/interviews/blackie-lawless-on-death-threats-getting-shot-at-twice-and-the-worst-mishap-hes-ever-had-with-the-sawblades
I learned something today! thanks.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 05:42 (one year ago) link
Speaking of playing guitar, one of the cool facets of your arc is that brief stint you did playing guitar with the New York Dolls. What songs did you enjoy playing most with the New York Dolls?Lawless: Well, I only did two shows with them. So, it's not like, you know, it was a lot of stuff, but the song that always sticks out to me is “Personality Crisis.” There's just a viciousness about that song I think stands up to this day. I've always wondered why somebody didn't redo that song. I mean, it's tailor made for something that could be done from time to time.
Lawless: Well, I only did two shows with them. So, it's not like, you know, it was a lot of stuff, but the song that always sticks out to me is “Personality Crisis.” There's just a viciousness about that song I think stands up to this day. I've always wondered why somebody didn't redo that song. I mean, it's tailor made for something that could be done from time to time.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 05:47 (one year ago) link
I will ride for Crimson Idol, pretentious as it is. "Chainsaw Charlie" and "Invisible Boy" are great.
but yeah it was really a solo album yadda yadda.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 November 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
For those who haven't seen the Live in the Raw VHS, which has interviews and stuff amid the live footage, the origin story of "I Wanna Be Somebody" is told:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmpiSF2PgNs
― Devilock, Thursday, 24 November 2022 07:14 (one year ago) link
TIL: Bob Lefsetz was an early manager for W.A.S.P.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 November 2022 07:21 (one year ago) link
Everyone probably knows this but Blackie sings and plays on the post-Dolls Killer Kane Band 7" that got reissued on HoZac
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 November 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
or "issued" i guess, don't think it originally came out in '76 but it was on the Sons of the Dolls bootleg
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 November 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Nikki Sixx was in Sister with Lawless for a hot second before Lawless fired him & the other dudes that went on to form London
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
I love Headless Children but would also ride for The Crimson Idol. Banali is immense on the latter - in full Keith Moon mode.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 25 November 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
"Thunderhead" and "Man-eater" are such massive tunes.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Used to love W.A.S.P. as an impressionable burgeoning metalhead. They were the one band that my friends who were into more underground stuff still listened to as we all started to migrate from the more melodic/commercial fare, and I was with them. The first few albums were great and I still have fond memories of jamming "Inside the Electric Circus" on my cassette Walkman on field trips my senior year of HS.
But the band didn't age very well and I really didn't have a desire to see them when they came by the area a few weeks ago with Armored Saint.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link