Post by Mr. Sleazy on Jul 2, 2005 5:10:17 GMT -5
SOUNDS LIKE:
Y&T, Mötley Crue on Shout At The Devil, Quiet Riot, White Lion and even W.A.S.P. or Manowar on some tracks.
BEST ALBUM:
Too Hot To Rock
BEST SONGS:
Too Hot To Rock, Fight For The Strangers, Lords Of The Iron.
HISTORY:
Finnish Glam/Heavy Rock band. Band started already in 1976, but they came to public knowledge in 1986 when they got contract with EMI for recording Too Hot To Rock album. Line-up at that time was: Tyrone "Gona" Tougher (real name Esa Leinonen) vocals, Buddy McSchultz (Pekka Nummela) bass, Jon Steeler (Ari Suomi) (ex-Noitawaino) guitars/vocals, Case Roberts (Kari Laihonen) keyboards and Jimmy Hammer (Jari "Jimbo" Mäkeläinen) (later in Minx, Wardance, Battagia, House Of Mirrors) drums (so they all had english artist names, like Hanoi did). Former members: Esko "Eddy" Mäntysorvari (ex-Noitawaino, The Sharonees, Skädäm) drums, Kimmo Vanne guitars, Jari "Mizz" Lundqvist (Venus Loon, and produced first The 69 Eyes singles) guitar, Peter Bredbacka guitar, Tero Ovaska (The Fabrics, Pepe Le Moko) bass. Anyway Too Hot To Rock was pretty okay album of sort, but at the time it got out in 1987 such bands had already gone out of fashion, and in Finland make-up 'n stuff was never really tolerated, even Hanoi Rocks was laughed at about it and these guys who looked like Twisted Sister were taken mostly as a joke, even more so when they were from Turku (it's hard to explain why but musicians coming from there haven't ever been taken quite so seriously as those from elsewhere in Finland, Turku is the most swedish city in Finland I'd say, and has more yuppies and beauty queens than rest of the country together.) Two of their three self made videos from Too Hot were seen in tv but it didn't help the record sales. However the album was released in several European countries, still success was rather poor. They left to the States and played few gigs but had to come back when they ran out of money, even when they did get some interest from local managers and audiences. Since the first flopped, EMI didn't want to use it's option for another album. In 1988 they made a promo tape that was send to US but didn't get them record deal, in 1989 they released their last single. Case left and band changed it's name to Dillinger in 1990, they recorded one more 3 track demo under that name, but then Tougher became Jehova's witness and didn't want to have anything to do with rock music anymore.
REVIEW:
This is better than you'll think after reading the history section, too bad they didn't really get a break. I've only heard Too Hot album, nothing wrong with it's sounds but lyrics and song names are rather ridiculous (Better Run Hard!). Still quite okay stuff, would give them more if I had heard more of them and it would be as good.
DISCOGRAPHY (studio albums):
Bloodhounds 1982
Steel Warrior 1984
Too Hot To Rock 1987
Cheerz/Mr. Sleazy
Y&T, Mötley Crue on Shout At The Devil, Quiet Riot, White Lion and even W.A.S.P. or Manowar on some tracks.
BEST ALBUM:
Too Hot To Rock
BEST SONGS:
Too Hot To Rock, Fight For The Strangers, Lords Of The Iron.
HISTORY:
Finnish Glam/Heavy Rock band. Band started already in 1976, but they came to public knowledge in 1986 when they got contract with EMI for recording Too Hot To Rock album. Line-up at that time was: Tyrone "Gona" Tougher (real name Esa Leinonen) vocals, Buddy McSchultz (Pekka Nummela) bass, Jon Steeler (Ari Suomi) (ex-Noitawaino) guitars/vocals, Case Roberts (Kari Laihonen) keyboards and Jimmy Hammer (Jari "Jimbo" Mäkeläinen) (later in Minx, Wardance, Battagia, House Of Mirrors) drums (so they all had english artist names, like Hanoi did). Former members: Esko "Eddy" Mäntysorvari (ex-Noitawaino, The Sharonees, Skädäm) drums, Kimmo Vanne guitars, Jari "Mizz" Lundqvist (Venus Loon, and produced first The 69 Eyes singles) guitar, Peter Bredbacka guitar, Tero Ovaska (The Fabrics, Pepe Le Moko) bass. Anyway Too Hot To Rock was pretty okay album of sort, but at the time it got out in 1987 such bands had already gone out of fashion, and in Finland make-up 'n stuff was never really tolerated, even Hanoi Rocks was laughed at about it and these guys who looked like Twisted Sister were taken mostly as a joke, even more so when they were from Turku (it's hard to explain why but musicians coming from there haven't ever been taken quite so seriously as those from elsewhere in Finland, Turku is the most swedish city in Finland I'd say, and has more yuppies and beauty queens than rest of the country together.) Two of their three self made videos from Too Hot were seen in tv but it didn't help the record sales. However the album was released in several European countries, still success was rather poor. They left to the States and played few gigs but had to come back when they ran out of money, even when they did get some interest from local managers and audiences. Since the first flopped, EMI didn't want to use it's option for another album. In 1988 they made a promo tape that was send to US but didn't get them record deal, in 1989 they released their last single. Case left and band changed it's name to Dillinger in 1990, they recorded one more 3 track demo under that name, but then Tougher became Jehova's witness and didn't want to have anything to do with rock music anymore.
REVIEW:
This is better than you'll think after reading the history section, too bad they didn't really get a break. I've only heard Too Hot album, nothing wrong with it's sounds but lyrics and song names are rather ridiculous (Better Run Hard!). Still quite okay stuff, would give them more if I had heard more of them and it would be as good.
DISCOGRAPHY (studio albums):
Bloodhounds 1982
Steel Warrior 1984
Too Hot To Rock 1987
Cheerz/Mr. Sleazy