American rock band, formed in 1990 in
Georgia. Band members included lead singer
Jesse James Dupree, guitarists
Jeff Worley and
Jimmy Stiff, bassist
Tom Bettini, and drummer
Chris Worley at the band's formation, though they later kicked out Stiff and Bettini and hired guitarist
Roman Glick. They are, to my knowledge, one of the last '80s-style
hair-metal band still releasing new
albums on a regular basis.
Their first album was self-titled and featured a
gimmicky song called "
The Lumberjack" which was possibly the first song to feature a
solo on a
chainsaw -- the
novelty got the band a lot of play on rock
radio stations. Their other albums have included 1994's "
Push Comes to Shove," a 1996 live album called "
Night of the Living Dead," 1997's "
Cut the Crap," 1998's "
Stayin' Alive," and 2002's "
Relentless."
Can we get into the blatant
opinion part of the writeup now? Good. I hate this band so damn much. I liked an awful lot of the hair-metal bands, but these guys have picked all the dumbest
cliches of the genre (cheap
booze, cheap
bimbos, cheap
licks, cheap
haircuts,
primp-and-
pose machismo, and
leather pants) and have spent the last 10+ years just
hammering away at them like they think they'll come true again through
repetition. They jumped onto the tail end of the hair-bandwagon and have hung on for dear life, never changing their sound from the
Warrant/
Skid Row copies they started out as. Dupree does a damn good
Bryan Johnson impression, but if all you want is a guy who can sing like the lead singer from
AC/DC, I can recommend a hell of a lot of AC/DC albums for you to listen to instead.
Grunge should've killed them.
Nu-metal should've killed them. But
record companies keep cutting their albums,
music listeners keep buying their records, and the piece-of-shit
rock radio station I listen to keeps playing their songs. I don't know if I should respect their
longevity or
loathe them for their
cartoonishly massive levels of
suckitude.
Oh, wait. Now I remember. It's the second option. Always has been...
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