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12 Jan 2013, 13:18175
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Jason (jasonkont) & I thought it would be a nice idea to open a new topic with pre-WASP and early Wasp material featuring the bands that ultimately leaded up to WASP as one of the big bands. Lot’s of material is scattered over the net (or lost due to the Mega-upload debacle).
Most are the same songs (but if you listen at them closely you will find 3-4 alternative versions of the same song because of the different rips, bitrates and because bands recorded the same songs over and over again with different line-ups so it's a complete mess. Any help in clustering them is appreciated.
I start with the material I have and Jason will add. If any of you has more or different early material / info please add to the topic. The Meatl Archives aren’t much help as most of the recordings here are not even listed.
Killer Kane
Band Members Arthur Kane - Bass, Vocals
(Blackie Goozeman - nickname Blackie Lawless) - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Andy Jay - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Jimi Image - Drums, Vocals
Killer Kane were started by Arthur 'Killer' Kane in 1975 and had an EP released in 1976. The band members included W.A.S.P vocalist Blackie Lawless. With the Mr. Cool EP being the only one released from the band, they soon died out, however many die hard W.A.S.P fans have been trying to get this as this song was replicated by W.A.S.P on the Last Command album later on. Listed as: Killer Kane Band Mr Cool // Longhaired Woman // I Don't Need You 7" Whiplash EP200, 1976 PS A slow brooding monster. 'Mr. Cool' is an early version of 'Cries in the Night' off the Last Command
album and was originally recorded with the Killer Kane band, featuring Blackie as Blackie Goozeman and Arthur Kane, both formerly of the New York Dolls.
Here's two track now: Longhaired woman and I Don't need You
I seem to miss out on the Mr Cool. I'm sure Jason will upload the complete EP soon and then I will update the link.
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Sister
Sister was an American Heavy Metal band, formed in Los Angeles in 1976. Sister is notable for having members such as Blackie Lawless (WASP), and Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) within the lineup. The band could be thought of as an early incarnation of WASP; they thrived on dark/occult imagery and utilized similar shock rock techniques (apparently Blackie would eat worms on stage to draw reactions from the audience) to WASP. They were the first band to use the Pentagram as a symbol onstage, a gimmick which would be mimicked by many bands to follow. They recorded a few songs but broke up by 1978. The Sister song "Don't Know What I Am" is featured in part in the WASP song "Titanic Overture". Randy Piper (WASP) and Lizzie Grey (London) were both members of Sister at some point. Blackie stays in contact with Jimi Image and creates SISTER around 1977, along with the bassist Joey and as first guitarist of SISTER was Randy Shaltz.
After of awhile with this line up, Blackie decides to replace the guitarist Randy Shaltz, and begins the search of a new member, around 1977 Blackie lives in Hollywood in a place that was next to where the members of band THE MOTELS live, the guitarist of band THE MOTELS saw a peculiar announcement magazine porno HUSTLER , was on a called guitarist Chris Holmes, the guitarist of THE MOTELS show him a unit of magazine HUSTLER to Blackie, where Chris appeared naked putting in a called section "BEAVER HUNT", this section contained in its majority announcements with photos of women naked, being the only man announced in this section Chris put as title: "One For The Ladies" along with the mention "Rock ' N' Roll Animal" in the announcement mentioned that he play the guitar, Blackie decides to contact it because the guitarist of the THE MOTELS had commented to him that he recognized to Chris because he was a friend of a friend of him, reason why it contacts Chris, it does an audition and it decides to unite it to the project.
For 1978 the SISTER line up was Blackie that adopts the name that uses until the present time "Blackie Lawless", Joey, Jimi Image and Chris Holmes, but this line up returns to change then Blackie Lawless decides to replace to Chris Holmes by Randy Piper, by the band they would also pass Lizzie Grey & Nikki Sixx who still did not have changed his name and at that time was called only by his name: Frank Ferrana.
SISTER for that time not make much noise because were a bad time for heavy metal bands, because they were not attractive for the record companies at the end of 70's, the band record a 8 tracks demo in South Bay, they spend 3 days to make the recordings, and Blackie wasn't happy with the results, Nikki Sixx who had taken part in these recordings is fired, after a time Lizzie Grey also leaves the band.
Unknown year:
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Tracks: I Don't know What I Am (4 different versions), 80's Ladies, Sweet Dreams (3 different versions), Mr Cool (2 different versions)
1978:
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Tracks: Sex Dreams (Master of Disaster), Sex Drive, What I Am, Sweet Disease, The Torture Never Stops, Tormentor
1979:
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Sex Drive, Mr. Cool
Circus Circus
After disbanding Sister Blackie Lawless formed a band called Circus Circus in 1979, with Piper again appearing in the lineup. This band had a glam rock/metal sound and image. The band did a few performances and taped a demo of Mr.Cool (in the future to be WASP's Cries in the night). The band line-up consisted of Blackie Lawless, Randy Piper, Joey Palemo, and Jimmy Image. Blackie shifted from the occult themes in Sister to a colorful circus theme garnished with theatrics such as elephant stands, knife throwing, and Blackie setting himself on fire (theatrics Nikki Sixx would make popular in Motley Crue's early days after Blackie 'gave' him the trick). The band was going nowhere similar to Sister, so they disbanded and Blackie went to join Nikki Sixx and Lizzie Grey in London (Nikki Sixx had left by this time). Below you'll find some old footage of Circus Circus on youtube, enjoy!
The 1980 demo:
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Tracks: Sweet Dreams, Star Dancer, Oh What a Dream Girl, Harley Heart
London
In 1981, following Circus Circus' failure, Lawless joined Lizzie Grey and Nikki Sixx's band London, with whom he played a few gigs and recorded two songs as demos, though by this time Sixx had already departed to form Mötley Crüe. London was formed in an effort to annoy Rush fans, emulate the debauched spectacle of New York Dolls, and build upon the music of Cheap Trick, Slade, and Love It to Death. The pair were thrilled when Nigel Benjamin, vocalist with last-legs Mott the Hoople, answered a Recycler ad to be London's singer. According to the Mötley autobiography, Dirt, Sixx sent the London demo to hero Brian Connolly of Sweet who told the young deviant to keep his day job: "This kind of music is never going to make it." Sixx immediately departed to form the monstrous Mötley Crüe and prove Connolly wrong. Grey powered through the '80s with London, ruling the Sunset Strip as (reputedly) legends like Izzy Stradlin and Fred Coury (Cinderella) passed through the ranks. London's inclusion in the notorious Decline of Western Civilization Part II: the Metal Years signaled the end of the band. Now an underground legend, Grey went on to form Spiders & Snakes.
The 1980 demo:
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Tracks: Nobody Loves You Like I Do, Straight From The Heart, Oh What a Dream Girl
WASP
In 1982 Lawless switched to bass guitar and along with Randy Piper formed W.A.S.P.. The lineup was soon completed with Chris Holmes on lead guitar and Tony Richards on drums. Before the richness and fame lots of songs were recorded over and over again.
The demo recordings:
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Tracks: Master of Disaster, Show No Mercy, School Daze, Hellion, Animal, Sleeping In The Fire, I Wanna Be Somebody, We're Demolition
I'll update the topic when new uploads / better recordings are available (keeping everything in one post), while maintaining the reactions, so one can keep track of the chances. Updates will be indicated.
Wow, Nico nice work!!! You made this topic even better than I thought!
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