Every once in awhile someone somewhere will turn me onto a new band or group I hadnt heard of. Might be something older like Nat King Cole that you woldnt ever think you would like or something from your childhood that you just dont remember like Social Distortion that you have a new found respect for or a new band that you had to go find everything they had ever done.
Mine would be The Drowning Men, they were signed by Borstal Beat records after touring with Flogging Molly (BB is FMs label) the wife and I have seen them numerous times and its always a great show. http://www.thedrowningmen.com/
My personal favorite song is "Rita". Enjoy
Im hoping to find some more good groups from this thread! [Reply]
The singer reminds of the guy from The Darkness, in fact with mustache curl I think he's going for the same look. They have a bit of theatrics, the video has about a 1 minute lead in, but they've got a sort of Queen or Adam Lambert kind of sound.
This is an unknown band, but more of an oddity than anything. In 1980 a disco band out of Miami called La Flavour decided to scrap their image and become a hard rock band and change their name to Fair Warning. Their debut disco album was produced by Mark Avsec of Wild Cherry and later Donnie Iris Band. He had written a hard rock song, She don't Know Me, and it was intended to be the lead off single for Fair Warning debut rock album.
Fair Warning and Bon Jovi were both signed by Mercury Records. This is the recording of She Don't know Me by Fair Warning from an album that was never released. The label decided that Bon Jovi had a better image and shelved the Fair Warning album, never to be seen again, and gave the song to Bon Jovi. It was the second single after Runway from his debut album and was the only song by the band Bon Jovi that was not penned by Jon Bon Jovi or another member of his band. Truth be told, I love the Fair Warning version of the song!!
What more can I do, there's nothing I haven't tried
Still it's so hard for her to notice I've tried hard to be straight
There's nothing left I can say
If only she would look my way
Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
This is an unknown band, but more of an oddity than anything. In 1980 a disco band out of Miami called La Flavour decided to scrap their image and become a hard rock band and change their name to Fair Warning. Their debut disco album was produced by Mark Avsec of Wild Cherry and later Donnie Iris Band. He had written a hard rock song, She don't Know Me, and it was intended to be the lead off single for Fair Warning debut rock album.
Fair Warning and Bon Jovi were both signed by Mercury Records. This is the recording of She Don't know Me by Fair Warning from an album that was never released. The label decided that Bon Jovi had a better image and shelved the Fair Warning album, never to be seen again, and gave the song to Bon Jovi. It was the second single after Runway from his debut album and was the only song by the band Bon Jovi that was not penned by Jon Bon Jovi or another member of his band. Truth be told, I love the Fair Warning version of the song!!
That was interesting. The Fair Warning version seemed like a partial recording, as there were holes in the song where you'd normally expect a guitar riffs. Still, it wasn't bad.
Sure must have pissed them off to hear somebody else signing it on the radio. What a brutal business. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
That was interesting. The Fair Warning version seemed like a partial recording, as there were holes in the song where you'd normally expect a guitar riffs. Still, it wasn't bad.
Sure must have pissed them off to hear somebody else signing it on the radio. What a brutal business.
I think also I like the Fair Warning version because I've always disliked Bon Jovi. I saw the Scorpions on the Love at First Sting tour of '84 in Savannah. BJ was the opening act and we didn't know who they were. The guy had the big hair and fishnet shirt and ran around the stage posing for the girls, we all started chanting The Scorpions. I know he's suppose to be a great guy, but I guess my first impression of him has lasted and then his label screwed this other band. [Reply]