In the summer of 1981, two teenage best friends started a heavy metal band in the last place anyone expected one - Santa Cruz. Dick Smothers Jr. on bass and vocals, Jay Wilson on drums, Simon Phillips on guitar. No connections, no plan. Just noise and nerve.
They played backyards and living rooms until they earned a real stage - their third-ever show was the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. For four years they clawed into Bay Area and Monterey clubs, opening for DOKKEN and ANVIL CHORUS, while Santa Cruz's own nightclubs refused to book them. So they played the fairs and halls instead, and the crowds still came. When a Record Factory manager financed their Banzai Rock cassette, it became the store's top-selling metal release for weeks - proof the town had been wrong.
In 1985, Dick made the hard call: Santa Cruz would never be big enough. He rebuilt the band in the Bay Area, and for four more years Kamikaze was one of the most beloved headliners at The Stone and The Omni, played nightly on the popular metal radio station KVHS.
Then it almost happened. An Atlantic Records exec saw them live and asked to bring his whole team back. Before that second show could happen, their attorney had a heart attack - and by the time he recovered, Atlantic had moved on.
KAMIKAZE played their last show in 1989. They never got signed. But for eight years, they were somebody's favorite band.
TRACK LISTING:
CD1:
1. I Don't Want You
2. Smitten
3. Searching For Nowhere
4. Bourgeois Baby Doll
5. Nightmare
6. Outta Control
7. Leather Lady
8. Let Me Out
9. Eat Your Words
10. Kamikaze
11. Pretty Poison
12. Are You A Man
13. Bombs Away
14. Four On The Floor
15. Watch Your Step
CD2:
1. Wicked Ways
2. Touch Me In The Dark
3. Death Machine
4. Let's Misbehave
5. Lust In A Crowd
6. Young And Dangerous
7. Promiscuous
8. Backseat Lovers
9. What Can I Do
10. She Comes Out At Night
CD1:
Tracks 1-3 taken from "Demo 1983"
Tracks 4-7 taken from "Demo 1984"
Tracks 8-11 taken from "Banzai Rock" EP
Tracks 12-15 taken from "Demo 1986"
CD2:
Tracks 1-10 taken from "Demo 1988"
| Produkteigenschaft | Wert |
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| Artikelgewicht: | 0,13 kg |
Herstellerangaben:
Name: Sonic Age / Cult Metal Classics
Anschrift: Aisopou 6, 12461 Haidari, Griechenland
E-Mail: sales@sonicagerecords.com
