White Trash - White Trash [1991]

Country: USA
Year: 1991
Line up: Dave Alvin (vocals), Ethan Collins (guitar), Aaron Collins (bass), Mike Caldarella (drums)

Track Listing
1. Apple Pie
2. Don't U Judge Me Do
3. Take My Soul
4. Po' White Trash
5. Backstage Pass
6. Lil' Nancy
7. Buzz
8. The Crawl
9. Baby
10. E.D.A.S.E.
11. Party Line
12. Good God
13. Prayer B4 Pizza

Request of: Tim S

Fletchanator's comment: This is one for those who like their hard rock with plenty of funk. After all, it's not every day you find a rock band with a horn section. This line up put out just the one album, before singer Dave Alvin got rid of the horns and put out another straight forward rock album in 1994. The sound on this self-titled release is best comparable to Ugly Kid Joe. It's not my cup of tea, but it was requested, so here it is.

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White Eagle - Bustin' Ass [1993]

Country: USA
Year: 1993
Line up: Matthew Black (vocals), Jack Pemma (guitar), Terry Tallerino (bass), Sean Haiker (drums)

Track Listing

1.	Sex Fever
2.	Take Me For A Ride
3.	Time
4.	Hot Wet Kiss
5.	Love Games
6.	Shadow Of Love

Request of: JC

Fletchanator's comment: www.heavyharmonies.com lists this as No 5 on its Ebay rarities list, with an average cost of $458, so you know this baby's rare. The only album released by California foursome White Eagle, the band put it out on their own label. For an indy release, it's top notch stuff, particularly the ballads Time and Shadow of Love. I don't know anything else about the band, such as what happened to them, except that according to posts on the heavy harmonies forum, guitarist Jack Pemma passed away in 2004.

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Roughhouse - Roughhouse [1988]

Country: USA
Year: 1988
Line up: Luis Rivera (vocals), Gregg Malack (guitar), Rex Eisen (guitar), Dave Weakley (bass), Mike Natalini (drums)

Track Listing
1. Don't Go Away
2. Tonite
3. Love Is Pain
4. Can't Find Love
5. Love Or Lust
6. Teeze Me Pleeze Me
7. Midnight Madness
8. Without You
9. Justify
10. Racin'
11. Fantasy

Request of: Giulio

Fletchanator's comment: The one and only album released by Pennsylvania five-piece Roughhouse, who were dropped by their label just a year later and folded in 1991. It's a shame, because this self-titled recording is good stuff. Singer Luis Rivera has a vocal style reminiscent of Motley Crue's Vince Neil in the early days (ie Too Fast For Love). The musicianship is solid, with good guitaring. Guitarist Rex Eisen would later join nu metal band Static X, before being kicked out when he was arrested for having sex with an underage girl. Don't let that stop you from enjoying this album though - it's a good listen.

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Jesse Strange - Looking for some Strange [2006]

Country: USA
Year: 2006
Line up: Grant Tibor (vocals), Scott Migone (guitar), Danny Lullie (bass), Paul Trust (drums/keyboards)

Track Listing
1. If Whiskey Was A Woman
2. Looking For Some Strange
3. Boggy Creek
4. Bottom Of The Bottle
5. What's Loving For
6. My Kind Of Lover
7. Wildside Of Heaven
8. The Island Song
9. Another Silent Night
10. It's My Life
11. Sex Is Suicide
12. Revelation

Request of: Kamil

Fletchanator's comment: Florida rockers Jesse Strange released a self-titled album in 1992, and then nothing was heard from them for more than a decade, until last year, when they independently released this album, made up of unreleased material from the early 90s. The sound changes back and forth, as you'd expect for an album made up of material cobbled together, with similarities to Y&T, Trixter and even Enuff Z'nuff.

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Dirty White Boy - Bad Reputation [1990]

Country: USA
Year: 1990
Line up: David Glen Eisley (vocals), Earl Slick (guitar), F Kirk Alley (bass), Keni Richards (drums)

Track Listing
1. Bad Reputation
2. Lazy Crazy
3. Let's Spend Mama's Money
4. You Give Me Love
5. Dead Cat Alley
6. Hammer On The Heart
7. Hard Times
8. Soul Of A Loaded Gun
9. One Good Reason
10. Badlands

Request of: Giulio

Fletchanator's comment: Drawing together former Giuffria vocalist David Glen Eisley and guitarist Earl Slick (who has played with such bands as Doro, King Kobra, Little Caesar and with David Coverdale), Dirty White Boy had a lot of hype when they put out Bad Reputation in 1990. Unfortunately they were another victim of the backlash against hair metal in the early 90s, which is a shame, because their only album was a great effort. It has a harder, bluesier edge than Giuffria, while mixing in some great melodic moments.

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Johnny Crash - Neighbourhood Threat [1990]

Country: UK/USA
Year: 1990
Line up: Vicki James Wright (vocals), August Warchell (guitar), Christopher Stewart (guitar), Andy Rogers (bass), Stephen Adamo (drums)

Track Listing
1. Hey Kid
2. No Bones About It
3. All The Way In Love
4. Thrill Of The Kill
5. Axe To The Wax
6. Sink Or Swim
7. Crack Of Dawn
8. Freedom Road
9. Halfway To Heaven
10. Trigger Happy
11. Baby's Like A Piano

Request of: Mau

Fletchanator's comment: The one and only album by Johnny Crash, a band that featured former Tokyo Blade singer Vicki James Wright. The sound is pure LA sleaze rock in the style of LA Guns and Dirty Looks.

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H.S.A.S. - Through the Fire [1984]

Country: USA
Year: 1984
Line up: Sammy Hagar (vocals), Neal Schon (guitar), Kenny Aaronson (bass), Michael Shrieve (drums)

Track Listing
1. Top Of The Rock
2. Missing You
3. Animation
4. Valley Of The Kings
5. Giza
6. Whiter Shade Of Pale
7. Hot And Dirty
8. He Will Understand
9. My Home Town

Fletchanator's comment: What do you get when you take a singer from one of the biggest hair metal bands of all time, and the guitarist from arguably the most successful AOR band ever? Well, unfortunately, an end product that isn't as good as either of those bands. But that's not to say that H.S.A.S. isn't worth listening to, because it is. Just don't go expecting something that'll top Van Halen and Journey, because it's not here. Mind you, that's probably impossible anyway.
The abbreviated name stands for Hagar, Schon, Aaronson and Shrieve. The last two aren't big names, but every hair metal/AOR fans will surely know Sammy Hagar (Van Halen) and Neal Schon (Journey). Schon is a vastly underrated guitarist, who gets to show off his axemanship on this album, in a different style than Journey, more hard rock than AOR (especially on Valley of the Kings and Giza). Hagar is a great singer, and that's no different here. Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale makes for an interesting cover, and the best songs on the album, in my opinion are Missing You and the Van Halen-esque Hot and Dirty and He Will Understand. H.S.A.S. was short-lived, with just one album, as Schon went on to play with Bad English, Hardline and later rejoined Journey, while Hagar of course replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen.

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