History has noted what took place that month, and Faster Pussycat actually pulled out of the tour as a result. We were amused to discover on arrival at the Camden Underworld that we were entitled to a partial refund - £2 against a £13 ticket. Personally I took this to mean even the promoters felt Pussycat were the weaker band and the argument won ...
It's not that I don't rate them - Faster Pussycat
is a fantastic record. Side one is virtually dud-free and even though standards drop on the second-half of the album it's all good rock & roll.See also:
LA Guns - self-titled
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I always dismissed these guys as hair metal idiots, but I've begun to wonder if I'm wrong. On YouTube recently I heard their cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" and was impressed by both Downe's voice, which wasn't really that screechy Vince Neil/Poison thing that I hate the most about the style, and their sense of humor. I've checked out a few more songs since, and while I wasn't immediately blown away, I was definitely intrigued by the above-average lyrics and not-quite-metal-but-close sounds. Though it was a reminder that nearly all 80s rock videos sucked like nuclear-powered vacuums.
Point being: these guys seem like the hair metal band that hair metal haters could love. Should I investigate further?
Ah yeah - I forgot about the cover of You're So Vain! I think that was for an anniversary box-set where various bands on Elektra did covers of past Elektra artists. Great version if I remember rightly.
Pussycat were a good fun band in their time. Any any band taking Russ Meyer as an influence can't be half-bad. Sadly when I saw them about three years ago Taime was putting too much of his other band (Murderdolls is it?) into it, i.e. more Marilyn Manson-esque. Plus there's a terrible album out there where he did dance versions of old Pussycat songs. It's pretty nasty.
But first album, great - and the secomd one had moments (though they were clearly under pressure to move up a gear/level). By the third album, Whipped, they were at the classic stage where they didn't know what to do (a bit like the self-titled Crue album after they got rid of Neil) and there are some ill-advised funk-metal touches, and a song dedicated to the singer from Mother Love Bone that also tries to ape their sound.
They totally KILLED Guns'N'Roses at Rock City on that Oct 1987 tour together. Totally.
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