Year : 1988 (Noize In The Attic Records Limited Edition 2024)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front + Video
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
Rock City Angels was an American rock band from Florida. They found only limited success, and are perhaps best known for having Johnny Depp as a guitarist before he pursued his acting career.The band was founded in 1981 as The Abusers by singer Bobby Bondage and original bassist Andy Panik after meeting at a screening of the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.Later evolving into the Rock City Angels, the band were associated with the glam rock fashion style: members grew out their hair and began wearing eyeliner, lipstick, and nail polish. Bobby Bondage adopted the alias Bobby St. Valentine. Their discography reflected this shift. Sonically, the band became an aggressive mix of hardcore punk and glam rock, marked by themes of rebellion, failed relationships, and the independent music scene. Songs such as "Cinderella in Black," "Hush Child," "Dark Angels," and "Teenage Lipstick Boys" incorporate strong melodies and power chords.While the band developed a large local following in South Florida, members were ready to disband in the mid-1980s. At what was to be their farewell show, Ann Boleyn of New Renaissance Records offered the act a recording contract. The band then relocated to Los Angeles where they became a local fixture into the 1990s. In 1986, Bobby St. Valentine changed his name to Bobby Durango, and actor Johnny Depp, also from South Florida, joined the band as a rhythm guitarist before debuting as an actor on the police procedural television series 21 Jump Street. At this time, after signing with Worldwide Media, Geffen Records took notice and bought the band's contract from New Renaissance Records in 1986. Before the release of their debut studio album, Young Man's Blues, in 1988, the band assumed the aliases Delta City Angels and Delta Rebels due to conflict with a gospel group of the same name. However, the name was reverted prior to the album's release.In 1990, the band began recording demos for a second album titled Lost Generation. They recorded some 80 songs, all of which were rejected by Geffen. Frustrated by Geffen's lack of interest, they went to London and recorded six songs with Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson, which Geffen also declined to support.Eventually, Geffen dropped the band. According to the band's own website, the song, "Hush Child," which appeared on their debut album, and which helped secure their deal with Geffen, was actually written by former lead guitarist Davy Lightning, but was not so credited on the album.The group formally disbanded in 1993.New Renaissance Records released Rock City Angels in 1999.In 2001, the band reunited and began recording a third album titled Use Once & Destroy, a return to the band's punk rock and blues roots. The album remained unfinished for several years but was finally completed in 2007 and released in November 2008. Following the album's release, a new iteration of the band played shows in the Southeastern United States from June 2009–May 2012.In 2010, FNA Records released a compilation of songs originally recorded for the second record called Midnight Confessions.On June 4, 2012, SleazeRoxx.com reported that Bobby Durango had died.At the time, the band had reportedly been working on a studio album titled Devils in the Countryside due for release at the end of 2012.Throughout its lifespan, the band toured with Joan Jett, Jimmy Page, the Georgia Satellites, and played with L.A. Guns, Jetboy, The Zeroes, Flies on Fire, and Junkyard, and opened for Black Flag and Circle Jerks.
Album:
Perhaps best known for having young Johnny Depp as a guitarist before he pursued a full time acting career, ROCK CITY ANGELS will forever remain one of the more interesting footnotes in the annals of rock and roll history.Signed to major label Geffen Records in 1987, the band was a huge attraction during the mid-to-late 80s Los Angeles hard rock and metal scene. But by that time, Rock City Angels had very little to do with the glitz and glamour of the Sunset Strip, having traded their early ‘New York Dolls meets Aerosmith’ worship for a more soulful and bluesy sound.Realizing this, Geffen sent the LA transplants to Memphis to record their debut album, ‘Young Man’s Blues’. Geffen hired renowned producer Jim Dickinson (Rolling Stones, Big Star, The Replacements) to engineer / mix the album and what resulted are the eleven tracks you have before you.Geffen, in their typical shortsightedness, passed on the tracks due to them being too soulful and not at all what was happening on the Sunset Strip at the time, and fired Dickinson, much to the distaste of the band. Another producer was brought in, and the band re-recorded most of the songs, plus a few more, for what you would come to know as 1988 LP ‘Young Man’s Blues’.Titled “Young Man’s Blues: The Original Jim Dickinson Mix“, now 2024 Noize In The Attic Records is releasing for the very first time ever these ROCK CITY ANGELS lost recordings with producer Jim Dickinson.Comprising quality musicians ROCK CITY ANGELS should have been world stars, unfortunately, “Young Man’s Blues” was a commercial failure due to the nonexistent promotion the label exhibited. Geffen was much more interested in another LA based band that they had just signed called Guns ‘N Roses, and therefore, Rock City Angels were left to twist in the wind, and were eventually dropped by the label.Since the release of ‘Young Man’s Blues’ in 1988, the album has taken on a cult classic status among hard rock music lovers and aficionados.With the death of Dickinson in 2009, and lead singer Bobby Durango in 2012, talk began to resurface regarding the whereabouts of original mix of the album.Tapes that were considered lost to time were rediscovered recently and as a tribute to Bobby’s original wishes, are finally being released for the public to hear.Once thought to be gone forever, these tapes show a band at its peak power, despite what the label thought at the time. The Durango Kid rides again, here it is, Young Man’s Blues the way it was meant to be heard!This is a must have for all fans of Rock City Angels, as well as all fans of timeless classic rock n’ roll music.
Line Up:
Bobby Durango - vocals
Mike Barnes - guitar
Doug Banx - guitar
Andy Panik - bass
Jackie D. Jukes - drums
Tracklist:
01. Intro (Boy From Hell’s Kitchen)
02. Our Little Secret
03. Beyond Babylon
04. Hush Child
05. South Of The Border
06. Deep Inside My Heart
07. Wild Tiger
08. Mary
09. Rumblefish
10. Liza Jo
11. Tin Drum (Outro)
+ Video "Deep Inside My Heart" (Official Video)
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