Sweet Pain (USA)
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Sweet Pain - Sweet Pain (1985) (20th Century Music Limited Edition 2024)
Year : 1985 (20th Century Music Limited Edition 2024)
Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 154 mb
Bio:
In the 1980s, sleaze/glam bands were literally springing up like mushrooms in the USA. Sweat Pain from New York were one of the better underground bands at the time, which should make fans of Tuff, Faster Pussycat or Pretty Boy Floyd sit up and take notice. They offered rocking, sometimes very subtle hard rock that was made for rocking out in the clubs of the time. The album comes on 20th Century Music with 1 studio bonus, 4 live bonus tracks and various interview snippets. As a fan of the genre, you should definitely have it in your cupboard right next to your hairspray bottle and pink boots! Corky Gunn (vocals) about the founding of the band: I put a band together, I got Kelly. At the time, Kelly was working for a roadie, for a cover band out on Long Island called Hotshot and Hotshot featured Steve [West] and Bruno [Ravel] before they went on to form Danger Danger. I got Kelly in the band because me and Kelly were tight. We were buddies and we were just hilarious together so we got him in the band and found the rest of the guys. We put that band together and recorded that record in two days.I flew out to L.A. to mix it and that was it. It was done so quickly and its not really a typical glam kind of record. To me, Sweet Pain was like a cross between KISS and The Sex Pistols. It sounds ridiculous but that to me was what it was.Well, Kelly… Wait, first the drummer quit. He left to join The Throbs, a Manhattan band, more of a downtown scene. The Throbs would eventually sign with Geffen for a record and then, I think that they were dropped. And after the drummer left, Kelly left and joined another Manhattan band. And then they went to L.A. and played some shows, and I think that Kelly split from them at that point and then joined Faster Pussycat. By that point, Sweet Pain got two replacement guys who played bass and drums, and it just fell apart. It was a time capsule moment. It was never meant to last. It was more about just partying and being wild and crazy. Combat wanted a glam band so there you have it. But it just fell apart. Actually, the last gig that we played, the guitar player in Sweet Pain didn’t play for ridiculous reasons. And the guy that filled in for him was this guy John Sierra. Rest in peace. He’s deceased. But John Sierra played with Michael Monroe in Michael Monroe’s solo band. But he’s not with us anymore John. But yeah, it kind of just fell apart. Went out with a whimper.“Shoot For Thrills (Into The Night)” made it onto L.A. Guns’ debut album? No. I wasn’t surprised. At the time, that’s the only song that Kelly had ever written. When Sweet Pain recorded that, he literally brought it in on the last day of recording. The band played it through one time. I think that we rehearsed it once, played it through, recorded it and that was it. I think we overdubbed a couple of little things and that’s how it went on the record. So he was never happy with it at all. So he re-recorded it. It’s funny because that song - the L.A. Guns version - they used it in that movie ‘Friday Night Live’, which is hilarious.I am looking for a publisher and an agent. I really don’t like dealing with the business of a publishing house. It’s like trying to get a record deal. It’s the same type of thing except it’s with a book. So I really always had visions of this. Part of this book like I said, part of this book came from a script that I wrote and part of it came from a L.A. Guns book that I had started writing so I have visions of parts of it easily being on Amazon Prime, a Netflix series or something like that. That’s why I need an agent. I’m looking for an agent to represent me not only to sell the book but also to spin it off into something like a documentary or even a film. Like I said, I’ve got this other script with the DJ story so there’s a lot of other things.The book is maybe just to get my toe in the water I guess. Obviously, my script - I couldn’t get that sold and the L.A. Guns book, I’ve been sitting on it for 30 years so I put it all together and there’s a lot of content here. I’m looking and I’m soliciting myself and I’m just trying to get the word out there because I’ve had a lot of support. People have been really encouraging. I say in the prologue of my book. Who am I? I’m nobody famous. Nobody knows me but I had a really insane access to a crazy world for years. So I’m telling the stories. The way things are looking, things are so crazy these days. You’ll never see these days again. It’s never coming back [laughs] so here’s some interesting stories for you about a time and a place that was but isn’t anymore.
Album:
Remastered album by lead singer, Corky Gunn, who also came up with the new cover concept, this glam cult gem includes a 24 page booklet featuring never before seen photos and the SWEET PAIN story as told by Gunn himself. Sweet Pain was a "hair band" that released an 8 song self-titled album on Combat Records back in 1985.The album was practically doomed to fail from the start since Combat Records was a label filled with predominately heavy bands (thrash metal, hardcore and the like). I have no idea why Combat signed this "glam" band (if you want to call them that).Sweet Pain was like the poor man's Poison or something. They weren't particularly pretty (or handsome) and it seemed they over-compensated for their looks by piling on layers of colors, bandanas, scarves, etc.. to better fit the mold they were trying to pour themselves into with their music and lyrics.Though I've never seen or heard this mentioned in an interview, the bass player for Sweet Pain was none other than Kelly Nickles of L.A. Guns fame. (I wonder if he's trying to keep it a secret) [sorry Kelly] In fact, one of the songs L.A. Guns recorded, "Shoot For Thrills (Into The Night)" was actually released by Sweet Pain three years earlier (and appears on this album) since it was written by Kelly.Obviously, Sweet Pain never "made it", Kelly joined L.A. Guns, and the rest, as they say, is history.My friend Scott and I actually liked the band (and we'd soon find out we were virtually alone in that).In fact, we went (purposely) to a club called Sneakers in our area to see them - and this was when we realized what huge freaks we were for liking the band. To this day I like this album, if you don't take it (or yourself) seriously and don't expect more than it is, you may as well. Well, probably not - and it's too late now anyway.Anyway, we frequented area clubs literally every night and probably would have been at Sneakers anyway, but the truth is we went purposely to see Sweet Pain live. I honestly don't remember if there was an opening act or not - and my best guess is there was maybe 150 people in the small club that night...Sweet Pain takes the stage. Corky Gunn (the singer) was wearing a pink baseball cap with roughly a foot long bill on it, and more scarves than I've ever seen on one person before. With this sight, people start walking out. The lights came up and the first few notes rang out - and before the band reached the chorus of the first song, literally half the audience was gone! (I kid you not) By the end of the second song, I would guess there were 20 people in the club. Also, if I remember correctly, about 15 of those people were friends of ours and would have been hanging out even if there was no band. Go figure. Quite honestly, the band was as good as we expected them to be. I felt bad for them, if nothing else, they were entertaining.
Line-Up:
Corky Gunn - Vocals
Adrian Vance - Guitar
Kelly Nickels - Bass
Ronnie Taz - Drums
Production:
Mastered By – Tom Coyne
Mixed By – Corky Gunn, Randy Burns
Producer – Eric Williams
Engineer – Arty Ware
Tracklist:
01. I Get My Kicks
02. Down on the Boulevard
03. Back in LA
04. Knock Your Socks Off
05. Two Time Love
06. New Toy
07. Wink of an Eye
08. Subway Terror
09. Shoot For Thrills (Into the Night)
10. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Bonus Track)
LIVE AT L'AMOUR EAST June 1, 1985
11. Mama Kin (Bonus Track)
12. Shoot For Thrills (Into the Night) (Bonus Track)
13. Personality Crisis (Bonus Track)
14. Back in LA (Bonus Track)
RADIO INTERVIEW SNIPPETS
15. K-Rock Interview (Bonus Track)
16. WDHA Interview (Bonus Track)
17. WRTN Interview (Bonus Track)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
Year : 1985 (20th Century Music Limited Edition 2024)
Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 154 mb
Bio:
In the 1980s, sleaze/glam bands were literally springing up like mushrooms in the USA. Sweat Pain from New York were one of the better underground bands at the time, which should make fans of Tuff, Faster Pussycat or Pretty Boy Floyd sit up and take notice. They offered rocking, sometimes very subtle hard rock that was made for rocking out in the clubs of the time. The album comes on 20th Century Music with 1 studio bonus, 4 live bonus tracks and various interview snippets. As a fan of the genre, you should definitely have it in your cupboard right next to your hairspray bottle and pink boots! Corky Gunn (vocals) about the founding of the band: I put a band together, I got Kelly. At the time, Kelly was working for a roadie, for a cover band out on Long Island called Hotshot and Hotshot featured Steve [West] and Bruno [Ravel] before they went on to form Danger Danger. I got Kelly in the band because me and Kelly were tight. We were buddies and we were just hilarious together so we got him in the band and found the rest of the guys. We put that band together and recorded that record in two days.I flew out to L.A. to mix it and that was it. It was done so quickly and its not really a typical glam kind of record. To me, Sweet Pain was like a cross between KISS and The Sex Pistols. It sounds ridiculous but that to me was what it was.Well, Kelly… Wait, first the drummer quit. He left to join The Throbs, a Manhattan band, more of a downtown scene. The Throbs would eventually sign with Geffen for a record and then, I think that they were dropped. And after the drummer left, Kelly left and joined another Manhattan band. And then they went to L.A. and played some shows, and I think that Kelly split from them at that point and then joined Faster Pussycat. By that point, Sweet Pain got two replacement guys who played bass and drums, and it just fell apart. It was a time capsule moment. It was never meant to last. It was more about just partying and being wild and crazy. Combat wanted a glam band so there you have it. But it just fell apart. Actually, the last gig that we played, the guitar player in Sweet Pain didn’t play for ridiculous reasons. And the guy that filled in for him was this guy John Sierra. Rest in peace. He’s deceased. But John Sierra played with Michael Monroe in Michael Monroe’s solo band. But he’s not with us anymore John. But yeah, it kind of just fell apart. Went out with a whimper.“Shoot For Thrills (Into The Night)” made it onto L.A. Guns’ debut album? No. I wasn’t surprised. At the time, that’s the only song that Kelly had ever written. When Sweet Pain recorded that, he literally brought it in on the last day of recording. The band played it through one time. I think that we rehearsed it once, played it through, recorded it and that was it. I think we overdubbed a couple of little things and that’s how it went on the record. So he was never happy with it at all. So he re-recorded it. It’s funny because that song - the L.A. Guns version - they used it in that movie ‘Friday Night Live’, which is hilarious.I am looking for a publisher and an agent. I really don’t like dealing with the business of a publishing house. It’s like trying to get a record deal. It’s the same type of thing except it’s with a book. So I really always had visions of this. Part of this book like I said, part of this book came from a script that I wrote and part of it came from a L.A. Guns book that I had started writing so I have visions of parts of it easily being on Amazon Prime, a Netflix series or something like that. That’s why I need an agent. I’m looking for an agent to represent me not only to sell the book but also to spin it off into something like a documentary or even a film. Like I said, I’ve got this other script with the DJ story so there’s a lot of other things.The book is maybe just to get my toe in the water I guess. Obviously, my script - I couldn’t get that sold and the L.A. Guns book, I’ve been sitting on it for 30 years so I put it all together and there’s a lot of content here. I’m looking and I’m soliciting myself and I’m just trying to get the word out there because I’ve had a lot of support. People have been really encouraging. I say in the prologue of my book. Who am I? I’m nobody famous. Nobody knows me but I had a really insane access to a crazy world for years. So I’m telling the stories. The way things are looking, things are so crazy these days. You’ll never see these days again. It’s never coming back [laughs] so here’s some interesting stories for you about a time and a place that was but isn’t anymore.
Album:
Remastered album by lead singer, Corky Gunn, who also came up with the new cover concept, this glam cult gem includes a 24 page booklet featuring never before seen photos and the SWEET PAIN story as told by Gunn himself. Sweet Pain was a "hair band" that released an 8 song self-titled album on Combat Records back in 1985.The album was practically doomed to fail from the start since Combat Records was a label filled with predominately heavy bands (thrash metal, hardcore and the like). I have no idea why Combat signed this "glam" band (if you want to call them that).Sweet Pain was like the poor man's Poison or something. They weren't particularly pretty (or handsome) and it seemed they over-compensated for their looks by piling on layers of colors, bandanas, scarves, etc.. to better fit the mold they were trying to pour themselves into with their music and lyrics.Though I've never seen or heard this mentioned in an interview, the bass player for Sweet Pain was none other than Kelly Nickles of L.A. Guns fame. (I wonder if he's trying to keep it a secret) [sorry Kelly] In fact, one of the songs L.A. Guns recorded, "Shoot For Thrills (Into The Night)" was actually released by Sweet Pain three years earlier (and appears on this album) since it was written by Kelly.Obviously, Sweet Pain never "made it", Kelly joined L.A. Guns, and the rest, as they say, is history.My friend Scott and I actually liked the band (and we'd soon find out we were virtually alone in that).In fact, we went (purposely) to a club called Sneakers in our area to see them - and this was when we realized what huge freaks we were for liking the band. To this day I like this album, if you don't take it (or yourself) seriously and don't expect more than it is, you may as well. Well, probably not - and it's too late now anyway.Anyway, we frequented area clubs literally every night and probably would have been at Sneakers anyway, but the truth is we went purposely to see Sweet Pain live. I honestly don't remember if there was an opening act or not - and my best guess is there was maybe 150 people in the small club that night...Sweet Pain takes the stage. Corky Gunn (the singer) was wearing a pink baseball cap with roughly a foot long bill on it, and more scarves than I've ever seen on one person before. With this sight, people start walking out. The lights came up and the first few notes rang out - and before the band reached the chorus of the first song, literally half the audience was gone! (I kid you not) By the end of the second song, I would guess there were 20 people in the club. Also, if I remember correctly, about 15 of those people were friends of ours and would have been hanging out even if there was no band. Go figure. Quite honestly, the band was as good as we expected them to be. I felt bad for them, if nothing else, they were entertaining.
Line-Up:
Corky Gunn - Vocals
Adrian Vance - Guitar
Kelly Nickels - Bass
Ronnie Taz - Drums
Production:
Mastered By – Tom Coyne
Mixed By – Corky Gunn, Randy Burns
Producer – Eric Williams
Engineer – Arty Ware
Tracklist:
01. I Get My Kicks
02. Down on the Boulevard
03. Back in LA
04. Knock Your Socks Off
05. Two Time Love
06. New Toy
07. Wink of an Eye
08. Subway Terror
09. Shoot For Thrills (Into the Night)
10. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Bonus Track)
LIVE AT L'AMOUR EAST June 1, 1985
11. Mama Kin (Bonus Track)
12. Shoot For Thrills (Into the Night) (Bonus Track)
13. Personality Crisis (Bonus Track)
14. Back in LA (Bonus Track)
RADIO INTERVIEW SNIPPETS
15. K-Rock Interview (Bonus Track)
16. WDHA Interview (Bonus Track)
17. WRTN Interview (Bonus Track)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/