W.A.S.P.

danilovv · Post by **danilovv** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:09 am

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Post by **Genebaby** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:33 am

WASP were cool.

Brooklyn_Born · Post by **Brooklyn_Born** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:49 pm

I just picked up 40 vintage records today and amongst them was WASP debut album & The Last Command... Can't wait to give them a spin

birnie · Post by **birnie** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:51 pm

Oh man !!!!
List em off!
Whatcha get?

Brooklyn_Born · Post by **Brooklyn_Born** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:05 pm

Yeah I'm getting back into vinyl...

Motley Crüe - Shout at the Devil First pressing
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Ratt - You're in Trouble EP (never seen this before,it's the 1st ep with different track list & diff. Cover)
Ratt - Invasion of your privacy
Kiss - Killers
Gary Moore - Run for cover
Dire Straits - Love over Gold
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Mick Jagger - She's the Boss
Queen - The Game
Queen. Greatest Hits
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies ( with billion $ note)
Alice Cooper - goes to Hell
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Blues Brothers - Msde in America
Inxs - Kick

birnie · Post by **birnie** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:12 pm

Mines setup as the secondary system..
All stuff i got cheap off ebay for a retro corner of the hosue i guess.
Few days ago belting out a Jounrey LP, wife comes home and says what's that gawd aweful noise.
I said it was my whingy wife....lol

Brooklyn_Born · Post by **Brooklyn_Born** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:21 pm

Def Leppard - Pyromania
Queensryche - Warning
Queensryche - Debut EP
The Babys - Anthology
The Commodores - Greatest Hits
David Bowie - Stage
David Bowie - Heroes
David Bowie - Changes
Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
Paul Stanley - Solo (1978)
Cars - Heartbeat City
NIN - Downward Spiral
Ok I've had enough...

Brooklyn_Born · Post by **Brooklyn_Born** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:26 pm

Yep, I've got a music room set up with digital amp running CD & five speakers plus sub... Then i have a vintage Technics amp running record player & cassette deck plus two vintage technics speakers that pack a lot of punch! Plus my Laney guitar amp & guitars because all the other noise isn't enough!

Post by **Genebaby** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:26 pm

Nice, I have a Technics direct drive turntable, it replaced a Pioneer that was my uncles, hooked up to the old Yamaha Pro Logic amp that's also hooked up to the pc in the studio with most of the guitars and musical stuff.

Got lots of Kiss albums and a bunch of others now. Like a lot of others I ditched a lot of vinyl for CD, but kept the Kiss and related stuff.

A lot of us guys think alike huh? My brother has been back into vinyl in a big way, getting all kinds of stuff. He got me another copy of the first VVI album with what I used to think was a sticker on the front but its actually printed on.

doublev · Post by **doublev** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:45 pm

wasp were a great live band.

ankh · Post by **ankh** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:47 am

Seen them supporting Iron maiden in my hometown during their "electric circus" tour.While Blackie was boasting so much about his, huh, equipment, someone next to me pointed out to his transparent black leotard and exclaimed" see how small he is!"

Post by **Genebaby** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:02 am

That's so funny!!!!!

doublev · Post by **doublev** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:05 am

ha.
all the band gave everything live. I only saw the mean man tour (3 times though)

wolfgang161272 · Post by **wolfgang161272** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:59 am

I think vinyl is a lot better than the clean sound of a cd. I have all my vinyl stuff in best condition playing on my Technics player.
The only vinyl I don't have from KISS is the bule vinyl from Revenge - fuck. But on ebay I hope to find it soon

doublev · Post by **doublev** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:14 am

vinyl has energy and a much better range. I even like Cassette but not too many good players out their. I heard a cassette on a Nakamichi Dragon Cassette deck and that blew cd out of the water.
I really nice turntable is the rega planner 3

poserboy71 · Post by **poserboy71** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:08 am

Blurb from Blackie Lawless. Rik Fox STILL gets no love :

"The First W.A.S.P. Show"

It was early June 1982 when I met with Chris Holmes to discuss working together again. It had been over 4 years since the two of us had played together in the band Sister. Sister was the group where we both learned the type of Rock-Theatre that we would later do in this new band. Originally we had no intention of playing live shows. I had written about 10 songs that we were only going to record and then shop them around trying to get a record deal. Many of those early recordings were songs that would be re-recorded for the first album. The problem was, we got no offers from any of the major labels. They all turned us down. So after impatiently waiting around for 2
months for a response (that never came), we decided to go out and try these new songs live. We didn’t know if they would be accepted by a very jaded L. A. audience but we thought they were pretty good. Love Machine, Hellion, Sleeping in the Fire, On Your Knees, these were songs that NO RECORD COMPANY wanted. Seems funny now!

Anyway, in our haste to make something happen we decided to go out and play live, something we said we would not do. First we needed a direction. The four of us were, Chris, Tony Richards (drums), Don Costa (bass) and myself. Don was the last to join. If we were going to do this, we did not want to just stand still and play songs. We wanted to entertain ourselves. This is where the idea of the “show” really came from.

For the record, the first show was played in August of 82’ but I was still playing guitar. Don Costa was playing bass. Don was a fantastic player and performer and was a real star. He used to do a routine where he nailed a metal cheese greater to the back of his bass. In the middle of the show he turned the bass over and started grating his knuckles on it. Blood was streaming down his arms – it was quite a spectacle! Chris had a major problem with this. Not that the visual of it bothered him. It was the idea that Don stopped playing the bass to do it. There were actually a number of times during the show that he stopped playing for one thing or another. The next day Chris gave me an ultimatum, either he or Don was leaving the band. I tried for an hour to get Chris to reconsider but he didn’t want to know about it. I would not leave Chris so I was elected to break the news to Don. This was tough, as I had actively courted both Don and Tony to leave the band they were in at the time. That band was called Dante Fox. They would later change their name to Great White.

Now we have no bass player! I had known Randy Piper from a couple of bands that he and I had played in before. An early incarnation that had Tony, Randy and myself could never get off the ground. The missing ingredient was Holmes and I knew it. So I called Randy and asked him to come down. I felt the chemistry was there but there was only one problem – no bass player. Randy could sing and I needed another voice to do all those harmonies with. I had sent copies of the demo tape to both Ace Frehley and former Kiss manager, the late Bill Aucoin. They had agreed to come out to L. A. to see our first show at the Troubadour that was quickly approaching. Now we have one of two options, find a bass player and rehearse him in 3 weeks and I just sing lead, OR I play bass. The other two would not even discuss the idea of them doing it. Holmes said, “we’ve already got 4 very volatile personalities, we don’t need a fifth guy to make it even worse”. So it’s off to Guitar Center (there was only one back then and this was the original on Sunset Blvd.) to buy myself what I would eventually refer to as “the tool of ignorance”. That description was unfair but it described my anxiety and frustration toward that instrument at the time.

There were two shows that were booked for us to play the Troubadour. The first was September 21st and the next week on the 28th. Both were Tuesday nights at 8 PM. Considering the Troubadour was closed on Monday, these were the worst time slots in the week. There were 63 people in attendance at that first show. Humble beginnings !!

More Next Month!!
B. L

metatron · Post by **metatron** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:28 am

strangeways · Post by **strangeways** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:13 am

Love WASP !

Saw them last winter.

Here are some pics I took with my crappy camera.

Post by **Genebaby** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:14 pm

Great pics, you see some very cool shows.

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