BOUND FOR HELL: ON THE SUNSET STRIP

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This compilation was on my radar when it was first announced via the label's (Numero Group) Instagram account. According to Lytle's half-brother, "they went and parked the truck outside of the high school [once] and listened to us. Bound for Hell is an easy way to sample some of the lesser-known rock bands from the Sunset Strip scene in the 1980s. A. Heavy Metal with that quintessential metallic edge, melodic hooks, and satisfying guitar solos, fueled by the unabashed exuberance of youth and more often than not, captured in the absence of a professional producer. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Many bands from the sunset strip never got the credit they deserve and compilation like this are rectifying the situation! A. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in the teeth to clear the way to that one big shot. This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. The music presented in this anthology should be treated with reverence, despite the hedonistic slant, for it is a testimony to the personal sacrifice and resilience of all these people, who instead of taking the easy road of the security that a 9 to 5 job offers, dedicated a significant portion of their youth to the practice of Rock n' Roll with no promise of success. The other side is a two-tone photo of Leather Angel -- unnecessarily overlayed with "come watch all hell break loose".Reissue label specializing in more esoteric 'lost' recordings of obscure super niche musical scenes. Available as a 2LP box set with an ephemera-stuffed gatefold and 144-page hardbound book, Drumsticks burned. He was subsisting out of a suitcase, staying in friends' garages and houses, but despite his misfortunes, music kept him going. During a time of alleged misogyny, the female contingent is also well represented by Bitch, Jaded Lady, Leather Angel, Hellion, and Lisa Baker. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The vinyl edition includes a 150-page "100% poser proof" book packed with vintage pictures and band bios. One particularly poignant episode is that of Angeles guitarist Dale Lytle:"When I was 19, the guy that my mom married was working [as] a truck driver, and he came home on a Sunday," Lytle recounted. When I was 19, the guy that my mom married was working [as] a truck driver, and he came home on a Sunday," Lytle recounted.This is a field trip for the anthropologist looking to unearth obscure albeit inspired performances and to discover some interesting anecdotes about the music scene on the Sunset Strip at the turn of the 70s. And he was so pissed off and drunk- about the fact that I was still living there doing music that he went in and blew my mom's head off with a shotgun.