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Direktive 17

Guitarist Craig Bradshaw, drummer Myron Wasyliw, and bassist Bob Siamro were the talented threesome that laid straight down the groundwork in 1981 for the Canadian rock and roll group referred to as Direktive 17. Lead vocalist Andy Maize stepped into place in regards to a season on later on, making …

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Kings of Rock

When the Kings of Rock formed in Seattle, WA, in 1987, their musical direction was to produce songs which were mainly because loose, fun, and unpretentious as you possibly can according to guitarist Tim “Purple” Hayes. Throughout their life time, the group were able to launch four 7″ information and …

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KBC Band

The KBC or Kantner-Balin-Casady Music group was formed in the mid-’80s by three former members of Jefferson Airplane: guitarist/singer Paul Kantner (b. March 12, 1942, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA), vocalist Marty Balin (b. Janurary 30, 1942, Cincinnati), and bassist Jack port Casady (b. Apr 13, 1944, Washington, D.C.). The group …

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The Secret Service

Formed by senior high school friends Rob Normandin and Dave Lengthy on vocals and guitar and Jim Gange on bass in 1984, the trick Service was among the rings that composed the brand new York garage area scene in the mid-’80s. Joined up with by Steve Peper on drums, the …

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My Captains

My Captains were a post-punk music group shaped by Neil Henderson, John Lisle, Richard Rowland, and Richard Tarver. The quartet released a self-titled four monitor EP on 4AD in 1981. Pursuing consistent with lots of the various other early ’80s 4AD works, little is well known from the band’s alternative …

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Omni

Among the lesser-known songwriting/producing groups of their own time, Rodney G. Massey (b. Jan. 5, 1953) and Lawrence Hanks (b. 1955) fulfilled up as teens; they gradually shaped a a friendly relationship that ultimately led to an innovative union. In the past due ’60s, the duo was tutored by famous …

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Coming Up Roses

This unit was formed in 1986 with the songwriting partnership of ex-Dolly Blend members Deborah Wykes (b. 21 Dec 1960, Hammersmith, London, Britain; electric guitar, vocals) and Hester Smith (b. 28 Oct 1960, Western world Africa; drums), along with Nicky Brodie (vocals, percussion), Patricia O’Flynn (saxophone, ex-Shillelagh Sisters), Leigh Luscious …

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Warrant

Not to end up being confused using the pretty-boy “Cherry Pie” Warrant from the past due ’80s/early ’90s, there is another music group that passed the same name in the mid-’80s. Made up of people Jörg Juraschek (vocals, bass), Thomas Klein (guitars), Oliver Might (guitars), and Lothar Wieners (drums), the …

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Girls Can’t Help It

Billie Adams, Jacqueline Bucknell, and Samantha Spencer-Lane comprised Ladies Can’t MAKE IT, a short-lived metropolitan modern/dance-pop trio that was dynamic in London in the first ’80s. Because Ladies Can’t MAKE IT contains three white females from Britain — most of them beautiful — some individuals likened the obscure group to …

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Hawaii

Hawaii was the rock music group formed (initially seeing that Vixen) by potential Cacophony and Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman upon relocating towards the isle state in the first 1980’s. Already equipped with an archive deal in the guitar-friendly Shrapnel Information, Friedman immediately joined up with pushes with vocalist/bassist Gary St. …

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