Before they were Shark Island, they were known simply as Sharks and were ahead of their time. They didn't sound like any other band in LA at the time, and were often cited as "The Cars meets Aerosmith" if you can wrap your head around that. Singer Richard Black, aka Rick Czerny, was the quintessential rock frontman, and many claim a young man new to LA named Bill Bailey, aka W. Axl Rose, stole his stage moves from the Sharks singer. Not available on CD and tough to find on vinyl these days, Sharks debut LP "Altar Ego" still sounds fresh and urgent today, and is tragically overshadowed by so many other hard rock records of the time, and place.
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I got one of those rare copies of s'cool bus going up on ebay this week
ReplyDeleteone of my favorite records of the era and my favorite by miles of anything this crew ever did.
ReplyDeleteWalt Woodward III HAS PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 8 2010 REST IN PEACE WALT,my friend from Rachel and Americade
ReplyDeleterockin heavin now...with Rhett Forrester
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Can this be re-uploaded? The link seems to not be working. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI fixed the link, thanks for letting me know it wasn't working.
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