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Fat Freddy wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Been slackin' on the HubPages front this week... got a few new ones in the works to make up for it though. Here's my newest, the next "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" entry, and this time the lucky winners are Piledriver and their semi-classic cheese fest METAL INQUISITION:

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-Piledriver-METAL-INQUISITION-1985

Great article. Freddy, I don't know if you are aware of it, but there was another "band" that was tied to Piledriver and that was Convict. They released one album - Go Ahead...Make My Day in 1985. I have it on vinyl and it's pretty much crap. It was the Piledriver himself singing and a bunch of other fake band members.

Thanx Witchfinder. Yeah, I'd heard of Convict, I vaguely remember seeing the album in stores back in the day, but I wasn't aware of the Piledriver connection till recently.

In my article I mentioned that there were two songs on the U.S. version of the Piledriver album -- "Devil's Lust" and "Twister" - which replaced the tracks "Sex With Satan" and "Sodomize the Dead" from the original Canadian version. I found out after writing up the article that those two "replacement" songs were Convict tracks.

...I should probably go back into my entry and include that little bit of trivia, I guess.

I wonder why Piledriver/Convict even went to such lengths to create a fake band? It's a bizarre episode in the history of Metal for sure.

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I wonder why Piledriver/Convict even went to such lengths to create a fake band? It's a bizarre episode in the history of Metal for sure.

Some record producer dudes saw the thrash craze comin' and wanted to make a quick buck on it, but rather than find a real band they made their own.

Installment #3 of "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" is up... this time the lucky victim is THE AMERICAN DREAM by my local Jersey faves Bad Biscut...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Albums-Bad-Biscut-THE-AMERICAN-DREAM-1994

Fat Freddy wrote:

Installment #3 of "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" is up... this time the lucky victim is THE AMERICAN DREAM by my local Jersey faves Bad Biscut...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Albums-Bad-Biscut-THE-AMERICAN-DREAM-1994

Nice job once again, Frodrick. Listening to some samples on Amazon. Not bad at all.

I remember hearing Keith Roth on Sirius radio, but didn't know he was a musician. Never hear him mention it, although in fairness, the dj's usually kept the in-between song chatter to a minimum.

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Nice job once again, Frodrick. Listening to some samples on Amazon. Not bad at all.

Cool, man, glad you dug it. I was wondering if anybody would even bother reading this one cuz the band is fairly obscure, but I figured what the hell, it's been a slow week.

You can usually find used copies of the "American Dream" album fairly cheap if you wanna pick one up.

I'm gonna have to remember to go back to that GNR forum that was trolling my "Chinese Democracy" piece a while back and post the link to this one, since I included my odd little story about Steven Adler. Let's see what those fanboys think of that tale!

Been writing a bunch about music lately and have been slackin' on the B-Movie Hubs... so here we go with a review of 1981's cult classic "Evilspeak" starring Clint "Ron's Brother" Howard, in a tale that's best described as "Revenge of the Nerds" with more Satan. Check it yo!

http://hubpages.com/t/302cfe

Interesting... Don Dokken (or at least, someone CLAIMING to be Don Dokken) left a comment on my Hub about their new album...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/DOKKEN-Classic-LA-Rockers-to-Return-With-Broken-Bones

That is cool, it probably is Don Dokken trollin' to see if anyone besides Eddie Trunk has mentioned him

manny wrote:

That is cool, it probably is Don Dokken trollin' to see if anyone besides Eddie Trunk has mentioned him

That is cool and I hope it's really Mr. Dokken

If it really is Don Dokken, someone needs to tell him to turn off his Caps Lock key... hahaha!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

If it really is Don Dokken, someone needs to tell him to turn off his Caps Lock key... hahaha!!

Spellcheck too.

It Came From the Bargain Bin's newest review is up, and this time the subject is Rutger Hauer's primo slab of "Grindhouse" inspired low-budget vigilante nastiness, "Hobo With A Shotgun."

http://hubpages.com/t/30b93c

Yesterday's B-Movie "Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies" becomes today's Hub entry!!

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/t/30d8cc

Holy Moo Cows! My writings on HubPages are rapidly approaching 17,000 page views! If you wanna check out a Hub and help a brotha reach that milestone I'll be eternally grateful.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/

...and as always, thank yew fer yer support 'n' stuff.

Last night's SyFy Channel masterpiece = today's new Hub entry.

http://hubpages.com/t/310135

Been hitting the vintage Metallica pretty hard this past week (do you realize that in 2013, the Kill'Em All album will be 30 YEARS OLD?) so I went down memory lane a bit this week....

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/t/310bfa

Geez, 30 f**kin' years!! Doesn't seem like a day over 20. I was a little late getting on-board the Metallica train. I didn't get schooled on them till around Master of Puppets I guess. But I quickly went back for those 2 that came before it.

Nice job sharing your "Metallica moment" with us, Freddy. Sadly, it's probably a bit of a lost art. I just don't see someone in 30 years or so writing about how their lives changed the first time they downloaded a Limp Bizkit song.

My life changed when I heard Limp B. I new our society as we knew it was in deep doo doo.

Nice little article, I didn't hear the might M right away but had a friend who'd risk buying these albums that weren't on MTV and I won't say it changed my life but it was added to the play list.

Thanx fellers, glad you dug it.

I was bored so I went back 'n' touched up a couple of bits & pieces and added a few new pictures and other junk to that piece... one of the new photo captions should be very familiar to our H.O.M. faithful.

If you wanna check out the "new and improved" version (or if you just missed it the first time), here's the link again:

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Metallicas-KILL-EM-ALL-1983-A-Fanboys-Perspective

Ehehehehehe...

In my newest Hub entry I tell ya everything you need to know about KISS' forthcoming new album, single, tour, and their next wave of absurdly overpriced merchandise...

http://hubpages.com/t/317fe9

Holy Moo Cows!! My HubPages ramblings are creepin' up on the 20,000 page view mark (!!) -- if you wanna read some of my deranged scribblings and help a brotha get over the top, I'd surely appreciate it. Thank yew for yer support!!

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hubs/latest

How many times I gotta' help you out here? Maybe you should drop me some overpriced Kiss swag for my efforts.

My latest Hub review: the awesomely bad '80s sex comedy, HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE (1986)



Recipe: take the yuppie dude from "Just One of the Guys," mix with NFL great Dick Butkus, a totally stacked Randi Brooks, and sprinkle liberally with fart jokes and endless Burger-related puns. Result: awesomeness.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/t/31d6bd