Love/Hate Is Back...

One of my fave 90s sleaze bands is back at it... they are playin' shows and have a new record in the works shooting for a Spring 2014 release according to their Facebook:



Jizzy Pearl and Jon E. Love are both back from the original lineup...new bass player is Robbie Crane (ex-Ratt) and new drummer is Matt Starr, whose name sounds familiar but I cannot remember exactly why.

Should be cool!!

Cool news! Always liked Love/Hate.

Nice! Such an underrated band. Black Out In The Red Room is a classic.

Would love to hit that show.

My first exposure to them came from strangely enough RollerGames. They would have bands play between periods. Went out the next day and bought the album. Looking forward to new stuff.

Cool. Hope it will be in the style of their first two albums. I was just listening to those two albums this week.

I would definitely love to hear a new album in the vein of Blackout In The Red Room.

New song "Better Days" can be checked out on their Reverbnation page:

http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/18392975

nevermore wrote:

I would definitely love to hear a new album in the vein of Blackout In The Red Room.

Cool song and album. It was played a lot on my local metal station (KNAC) back in the day.

Bump for new album info...

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Veteran rockers LOVE/HATE will release a new studio album, "Crucified", in January. A U.K. tour will follow in March.

The first LOVE/HATE record of all-original music in years, "Crucified" sees the band's lead singer, Jizzy Pearl, "taking the 'old' out of old-school and delivering songs that sound every bit as classic as the classic LOVE/HATE songs fans have grown to love," according to a press release.

This news puts a huge smile on my face. Jizzys solo albums are pretty kick ass, as well. Hell, I can even listen to Shrinking Violet if I'm in the right mood.
Also that Reverb link isn't working for me...whats up with that?

This could be pretty cool. I was a bit obsessed with the first record a while back, and still go back to it on occassion. I dig Pearl's vox.

I kinda feel like he woulda been a cool replacement for Bas in Skid Row.

cruedevil71 wrote:

This news puts a huge smile on my face. Jizzys solo albums are pretty kick ass, as well. Hell, I can even listen to Shrinking Violet if I'm in the right mood.
Also that Reverb link isn't working for me...whats up with that?

Did you ever read any of Jizzy's books? Really dark, but funny as hell. Some are personal stories from back in the day and others are just works of fiction, but equally bizarre.

I'm a bit late to the kegger with these guys. They got lost in the shuffle back in their heyday and I only picked up their first 2 discs a few years ago. Pretty decent and holds up better than some other bands of that era. Still, don't know that I'll get too excited over new material. If it's good, then sure. Maybe.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

If it's good, then sure. Maybe.

That should be the criteria by which all music purchases are made!

Here we go again  Get ready for "Jon E. Love's Love/Hate" and "Love/Hate featuring Jizzy Pearl" coming soon to dive bars near you...

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Love/Hate have completed a new studio album called 'Crucified', but original guitarist Jon E. Love is not impressed and even suggested he is ready to take legal action against singer Jizzy Pearl.

The musician took to Facebook to vent about the upcoming Love/Hate album. "This is not a Love/Hate record," claimed Love. "Jizzy has taken it upon himself to release his solo shit and call it Love/Hate. None of the original members are on it. How do I know this? Because the idiot isulted me when asking me to perform on it. Any true Love/Hate fan will immediately know it's not the real band. Stayed tuned, more to follow as I proceed to sue him."

Due for release in January of 2014, 'Crucified' represents the first Love/Hate record of all-original music in years. The only remaining original member of Love/Hate, singer Jizzy Pearl, takes the 'old' out of 'old-school' and delivers songs that sound every bit as classic as the classic Love/Hate songs fans have grown to love. The album release will be followed by a UK tour in March

Pearl has been working in Las Vegas with such musicians as Great White's Michael Lardie, former L.A. Guns bassist Mark 'Muddy' Dutton, drummer Matt Starr and Mike Szuter.

Meanwhile Love is writing and recording a new Jon E. Love & The Haters album, also slated for an early 2014 release.

(slaps forehead) OY!!

oh come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Even if that pie is filled with turds and worth all of $1.50

I like Love/Hate but the marque value has to be close to zero, Great White at least had a couple of gold and platinum albums, same with L.A. Guns, so they could clean up on the nostalgia circuit.

As much as I like Love/Hate unless you were a die hard metal fan or someone my age, nobody else is going to care.

manny wrote:

I like Love/Hate but the marque value has to be close to zero, Great White at least had a couple of gold and platinum albums, same with L.A. Guns, so they could clean up on the nostalgia circuit.

As much as I like Love/Hate unless you were a die hard metal fan or someone my age, nobody else is going to care.

Yea, that was point. I'm not slagging Love/Hate, but even in their heyday, they were B- or C- level at best. This new album isn't going to suddenly catapult them into a new tax bracket. Jizzy will be lucky to break even when all is said and done. And now he'll have to split those meager earnings with 2 or 3 other saps that aren't doing dick.

It's a pack of wild dogs all fighting over a single scrap of meat.

Surprised to hear that Jon E. Love has nothin' to do with the new L/H album...his name is on that gig poster I linked in the first pic, so he must've been involved with Jizzo again at some point.

New song...



Good, upbeat tune. Kinda punky.

I saw JIZZY singing with LA GUNS in the South of Spain some years ago and they even played a LOVE/HATE song. Never been a big fan of them, i always like FIREHOUSE, SLAUGHTER, WINGER, WARRANT or BANG TANGO more but still good news.

Does anyone remember seeing them a long time ago perform on an American roller derby TV show ? they did 2 or 3 songs.
The show was weekly but maybe it disappeared in my viewing area after a month I think.

Here's the track list for Crucified, out January 13th

01. Hanging You Out To Dry
02. Sunny Day
03. You’re Making Me Nervous
04. I Don’t Want To Be Your Baby
05. Love Is All
06. Too Late

While I haven't seen it listed as such, judging from the short tracklist, I'm guessing this is going to be an ep. Unless they're doing epic, 9 minute songs now.   The cover artwork is that black & white photo in the Soundcloud widget.

mlotek wrote:

Does anyone remember seeing them a long time ago perform on an American roller derby TV show ? they did 2 or 3 songs.
The show was weekly but maybe it disappeared in my viewing area after a month I think.

I remember seeing this. Warrant also made an appearance on this show a couple of weeks later.

I read over at Brave Words earlier that Jizzy is the new singer in Quiet Riot.