WASP appreciation...

[OUTLAW1969]

A personal favorite

 

[Chris O]

and take that!

A lot of this stuff can seem silly and trite now but at the time this was so heavy. Love the generic key change into the solo. ~

Nailed it. This was the one that busted the WASP cherry. Just blew me away back then. And those guitars!!!

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I think what made it sound so heavy were the bass and drums sitting heavy in the mix and blackie's cutting vocals over top. The guitar tones are like razor blades and I am not sure what was happening in the solo as it was washed in verb but the sum of all parts totally worked! Listening to it now I can hear some of the Judas Priest influence in the guitars. It's like a bad KK Downing on the leads too! lol

 

[rupe]

I liked a few of their songs but was never much of a fan overall...they just seemed more like a show or parody than an actual serious band. And compared to other players at the time like Lynch, Dimartini, Lee, etc, the guys in WASP seemed like complete hacks to me.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I liked a few of their songs but was never much of a fan overall...they just seemed more like a show or parody than an actual serious band. And compared to other players at the time like Lynch, Dimartini, Lee, etc, the guys in WASP seemed like complete hacks to me.

Yeah the lead work for the most part is pretty crap.. hence the use of a ton of reverb and delay i think.

 

[JerEvil]

Not much from WASP I don't like. Here are a few "newer" tracks that I really dig

 

[crankyrayhanky]

I had this thing cranked in my bedroom when I was like 13...surprised my parents allowed this, lol

 

[Armitage]

I love W.A.S.P. up until K.F.D. but nothing after... Big fan.

 

[Hail Satin]

God, couldn't get rid of them at the troubador circa '82...

Definitely a "guilty pleasure" band for me but what the heck.

Stet howland did some pretty killer drumming for them later on (check out
"let it roar" on Unholy Terror)

 

[mctallica1]

Hot damn! I loved W.A.S.P. back in the day

Haven't listened to them in a long time, but I think it is time to load some of their stuff on my workout ipod

 

[Joel D]

WASP was a great band....I saw them last about 10 years ago or so at HOB here in Chicago and was disappointed with Blackie....not what he used to be.

 

[neilli]

I love 80s WASP - Kind of lost track of them after Holmes left and it seemed to obviously become Blackie and friends. Having said that, I've heard a bunch of their newer stuff recently, and Helldorado definitely harks back to that era (albeit that's probably a decade old now LOL)... And yeah, Holmes had some of the coolest Jacksons ever

 

[PeteLaramee]

God, couldn't get rid of them at the troubador circa '82...

Definitely a "guilty pleasure" band for me but what the heck.

Stet howland did some pretty killer drumming for them later on (check out
"let it roar" on Unholy Terror)

I used to see Stet and Doug Blair (or Lucek or whatever he goes by now) in my hometown in the mid-late 80s. They are both great. Their band Run21 was fucking huge and Doug has always been a monster. On stage Stet used to wear plastic wrap around his junk AND THAT'S IT. He'd sing his one song a night out in front and when he'd put his leg up on the monitor his junk would accidentally/on purpose fall out for all to see.

 

[Ye Black Knight]

Forsooth, whence this knight was but a squire, horrified was I at depictions of Sir Blackie Lawless dripping in flesh and blood. Fretful was I that sir Lawless hath ravag'd ye flesh of ye innocent and engag'd in cannibalism!

Years anon this knight saw that sir Lawless was nary revelling in true savagery, rather a master showman. He did delight'eth his adoring crowd with tittilations of ye macabre, and these gory adornments were but harmless props in his gruesome theatrical fantasy.

Now, with ye clarity of mind earn'd from experience of mine years, this knight see'th that mine original notion was in fact ye true circumstance! Sir Lawless 'tis a vicious monster with an insatiable lust for virgin flesh!!!

This post now concludeth!

 

[Hail Satin]

God, couldn't get rid of them at the troubador circa '82...

Definitely a "guilty pleasure" band for me but what the heck.

Stet howland did some pretty killer drumming for them later on (check out
"let it roar" on Unholy Terror)

I used to see Stet and Doug Blair (or Lucek or whatever he goes by now) in my hometown in the mid-late 80s. They are both great. Their band Run21 was fucking huge and Doug has always been a monster. On stage Stet used to wear plastic wrap around his junk AND THAT'S IT. He'd sing his one song a night out in front and when he'd put his leg up on the monitor his junk would accidentally/on purpose fall out for all to see.

Fucking hell! I'm glad I never saw Stet with that "outfit"...LOL!

Still, what a bad ass drummer. I hope that he's still active in music.