Metal Sludge — After last week’s show at the “Whisky-A-Go-Go” in Hollywood, the band Santa Cruz have come under fire from fans, peers and critics alike for their blatant misuse of pre-recorded tracks.
The band’s botched live show has been a hot topic for sure and has since been covered by Eddie Trunk, Blabbermouth and Sleazeroxx among other music outlets.
All of the coverage has been about the band’s live fail in performing with their backing-tracks or what sounds like some form of samples.
Metal Sludge also reported on the show with our article ‘SILLY VANILLI … Santa Cruz perform with Pre-Recorded Lead Vocals at the “Whisky-A-Go-Go”, singer Archie Cruz says Botched Show was for Publicity.’
Now with all the bad publicity there usually comes a reaction from the band themselves, and there have been a few.
On April 12th, the group’s founder and lead vocalist Archie Cruz has posted a new video message.
It seems that Cruz has taken exception with the criticism from the start, and blasted both Trunk and Blabbermouth publicly, even resorting to some level of threat and name-calling.
Now it seems that Metal Sludge have now come under fire as well from Cruz.
The band’s only original member has taken a handful of internet pot-shots via the band’s official Instagram.
“Yeah man I ´m not sure you know what pre-recorded live vocals are, since you probably played your last show in ´88 or something, and the only thing you´ve accomplished to do since is running this lil Hair Metal TMZ of yours, but I would suggest not to write about something you don´t know jackshit about.” wrote Cruz about our Metal Sludge article.
Cruz ended his posting with: “PS, TUFF fucking sucks ass bro.”
Now a full week after the infamous live show on Sunset Strip, the singer now appears to be back-pedaling and trying to do some damage control as well.
Cruz has now publicly apologized to Trunk writing: “Check out my latest post. Also, I’d like to extend a public apology to @eddietrunk.
Even though I don’t think he was in the right for what he did, calling him names was NOT the move and not how one should behave.”
Trunk accepted his apology and it was shared in a recent Blabbermouth article which also includes a new video message as seen below via the band’s official Instagram.
In the video Cruz demonstrates his ability to sing the lead vocal for their new song as he plays along on guitar.
Cruz then shares a playback, from his computer that seems to play what the singer referred to as an “octave higher, and an octave lower” of the lead vocal., that he would then sing along with those “layers” during their live set.
“Obviously there has been a lot of backlash after our show at the “Whisky, last Wednesday” says Cruz.
“We do have backing tracks… but we just add some layers… we just happen to f#@k up the timing” added Cruz.
The singer then demonstrates his ability to sing live, singing part of the first verse of their new song “Under The Gun”.
It seems on one hand Cruz is trying to explain himself, but then oddly ends his video message by telling viewers to “Peace out and Shut the F#@k up!”
Watch the full video below of Cruz from the band’s official Instagram.
Santa Cruz is currently promoting their new single “Under The Gun” from their forthcoming 5th studio album titled ”The Return of The Kings” due in the fall.
