LOS ANGELES – Its spring 1992 and summer is on the way. A year ago Tuff were riding high on our major label debut and now we’re looking for a new home. A new home as in a new record label, and actually a new home as in a new place to live as well. Not sure what made me react this way, but it was time for a change as I was growing tired[…]
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Metal Sludge — In a brand new installment of the Waste Some Time with Jason Green Podcast, Nitro’s vocalist Jim Gillette is the guest. Gillette talks about his early years singing in local Phoenix area bands, and eventually releasing the Vocal Power voice instructional lessons in 1986 as a teenager. Green touches on a variety of subjects with the semi-retired singer including those popular vocal tapes, the singers who emulate his famous screams on Youtube[…]
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TUFF DIARIES (Entry #1) How I Made My Way To Hollywood California, 34 Years Ago Today. By Stevie Rachelle 34 YEARS AGO TODAY I BEGAN MY FIRST 24 HOURS IN CALIFORNIA! June 25th 1987 — It was Friday June 19th 1987. A childhood friend I had known since grade school (Al Eid Hussein) had just returned from his visit to Hollywood California. Al was from Egpyt, and since 2nd grade I heard he knew Karate.[…]
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LOS ANGELES — There are no sure things in rolling the dice nor playing in a rock and roll band, and Billy D’Vette has the scars to prove it. The blond guitarist with chiseled features and a knack for catchy glam songs led Pair-a-Dice to the very brink of stardom in the late 1980s. But despite headline shows, record-company interest and the scene’s hottest groupies, Pair-a-Dice crapped out. They never signed a deal, they lost[…]
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Sleazeroxx — Glam rock “supergroup” Shameless have released a video for their new single “Live Your Dream.” The track features Charlotte Tybalt on vocals, Frankie Muriel on backing vocals, BC and Bruce Kulick on guitars, Alexx Michael on bass, Brian Tichy on drums and Frank Meyer on keyboards and backing vocals. Shameless‘ Facebook page indicates (with slight edits): “Shameless are a hard rock and glam metal supergroup based in Munich, Germany. Although the band is based[…]
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LOS ANGELES, CA. — Well by now most of you understand how these work. It’s early 1992, our bass player Todd ‘Chase’ Chaisson has just quit the band, and grunge was starting to hammer the industry. Of course we all saw it happening, but truth is – in looking back, nobody was fully aware to what level it would impact the 80’s style of music. And might I add, not just the music… but our[…]
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— It’s the 4th quarter of 1991 and we had just got back from a long U.S. tour. We also went to England for the American Dream concert series in London. After flying back into Florida from our overseas trip we met back up with our roadies. Our budget didn’t allow for us to bring our full road-crew so we put them up in a cheap motel in Orlando for a week. You see our[…]
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Tuff Diaries #14New York City, Mixing the Record, Video Shoots, Sony Publishing, Cherry St. and Tigertailz Steevi Jaimz, Sir Arthur Payson, Atlantic Records, Martha Quinn, William Hames & The Limelight in NYCDates: February, March, April, May & June 1991 — Time to mix our first ever full-length record. Seeing and hearing our major label debut get mixed was amazing. A man named Sir Arthur Payson was hired to mix the record. He had previously worked with[…]
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HOLLYWOOD, California — Legendary British journalist and music aficionado Kelv Hellrazer has died. Hellrazer, was 55, and is best known for his ties to the Glam Rock world for decades, and helped The United Kingdom and Europe learn about the scene and music from the Sunset Strip long before the internet. Hellrazer born Kelvin Hyams wrote for Metal Forces, Kerrang and other publications as well as working closely with record labels, managers and publicists world-wide.[…]
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BRAZIL + TUFF = MARCH 7th Stevie Rachelle to rock “Manifesto” in Sao Paulo to celebrate the music of Tuff Metal Sludge — Stevie Rachelle, the voice of Tuff is headed south of the Equator once again. Rachelle is set to play “Manifesto” in Sao Paulo Brazil on Saturday March 7th 2020. This will be the 3rd time for Tuff performing in Brazil, with previous appearances in 2006 and 2011. Rachelle will enlist local[…]
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