Loading ...“Old” review from CrashDiet’s gig at Sticky Fingers, Gothenburg 19th of October 2007:
Sometimes you hear things. Things that involves an underground uprising of sleaze rock, hairmetal, arena rock, it goes by many names. Sometimes a band comes along and mindfucks the rest of the bands around. Motley Crue was one of those bands. Back in the early 1980’s Nikki Sixx and his gang (they were more of a gang than a rock band) tore thru the trends and the music scene of the early 80’s and created a whole new genre in music. They spiked their hair up and looked more like slutty whores of the Sunset Strip than anything else. The world would never be the same again. Unfortenately those days are gone. The Strip that once embraced a cocaine snorting madman in Nikki Sixx isnt the same anymore. Gone are the days of rock n roll, big hair and huge choruses that made the girls faint and the teenage boys dream of being a rock star.
I was never around during the early 80’s. I wasn’t even around in the late 80’s. I was quite sure I would never see or experience such a scene. I was positive I would never see a hungry Motley Crue or a young Guns N Roses on stage. It’s fun to see these old bands in 2007, make no mistake, but the excitement and feeling of seeing a new hungry, beer drinking band like that on stage in 2007? That would be something. Unfortenately, in 2007, the new bands are more into singing about how miserable they are and how their ex dumped them for another guy and how things just won’t be the same anymore.
That’s what I thought.
I was wrong.
Just when all hope was over, a band shows up from the underground. Not in Los Angeles, not in New York andnot in London. But in Sweden. In motherfucking Sweden! Not even one band, but several! Many!
What I saw at Sticky Fingers in Gothenborg last Friday was quite simply amazing. The audience were all under 30. Fuck, I was probably one of the oldest people there! There were Nikki Sixx look-alikes all over! Girls and boys the same. Leather, spiked black hair, make up and cowboy boots. I’ve never seen anything like that in Norway. Infact, fuck Norway and their rock scene.
Sister showed up on stage and the bass player was a full blown Nikki Sixx copy, the drummer looked like a goth version of Dee Snider. The singer looked like a mix between Axl Rose and Brett Micheals from Poison. Not only did they look good, they rocked the place!
After another(!!) band like that who called themselves Baby Jane, CrashDiet was next. CrashDiet, the only sleaze rock band around with a contract with a major label. The first sleaze rock band Universal signed since the hairmetal heyday over 15 years ago. Yes, they’re that good. Even without their lead singer and song writer Dave Lepard who sadly died in January of 2006. Nikki Sixx survived the drugs, Dave Lepard didnt. The loss is probably greater than if Nikki had died when he was on his heroin trip.
CrashDiet is worldclass. The songs hold an international standard most rock bands can only dream of. They blow it up like no other band have been doing since Guns N’ Roses broke thru in 1987. They produce amazing choruses Nikki Sixx, Axl Rose or Metallica would die to get their hands on in 2007. And the best thing is, they’re young. They’re not sitting in mansions in Los Angeles with 7 kids and a bimbo wife. They’re not in therapy being scared of seeing a bottle of Jack Daniels. They’re mid 20’s and they know it. They can have a bottle of Heineken onstage without giving a fuck.
Opening with the new “In The Raw” and a moshpitting crowd of youngsters infront of them, they launch into Queen Obscene second, a song that would make Tommy Lee blush. “You’re a sex bomb love machine, 69 shots of gasoline”. New singer Olliver Twisted from Finland got everything Vince Neil doesn’t have in 2007. Good looks, stamina and a damn good voice.
The rest of the band consists of main songwriter Martin Sweet on guitar, Peter London on bass and Eric Young on drums. All young, hungry, talented and ready to rock like no-one have rocked since 1988.
Highlights are many but the excellent “Riot in everyone” from the debut album “Rest in sleaze” are definetely one of the best. The chorus is so good that if Steven Tyler hears the line “ohh we’re the kids of the underground” he would probably go back to drinking out of pure depression of not being able to write it himself.
The songs kept coming and the kids kept jumping. “Knock em down”, “Falling rain”, and “XTC Overdrive” are all out of this world. “I Don’t care” is another. A song Martin Sweet wrote with Mick Mars. They flew him in from LA to write songs with Martin Sweet and “I Dont Care” is the product.
Excellent.
It’s time now to tell all the aging hairmetal and sleaze rock bands still working hard to give us musical entertainment and joy that finally, finally a band steps up and takes over the throne from the monsters of the past. They can rest happily now, knowing that their heritage are in good hands.
That is, if the labels and the media lets them. CrashDiet’s potential can reach so high I do not see the end. Give them the chance and others will follow. If they’re allowed too, CrashDiet will be like Motley Crue was in the early 80’s and Guns N Roses was in the late 80’s. A benchmark and a trendsetter to the music scene like no other at the time
We’re all saved!
If the cog let’s us….
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