Bands in the "Metal" chapter of the 1980 new wave guide I just bought for $2 off a seemingly homeless guy set up on the sidewalk of St Marks Street

No Nutz, Money or Quartz?!

nope! no marseille or angel city, either!! (though maybe they are in the chapters about europe and australia; i didn't check yet.)

oh yeah, the authors are glenn a. baker and stuart coupe. never heard of 'em!

Who are these?

wild horses
girl
shooting star
the rockets
the boyzz
voyager
british lions

I used to have a book by glenn a. baker and stuart coupe. It was called "The New Rock" or something like that. It was an oversized paperback with biographies on new wave/post-punk bands. The book had a heavy Australian slant because one of the authors was from there.

It was my bible for a couple of years in the early 80s.

The Boyzz were a band from Illinois (Actually, they were previously called The Boyzz from Illinois, I'm not kidding. Anyway...not metal in any sense of the word. More like your standard bar band. One LP, I think. Maybe on Epic.

And..I think one of the Def Leppard guitarists,(the really short guy) used to be in Girl.

>>wild horses

Thin Lizzy guitarist -- I forget which one (oh, yeah Brian Robertson) -- and assorted heavy rock side men, Roger Bain on bass, Neal Carter, who wound up in UFO. I had a record by them. Workmanlike, competent, three or four good tunes of collision and riff.

>>girl

Phil Collen of Def Leppard. The singer for the LA Guns, pre both bands. First album good. Second album terrible. Reissued with a lot of live stuff, most of it bad.

>>the rockets

Detroit rockers who had some success in the mid-80's arena scene as perennial opener by dint of cover of Peter Green's "Oh Well." John Bdanjek (Detroit Wheels) on drums, Jim McCarty (Detroit Wheels, Cactus) and Dave Gilbert (who had worked with Ron Asheton post Stooges). Gilbert's dead. McCarty's still around, but for the Rockets he was considerably turned down from Cactus days, except for their live record. "No Ballads" was their highpoint. It's not in print.

>>the boyzz

"Too Wild to Tame," best song on the same-named album. Portrayed as biker gang with lead singer Dirty Dan Buck. Album was a bit of a letdown after the opening cut blew you out of the room. Not quite as good as the Godz second album, "Nothing Is Sacred."

Changed their name to the B'zzz abd ditched the biker gang image on the cover for a bumblebee artwork. First tune on The B'zzzz sounded just as great as "Too Wild to Tame," then all downhill. They had a hard time getting beyond one great riff for an entire record.

>>british lions

Mott without the Hoople, or what happened to Mott after Ian Hunter left -- which was "Drive On" and "Shouting & Pointing" -- and after those albums tanked, too. Did a cover of Kim Fowley's "International Heroes" which was about their best thing, sounding sort of like vintage glam Mott, which it probably was, me betting Fowley wrote it as a copycat tune.

No Nutz?

Nutz were mostly 70's. By the 80's they'd changed their name to Rage.

Chuck, who are Voyager?

The important thing to ask is if those bands had the boogie to hang with Uriah Heep and Grand Funk Railroad.

The Rockets' "Oh Well" has MORE boogie than GFRR or Uriah Heep!

I have no idea who Voyager are. In the book, there is just a photo; caption says they come from the UK. They have poofy hair. One of them is wearing a skinny tie. Never heard of 'em before. Never will again.

>I used to have a book by glenn a. baker and stuart coupe. It was called "The New Rock" or something like that. It was an oversized paperback with biographies on new wave/post-punk bands. The book had a heavy Australian slant because one of the authors was from there.<

Yeah, this is one and the same book! They are definitely Aussies, it turns out. Book is actually called *The New Music," though....