#trixter band

[spacerose747]

Guys you know those um ribbon bikini things you might see women in for Christmas like "I wrapped my bf a present and it's me 🤫😇🤭✨💅❤" type deal???

Not to be horny on main yet again but imagine your comfort rockstars in that and thank me later

[metal-sludge]

TRIXTER (1983 - present) | HIT PARADER, January 1993.

[heavymetal]

“Let’s Play A Game”…Keep 8.

[rockwithbibberly]

YOU GUYS. The Trixter show last night was awesome! They played songs from every era (including the covers album and PJ's solo work) and are 100% on top of their game. They ended up playing electric instead of acoustic, which honestly I prefer (although of course I would have loved it either way). It was Steve Brown's birthday (hence the balloons on the stage), and we sang happy birthday before cake was passed around the crowd.

You can truly sense the bond that Steve and PJ have after all these years of playing together. They have so much stage presence without fancy sets and such. They know how to keep the audience attentive with little stories about the songs and the band throughout the years. It was just amazing overall.

I got to meet them after the show! They were so nice. That pic with Steve is actually on the stage - long story short, a friend knows a guy. I was starstruck and babbling but he was cool about it. I got PJ to sign my jewel card from the first CD, and he said, "This is in too good of condition!" So I had to explain that I had it on cassette (still do!) but that had fallen apart so I eventually bought the CD.

This was absolutely a bucket list night for me!

[only-a-heartbeat-away]

day 349 - favorite song by a band/artist that begins with the letter T

[greensparty]

Documentary Reviews: Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal / BOOM! A Film About The Sonics

This week I got to review 2 different types of documentaries: a doc mini-series and an indie doc that is finally getting released a few years after it's festival premiere:

Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal

I have to say, I've been digging the recent music documentaries on Paramount+. Notably, the recent doc mini-series Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza looked back at the alt-rock music festival. Best of all is that Paramount+ is able to pull footage from MTV News since MTV is a part of Paramount. So now a new 3-part music documentary mini-series has dropped this week, Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of 80s Hair Metal. Based on the 2021 book of the same name written by Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock (he co-wrote the companion book Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which I'm a fan of), this doc is a deep dive into 1980s hair metal. The main emphasis is on L.A. and the Sunset Strip scene, but there is a few bands from outside L.A. featured as well. The give a segment to each band and then there is intersecting of bands at various points thereafter. Just some of the bands covered include Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Extreme, Skid Row, Vixen, and Trixter among others. There are a lot of talking head interviewees and some of the anecdotes get animated sequences to emphasize the absurdity of some of the stories.

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When I was a kid I got into metal and as a teen I was a metalhead for a while. Early tapes I owned included Twister Sister and Motley Crue. As I got older, my musical tastes evolved and some of the hair metal I was into earlier seemed ridiculous in contrast with alt rock, which seemed to have something more meaningful to say. Now as a grown up, I can look back at hair metal and realize some of it, even if it was completely over the stop, was fun and some of their songs were melodic and catchy. I've always had a special place for some of these bands. In the case of Boston's Extreme I was a big fan after discovering them on V66 as a kid I was thrilled to interview some of the members for my documentary Life on the V: The Story of V66. This doc features their guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, recounting many tales. Some of these bands didn't look at themselves as hair metal, they actually wanted to be long lasting and alas then metal got wiped out by grunge and many of the bands were dropped, broke up, or imploded. I thought it was cool they had other interviewees like director Penelope Spheeris, Steve-O, and Riki Rachtman too. As a fan who remembered that scene and was fond of the scene, I dug this doc series. But it could be that I'm too close to it to be able to judge this as a documentary and clearly say how good or comprehensive it was. They definitely hit a lot of the bands and touchstone moments of that era, but I do wish they had maybe discussed MTV's Headbanger's Ball, metal press (RIP, Circus, Hit Parader, or Metal Edge) and some of the tragedies of the scene (Steve Clark of Def Leppard comes to mind). They briefly touched upon female artists like Vixen, but I think there was room to dig deeper since there was a lot of misogyny in the music and the industry at the time. Bottom line: this is good as an overview, but with so much ground to cover it only scratched the surface at times.

For info on Nothin' But a Good Time

3.5 out of 5 stars

BOOM: A Film About The Sonics

Documentaries about the "band that time forgot" is a fascinating sub-genre within the music documentary sub-genre (a sub sub genre!?!). The idea that a band never got super famous, but made just enough of a splash to influence others and amass a cult following has become quite a popular theme in the last 10-15 years. Case in point is the Tacoma, WA garage band The Sonics, who began in 1960. I didn't know them too well, but I had been hearing a lot about the documentary BOOM: A Film About The Sonics since it had it's festival premiere in 2018. It is now being distributed by the Forge with a number of indie cinema screenings including The Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA this past week.

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Formed in 1960, the quintet had a raw garage rock sound that influenced the likes of The Stooges, Nirvana, The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, The Hives, and more. They released two albums in the 1960s on Etiquette Records. There is a line drawn between this band and the Seattle music scene that everyone knew in the 80s and 90s. Among the featured interviewees in addition to the Sonic members are Nancy Wilson of Heart, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Mark Arm of Mudhoney, and Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America. Ballew sums it up best when he pointed out that were was fun party music like The Sonics from Seattle and it wasn't all gloomy grunge.

I didn't know too much about The Sonics beforehand, but I was attracted to this mainly because of the interviewees and my love of Seattle music. As someone who didn't know them, I kind of wished they had spent a little more time on the music itself and not just on the band history. It does show some of the band's many reunions since the 60s and how many Seattle luminaries hold them in high regard (I spotted Nirvana's Krist Novoselic in a clip of their reunion show). The director did a move that can go either way, which is injecting himself into the doc with his intro and outro. There's a joke that some documentarians set out to make a film about a subject and then they just end up making a doc about themselves and their interest in the subject. Director Jordan Albertsen managed to do it effectively by not overtaking the doc but just giving a brief anecdote about discovering them through his father. Bottom line: the doc is interesting and more than anything I wanted to go out and listen to this band more after watching the doc.

For info on BOOM

3 out of 5 stars

[eyes-of-rock]

and also how much do you know about the blood sweat and beers tour (warrant, trixter, and firehouse) because my god i have heard some insane stories about that

I am all for the unhingedness, spill the stories I haven't heard much but judging by the bands these will be amazing.

[jaybe11]

MARK GUS SCOTT on TRIXTER History & I try to solve the band’s problems

[spacerose747]

"what's your favorite band rn?"

Erm actually I love all of my cults equally thank you

(Don't make me choose)

Teehee

[metal-sludge]

WINGER, DANGEROUS TOYS, DANGER DANGER, and TRIXTER hang out with dogs | HIT PARADER, July 1991.

[heavymetal]

According to VH1 the Top 40 Hair Band’s are: 1. POISON, 2. TWISTED SISTER, 3. BON JOVI, 4. MOTLEY CRUE, 5. CINDERELLA, 6. WARRANT, 7. QUIET RIOT, 8. DEF LEPPARD, 9. SLAUGHTER, 10. DOKKEN, 11. RATT, 12. WINGER, 13. WHITESNAKE, 14. WHITE LION, 15. GREAT WHITE, 16. LITA FORD, 17. SKID ROW, 18. KISS, 19. BRITNY FOX, 20. SCORPIONS, 21. EUROPE, 22. WASP, 23. VIXEN, 24. FIREHOUSE, 25. DANGER, DANGER, 26. MR. BIG, 27. STRYPER, 28. LA GUNS, 29. TRIXTER, 30. BULLET BOYS, 31. TESLA, 32. SAIGON KICK, 33. KIX, 34. AUTOGRAPH, 35. FASTER PUSSYCAT, 36. NIGHT RANGER, 37. STEELHEART, 38. JACKYL, 39. EXTREME and 40. HANOI ROCKS/MICHAEL MONROE.

[rockwithbibberly]

I'm going to see acoustic Trixter tomorrow! So excited.

I was thinking about how I had Trixter (and other bands) pics all over my walls, locker, folders, etc. in the early 90's, but I don't have a lot of photos of that. In the days of paying for film and developing, it was hard to justify paying to take a picture of pictures. But I do have this one from 1993, where you can see some Trixter. I didn't normally wear a large wooden cross around my neck; this happened to be the day of my confirmation. I had changed out of the dress but left on the cross we were required to wear, and my mom left her pink blazer in my room.

[green-tinted-sixties-mind]

favourite tunes friday:

one in a million - trixter

requested by: @white-lightning-625

[johanhawk]

Fan girls of Poison with members of Trixter 💋👠🍻☠️🤘🏻

[sophiezscanz]