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 NASTY IDOLS
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CURRENT NAME
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Nasty Idols | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Malmö, Skåne Län, Sweden | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1987 | |
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LABEL
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Currently unsigned | |
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GENRE
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Hard rock | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2004-04-08, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2007-05-05, 15:45 | |
| Band biography |
...yeah pretty much like that. There was nothing else we wanted to do really. When I met Dick Qwarfort, the bassplayer I knew that I had found just the right brother to pull it off with. He looked like a deadringer for Vince Neil from Mötley Crues "Live Wire" video and had the same appetite as me to form a band that could kick the shit out of the totally boring music scene in Sweden at the time. With influences like Mötley Crue, Kiss, Sweet and Alice Cooper.
We started the band around 1987. A freind of mine from school - Chris Vance became the first guitarplayer. Dick knew this totally crazy dude called George Swanson that could play the drums. We decided to call the band Nasty Idols. A name I came up with in my boyroom when I was 17 and staring at album cover of New York Dolls. Our first gig was in August of 1987 at a festival in our home town. We played mostly our own material and ended the show with the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City". Shortly after the first gig we went in to a studio and recorded our first demo. The two songs "Don't Walk From Love" and "Easy Come Easy Go" was our first claim to fame. We paid ourselves for the printing of 1000 vinyl singles. I remember that we were very picky with the coverphoto. We wanted to look as we were the biggest rockstars on the planet.
In 1988 we got signed to the small independent label HSM Records after being dumped by a porno producer that wanted to get into the musicindustry. He was "playing for the other team" and we thought he wanted more out of us than just selling our music. By the end of 1989 we released our first album called "Gigolos On Parole". By the time of the release we were so sick and tired of the songs that we almost didn't wanna play them live. But we did and people started to come to our shows and liked what they saw and heard. .
We did some TV shows including a Swedish Chart show called "Listan". I made an interview on the show sitting next to a life size inflatable doll. I thought that the idea sucked from the beginning. But the others in the band insisted that I should appear with the dumb looking doll. I was very relived when they later decided to drop the interview for the national broadcasting.
In the year of 1990 we got a new guitarplayer. Peter Espinoza replaced Johnnie Wee and proved to be the injection that we needed. He was a brilliant guitarplayer with long black hair. We couldn't wait to write more songs. The first two songs to be recorded was "Alive 'n Kickin'" and "B.I.T.C.H." Our recordlabel thought it was so great that they released a single in the spring of 1990, even before we had any songs for a full album.
We got great reviews and suddenly other countries began to show interest in our upcoming rock 'n roll machine. In February of 1991 we released "Cruel Intention" - probably the best album we've done. The video for the song "Cool Way Of Living" was shown on the MTV show "Headbangers Ball", SuperChannel and lots of other TV channels around in Europe. The Swedish and International press also tock notice and wrote a lot of pieces about us. In the first two days we had sold over 4500 copies in Sweden alone. The second video "Can't Get Ya' Off My Mind" and the third "Trashed 'n' Dirty" made us established in the genre. That year we did a lot of touring between the promotion for the album. By the end of the year the album was also released in both Germany and Japan.
In the summer of 1992 our original drummer was replaced by a guy called Stanley. We started to work on new material for our third album. In October of 1993 we released "Vicious". The first video was for the opening track "Heads Down In Tinseltown", a fast rocker that was all the Nasty Idols was about at that time; Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. The second video "Ain't Got Nothin'" showed a more darker side of us.
By the time of 1994 the goodtimes of our type of rock was about to vanish out the door when the Seattle era came along. It wasn't hard to see were it was going - but there was nothing we could do about it. We started to record our fourth album after our precious guitarplayer Peter Espinoza had left us for other projects. With a new guy called Mikkie Nielsen we managed to record a bunch of songs before our record label went bankruppt. We called the album "The Fourth Riech" but later changed it to "Heroes For Sale".
Andy Pierce - leadsinger of Nasty Idols 15 November 2005
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