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WEAPON BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Weapon | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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United Kingdom | |
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STATUS
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Disbanded | |
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FORMED IN
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GENRE
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Heavy metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2003-11-17, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2007-10-09, 04:29 | |
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| Band biography |
Jeff Summers tells the story of Weapon:
Fast Relief was my first serious band and was formed circa 1978. The members of the band swapped around the nucleus of Pete and Lindsey from Flex and myself. Other members included singer Brian Keeting, singer Danny Hynz and guitarist Kevin Ingles. Gigs consisted of touring the live gig circuit throughout Britain, playing mostly original material with some of our own favourites thrown in. Again, we made many demos, one of which was comprised of a song named after the band, namely Fast Relief. This song became quite popular on the London heavy music scene and was played in a number of local discos. I later changed the name of this seminal song to Set The Stage Alight and my next band would benefit from the name change! Eventually after attracting a passing interest from some major record companies, Fast Relief changed a few members and metamorphosed into Weapon.
Weapon was my first professional band. The year was 1979 and the line-up consisted of drummer Bruce Bisland, singer/bassist Barry Downes, I on vocals and guitars and Danny Hynz on lead vocals. It was the tail-end of 1979 and Fast Relief had just been told that to secure a deal with Virgin Music Publishing we would need to replace both our drummer and bass player. Bruce Bisland had been playing drums in my brother Steve's band Lipservice and was approached to join us at this time along with Baz Downes who was a friend of Danny's. We felt that with a change of personnel and such a drastic improvement in the sound of the band we should change the band's name as well. Danny had a saying; every time that he heard something good or felt well he would say it was a "Weapon" - very Irish! So we changed our name (to that)!
During 1980 we toured Britain extensively including a supporting slot on the {Motorhead} Ace of Spades Tour. We played all original material and released a 12" double-A side single called It's a Mad Mad World with the second song Set The Stage Alight probably the more successful song of the two. We also mastered the following songs at Virgin's Beautiful Studios: The Townhouse, The Manor, Liar, Take That Bottle Away, One Night Stand, Midnight Satisfaction, Olivia and Remote Control. Despite mastering these songs at the said studio, they were never released at the time due to a change of A&R policy with Virgin at the time.
However the original "Weapon" tapes have now been tracked down and are being released via Zoom club records! The Album is to be called Set the stage Alight and it will feature around 14 original songs from the period 1979-1980!!
[This story was told by Jeff Summers in an exclusive interview with Metallian.com.]
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