THE
MIGHTY
MIGHTY
TONE
A word from critics that matter.
the Mighty Mighty Kids tell it like it is
"When we first got together, me and Gabby
decided we wanted to do bluesy punk rock in
the Stooges vein, or a raunchy Stones sound,"
says John Wickersham, guitarist for Orange
County's punkabilly Cadillac Tramps.
At the time, Brian (Coakley, on guitar) was
into Iggy Pop and James Brown, so we got a
combination of the two. Add Warren Renfrow
on bass and Spanky on drums, and the Tramps
started cruisin' We're definitely a live band,
all the way explains Wickersham, who sports
a tattoo of the Virgin Mary on his arm and a
full-piece of Saint Michael on his back. In the
studio, we're constantly striving to match the
energy that we get live think a lot of it is just
the visual thing for the audience. The shows
are crazy. They're meant to be entirely fun."
But every band has a flip side. "People might
see us and think we don't take nothing seri-
ously," Wickersham says. "Especially with
Gabby up there, because he's really funny and
we're just jumping around up there. But if you
listen to the record and read the lyrics, you'll
see that there's a whole other side to us."
Indeed, most of the Tramps' lyrics are writ-
ten in blood from past battle wounds and hard
times. Perfect for the white-trash blues.
-Sara Tassione
KRS-1
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Morbid Angel
With gruesome guitar riffs that evoke
ancient gods, demonic drum beats and
blasphemously unholy lyrics, Morbid
Angel have been pounding out a world.
wide reputation as masters of macabre
metal since they began in the mid-eight-
les. While on tour pumping their aggres
sive new album Covenant, vocalist and
bassist David Vincent spoke his mind.
Have you always played metal or did
you start with other things as a kid?
I was in the school orchestra. I took
piano lessons when I was a kid. I was in a
real musical family man, my dad had an
accordion, played stand-up bass violin
back in the school orchestra and that
what got me started playing bass.
How did you meet the other guys?
Well, met Troy Azagthoth (guitar)
back in 85 or '86. Then he joined the
band. Pete Sandoval (drums lived A
and we didn't even know him. We just
heard tapes of his playing and said that's
what we needed for the band. So we
seved up and sent the dude a bus ticket
and he came on out.
How do you like your guitars built?
Well, in my opinion, mahogany has the
nicest tone I don't like bolt on necks. I'
prefer a dovetail neck joint-overall Tray
Azagthoth likes his guitars to have quite
a flat fingerboard with twenty-four frets.
Are your guitars custom-built?
Yup. Hamor Guitars in Chicago custom
builds all our instruments-feenthed
There are
blossoms in which
you can peel away a
protective layer and discover at
beautiful flower hidden inside. Then
again, that same blossom can also
yield an ugly stank.
KRS-One is a rap pioneer. His is at
story from which legends are
made. Homeless at age 13, Kris
Parker struggled to survive on the
streets of New York during a time when rap
music was coming into its own.
A runaway, KRS-One wound up at the
Franklin Armory Men's Shelter, in the mid-
eighties, where he met a social worker
who later became known as Scott La
Rock. La Rock's passion and skill on the
turntables, coupled with KRS-One's ability
to spit lyrics in a forceful, yet rhythmic style lead the two to
team up, forming the crew Boogie Down Productions.
Their first album, Criminal Minded, released in 1987, was
as close to gangsta rap as you were going to get at that
time with songs like "Poetry," about drugs in the streets of
South Bronx, and "9mm Goes Bang." Unfortunately, life
sometimes has an uncanny way of imitating art. La Rock was
gunned down later that year trying to break-up a fight.
The Incident did not deter KRS-One from forging ahead with his
plans to make BDP one of the dopest rap crews in history. The crew,
which consisted of D-Nice, Miss Melodie, Jamal-ski, and others, experi
enced various degrees of success with the release of albums like By All
Means Necessary, Ghetto Music, and Edutainment.
During that time KRS-One built a reputation for himself as a hip hop
prophet of sorts. His lyrics successfully made the transition from guns,
drugs and money to the history of African-Americans and the promotion of
nationalism. He became sought out on the college lecture circuit, talk
shows, and in print media like The New York Times. KRS-One had ceased
being a rapper trying to get a nut. He had become a pop icon.
His desire to keep BDP intact would eventually become folklore since he
now states. "When Scott was killed I jumped into a solo career from that
point on. The rest of the albums were pretty much released by me." But
what about D-Nice, Jamal-ski, and the rest of the crow (continued on page 80
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