Kerrang!
I
can't tell you what this magazine article meant to me. When I was a
kid trying really hard to become a "rock star," Kerrang!
was my bible. Seriously. I waited for each and every issue as if my
life depended on it.
Well, my band
Primal Scream NYC was doing pretty well and I wasn't too surprised
when Kerrang! called. Howard Johnson was the "journo." We'd
been reviewed in the magazine a few issues prior, and while it wasn't
a glowing review, it was very promising. So, they called me one day
and I stammered my way through an interview. One of 
the
first of what would turn out to be many.
Time goes by and I forgot about the interview, believe it or not. The usual Friday comes and I find myself at Zig Zag Records in Brooklyn picking up the latest issue. Sit on the curb as I usually did and start to dig into the Judas Priest article. Turn the page and holy crap, there we are! I lost it. I hope to have the Kerrang! article transcribed soon, but you can read the scanned pages below.
That same year
we also appeared in Chuck Eddy's Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy
Metal Albums In The Universe. It's a goof, of 
course,
but funny. Click the image at the left to read the larger version.
The picture below is of Lara (her name and band's name) and myself. I included it on this page just because I dig the photo. Lara was an extremely cool project. Intense, ethereal and progressive music. It included acoustic and out-of-phase electric guitars, fretless bass, drums with no cymbals and female backing vocals. We gigged at places like the Limelight and the Cat Club. That picture was taken at the Rodeo Bar where we were playing acoustic, just her and I. We were together about two years or so and despite our manager's best efforts just couldn't make much headway with the assholes in the record industry. A shame really.
The
final image on the page is a scan of the Primal
Scream record cover. Most people don't believe me when I tell
them I released a recording under that name because there is another
band (still active) under that name and they are a hell of a lot more
well-known than we ever were. My group was first to release a recording
in the states. Had I registered the trademark I probably would have
made a little bit of money.
