Brian Bart of Dare Force traces Twin Cities hair metal back to some rather astounding sources. Most notably, local 60's garage rock legends the Litter. How does he do that? Two words: Zippy. Caplan.
Zippy Caplan sang in The Litter and later in the hard-rock-teetering-on-heavy metal local act White Lightning. With White Lightning, the hair got longer, the pants a little tighter and the riffs a little heavier.
Another local forerunner to the metal bands featured in my article was Chameleon. Not ringing a bell? Maybe the name of their keyboard player would rattle your memory glands. I'll give you a hint: one name, rhymes with Donny.
Answer: Yanni.
Who said there were no surprises in metal?
There were a zillion Twin Cities metal bands in the '80s, as you can see from that slideshow of promo photos. Also check out the City Pages' show advertisements from these bands during that era. For this post, I zeroed in on three groups: Dare Force, Obsession and Slave Raider. Here's a little more on each of them ...
Read the rest here.
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