Saturday
Mar302013
'Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie' Final Trailer Released
Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 12:01AM
The final trailer for Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie was just released. The film's director is Drew Fortier and his goal is a summer release. Keep tabs on the movie by joining the film's official Facebook page.
Reader Comments (18)
Would love to see this film. Hell, Anvil gave themselves a huge it would seem shot in the arm with their movie. Bring on the official Tora Tora documentary! They were awesome at Rocklahoma 2008.
An unrelated note.....that has had me scratching my head for the last couple of days. Did Ratt ever do the power ballad thing? They are one of the top 5-10 hair bands and I can't think of a ballad! I'm a sucker for a great ballad and man enough to say so. But where is Ratts???? Don't know their catalog inside out, so there may be one in there. Things that make you go hmmmmm
It was a flop at being a ballad. The band finding that Stephen's inability to sing any other way that talking his vocals, just didn't work for that type of song.
As for other B & C level bands, Check out the 1st LP by D'Molls , or the 1st 3 Black N' Blue records. Good stuff.
Thanks for the tips
But I need to ask a similar question to one I posed awhile ago about another band/singer: does anyone here wonder about Lesté? This movie, even the teaser, seems to be talking about a version of the band that no longer exists. If I were to draw a parallel to any other person it would be Russell.
I mean no disrespect to their place in the music scene, but Lesté seems to be heading towards a fall (in comparison, D'Priest and London, esp. post-Grey, just seem like a delusion).
Leste, Bang Tango AND Black 'n Blue are alive and well and in full force on The Monsters of Rock Cruise. St. Jaimes was in full force with most of the original band intact save Tommy Thayer, obviously.
St. Jamie's can still sing his a*s off, too, never sounding better, as I witnessed point blank on the cruise. Leste, who's vocal stylings have always rivaled that of my neighbor's dog, has gotten even worse, on the other hand.
Still, there's no taking away "Someone Like You" from him -- that tune stands as one of THE Greatest 80's Hair Metal songs of All Time and also just happens to be quite bada*s, to boot, IMHO. I look forward to seeing the documentary as Bang Tango's saga is quite amazing, including how they were fired -- a story Leste personally related to me over a drink on the maiden voyage of The Monsters of Rock Cruise about a year ago.
p.s. I agree with Gary and I cannot believe the Spinal Tap-esque typo Kenny O detected. Kenny O -- Check out one of our hero's, Ted Poley, delivering a nice version of "Naughty Naughty" from The Pre-Pre Party for this year's Monsters of Rock Cruise on YouTube:
I do think Bang Tango's newest album Pistol Whipped in the Bible Belt is a good album. I recommend the tracks 'Dick in the System' and 'I like It'. Leste's voice is a little strained, but the songs still rock pretty hard.
Everyone just seems to be stuck in a High School mentality and it just stands to reason considering that was the time for most of us when the music was in it's heyday.
That coupled with the fact that most of the people who are into this music -- note, I said "most", not all -- only have the equivalent of a High School education or SOME college, myself included. Or "some college", or if you did happen to graduate, most likely your still stuck in it. Or, maybe you're that rare bread who's a PHD who is just plain still lovin' the music.
One things for sure, whatever social strata you're from, you revel in this music. But, like some on MORC, especially the bands, your growth may be stunted in the ways of the social graces.
And so it came to pass when they threw together the adhoc supergroup known as Cinderella & Friends, they got John Corabi, which makes sense because he just came back from a tour of South America with Cinderella bassist, Eric Brittingham and their supergroup, Lost Angels, and Jacob Bunton from Lynam, to hold down the fort, with Britny Fox drummer, Johnny Dee, pinch hitting for Fred Coury for a good third of the show.
Stalwart Cinderella second fiddle, Jeff LeBar, was in total seventh heaven, taking the lion's share of the solos without Kiefer there to rain on his parade. I thought this was the ultimate Birthday present for LeBar, as he really got to shine without Tommy Boy there. He totally tore it up on "Highway To Hell" with Jeff Keith killin' it on vocals.
LeBar totally nailed the solos on "Tie Your Mother Down". Corabi handled vocal duties on that as well as "Maggie May". Corabi also did a helluva job on Free's "Alright Now", including the solo, which he later told me he "completely grabbed out of his a*s".
But things really started getting crazy when all the vocalists started showing up -- Quireboys' "Spike" on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Stay With Me", and totally went wild when Jason McMaster and guitarist Paul Lidel of "Dangerous Toys" took the stage.
McMaster was out of control, just killin' it on "You Got Another Thing Coming" and "Back In Black", doing actual impressions of the original singers right down to their moves. And Lidel tore up the leads. Taime Downe did a fairly decent job on Cinderella's own "Save Me". Ron Keel also kicked a*s on "Breakin' The Law".
But there was someone conspicuously missing from this mostly L.A. bunch... Yep, you guessed it -- Joe Leste, who was apparently heard bitchin' that they intentionally screwed him out of it. If that is indeed the case, it wouldn't surprise me, though it's unfortunate because it would have been cool to hear him do a Cinderella song, given his totally trashed voice.
Oh, well, welcome back to High School, Joe.