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| From | Jonathan Rundman <rundman@msn.com> |
| Subject | The Stepmothers / The Unforgiven |
| Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:15:48 -0600 |
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Hey Stewart,
I had never heard of the Stepmothers until I stumbled upon a webpage for a
mid-80s pre-alt-country Western-Rock band called The Unforgiven. I really
loved their only album when I was a kid, and I was pleased to find out that
the whole record (which never came out on CD) is on their webpage in MP3
form for free downloading!
Anyway...looks like The Unforgiven was an offshoot of The Stepmothers band
you're talking about. Here's the link:
http://www.roverpack.com/stepmothers.htm
Anybody else listen to The Unforgiven? A bizarre concept, for sure....hard
rock with cowboy themes...but some really cool tunes, and excellent guitar
playing by Johnny Hickman (who's now in Cracker).
Jonathan Rundman
http://www.jonathanrundman.com
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>
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:22:17 -0500
> From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Random question: The Stepmothers
> Message-ID: <004401c4df52$256c8dc0$1d02a8c0@Sparky>
>
> For some reason, I just got nostalgic about the LA punk scene, so I
> used that as a starting point for rooting around on that Singingfish
> site recently pimped here, which led me to all kinds of fun things
> (geez, I hadn't heard Youth Gone Mad's "Oki Dogs" in frickin'
> FOREVER!) and caused me to go buy a few things on Amazon as long as I
> was online. But I got reminded of a band I used to love, and I throw
> it out to you all: whatever happened to the guy from the Stepmothers?
> Their guitarist and songwriter, Jay Lansford, had a real knack for
> hooks, much more so than most of the other hardcore guys, and as far
> as I know they only released about a dozen songs in their entire
> lifetime. Did he ever go on to do anything else?
>
> If you ever find the YOU WERE NEVER MY AGE album (Poshboy, 1981), snap
> it up: "Where is the Dream?" is the only L.A. hardcore song I know of
> that sounds a lot like Cheap Trick's first album.
>
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