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| From | Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Anvil |
| Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:22:06 -0400 |
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Anna Borg wrote about Anvil's new documentary.
And, yes, they're the real deal. Spinal Tapian or not, there's a dozen reasons why they never broke big -- the biggest being the label they were on for so many years Attic Records (one-time employer of BongoBeat Records' Ralph Alfonso...who did promo for the label and for Anvil, among others).
Attic just didn't have the pull to make them into metal mavens having dropped them into the international market on a licensing deal with the early version of Road Runner Records. Besides, they were too busy making a young Karen Greening into metal queen superstar Lee Aaron instead. Lee was a much more sellable package: hot rock chick in a loin cloth vanquishing leather-clad 20 something metalheads.
I ran into Rob and Lipps at CFRB radio in March. I was just finishing up a promo radio run with members of Klaatu when we bumped into the Anvil boys out in front of the station taking a smoke break waiting for their turn on the same show (Rock Talk and Sirius Iceberg 85). They were dressed exactly the same as they appear on stage -- black leather, headbands, long hair. In fact, they looked exactly the same as they did when I used to watch them in clubs like The Gasworks, The ElMocambo and Larry's Hideaway in the '80s. Time has stood still for these boys. Glad good things are finally happening for them.
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