Cold sweat

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Cold sweat
General information
origin Los Angeles , California , United States
Genre (s) Hard rock
founding 1988 as Ferarri
resolution 1991 as Sweatin 'Bullets
Founding members
Marc Ferrari
guitar
Eric Gamans
Mark Normand
Anthony White
Jesse "Oni" Logan
Last occupation
guitar
Billy D'Vette
guitar
Erik Gamans
bass
Chris McLernon
Drums
Anthony White
singing
Rory Cathy

Cold Sweat was the band of the American guitarist Marc Ferrari, who had become known through his participation in the band Keel (and in which he later rejoined). During the three years of its existence, it presented only one album.

history

Marc Ferrari left the band Keel at the height of its success: Keel had recorded sales-generating albums, had been touring the USA, Europe and Japan with the greats of the genre like Bon Jovi , Mötley Crüe and Van Halen and had worked for American rock magazines best American band of the year. The downside of the coin was that the band head Ron Keel wanted to decide and perform more and more alone. The declining team spirit on the human level as well as the increasing keyboard background on the musical level prompted Ferrari to break away in order to realize himself with his own band. So he founded Ferrari in North Hollywood ( Los Angeles ) in autumn 1988 . The first line-up included singer Jesse “Oni” Logan, guitarist Erik Gamans, bassist Mark Normand and drummer Anthony White, with Gamans, a former Waysted guitarist, who had the most notable band participation. Normand had been a member of a new Angel line-up and White, who had been around the Los Angeles club scene, had been on stage with Mark Slaughter for a while. When choosing his teammates, Ferarri was more concerned with finding young, good-looking, ravenous people with no flair than difficult guys with experience.

Shortly before a record deal with MCA Records was signed, Chris McLernon replaced Mark Normand on bass. White had brought him up for discussion. To the management , several companies applied, the contract was awarded to Wendy Dio, wife of musician Ronnie James Dio and owner of Niji management. The band gave their first major concert at the beginning of 1989 as the opening act for BulletBoys in the sold-out Hollywood Palace. When the Italian automaker Ferrari found out about the band, it threatened legal action if the name continued to be used. It was decided to make the band name their own song title, Cryin 'Shame . But this name was claimed by an American club band consisting of veteran jazz musicians . Since a logo had already been designed (the intertwined initials C and S), a name with the same initial letters had to be found. The new name chosen fell on the Thin-Lizzy title Cold Sweat .

In May 1989 a studio was booked for Cold Sweat. After the first day, Jesse "Oni" Logan found the new project of ex- Dokken guitarist George Lynch , Lynch Mob , much more attractive than Cold Sweat and changed sides, which meant the immediate interruption of the recording. Over the next six months, the musicians listened to each other through 250 cassette submissions from applicants from all over the world, including the later Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone and the later Steel Panther and LA Guns singer Ralph Saenz. Roy Cathey, born in North Carolina and singing in a cover band in Florida, won the bid . They persuaded him to change his first name to "Rory". MCA understood the delay and set a new studio date for the fall. Ferrari, Gamans, Cathey, McLernon and White recorded their debut album Break Out at Sound City Studio in Los Angeles under the direction of producer Kevin Beamish ( Y&T , Leatherwolf , Saxon ). The release took place in the USA in June 1990 with MCA Records and in Germany in August 1990 with Teldec . DC in June to deny a US tour in the opening act of Savatage , merging into one lasting until August tour with the Dutch of Sleeze Beez . This was followed by appearances in the USA with Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen . In Europe, Cold Sweat performed at the Monsters of Rock in Mannheim in 1990 and headlined the Borderline Club in London. This was followed by a headlining tour in her home country, during which she got an existential message from Wendy Dio in November. The MTV presented video to the song Let's Make Love Tonight had been accepted, but MCA had quit the band. The intense live presence should have been preceded by an application for the album, which MCA was not prepared to do.

Back in Los Angeles they wrote new songs, offered them labels , met with interest, but didn't agree with any and were internally disagreed about how to proceed. This led Ferrari to leave the group around May 1991. A month later, a replacement had been found in Billy D'Vette. It was renamed Sweatin 'Bullets, but in the same month that this was announced in German magazines with the additional note that a second LP was being created, namely in October 1991, the band broke up. Guitarist Erik Gamens tried to revive Waysted with Pete Way . After the failure he founded the band Pain Society with singer Rory Cathey. The rhythm musicians Chris McLernon and Anthony White united with the two Black-'n-Blue musicians Tommy Thayer and Jaime St. James to form the Kiss co-band Cold Gin. McLernon later accepted the offer to join Saigon Kick . Cathey returned to North Carolina in 2002 and founded The Fifth there under his real name, Roy Cathey. Marc Ferrari's start-up Medicine Wheel survived a slightly longer period of time than Cold Sweat, but in 2008 he found his income again with Keel. In previous years he had worked in various functions, for example as a songwriter or supporting actor in a rock comedy ( Wayne's World ).

style

Cold Sweat's German record company Teldec advertised the album, among other things, with the fact that two guitar styles came together in the band: Ferrari's basis is the blues and traditional rock , while Gamans, with his Eddie Van Halen-like style of playing, is the "unorthodox metal style of the 80s “Bring in. Rudi Keuntje took up this dualism in the metal star interview with Ferrari. The addressee emphasized that it was a matter of intent, because one wanted to be interesting and not hastily categorized.

Mathias Penzel said in Metal Hammer that the songs mostly sound like Dokken, sometimes like Mötley Crüe, but are always without a compact structure, as the melodies and vocal performances are behind the guitar parts. In his band introduction in The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition , which was taken over by the Internet platform Allmusic , Colin Larkin wrote the opposite. He found the song material impressive, the teamwork of the guitarists successful and Cathey's singing talent on par with the instrumental versatility of his colleagues. He called the style melodic hard rock . Martin Popoff attested the band in his Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties musical ability and an entertainment value that builds on the Californian metal melodrama à la early Van Halen. In terms of their fresh, fresh style, the band also reminds us of the beginnings of Ratt , Black 'n Blue, Racer X as well as of Dokken in their middle phase.

"Powerful US hard rock brands Dokken or Ratt" will be presented, stated Holger Stratmann in Rock Hard . He was “not earth-shattering, but good.” For his colleague Andreas Schöwe ​​from Metal Hammer , it was “straight rock with a good portion of blues feeling.” In contrast , David Coverdale would occasionally fade, so he saw a “declaration of war in Cold Sweat David Coverdale and Dio ”.

According to Marc Ferrari, his band has touches of Whitesnake , Tesla , Bad Company , Thin Lizzy and Great White . "Straight rock'n'roll - with very few keyboards."

Discography

  • 1990: Break Out (album, MCA)

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Teldec Record Service GmbH Promotion Zentrale (Hrsg.): Cold Sweat (=  Teldec Info ). Hamburg 1990 (laundry slip).
  2. a b c d e f g h Tina Ehmke, Andreas Schöwe: Cold Sweat. The new band of Marc Ferrari . In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. No. 17-18 / 1990 , August 24, 1990, pp. 54 .
  3. a b c d e f g h i Chris McLernon: A Bit of Your Past… Cold Sweat. In: chrismclernon.com. 2002, accessed June 12, 2016 .
  4. a b c d e f g h i j Cold Sweat. Biography. (No longer available online.) In: rockdetector.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  5. a b Rudi Keuntje: Cold Sweat . In: Metal Star . Europe's leading hard rock. March 1991, p. 82 f .
  6. a b Marc Ferrari. That was probably nothing . In: Metal Hammer / Crash . International hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. August 1990, “Hot & heavy” news. The Metal Hammer Newsline, pp. 6 .
  7. a b c d [Colin Larkin]: Cold Sweat. Artist Biography. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved June 12, 2016 (text taken from The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition , Guinness Publishing, Enfield, Middlesex, England, 1995, p. 84).
  8. John Strednansky: Studio news. Los Angeles . In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal magazine. No. 11-12 / 1990 , June 1, 1990, pp. 108 f .
  9. Marc Ferrari . In: Break Out . The Heavy Rock Magazine. June 1991, News Cruise, p. 6 .
  10. Cold Sweat . In: Break Out . The Heavy Rock Magazine. July 1991, News, p. 6 .
  11. Cold Sweat . In: Break Out . The Heavy Rock Magazine. October 1991, News, p. 7 .
  12. ^ Mathias Penzel: Cold Sweat. Break out . In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. No. 17–18 / 1990 , August 24, 1990, LP Reviews, pp. 66 .
  13. ^ Colin Larkin: The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition . Guinness Publishing, Enfield, Middlesex, England 1995, ISBN 0-85112-656-1 , Cold Sweat, pp. 84 .
  14. Martin Popoff: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , Cold Sweat - Break Out, pp. 84 .
  15. ^ Holger Stratmann: Cold Sweat. Break out. In: rockhard.de. November 1990, accessed on June 12, 2016 (from issue no.44).
  16. Andreas Schöwe: Super Rock 1990. When the legends die ... In: Metal Hammer . The international hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. No. 19-20 / 1990 , September 21, 1990, Cold Sweat, pp. 132 .

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