Vicky Hamilton

Vicky Hamilton 2007

Vicky Hamilton (born April 1, 1958 in Charleston , West Virginia ) is an American music manager. She was best known as the manager of hair metal bands such as Guns n 'Roses , Poison and Faster Pussycat .

Life

Hamilton initially grew up in West Virginia until the family later moved to Fort Wayne , Indiana . She graduated from New Haven High School in New Haven in 1976 . She then attended the Fort Wayne Art Institute, but left without a degree to work in the music industry.

First she worked in a record store in Fort Wayne, where she made contacts with the music magazine Three Rivers Reviews, for which she wrote concert reviews. At a concert she met Tom Petty , whom she was allowed to interview. He suggested she move to California . She followed the advice and started working at the Licorice Pizza record store on the Sunset Strip . She also worked as a waitress in several music clubs. It was there that she began her career as a booker and manager.

Her mentor was Mario Maglieri, the owner of the Rainbow on the Sunset Strip. In the record store she also met Mötley Crüe , the first band she was to manage. When the band was finally supposed to sign with Elektra Records , their history together ended.

Their next clients became Stryper , but the collaboration was short-lived due to the band's Christian ideology. The collaboration with Poison followed, which eventually led to a deal with Enigma Records . The collaboration with the label deal also ended there.

In 1984 she began to work for Guns n 'Roses or for the previous band Hollywood Rose, in which Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin played together. At the time, Hamilton also knew Slash , who played for the band Black Sheep, which she also managed, and brought the three together. Together with Steven Adler and Duff McKagan , Hollywood Rose became the band's first line-up. The band even stayed at Hamilton's apartment for several months while trying to promote the band. In the end, she actually managed to find a deal with Geffen Records . Although the collaboration was ended shortly afterwards and Hamilton even had to sue the band to get back lost money, she also became an A&R manager there from 1988 and managed artists such as Darling Cruel, Faster Pussycat, the Lostboys and Salty Dog .

After leaving Geffen in 1992, she moved to Vapor Records from 1994 to 1996 and worked as a consultant for Capitol Records from 1997 to 1999 . At the same time she had her own label Small Hairy Dog, which only released June Carter Cash's album Press On . This received a Grammy Award for the best traditional folk album.

From 2001 to 2010 she worked as a booker in the Sinister bar in Hollywood. At the same time, she trained A&R professionals at the A&R Registry and from 2007 to 2010 at the Musicians Institute .

In 2016 her biography Appetite for Dysfunction was published , on which she said she worked for more than seven years .

Works

• Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale . Lightning Source 2016. ISBN 978-0996966221

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dodie Miller-Gould: Vicky Hamilton, metal manager and record exec, to visit Fort Wayne. In: LemonWire. April 12, 2018, Retrieved March 18, 2020 (American English). 
2. ↑ Leslie Michele Derrough: Former Guns N 'Roses Manager Vicky Hamilton Gives Insight Into GNR Early Days (INTERVIEW). In: Glide Magazine. April 25, 2016, accessed March 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Jared Lindzon, Jared Lindzon: Former Guns N 'Roses Manager on Band's Early Days. In: Rolling Stone. March 31, 2016, accessed March 18, 2020 (American English). 
4. ↑ Vicky Hamilton - SPRINGBOARD MEMPHIS. Retrieved March 18, 2020 (American English). 
5. ↑ Guns N 'Roses' Original Manager Vicky Hamilton on GNR's Reunion and Her Memoir, 'Appetite For Dysfunction' Billboard. April 26, 2016, accessed March 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Blabbermouth: Early GUNS N 'ROSES And POISON Manager VICKY HAMILTON To Release' Appetite For Dysfunction 'Memoir. March 27, 2015, accessed March 18, 2020 .