#mick sweda

[videomessiah]

BulletBoys

[metalsongoftheday]

Monday, December 30: BulletBoys, "When Pigs Fly"

In the annals of rock history, Ted Templeman remains underrated as a producer: so much of the sound of Van Halen’s first 6 albums was retroactively attributed to Edward Van Halen that it is forgotten how much Eddie actually learned from Templeman, who by 1978 had already manned the boards on numerous killer records that still sound vibrant nearly 50 years later.  He was Warner Bros.’ main in-house record guy for so many years because he understood not only how to make a band sound alive, but also how to conceal their flaws.  That was certainly the magic Templeman brought to Za-Za, since “When Pigs Fly” crackled and surged with enough bite to cover up a lot of the BulletBoys’ unctuousness.  To be fair, it did sound like the band was trying to level up- it certainly felt like Marq Torien realized that Diamond Dave was on the other side of cool in the ‘90s, or at the very least he caught on that Dave decisively lost the battle with his then-former band.  Either way, the track charged with nice crunching riffage and a strong groove that sounded more serious without coming across as either angsty or jumping on a bandwagon.  The attitude still felt fake and Torien sounded slimy, but this was a much stronger mosher than anyone would’ve expected from them, though it probably would’ve landed harder if BulletBoys hadn’t spent most of their career preening and posing.

[skeletonrodeoqueen]

Mick Sweda, 1989 [X]

[metal-sludge]

BULLETBOYS, SLAUGHTER, THE QUIREBOYS, and THUNDER performing at the Breaking the Ice Festival on June 16, 1991 in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland | ROCK POWER, August 1991.

[iamdavysixx]

BulletBoys - THC Groove

Song:

Funny - Sing A Song (All Night Long)

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

[musicmags]

[sunkatatanka]

Starting off my page with bulletboys fanart! Did this a while bit ago but I wanted to post it here since it’s only on my IG. I’ll probably never finish the sketch of Jimmy, lmao