First single ‘Smooth Up In Ya’ is a typical (for the time) sex n’ rock ‘n roll party tune custom made for the MTV generation with the video ranked at #10 in Classic Rocks “Top 10 Best Hair Metal Videos” in 2016. ![]() ‘Hard As A Rock’ tells it like it is with D’Anda smashing out the beat and Totien’s banshee call making a mark from the outset. Released the same month as Bon Jovi’s New Jersey and just before Ratt’s platinum selling Reach For The Sky, Bulletboys, the bands debut album, found itself in great company and fitted like a glove within the rock charts at the time. ![]() This line-up stayed in place to record the three albums covered within this latest set and amazingly is the line-up which is back together today. Torien, Sweda and Vencent had played together in Carmine Appice’s King Kobra so had a solid base from which to form their new outfit. ![]() The Bulletboys almost missed the Sunset Strip party but with bands like Motley Crue and Poison releasing seminal albums Girls, Girls, Girls and Open Up And Say… Ahh! in 1987 and ‘88 respectively the timing couldn’t have been better for Marq Torien (vocals), Mike Sweda (guitar), Lonnie Vencent (bass) and Jimmy D’Anda (drums) to come together and hit The Strip with their good time party noise.
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