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I really hesitate to post this but my daughter (now 17!) sent me on a TRIP down memory lane earlier today....It is what it is!!
I hope SOMEBODY out there likes it!
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1985 was a great year for me. I joined Predator a Southern California band that was the brainchild of Singer/Guitarist Jeff Prentice (That's him on the cover of Easy Prey) All of the material was written and ready to record when I joined...it was Jeff's project.
We were quickly signed by Brian Slagel's fledgling Metal Blade Records and just like that I was flung into a world totally different from what I was used to...WOW!!! An amazing time and lots of fun!!!
Let me know what you think! I can post other tracks if you like this one...
MEtal Blade Promo shot for the release of Easy Prey (It's signed by the band, an in-store Tower Records promo. Courtesy of my friend Mark E. .thanks man!!)
Left to right: Mike Mc Guinn, Kurt Dudley, Jeff Prentice, Keith 'Mad Max' Hansen
At our rehearsal space in Vernon California. Early '85
Me & Jeff onstage at our first show at 'The Timbers' Club March 7, 1985 in Glendora CA, just 3 blocks from the Charvel/Jackson Facilty!! Many C/J employees (friends) in the audience that night.
I will admit, I was COMPLETELY thunderstruck by the material...wayyyy ahead of it's time. Indeed it was Jeff who turned me on to Anthrax...I had never heard of them. He also opened my eyes fully to the extended reaches of guitar playing. I had NEVER even attempted stuff like this before and it was MINDBLOWING to learn!!! It forced me to the very limits of my ability...by sheer necessity!!!
Check out Hawkmistress an GUITAR-MA-GEDDON instrumental from Easy Prey...I think it holds up today...even if the 1985 production does not.
I hope SOMEBODY out there likes it!
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1985 was a great year for me. I joined Predator a Southern California band that was the brainchild of Singer/Guitarist Jeff Prentice (That's him on the cover of Easy Prey) All of the material was written and ready to record when I joined...it was Jeff's project.
We were quickly signed by Brian Slagel's fledgling Metal Blade Records and just like that I was flung into a world totally different from what I was used to...WOW!!! An amazing time and lots of fun!!!
Let me know what you think! I can post other tracks if you like this one...
MEtal Blade Promo shot for the release of Easy Prey (It's signed by the band, an in-store Tower Records promo. Courtesy of my friend Mark E. .thanks man!!)
Left to right: Mike Mc Guinn, Kurt Dudley, Jeff Prentice, Keith 'Mad Max' Hansen
At our rehearsal space in Vernon California. Early '85
Me & Jeff onstage at our first show at 'The Timbers' Club March 7, 1985 in Glendora CA, just 3 blocks from the Charvel/Jackson Facilty!! Many C/J employees (friends) in the audience that night.
I will admit, I was COMPLETELY thunderstruck by the material...wayyyy ahead of it's time. Indeed it was Jeff who turned me on to Anthrax...I had never heard of them. He also opened my eyes fully to the extended reaches of guitar playing. I had NEVER even attempted stuff like this before and it was MINDBLOWING to learn!!! It forced me to the very limits of my ability...by sheer necessity!!!
Check out Hawkmistress an GUITAR-MA-GEDDON instrumental from Easy Prey...I think it holds up today...even if the 1985 production does not.
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