Year : 2025 (Cleopatra Records Edition)
Style : Sleaze Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 100 mb
Bio:
Dangerous Toys is an Austin, Texas-based rock band with often humorous lyrics.Founded in 1987, Dangerous Toys released four full-length albums and one live album before unofficially disbanding at the turn of the millennium.Their major label debut, Dangerous Toys, was released in May 1989, and featured the singles "Teas'n, Pleas'n" and "Scared". The album was certified as a Gold Record by RIAA in 1994.In 2006, "Teas'n, Pleas'n" was covered by Shadows Fall on their compilation album Fallout from the War, featuring guest vocals from Toys' vocalist Jason McMaster. Although Dangerous Toys continue to perform live to this day, the band has not released any new material since 1995.Dangerous Toys was formed in October 1987. Jason McMaster, singer for Watchtower, was invited by Tim Trembley to join his band, Onyxx, as singer. Onyxx included Scott Dalhover (guitar), Mark Geary (drums) and Mike Watson (bass).In 1988, now calling themselves Dangerous Toys, the band was signed to Columbia Records after a publishing representative had signed them to a deal in March at South-By-Southwest.Soon afterwards Tim Trembley left the band, and they were without a second guitarist. On their eponymous debut album, produced by Max Norman (Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne) Scott Dalhover played all the guitar tracks. Shortly before its release, guitarist Danny Aaron joined. Though he did not play on the album, he appears on the back cover.The track "Demon Bell (The Ballad Of Horace Pinker)" appeared on the soundtrack for the 1989 Wes Craven movie Shocker.In 1991, their second album, Hellacious Acres, was released. It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, who had produced albums for several major rock artists (The Cars, Queen, Journey). Acres featured the singles "Sticks And Stones" and "Line 'Em Up." Unfortunately, neither song charted as a hit, the album sold poorly, and the 1991 summer tour with Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Motörhead and Metal Church folded after 10 weeks as the summer's biggest flop. Soon after, the band was dropped from CBS.In 1992, Danny Aaron left the band, and was replaced by Kevin Fowler. Fowler never played on a Dangerous Toys album, but he did tour with the band - performing in over 200 live shows during 1993. In January 1994, Paul Lidel of Dirty Looks, a hard rock band from Erie, Pennsylvania, replaced Fowler.The third Dangerous Toys album, Pissed (DMZ/Dos/Antones [USA], Bullet Proof [Europe]. 1994), was full of pent up anger, bile, and venom. The band's lyrics and attitude became harsher, and the music had a darker tone, with song titles like "Loser" and "Hard Luck Champion."In 1994, just after they finished recording the Pissed album, bassist Mike Watson was replaced by Michael Hannon from Salty Dog (Geffen). Hannon toured with the band, performing in over 200 shows during 1994 and 1995.After touring, Hannon left, so Jason McMaster played bass in addition to doing lead vocals. The band considered changing their name, but stuck with Dangerous Toys, even poking fun at their name on the title of their fourth (and final) studio album to date; The R-tist 4-merly Known as Dangerous Toys (DMZ/Dos/Antones. 1995). The humor backfired: fan reaction was not favorable, and the album barely sold.In 1999 Dangerous Toys released a live album, Vitamins and Crash Helmets Tour-Live Greatest Hits (Deadline/Cleopatra). After that, band activity slowed.Singer Jason McMaster performs in various Austin-based rock-bands, including Sad Wings, Capricorn USA, and Broken Teeth a band formed in 1999, with Dangerous Toys guitarist Paul Lidel. Lidel left Broken Teeth in 2006, and now writes and performs with Adrenaline Factor, Jokerville, and 99 Crimes. Lidel is also a music instructor who trains future would-be guitar rockstars. Drummer Mark Geary and bassist Mike Watson record and perform in an Austin-based heavy metal band called Proof Of Life.In 2001, they played a few shows in their hometown of Austin, Texas and in Tokyo, Japan, rejoined by their original bassist, Mike Watson. They reunited for another set of live shows in Austin and Tokyo during February 2003, Austin in May 2005, and at Bat Fest (an annual Austin event) with Rhino Bucket in September 2006. Portions of the 2006 show were recorded, and initially intended for release as XX, a 20-year career retrospective CD/DVD. The XX project was postponed indefinitely in mid-2007. The band was also rumored to be working on a new album during this period,but nothing has come out of it.In 2007, Dangerous Toys recorded a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's hit song Simple Man for An All Star Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd, (Deadline/Cleopatra). Also in 2007, they performed an unannounced short set at the end of a show featuring the members current bands (Adrenaline Factor, Proof of Life and Broken Teeth).In 2008 they performed a handful of shows. Most notable was a 20th Anniversary show in Austin, TX, on November 8, with all original band members.In March 2012, McMaster married photographer Kate Patten in a private ceremony in West Hollywood, CA.Though not a full-time ongoing band, Dangerous Toys still regroup and perform at least one live show every year. The band is still active as of 2017.Despite the fact that they have not released an album since 1995's The R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys, frontman Jason McMaster has stated in interviews that the band has no plans to release any new material.In 2017, it was announced that Dangerous Toys had signed a deal with EMP Label Group, the label of Megadeth bassist David Ellefson to reissue remastered versions of several of the band's catalog releases including Pissed, The R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys, and XX: Live, the release PISSED, will be released September 8 on Vinyl LP, Picture Disc, and CD.
Album:
Texas rockers DANGEROUS TOYS, who achieved a short-but-sweet burst of success in the midst of the late 1980s glam metal boom, will release "Demolition" on December 12 on CD, vinyl and limited-edition cassette via Cleopatra Records.They may not have released a new studio album in 30 years, but few who've seen DANGEROUS TOYS playing out recently would ever doubt that they remain one of the most exhilarating live bands on the circuit - albeit one that rations its appearances to just a handful at most a year. They've already played a few select shows in 2025, and there's still a couple to come, at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire on November 14, and the Met Cafe in Pawtucket, Rhode Island the following evening. And next spring, they're playing the Monsters Of Rock cruise.Amidst so much activity, and with the band's long-awaited fifth album still in a state of gestation, fans can look forward to the arrival of "Demolition", which features 10 tracks, all previously unreleased and recorded during the hiatus between the band's second and third albums, 1991's "Hellacious Acres" and 1994's "Pissed", as they continued refining their debut album's unique concoction of Southern rock and driving metal.Hand selected by DANGEROUS TOYS, "these old songs… obviously didn't make the cut when choosing songs for official release," the band remarks in the liner notes. All will be completely new to all the ears that hear them.But while it's easy to refer to the 10 tracks as "rejects" (even the TOYS do so!),it's also worth remembering the band wrote at least 70 new songs during this period, with most of them being recorded within days of the original idea being brought to the jam room, probably scribbled on a piece of scrap paper, or loosely worked out on a cassette tape. And so the recordings piled up and when it came time to piece "Pissed" together…Quality had nothing to do with it!. There was just too many songs to release. Until now!The countdown to "Demolition" begins today, with the first single from the album, "Rock Shock Cowboy", coming at you — as guitarist Scott Dalhover puts it - "straight out of the way back machine from deep within the DANGEROUS TOYS archives. It's a snapshot of what was going on in the D.T. songwriting process at that point in time."In a recent interview with Anthony Bryant of The Hair Metal Guru, DANGEROUS TOYS singer Jason McMaster spoke about how the rise of grunge in the early 1990s forced most hard rock bands off the radio and MTV, with album and tour sales plummeting. He said: "I was kind of living in my own bubble. And if someone says that grunge killed hair metal - I throw up in my mouth every time I say 'hair metal', but I'm trying to be crystal clear - I think that that's wrong. I think that hair metal killed hair metal. Too many bands got signed and there [were] too many terrible bands [that] got signed. And if you think that DANGEROUS TOYS is one of those terrible bands, I'm open to that. I'm cool with you thinking that. But it was ridiculous as to how far it got taken with the whole look and the whole feel of everything. I feel like it didn't have any balls anymore. And it was supposed to have some balls."Me and all the TOYS guys really respected a lot of the bands that were sort of not at war against hairspray or whatever," Jason continued. "It was more like they felt real to me, and those are bands like JUNKYARD and RHINO BUCKET and RAGING SLAB and CIRCUS OF POWER, and there's a shit-ton of them. There's a bunch of that sort of movement that had more of a punk, dirty alleycat style of whatever — just rock and roll. It was coming more from maybe a southern rock attitude or an early AC/DC attitude where it wasn't about hair. I mean, I know people that call AC/DC a hair metal band. I know that [TWISTED SISTER's] Dee Snider doesn't like the term 'hair metal' because it doesn't really play in to what they were kind of about, because they were kind of a street rock band. And anyway, I think that DIRTY LOOKS was one of those bands as well. And like I said, I could keep going - there's a stack of them that didn't really play in to… And I won't mention - just whatever you think is hair metal might be quite different than what I think is hair metal."McMaster added: "So I think hair metal killed hair metal. I think grunge was about to happen anyway. For those of you who might not know, SOUNDGARDEN and NIRVANA - I'll just stick with them — they were touring their first records in, like, '87. So, I don't know. It just took a minute [for those bands to break], just like it took a minute for GUNS [N' ROSES to have commercial success]. GUNS didn't break [right away], and that record, 'Appetite [For Destruction]' was out for a year, year and a half before it really had any numbers to speak of."It's interesting how music kind of has to sort of warm up and people have to discover it in the underground before someone can really make it stick," Jason concluded. "And that's usually radio and back then MTV. Now it's content."Founded in 1987, DANGEROUS TOYS released four full-length albums and one live album before unofficially disbanding at the turn of the millennium.DANGEROUS TOYS' self-titled debut album, which came out in 1989, eventually went gold (although it took until 1994),while the group's follow-up, 1991's "Hellacious Acres", failed to launch.Although DANGEROUS TOYS continues to perform live, the band has not released any new material since 1995.A few years ago, McMaster was asked by Metal Edge magazine why he thinks "Hellacious Acres" failed to reach the same levels of success as DANGEROUS TOYS' debut. He responded: "I think it had a lot to do with the whole Seattle movement.That record came out in '91, the same year NIRVANA and PEARL JAM dropped their first albums. But a lot of people got really into grunge, and that buried a band like DANGEROUS TOYS. It felt like the streets in cities like L.A. emptied, and everyone changed their wardrobes overnight. So, when I think of 'Hellacious Acres', I think about what could have been. It's an awesome record, and at the time, it boggled my mind that people weren't into it."Asked if that is what led to DANGEROUS TOYS eventually being dropped from Columbia, McMaster said: "Absolutely. You had this new style of rock music that had all these people latching on to it, and it killed bands like us. The radio and MTV wanted nothing to do with us and refused to play our stuff. So, an album like 'Hellacious Acres' never had a chance. Couple that with the giant moguls and money-making machines throwing all their weight behind grunge and acts like DANGEROUS TOYS were essentially dead in the water. So, with Columbia, labels have to do whatever the trends say they must do for them to pay their giant rents or whatever. It wasn't a shock that Columbia jumped ship on us, just like all the other major labels did with other bands. I mean… I know they were trying their best to have some sort of ditch effort with Alice Cooper, JUDAS PRIEST, METAL CHURCH and MOTÖRHEAD around that time, but it didn't matter. If you played hard rock or metal, you were screwed. By '91, they cleaned the shelf of all that was popular in the '80s, which meant sleazy hard rock was dying, and our record and our deal died with it."
Line Up:
Jason McMaster - vocals - See also: Cassius King, Evil United, Howling Sycamore, Ignitor, Broken Teeth, Spastic Ink, Dirty Looks, Kids in Satan’s Service, Killa Maul, Sad Wings, ex-Watchtower, ex-Accept (live), ex-Armored Saint (live), ex-Assalant, ex-Big Balls, ex-Capricorn USA, ex-Cygnus and the Sea Monsters, ex-DeNiroSmith, ex-Fallen Angel, ex-Gähdzilla Motor Company, ex-Godzilla Motor Company, ex-Killin' Time, ex-Rampage, ex-SSIK, ex-Terminal 46, ex-The Union Underground
Danny Aaron - guitar
Scott Dalhover - guitar
Mike Watson - bass, backing vocals
Mark Geary - drums
Tracklist:
01. Rock Shock Cowboy
02. Come Out Swinging
03. Rattle My Cage
04. Rhapsody In Barbed Wire
05. One On One Live
06. Burning Bridges
07. Your Sister
08. Backstreet Girl
09. Shot To Hell
10. SNAFU
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