Year : 1983-1985 (Metallic Blue Records Edition 2025)
Style : Hair Heavy Metal
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 71 mb
Bio:
Surgical Steel was a heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, USA, that was formed in 1980.In the late 80s the band changed its name to Notorious and released one more demo with the line-up of Keeler, Kendall, Kosanovich (on bass) and drummer Dave Ownbey, and the songs "Sherrie", "When You're In Love", "Call Me", "Stay With Me", and "Young & Dangerous".Surgical Steel was a Phoenix band, fronted by Jeff Martin. Clearly patterned after Judas Priest, and Jeff's friend Rob Halford, Surgical Steel had it all....Spikes, leather, big hair and plenty of Final Net Superhold for everyone.David was one of the roadies for Surgical Steel.Jeff Martin - Vocals - Jeff of course, left Surgical Steel and joined Racer X. As many of you know, Rob Halford and Jeff were friends, and Rob would show up to many shows and sing.During "Officer Steel", Jeff would often dress as a cop, and bust the band for "drugs", finding Tylenol and Vitamins...throwing the baggies into crowd and stare with his mirror glasses.Bob Milan - Drums - Jeff and Bob worked out a routine where they would both do a drum solo in tandem! The way they succeed in doing this is..Bob's drum riser was about 5' high and a steel platform with a black tarp thrown over the sides. Jeff made a little riser underneath the large one so the small one could be rolled out from underneath, and Jeff would release the cymbal stands, they'd pop up, and he would proceed to kick some ass!In 1985, Surgical Steel made it to the silver screen. Looking in the Arizona area for a metal band, Surgical Steel was picked to be the "big band" in the story about Leif Garrett's garage band making it big. The movie is called Thunder Alley, starring Leif Garrett, Clancy Brown and Jeff Martin.
Album:
SURGICAL STEEL formed in 1981 with Greg Chaisson (BADLANDS, STEELER) on bass, Jimmy Keeler on guitar, Steve Wilson on vocals, John Aquilino (SCHOOLBOYS, ICON) on guitar and Bob Milan (ARLEQUIN, RIP N TEAR, BOB WELCH) on drums. The band went through a few line-up changes, but first started recording with Jeff Martin (RACER X, BADLANDS, MSG, LETHAL X) on vocals, Paul Kosanovich on guitar along with Jimmy, Greg and Bob.After doing some demos, SURGICAL STEEL first complete recording was the track “Rivet Head” that was featured on the Metal Blade Records compilation “Metal Massacre II”. The band would catch the attention of The Metal God himself Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST, FIGHT) where he and the band SURGICAL STEEL would become very good friends.Now Metallic Blue Records is releasing for the first time on CD SURGICAL STEEL recordings on two volumes, this one titled “Crank It Up!“, remastered, with a very good sound quality.The album features arguably the 2 most melodic hard rock SURGICAL STEEL songs on it, starting off with the title track “Crank It Up!” and “Tonight”. The songs “Power To Rock” and “Rock And Women” and reminiscent to many tracks off the JUDAS PRIEST album “Turbo”. JUDAS PRIEST would actually record a song on the “Turbo” album about their times hanging out with the guys in SURGICAL STEEL at the club ‘Rockers”, with their song “Wild Nights, Hot Crazy Days”.The band would go on and record several more songs with Jeff Martin on vocals (coming out later through Metallic Blue Records), before Jeff departed to join Pual Gilbert (MR. BIG) to form RACER X.SURGICAL STEEL would recruit vocalist Derek Kendal who was previously in the band HOOKER with Scott Travis (HAWK, RACER X, JUDAS PRIEST). They also added Rik Fox (W.A.S.P., STEELER, SIN) on bass. The band would have more line up changes with Derek on vocals, where they would record several more songs (also coming soon from Metallic Blue Records), including recordings with the last line-up featuring MEGATTACK guitarist Parrish Hultquist.In 1985, Surgical Steel made it to the silver screen. Looking in the Arizona area for a metal band, Surgical Steel was picked to be the “big band” in the story about Leif Garrett’s garage band making it big. The 1985 movie is called ‘Thunder Alley’, a cult classic. The soundtrack featured most of the songs the band released private in 1984, only a few copies.Finally, all that music is available here.Surgical Steel had it all…. spikes, leather, big hair and plenty of Final Net Superhold for everyone, but also very good songs mixing American Hard Rock with early ’80s U.S Metal.
Line Up:
Jeff Martin – Lead Vocals - See also: Blasted to Static, Lethal X, Racer X, ex-Black Symphony, ex-Leatherwolf, ex-Dokken (live), ex-Bad Dog, ex-Badlands, ex-Blindside Blues Band, ex-Michael Schenker Group, ex-Paul Gilbert, ex-Red Sea, ex-UFO
Paul Kosanovich (R.I.P. 2018) - Guitars
Jimmy Keeler – Guitar
Mark Lehman – Bass
Bob Milan – Drums
Production:
Recorded At – Chaton Studios
Recorded At – Nestone Studio
Glass Mastered At – Disc Makers – MJG0486
Artwork [Cover Art], Logo [Logo And Album Title Enhancements] – Raziel Kainen
Design Concept [Album Design] – Tyler Thorsted
Engineer – Andy Seagle, Joe Carrao (tracks: 9), Steve Miller
Executive-Producer – Dan B. Pool*, Dan Wexler
Management [Merchandise] – Mark Heilbrunn
Recorded By – Surgical Steel
Remastered By – Andrew Thomas
Written-By – Jeff Martin (tracks: 2 to 9), Jim Keeler (tracks: 1 to 8), Paul Kosanovich (tracks: 5, 6)
Tracklist:
01. Crank It Up!
02. Tonight
03. Hotwire (Rob Halford on Backing Vocals)
04. Power to Rock
05. See No Evil
06. Rock and Women
07. Gimme Back My Heart
08. Surrender
09. You Were There (Rob Halford on Backing Vocals)
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