Alleycat Scratch - Cheap City Thrills (EP) (1991) (Demon Doll Records Edition 2009)
Year : 1991 (Demon Doll Records Edition 2009) Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock Country : United States Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video Size : 109 mb
Bio:
Alleycat Scratch was an American glam metal band formed in San Francisco, California, United States, in 1988.The band never gained popularity or commercial success due to the grunge movement of the 1990s.Their music has been considered highly underrated. The band has only released two albums to date.Their debut album, Deadboys in Trash City, has been considered some of the best sleaze rock of the period. Alleycat Scratch disbanded in 1994.
Album:
Reissue of the band's first demo tape + 2 extra bonus tracks.After 18 years, the wait is over!Officially licensed from drummer Robbi Black & digitally remastered.Cheap City Thrills is as gritty, sleazy and in your face as it was in 1991. This is must have record for Alleycat fans and Glam & Sleaze junkies the world over! Featuring the original singer Tommy Haight, check out where it all began as the band clawed there way from San Francisco to Sunset Strip Superstars! If you dig Skid Row, you must check out Slam Alley.The band's once rather rare recordings with the old lead singer Tommy Haight, who, some time later, would be replaced by Michael Michell, and a little later Eddie Robinson, whose voice you all must have heard on their famous "Deadboys in Trash City", would come into the fold of Alleycat Scratch.
Line-Up:
Tommy Haight – Lead Vocals Devin Lovelace – Guitars Justin Sayne – Guitars Bobby Bang – Bass Robbi Black - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Cheap City Thrills 02. Take A Bite (Outta Me) 03. Kiss Kiss 04. Stilleto Strut 05. Junior's Bones 06. Little Gypsy (Bonus Track) 07. Cotton Pony (Bonus Track)
Year : 2013 (Demon Doll Records Edition) Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock Country : United States Audio : 320 kbps + all scans Size : 157 mb
Bio:
Alleycat Scratch was an American glam metal band formed in San Francisco, California, United States, in 1988.The band never gained popularity or commercial success due to the grunge movement of the 1990s.Their music has been considered highly underrated. The band has only released two albums to date.Their debut album, Deadboys in Trash City, has been considered some of the best sleaze rock of the period. Alleycat Scratch disbanded in 1994.
Album:
This release includes the album Alleycat Scratch - Deadboys In Trash City plus the EPs Alleycat Scratch - Cheap City Thrills and Alleycat Scratch - Encore.Formed in San Francisco in 1988, Sunset Strip lads ALLEYCAT SCRATCH arrived too late to the recording of their first full length CD (1993), as soon this type of music was phagocytosed by the grunge movement. But the band made some noise and gained considerable popularity during their five years of existence. Drummer Robbi Black has put together the ultimate CD package to ever be released from Alleycat Scratch: "Greatest Licks & Nasty Tricks", including 19 songs of the band's career all remastered by himself and published by Demon Doll Records.The disc features the entire '93 album 'Deadboys In Trash City' (including the infamous bonus track "Love Song"), all 5 songs from the self-released EP 'Cheap City Thrills' recorded in 1991 with Tommy Haight on lead vocals, as well as 3 studio recordings from the never released 2nd full album 'Encore' : "Grave Gina", "Don't Forget Me" and "Sick (Of It All)". Also known as 'The Hollywood Deadboys', Alleycat Scratch is considered the last true pure sleazy hard rock act from the Sunset Strip, with hot, dirty glammy live shows. Many specialized magazines included 'Deadboys In Trash City' amongst the best Glam / Sleazy albums ever.So if you like early Motley Crue, Vain, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns (Alleycat Scratch shared stages with 'em all) and Guns 'N Roses, you can't go wrong with titles like to “Stilletto Strut”, “Sexual Addiction”, the ballad “Roses On My Grave”, “Love Sick Junkie”, “Plastic Dolls” or the killer “Soul Survivor”. These guys were really good at their game, and this material is well produced and remastered.Grab a bottle of Jack Daniels, turn up the volume to 10 and crank out of your speakers with "Greatest Licks & Nasty Tricks". Rocks.
Line-Up:
Eddie Robison - lead vocals Tommy Haight - lead vocals (15-19) Devin Lovelace - guitars Justin Sayne - second guitar (15-19) Bobby "Boa" Dias - bass Robbi Black - drums
Tracklist:
01. Stilletto Strut 02. Take A Bite (Outta Me) 03. Cats Got Your Tongue 04. Soul Survivor 05. Sexual Addiction 06. Love Sick Junkie 07. Cheap City Thrills 08. Roses On My Grave 09. Trash City 10. Plastic Dolls 11. Love Song 12. Grave Gina 13. Don’t Forget Me 14. Sick (Of It All) 15. Cheap City Thrills (1991 Version) 16. Kiss Kiss (1991 Version) 17. Junior’s Bones (1991 Version) 18. Stilletto Strut (1991 Version) 19. Take A Bite (Outta Me) (1991 Version)
Alleycat Scratch - Deadboys In Trash City (1993) (Demon Dolls Records 2009)
Year : 1993 (Demon Doll Records Edition 2009) Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock Country : United States Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video Size : 125 mb
Bio:
Alleycat Scratch was an American glam metal band formed in San Francisco, California, United States, in 1988.The band never gained popularity or commercial success due to the grunge movement of the 1990s.Their music has been considered highly underrated. The band has only released two albums to date.Their debut album, Deadboys in Trash City, has been considered some of the best sleaze rock of the period. Alleycat Scratch disbanded in 1994.
Album:
Great reissue through Demon Dolls Records.Alleycat Scratch was an American Glam metal band formed in San Francisco in the year of 1988. They fell somewhere in between Motley Crue and Swingin Thing when they lived out their dreams on the infamous Sunset Strip. However, they also fell through the cracks – going unnoticed except for the handful of collectors that purchase their independent debut on net auctions for outrageous sums.The reason the band never gained popularity or commercial success has a lot to do with the grunge movement of the 1990s. Their music has been considered highly underrated and you may wonder what sets Alleycat Scratch apart from thousands of other poofed-upped puffballs of the hair metal craze, well I’ll tell you – riffs. Like a magician pulling a rabbit from his hat, Alleycat Scratch seems to be able to grab memorable riffs from out of thin air. Plus the band is able to mix the bubblegum of Poison with the sleazier side of early Motley Crue and at times seem to tread similar water as the underrated Cats In Boots. Songs like “Stilletto Strut”, “Take A Bite (Outta Me)”, “Cat Got Your Tongue” and “Love Sick Junkie” are so damn catchy that this disc spins around my player quite often. Even the ballad “Roses On My Grave” is tolerable and “Sexual Addiction gives Winger’s “Seventeen” a run for its money. They don’t make music like this anymore, and that’s a shame. This debut album, Deadboys in Trash City has been considered some of the best Sleaze rock of the period, although it never gained commercial success. Alleycat Scratch shows that even the lesser known hair bands had more to offer then a flashy image. Deadboys In Trash City is a great album, a hell of a lot of fun and should bring back lots of memories for Sunset Strip aficionados.They disbanded in 1994.
Line-Up:
Eddie Robison - Vocals Devin Lovelace - Guitar Bobby "Boa" Dias - Bass Robbi Black - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Stiletto Strut 02 Take A Bite (Outta Me) 03. Cats Got Your Tongue 04. Soul Survivor 05. Sexual Addiction 06. Love Sick Junkie 07. Cheap City Thrills 08. Roses On My Grave 09. Trash City 10. Plastic Dolls 11. Love Song
Alleycat Scratch - Return To Trash City (Reimagined, Remixed, Remastered) (1993) (FnA Records Limited Edition 2026)
Year : 1993 (FnA Records Limited Edition 2026) Style : Glam Sleaze Hard Rock Country : United States Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video Size : 118 mb
Bio:
Alleycat Scratch was an American glam metal band formed in San Francisco, California, United States, in 1988.The band never gained popularity or commercial success due to the grunge movement of the 1990s.Their music has been considered highly underrated. The band has only released two albums to date.Their debut album, Deadboys in Trash City, has been considered some of the best sleaze rock of the period. Alleycat Scratch disbanded in 1994.
Album:
Sunset Strip ’80s rockers ALLEYCAT SCRATCH have a new album titled “Return To Trash City : Reimagined, Remixed, Remastered” available via FnA Records that is a reworked version of their debut record ‘Deadboys In Trash City (1993)’.The album has been pretty ‘Reimagined’ indeed, as we can here several changes compared to the original release; different drums, other layers of guitars, unused intros, and more. All has been remixed & remastered by lead singer Eddie Robison, who brought ALLEYCAT SCRATCH a harder edged with soulful vocal style.The tracks have been given great care and painstakingly tweaked and every little nuance and every part of the songs were reimagined. The Remixing of… and Remastering of the original files is somewhat closer to what ALLEYCAT SCRATCH imagined and where they wanted to go utilizing the 1993 master files.“Return To Trash City : Reimagined, Remixed, Remastered” contains all the songs you love from ALLEYCAT SCRATCH, but now getting a fresh new life. From the streets of the Sunset Strip underground come the sleazy glam rocking tracks like the bombastic staple “Take A Bite Outta Me”, the punchy “Stiletto Strut”, and the ethereal obligatory ballad, “Roses On My Grave.”So how does one reimagine, remix, and remaster a new album without being a replica of the first version of the album? It starts with baking the tapes and grabbing the stems, then painstakingly tweak it until the tracks create a whole new beast. The most direct and best way to put it is how Eddie worked on it: “The original recordings in 1993 were analog and were recorded to 2 inch wide tapes. Each tape is striped with 24 tracks and on each track something was recorded. One track would have a vocal, one with a guitar, one with the bass, etc. Robert (drummer Robbi Black) kept those tapes and he had them digitized into 24 separate wave files for each tape. I used a piece of software called Ableton live, which is for audio production.Each of the 24 stems/wave files went into Ableton and were put onto 24 separate tracks. Each track was adjusted in volume and you can put reverb or compression or delay or EQ, etc. on every track. You do this until it sounds right and all the levels create a good mix.When you’ve achieved what you want, that is rendered out into a mixed wave file. That is then brought back into the software on one track and you apply a mastering chain to it. That consists of more EQ, boosting and limiting and other mastering tools to bring out all of the frequencies to where it sounds pleasing to the ear.”No one was closer to that dream of super stardom than ALLEYCAT SCRATCH. These guys set the blueprint of what American Sleazy Metal and Glam Rock were. The band was all about excess… They ate, breathed, played, snorted and slept their way to the top.With the release of “Return To Trash City : Reimagined, Remixed, Remastered”, ALLEYCAT SCRATCH takes you back to Trash City with a reworked version of the genre defining cult classic ‘Deadboys In Trash City’.Reimagined, remixed and remastered version of Alleycat Scratch - Deadboys In Trash City from the original two inch master tape.Released in a clear tray standard jewel case with a 6-panel booklet featuring photos, credits and liner notes.An autographed Fan Pack version including the CD signed by 3 members (Eddie, Boa, and Devin), a guitar pick and a sticker was also available, limited to 100 copies.
Line-Up:
Eddie Robison - Vocals Devin Lovelace - Guitar Bobby "Boa" Dias - Bass Robbi Black - Drums
Production:
Recorded At – Sound Chamber Recorders Glass Mastered At – Disc Makers – MKE1325 A&R – Steve "Doc" Lockett Artwork – Eddie Robison Graphics [Album Graphics] – Eddie Robison Music By, Lyrics By – Devin Lovelace (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 7, 9, 10), Eddie Robison (tracks: 4, 8), Justin Sayne (4) (tracks: 1) Other [Website] – Mark Mott Photography By – Richard Dias Producer [Produced By] – Alleycat Scratch Recorded By [Originally Recorded In 1993 By], Mixed By [Originally Mixed In 1993 By] – Mikey Davis Remix [Remixed By], Mastered By – Eddie Robison
Tracklist:
01. Stiletto Strut 02. Take A Bite (Outta Me) 03. Cat’s Got Your Tongue 04. Soul Survivor 05. Sexual Addiction 06. Lovesick Junkie 07. Cheap City Thrills 08. Roses On My Grave 09. Trash City 10. Plastic Dolls
