August 1985

GENE SIMMONS OF KISS

CREEM CLOSE-UP

FIONA

CHAINMAIL

KISS ARE GREAT! I decided to write and get some things straightened out. First of all, METAL is the best! Thanks for letting me say what I want to. No one treats their fans better than Gene Simmons does. I have been very lucky in meeting my idol three times.

GIRLSCHOOL-ABROAD!

J. Kordosh

Things were hectic in Girlschool's dressing room. In an hour or so they'd be opening a show for Deep Purple—a spot previously occupied by Giuffria. But Giuffria had left the tour two weeks earlier, mostly because Ritchie Blackmore had been generously rewriting their set list, in the same sense that Hitler’s Luftwaffe generously plowed the fields of Poland.

Bullets

Jeff Tamarkin

King Kobra already knows what their first movie will be. In fact, they’ve already made it. Imagine if Easy Rider starred Motley Crue and you’ll get an idea. "We pulled into this place in South Carolina which was sort of like a Waffle House,” begins drum basher and KKTV cameraman Carmine Appice.

KROKUS ON LIFE 'N' STUFF!

David Keeps

Rumplemeyer’s is a New York institution, all decked out in cotton candy pink and servin’ up the most dee-sgusting ice cream sundaes you ever laid eyes on. It’s the last place I’d expect to be sitting opposite Swiss guitarmeister Fernando von Arb from those Midnite Maniacs who call themselves Krokus.

Son of Reek For Possum Queen

Rick Johnson

“Come ’n’ listen to my story ’bout a man named Reek/Poor mountaineer but a hell of a geek/Then one day he was typin’ somethin’ rude/When up through the keys come abubblin’ crude/Taste, that is/Black lung/Texas aaaiiieee...” (sung to tune of “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”) What on earth, you’re probably wondering, is a Metaganza?

BLACKLE LAWLESS OF W.A.S.P.

JIMMY PAGE: FE FI FO FIRM!

Liz Derringer

The Firm was formed by two of rock's most legendary figures—Paul Rodgers, the powerful lead singer for Bad Company and Free, and Jimmy Page, the elusive guitar virtuoso of the ’60s and ’70s supergroup, Led Zeppelin. In this conversation—over oysters and wine in a Los Angeles hotel suite—Jimmy Page is quick to set the record straight on his position with the Firm.

JIMMY PAGE OF THE FIRM

YOU MUST ACCEPT... ...YOUR FATE!

Sylvie Simmons

Their very moves stand as a living testament to our glorious simian ancestry: legs astride, heads nodding, hair flying, hips swivelling in simultaneous bop, lit-tle, BOO-sized Udo-Dirkschneider's mirror-shades reflecting a sea of sweaty denims.

METAL Q & A FRESHENING THE AIR WITH BON JOVI

John Neilson

I've got to hand it to Jon Bon Jovi. When I found out I'd be talking with him, I im-mediately planned on asking him about one of the band's video for "Runaway," which I found to be even more offensive than most. Surprisingly. I had barely begun the interview when BJ himself began to lash into the video for me... When we do meet, it's at a swank In-dian restaurant, in the company of his publicist, Sherry Ring. JON BON JOVI: Did you see ‘Runaway’?

RECORDS

Martin Dio

ALCATRAZZ Disturbing The Peace (Capitol) Alcatrazz is the coolest of the cool, the bravest new metal you or any of your families will hear until we are all destroyed by nuclear missiles aimed at our American cities. I love Alcatrazz, and hope to convince you in this review that your loving Alcatrazz is perhaps the wisest move you will ever make—save away from me immediately, because you smell.

BRITMETAL: Dunkirk In Vain!

Sylvie Simmons

Princesses with Nazis for daddies, Prime Ministers in Malaysia saying “Hello Singapore,” Adam Ant losing his hair, George Michael bursting into constant tears, the decline of western civilization itself. But how little it all means when METAL is here to bring you the news that flared trousers are making a comeback!

LITA FORD

THE VILLAGE VIDIOT SPEAKS ON DADS 'N' PRIMATES 'N' STUFF

Richard Riegel

There’s no use me ranting about the state of MTV (which = the known world of video rock for most of us VCR-less peons) again this month. I’ll just start sputtering, and I’ll end up wasting a lot of those valuable column inches you’re about to fork yer sweaty $2.95 over for, at this very moment.

QUEENSRYCHE: HONEST INJUNS!

People complain about heavy metal's lack of social concerns. Queensryche want to change this. Everyone knows that most heavy metal bands today resemble American “Indians” in some way. Even though their ancestors were never real “Injuns,” Queensryche are using their concerts to speak out against the way Native Americans were abused and mistreated on their own continent.

MAGNETS

Well all right, readers! You've just finished what may will be the best magazine ever made-and. there's more to come! That's right-only METAL ROCK 'N' ROLL gives you the artists you want to read about in the manner you feel is best! We here at METAL have your interests at heart, and we're just achin' to prove it!

LARS ULRICH OF METALLICA

DEE SNIDER OF TWISTED SISTER