Blackie Lawless
Blackie Lawless ( born September 4, 1956 as Steven Edward Duren ) is an American musician who in the 1980s with his Schock-Rock-/Heavy-Metal-Band WASP was known. He is a singer and guitarist.
Biography
Blackie Lawless grew along with the future Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley on Staten Iceland, New York, NY. At the age of 9 years, he got his first guitar and earned in the same year his first salary of 16 dollars and 35 cents with his first band, The Underside. During his school years Lawless fell on particularly by brawls; at 13 he was stabbed, sent at age 14 to a military school. At age 16, he played on the East Coast in local bars with his band Black Rabbits. For some time he also played in a band called Orfax Rainbow. At the age of 18, he was lead singer of the glam rock band the New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders after got out. After six months and the end of the band Blackie moved in with the bassist of the New York Dolls, Arthur Kane, to Los Angeles, where he founded the band Killer Kane. The band released a 7 -inch EP with three songs, played guitar and sang on Blackie. On the back it is marked as " Blackie Gooseman ". After the dissolution Kane moved back to New York while Lawless was in Los Angeles. In 1977 he founded with Randy Piper, the band Sister, one of the first bands in Los Angeles, who experimented with occult symbolism and make-up. During his time with the band Lawless Chris Holmes came to know that he discovered via imaging in Hustler magazine. At this time, Punk and New Wave were popular and heavy metal does not, the band arrived at a local following, but not aroused the interest of record companies, the band split up shortly afterwards. In addition, Lawless played at this time in London and Circus Circus.
Lawless did with Piper in connection and contacted him, as he had in 1982 enough material for a new band. They were joined also Holmes and Tony Richards. With a rotating cast Lawless published from 1984 to today so far fourteen studio albums and several live recordings. Although Blackie Lawless is not an actor, he starred in several films. For the first time he appeared in 1980 in the Village -People - musical film Can not Stop the Music in a small supporting role. Furthermore, Lawless 1984 to see the Spinal Tap movie This is Spinal Tap and also in 1984 played his band WASP in the B- horror -movie ruler of hell (also known as The Dungeon Master or Rage Wars ) with. In 1987 he got an offer for the lead role in the horror film Ragman ( Original Title: Trick or Treat ), which also Ozzy Osbourne ( as a priest ) and Gene Simmons (as DJ ) are to be seen, but he refused the role from. Lawless also spoke 2 for the role of T-1000 in Terminator - before Judgment Day. However, his height of 192 cm was found to be a problem. The role of T-1000 was a person of average body size that might be hiding in crowds, is designed. Director James Cameron wanted to maintain this in order to increase the dramatic effect of the T -1000.
Discography
With Killer Kane band
With W.A.S.P.
See W.A.S.P. # Discography