Another artist you need to know about.

If you are a hardcore glam rock fan you may have run across the band I am about to talk about. But, if you have never gotten into the glam scene from the early 70's...now is a good time to start. The essentials are of course Bowie, Marc Bolan & T.Rex, Slade, Sweet and more....

Many of the major "glam" acts crossed the pond to take over America but, there were a handful of homegrown acts that could have been huge if it hadn't been for the sudden and sweeping impact of acts like David Bowie. The band that I am currently infatuated with is Silverhead.


This is a band that never really took off in the states...but were Worshiped as Glam Gods in Japan! The only problem with getting hooked on this band is there are only two studio albums and one live album to get you by! The first of which is the selftitled "Silverhead" album.

In my opinion the best of the two albums, the second album being "16 and Savaged". The best cuts off the debut album are without a doubt: Johnny, a slow ballad of the death of a troubled youth; Ace Supreme, never before has a motorcycle metaphore been so full of sex; Silverhead Boogie, clocking in at under a minute...still full of fun.

The follow up, "16 and Savaged" while a solid album was an attempt by the band to turn in a radio friendly album, while still keeping their edge. Sadly, the album was too edgy for radio and not edgy enough for the hard core fans. An example of this is found in my favorite track on the album, "More Than Your Mouth Can Hold" With lyrics like, "You said that I was small... how I've grown up, a big boy...now I'm more than your mouth can hold." It is no shock that radio didn't take a shining to the album.

After Silverhead broke up lead singer Michael Des Barres went on to front a band called Detective, and then breifly replaced Robert Palmer as the lead singer for Power Station. He never officially recorded with the group. But, one of his first gigs with Power Station was Live Aid (1985).

Bassist Nigel Harrion would fair a little better as he would go on to play for a little band called Blondie.

Des Barres has since filled his time with acting. Some people dismiss him as an actor but I personally think that he played one of the greatest on screen villians....EVER!! MacGyver's arch nemesis...Murdoc.

I was shocked when I found that out...seems I've been a Des Barres fan for a long long time.

That being said...if you get a chance to pick up a copy of either "Silverhead" or "16 and Savaged" and you are a fan of groups like The New York Dolls, or T.Rex...you may find that you have a fine new addition to your cd/ipod collection.