VTG 90s Rebels Without Applause Chicago Thrash Metal Band Long Sleeve T Shirt XL

Description: Here's a size XL (All Sport 100% Cotton) Rebels Without Applause Soulcore Long Sleeve T Shirt.....(measures approx. 24 across by 32 length).....shirt is pre-owned in good shape overall.......“It doesn’t matter, we just do what we do.” Day after day, year after year, this has become the motto of guitarist Greg Fulton, singer and songwriter for the explosive metal outfit Rebels Without Applause. Weathering a rotating line-up of musicians that made up the speed and thrash metal projects Znowhite and Cyclone Temple, Greg, along with bassist Scott Schafer, has seen metal firsthand since 1986. From opening up for Vanilla Ice to experiencing record label runarounds, the Chicago natives have withstood the trials of regular commutes to play New York clubs and confronting the black man playing white music complex. From holding down multiple part-time jobs to pretending to be the band’s manager only to hear how that guitarist has got a real attitude, Greg has seen more than his fair share of music’s peculiar brand of justice. “A lot of people think when they join a band it’s a short trip from their day jobs to the tour bus.” Having already gone through a string of lead singers Greg was not eager to deal with teaching someone else how he wanted them to sing his songs. Greg would sing his songs into a tape machine to show how he wanted his songs to be sung, but he never thought his voice was up to snuff. With friend and former Cyclone Temple guitar tech, Mark Alano, working alongside Greg’s blast furnace fretwork, RWA’s two-guitar assault allows Greg plenty of space to play front man. A soul-inspired delivery smothered in machine tooled rhythms, Greg’s evangelical vocals are thunderbolts in a raging storm. Formed in January of 1996, RWA concentrate on performance rather than peddling product. Their five song EP from 1997, “Rip-Hop Soulcore Crush,” is in its second pressing, but three years later and they are only now finishing a full length disc. Here then, is a hard-working band who win fans by live exposure to their sonic rumble rather than boiling something up in the studio. Like a serrated freight train running on polished rails, RWA’s sound is refined thrash pummeled into a thing of beauty. When drummer Tony Heath lays tracks under Greg and Mark’s sledgehammer riffs they wrap around Steve’s bass so tightly, a blood boiling pulse sticks to the thick, churning groove. Layer on Greg’s telegraphic low-end vocals and the RWA achieve a smooth blend of slick grace and ponderous gravity.

Price: 99.99 USD

Location: Toledo, Ohio

End Time: 2024-12-14T23:27:06.000Z

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