King Kobra

...under the name of Spectre General due to U.S. legal troubles. They recorded two songs under that name: "Hunger" (later covered by King Kobra in their 1985 album Ready To Strike) and "Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way" (a cover of the...

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...Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogart, Appice, Rod Stewart) in 1983. Together they formed King Kobra and were signed to Capitol Records in 1984. King Kobra with Mark Free recorded two albums known as "Ready To Strike", and "Thrill of A...

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Johnny Edwards is a singer who sang for the bands Buster Brown, Montrose , King Kobra, Wild Horses , Royal Jelly and is most famously known as the 2nd lead vocalist of the supergroup, Foreigner . Johnny left Wild Horses before they recorded...

In this article: Foreigner, Mick Jones, Lou Gramm, Unusual Heat, Louisville, Kentucky, and Mountain of Love

Johnny Rod (born December 8, 1957) is an American bass guitar player. One of the early bands he was active in was King Kobra, from 1983 to 1986. In 1986 he joined the heavy metal band W.A.S.P. . In late 1992 he quit the music business and...

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King Kobra was a glam metal group founded by drummer Carmine Appice after his tenure with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984. The band during the time of their first two albums included four relatively unknown musicians: vocalist Mark Free , guitarist...

In this article: Carmine Appice, Iron Eagle, Ready to Strike, Never Say Die, Blue Murder, John Sykes, Ozzy Osbourne, David Michael, and Thrill of a Lifetime

Ready to Strike is the first album by the band King Kobra. It was released, along with at least a dozen other metal albums on November 9, 1985. Its single "Hunger" was written by members of the Canadian metal band Kick Axe and was released...

In this article: Ready to Strike, Mick Sweda, Carmine Appice, Johnny Rod, and Kick Axe

...band Ratt for two months, a member of Motown recording artists Kagny & the Dirty Rats, and a lead vocalist briefly for the band King Kobra. In addition to periodic BulletBoys ventures, Torien's solo projects included Sexual Chocolate...

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...famous guitar instructor and has a series of guitar instructional videos titled Metal Method. Lonnie Miller later played in the bands King Kobra and BulletBoys. Scott Travis is now famous for playing drums for Judas Priest, with which he...

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...doesn't know is that the band is also turning kids into bird-like monsters. The soundtrack features many prominent bands at the time such as King Kobra, Tempest, Hallow's Eve, Lizzy Borden , among others. Most of the music for the band "Black...

In this article: Lizzy Borden, Metal Blade, and Carmine Appice

...and Ted Nugent. Sweda left the band in 1987 to form BulletBoys with Marq Torien, who had briefly served as King Kobra's lead singer. The band signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988. Upon the release of their eponymous debut, the band toured...

In this article: Mick Sweda, BulletBoys, Warner Bros, Los Angeles, Jason Hook, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, and John Porter