Heavy Pettin - Roll The Dice 7" Neat Records 17 NWOBHM SEALED 1982
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“Heavy Pettin’ was formed in Glasgow in mid-1981 when the band Weeper, comprised of guitarist Gordon Bonnar, bassist Brian Waugh and drummer Gary Moat, added vocalist Steve Hayman and lead guitarist Punky Mendoza to the line-up.” Heavy Pettin’ ended up releasing three albums: Lettin’ Loose (1983), Rock Ain’t Dead (1985) and Big Bang (1989). “Within just months of forming, Heavy Pettin’ found themselves in the cross-hairs of a good ol’ fashioned major label bidding war. While the band always contended that the only similarities between themselves and Def Lep were the fact that they were “Young and British”, it should be noted that Def Lep‘s then-manager Peter Mensch was the man behind their showcase gigs and I don’t think there an article was ever written, including this one, that didn’t compare their Sweet-inspired pop-metal to [Joe] Elliot and the boys. That can’t be coincidence, man. Anyway, they signed to Polydor and Brian May to produce their first album, 1983’s Lettin’ Loose. Incidentally, it was self-titled in the US. Not sure why, but that’s what happened. It’s a fun record, anchored by the minor hit In And Out Of Love, but it’s alarmingly lightweight, even for a Lep rip-off. For an audience that was eating up the psuedo-Satanic barbed-wire pop metal of Crue‘s Shout at the Devil, Pettin‘s breezy melodic rock didn’t quite deliver the goods. But they had a great logo and the glam metal party was getting bigger and bigger every day, so what the hell, Heavy Pettin’, why not. ROLL THE DICE WAS THEIR FIRST RELEASE . IT WAS ISSUE BY NEAT . AGAIN THIS IS THE ORIGINAL SEALED FOR ALMOST 37 YEARS FIND ONE STILL SEALED
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