Description
Love Razors formed out of the ashes from several different LA-based bands around the fall of 1986. Singer Sten Sarracino (youngest brother to guitarist Tom) was the catalyst for forming the band after just having left (see kicked out) his former band Damn Yankees (not the Ted Nugent version). After corralling brother Tom on guitar and drummer Jamie Simone, he asked bassist Fritz Schweigert to join on a temporary basis just long enough for them to find a new one. While always around the same music scene during the period that drummer Simone and bassist Schweigert first started playing with Tom in 1979 (while Schweigert and Simone were still in high school), Sten didn’t begin his singing career in earnest until the mid-80s when he played with eventual Poison guitarist Bruce Johannesson (soon to be C.C. DeVille) in a hard pop band called Screaming Mimi’s. The band rehearsed for a few weeks before its’ first gig at Madame Wong’s West in Santa Monica California. The gig was an overall success even though many of the songs played during the set were pieced together from the three players’ former bands Cheapster, and Surburban Angels. After the success of the show, all the band members decided to stick around for more. The addition of punk influences to the other more classic rock elements already present within the band members’ musical upbringings would form the basis for the sound that would eventually become the Love Razors. It would make them ultimately hard for record company execs to define and pigeon-hole. It may have been their downfall commercially at the time, but helped create one of the more musically interesting bands during their period playing in L.A. The scene in L.A. around ’86 was vibrant with a mix of punkish glam bands (not the more pop type that would dominate later), a resurgence of 70s retro styles paying homage to fore-bearers like the Stones, Faces and Aerosmith as well as hard core punk and head-banging metal. The Razors fit in with their mix of 70’s based hard rock music and varied background from playing both rock and early punk styles in various bands.
Track list:
1. Dancin Without You
2. Underground
3. Three Good Reasons
4. Kiss Me Like Fire
5. Day By Day
6. Rose For Emily
7. My Love
8. Rain
9. Elephant Man
10. Forever Gold
11. Lord Of The Packets