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Still sealed digipak. Limited 200 copies

W.A.S.P. emerged from the same early 80s Los Angeles scene that spawned Van Halen, Mötley Crue, Dokken, Ratt and Quiet Riot however this band was something totally different. Musically they had lot of similarities with what was going on in LA at the time but it was their stage show that made this band into the headlines. Their shock rock themed image made them a prominent target in the mid-1980s of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization that pushed for warning labels on recorded music. And as always everything your government or your parents wants to destroy the more the attracted the interested of the youth and the band would go on and sell over 12 million albums. Their third opus The Headless Children the band wanted to take a step back ffrom their shock rock facade and recorded their most mature and musically ambitious outfit with more complex arrangements and substantive lyrics. The band had also added esteemed musicians like Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali and Uriah Heep keyboardist Ken Hensley to their line-up. From the rousing cover of The Who’s The Real Me to the introspective depth of Forever Free, the album showcases a band reaching its creative zenith. Most hail The Crimson Idol as their masterpiece but The Headless Children was the first time we could hear the bands masterful blend of potency and poise. The band headed out on a massive tour to promote the album. This album captures the band live at the Saga Rockteater in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 2nd, 1989. Their stage set sort of resembles Peter Sellars vision of hell in Don Giovanni, with cardboard flames consuming sinners, a city and a giant deaths head. This night in Copenhagen W.A.S.P. was nothing but professional, leaping about at the Saga hall as if it were a packed Long Beach Arena. Singer Blackie Lawless growled in a fluffier sort of way than he used to, and Holmes solo on a cover of the chestnut I Don’t Need No Doctor was almost as good as when Peter Frampton used to do it with Humble Pie.

Track list:
1. The Heretic (The Lost Child)
2. The Real Me-The Who cover
3. L.O.V.E. Machine
4. Wild Child
5. The Headless Children
6. The Neutron Bomber
7. Forever Free
8. I Dont Need No Doctor
9. Thunderhead
10. I Wanna Be Somebody
11. Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
12. Mean Man
13. Blind In Texas