PREVIEW: ANGRY ANDERSON 1991

ANGRY ANDERSON's been rather silent for some time, since Kyle's and Jase took a stroll up the aisle. Bit of a waste of time writing for them 'cos they split. But unperturbed by such events, ANGRY has been hard at work knocking together his second album Blood From Stone, not, as you might have thought, an attempt to pick up the baton that ROSE TATTOO dropped, but he still knows how to rock, covering the STEPPENWOLF masterpiece "Born to be Wild." The album was produced in LA by the ubiquitous Beau Hill (WINGER, etc.), along with Michael Slamer. He may not be an oil painting, but ANGRY ANDERSON has one hell of a voice. His new band is made up of ex-TATTOO's Robin Riley (guitar) and Bobby Barth ex-AXE and BLACKFOOT (also guitar), former AMGEL's bassist Jim Hillburn and drummer Tim Powell.

Peter Grant
Riff Raff
November, 1991

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!