In a recent interview at Red Duck, Kallas and Shackelford were a personable, low-key pair-far from the rude-boy image most rappers cultivate. Moet is currently touring with Stacey Q, so interim drumming is being handled by Miles Gillett, an alumnus of El Grupo Sexo who also plays in Gherkin Raucous. Fitzgerald moonlights as lead guitarist for the local hard-rock comedy band Gherkin Raucous. Fitzgerald, formerly of Double Freak, was a hard-rock guitar slinger suggested by the band’s manager, Steve Levesque. Kallas recruited Shackelford, his assistant at Red Duck, to rap with him, and Moet, a longtime friend, to lay down the beat. James’ specialty before he scored dance-pop hits as producer/manager for Stacey Q and Bardeux. James for years and sang on the TV sound track productions that were St. At least that’s how I come off,” said Kallas, who had known St. “I have a brash personality, which goes with rap. James asked him to put the band together and serve as its songwriter, front man and producer. Kallas, who owns the Red Duck musical instrument shop in La Habra, said St. ![]() James decided to take the concept a step further by creating a self-contained rap-metal band that would play its own instruments instead of relying on session musicians for hard-rock backing. In the wake of successful rap-metal tracks by Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys, St. James was launching a new record company, Synthicide. It got its start about a year ago when record producer Jon St. Metal MC didn’t exactly spring from the streets. “We have the right to party.”īut what about that scantily clad model on the album cover who has made appearances during the band’s live shows? The Beasties, after all, were known for showing off a bikini-clad lass in a go-go cage while they performed. “They have to fight for the right to party because they live with their moms and dads,” Shackelford, 22, said in a dismissive tone of voice. ![]() ![]() When the subject of similarities to the Beastie Boys comes up, starting with that prominent party motif, Metal MC’s rappers are ready to protest. There is none of the mock juvenile delinquent stance favored by the Beasties, the most successful and notorious band of whites to appropriate the musical form originated and popularized over the past 10 years by urban blacks. In fact, Metal MC’s rhymes are fairly innocent proclamations of the band’s own musical prowess (a standard rap theme) and paeans to the pursuit of fun (a standard rock ‘n’ roll theme). Given such raunchy antics and album graphics, one might guess that Metal MC’s music would be at least as outrageous and suggestive as last year’s hit album by the Beastie Boys, New Yorkers whose mix of rap and heavy metal resulted in that anthem to naughtiness, “Fight for Your Right to Party.” Waf is fully clothed in the photo, the young lady less so. One of the women ultimately landed on the cover of Metal MC’s recently released debut album, “Born to Party,” along with Waf and a Harley Davidson. At the Palace, Waf’s bout with gravitational attraction pulled some young women out of the audience and onto the stage, stoking a wild scene.
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