After their return to the US, the Metamorphosis group played a few homecoming shows in early 1979, joined by Erik Brann for guest appearances. Later in 1979, Bushy returned to his other group, Gold, and the next IB lineup was: Mike Pinera, Lee Dorman, Doug Ingle, a returning John Leimseider…
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At the end of 1979, the band members attended a private screening of a new film called Rude Boy , which is part fiction and tells the story of a Clash fan who leaves his job in a Soho sex shop to become a roadie for the group.
Triumph’s third album, Just a Game (1979), featured a moderate US radio hit, ” Hold On “, which reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Hold On” became a significant song in some select markets; for example, in St. Louis the song made it to No. 1 on KSHE…
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The band played their first gig on March 30, 1979, at Ron’s Randolph Inn in St. Paul, a bar near the Macalester campus. Hart, Mould, and Norton fired Pine during their third performance on April 20, 1979, and continued as a trio. That summer, the band played their first gigs…
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In a 1979 interview with Sounds , Blackmore said:
IB’s lineup was in a constant state of flux from late 1979 on as exhibited in the following groupings: Brann, Dorman, Leimseider, Caldwell and Hasbrook (1979); Pinera, Brann, Dorman, Hasbrook, Caldwell and Nathan Pino – keyboards (1979); Dorman, Brann, Hasbrook, Tim Kislan – keyboards, Zam Johnson – drums and Starz…
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After the band’s movie debut in Roger Corman ‘s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Strikes , produced by Al Nalli and engineered by Brownsville Station drummer Henry Weck, was recorded in Nalli’s basement studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan and was completed by January 1979. It was destined to be the band’s most commercially successful effort. The song ” Train, Train “, written by Rickey’s…
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“PiL was the simple thing of four different people doing different drugs at different times,” Wobble observed to Select . “It was only in any way together for the first two months of its existence. We had a fuckin’ good drummer called Jim Walker, but he fucked off after a…
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and spent much of 1979 touring in Europe and Japan.