Formed 1988, U.S.A.
Albums:
1990
Break Out
History:
When guitarist Marc Ferrari left the mildly successful Keel in 1988,
he sought to recruit a new band that would play a similar brand of slick hard rock.
Ferrari quickly built a band that would take his own last name as
a moniker. He recruited unknown vocalist Oni Logan, Erik Gamans (guitar,
ex-Waysted and Fiona), Marc Normand (bass) and Anthony White
(drums X-Cursion). Chris McLernon quickly replaced Normad
and the band began gigging and shopping demo tapes. Things quickly took a turn for the
worse when Logan left the band the same day they were supposed to sign their major label deal,
opting instead to accept an invitation by George Lynch to join his new
venture Lynch Mob.
The scramble for a new vocalist began, and within a couple weeks the group
was back on it's feet with Rory Cathey, as well as changing the band's name
from Ferrari to Cold Sweat. The debut was released and the band hit the
road in America and Europe with such bands as Dio (his wife Wendy was Cold Sweat's manager),
Sleeze Beez and
Love/Hate.
A co-headline tour with labelmates Child's Play
was cut short when MCA dropped the
band the same day their debut video for "Let's Make Love Tonight" was added to MTV.
Ferrari had seen enough and walked away in 1991. Billy D'Vette
joined on guitar and the name changed to Sweating Bullets, but it was to no
avail, the band was finished and promptly broke up for good. Since the break-up Ferrari
formed a new band called Medicine Wheel and created an independent music publishing company
named MasterSource, meanwhile Cathey was found fronting The Fifth.
Links:
The Official Cold Sweat Page
The Official Chris McClernon Page
The Official Oni Logan Page
The Official The Fifth Page
The Official MasterSource Page
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