I'm an old feller too, and I remember them well. I even saw them in concert at some bar in the early '80s. A really fun band, and Frankie was an excellent performer. RIP FV.
flamewin: Yes, the article said they played in Hamilton earlier this summer, and are (were?) scheduled to play at the Grey Cup in Montreal.
I think troutman and I might be the only ol' fellers to remember this group
I recall them, they were well known in SW Ont when I was in high school. I always go them and Forgotten Rebels mixed up.
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I'm thinking if you were a teen in the 80s you have a good chance of knowing who they are.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
I've told this story before - Teenage Head was the loudest concert I have ever been to (late 1980s?). Saw them at a community hall in the SW (69th St now), and they were so loud, the only way we could communicate was by pointing out letters on our beer cans to spell words.
I'm thinking if you were a teen in the 80s you have a good chance of knowing who they are.
Yeah, I was into the whole punk music scene without the punk looks in high school. Sex Pistols, DOA, Dead Kennedy's. Teenage Head was in a lot of ways punk pop, they did get some radio play back then. Didn't know they were still touring, which to me goes against the whole punch credo of burning out quickly.
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Teenage Head frontman Frankie Venom dead at 51
