YA YA

Scarred (Rock 'N' Roll)

These guys strike me as such an inevitable Next Big Thing (for better or worse) that I won't be surprised if their second album moves up to fullreview status a la Quiet Riot. Somebody had the bright idea of combining the teens' current twin fascinations, metal and pretty, into one pop band. Thus Ya Ya wear zippered leather and bleached manes, their Lee Hart can sing shrill and Plant or Dio over light fast pop, they come on like the Bay City Rollers doing synthpop; the list of dualities is endless, if not $$$ in the bank. Inevitably, Ya Ya have already been Big In Japan a couple years as you read this... ('So were Cheap Trick!' sez some wiseacre in the balcony.)R.R.

JOHNNY WINTER

Guitar Slinger (Alligator)