RAVEN IT UP!
New York City’s Cat Club seemed an odd place for Raven to be playing a showcase, considering that the group’s audience is probably 12-to-18-year-old males— and you have to be 21 to get in the door. Still, they were there in all their chained-leathered and spandexed glory, to see the Gallagher brothers: Mark on guitar and John on bass and vocals, attacking the stage with all of the enthusiasm of two kamikaze pilots.
RAVEN IT UP!
RAVEN
The Cat Club, New York
May 21, 1987
Kris Nicholson
New York City’s Cat Club seemed an odd place for Raven to be playing a showcase, considering that the group’s audience is probably 12-to-18-year-old males— and you have to be 21 to get in the door. Still, they were there in all their chained-leathered and spandexed glory, to see the Gallagher brothers: Mark on guitar and John on bass and vocals, attacking the stage with all of the enthusiasm of two kamikaze pilots. Drummer Wacko, sitting behind a fortress of drums, helmeted and masked, looked like a hockey goalie, only a hundred times more fierce.
The band’s appearance was supposed to arouse some enthusiasm from their fans, and, hopefully, some support from their record company—and probably would have been successful had the scheduled 11:00 showtime not been arbitrarily changed to 1:00 a.m., much to the band’s shock and disappointment.