ANTAGONIZERS ATL / ADAM BOMB / CNTD

Bereits 1979, im Alter von 14 Jahren, gründete der aus Seattle stammende Adam Bomb eine Coverband namens Tyrant.
Danach schloss er sich der Band TKO an, die mit ihm das Album
In Your Face aufnahm.
Mit 16 wurde bei Bomb für ein Vorspielen bei KISS angefragt.
Bei seinem ersten Adam-Bomb-Album „Fatal Attraction" wirkte
unter anderem AC/DC-Bassist Cliff Williams mit.
1979:
- At age 14, Adam formed a cover band, Tyrant, with singer
Geoff Tate who later formed Queensryche.
1980:
- Adam met Edward Van Halen in a hotel in Tacoma Washington.
He asked Eddie to sign his guitar and wound up getting a three hour guitar lesson. Those three hours changed his life forever. Adam later in the year joined a local Seattle band, TKO.
1981:
- TKO few to Honolulu, Hawaii to work with record producer
Rick Keefer. Ten songs were recorded for an album titled “In Your Face.”
- At age 16, Adam was asked to audition for Kiss. He flew to
Los Angeles and played three songs with Kiss.
1982:
- Adam moved to Hollywood and lived with a guy named Jeff Isabelle who called himself “Izzy.” (A few years later, Izzy started Guns ‘N’ Roses.) The apartment was adjacent to a house rented by the rock band Black ‘N’ Blue. Adam quickly became friends with their guitarist, Tommy Thayer, who suggested to Adam that he should just do his own project and call it Adam Bomb. (In 2003, Tommy took over the lead guitarist slot in Kiss.)
1983:
- Adam recorded three songs with Rick Keefer and a drum machine. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Adam got a contract to shoot the video for “Shape of the World.”
- TKO reformed (briefly) in San Francisco and played the Troubadour in Hollywood.
- Adam filled in for two Steeler gigs, replacing guitarist
Yngwie Malsteem.
- Adam attended a Michael Schenker concert at a club in San Francisco where they debuted the video (Shape of the World).
In the audience was Aerosmith manager, David Krebs.
1984:
- Adam flew over to Hawaii to record more songs with Rick Keefer for a full album. The producer got drummer Chuck Ruff (Montrose) and bassist Cliff Williams (AC/DC) to play on the album.
- Adam signed a long term management deal with Leber Krebs and moved to New York. He put together a band with former Billy Idol drummer Gregg Gerson, Billy Idol/Riot bassist Phil Feit, and Aerosmith guitarist Jimmy Crespo.
- Adam’s first album, ” Fatal Attraction “, came out in Japan on JVC Victor. Geffen records signed Adam Bomb to a record deal, and then the band moved to Los Angeles.
1985:
- The Adam Bomb band rehearsed in LA and continued to play there, opening for bands like Armored Saint and Metallica as they toured the southwest.
1986:
- The band shot a video for “I Want My Heavy Metal” in Louisiana with ex-Rick Derringer guitarist, turned video director, Danny Johnston. Adam, with Phil Feit and a new drummer – Sandy Slavin, then traveled to England to play a show at the London Marquee.
- Adam spoke with record producer Martin Rushnet who recommended his assistants Phillip Tennant and Neil O’Connor to produce the Adam Bomb record, ” Pure S.E.X. ”
-The band set off to England to record in a farmhouse studio north of London. The band spent six weeks in England recording and did another show at the Marquee. The reggae band Steel Pulse, also recording in the studio, had Adam play a guitar solo on a track called “Hijacking.”
- Adam returned to New York and did a show at L’Amours, Cat Club, Limelight, Danceteria, and other NYC clubs.
1987:
- Recruited Billy Squier drummer, Bobby Chouinard, and they played gigs around the city and a few one-off gigs in Toronto. They toured in France.
- Adam recorded in Vancouver, Canada, and played two guitar solos on the Black ‘N’ Blue album, “Without Love”, produced by Bruce Fairburn with recording engineer Bob Rock. (“Without Love” was the CD that inspired Jon Bon Jovi to work with Fairburn and Rock on their career-making record, “Slippery When Wet.”)
- The band toured Europe and supported The Lords Of The New Church in America. Adam was hired to do a photo shoot for English rock photographer, Mick Rock, for a photo article in Playgirl Magazine titled, “The Bad Boys Of Rock.”