One of the many WARRIORS (this time from Chichestershire) out there in NWOBHM land, Not the best one but they made 1 decent album. If you like Lynyrd Skynyrd you will even like 2 of the 3 cheesy ballads! (see the Malc MacMillan entry below)
Malc MacMillan:
WARRIOR (I)
Clive Murray (v)
Dave Cooper (g)
Steve Birley (rg)
Gary Pinning (b)
Sev Lewkowicz (k)
Paul Humfrays (d)
There seems, during the early 80's, to have been a little-known English by-law which stated that every town with a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants was legally required to play host to metal outfits called WARRIOR, LEGEND, RAW DEAL, ROUGH JUSTICE and, if at all possible, PROWLER. Fortunately for the sanity of modern-day collectors, relatively few of these no-hopers ever made it out of their local pub, but serious NWOBHM aficionados will already be familiar with three or four British versions of WARRIOR (vide infra) who either contrived to get their own vinyl product into the shops or appeared on compilation albums (there was one on )>New Electric Warriors«, for example) at around the turn of the decade. Just to confuse matters even further, though, along comes yet another variant (probably not the last, either), this time from the general Hampshire/West Sussex area. Unlike their contemporaries from elsewhere in the land, however, this particular WARRIOR managed to release a full-length effort (on the tiny Goodwood label), which was quite an achievement in the heady days of 1980. Mind you, we're certainly not talking prime-era NWOBHM here, in spite of the observation that many dealers attempt to pass it off as such.
In fact, the majority of tracks comprising the outfit's “Troublemaker” LP are fairly unremarkable, boogie-type workouts and occasional SLEDGEHAMMER/VARDIS hybrids, although there's also a rather embarrassing tendency to drift into a sub-EAGLES brand of MOR at times, notably on the depressing (in more ways than one) "Isn't Life Lonely", "Can't Stop Crying" and "Through For You" (hey, get over it man, she probably wasn't worth it). The highlights, such as they are, come in the shape of "Stay Away", "Give Me Your Love" and the title track itself, where the guys rock out a bit more, although the sky-high asking price for this (admittedly very scarce) piece of vinyl is extremely difficult to justify on the basis of musical merit alone. It would appear that the record sold in fairly limited quantities (it wasn't a particularly extensive pressing in the first instance) upon its release, and the WARRIOR quest for global domination seems to have come to a grinding halt shortly thereafter. Their album's cover is certainly worthy of mention, however, where five of the participants (their occasional keyboard player, Sev Lewkowicz, who also contributed to the first ANGEL WITCH long-player, isn't pictured) are portrayed as 'rough boys from the wrong side of town; posing in an insalubrious doorway clutching a variety of makeshift 'weapons' including a pitifully small pen-knife and a broken bottle. Laughable.
WARRIOR (I)
Clive Murray (v)
Dave Cooper (g)
Steve Birley (rg)
Gary Pinning (b)
Sev Lewkowicz (k)
Paul Humfrays (d)
There seems, during the early 80's, to have been a little-known English by-law which stated that every town with a population of over fifty thousand inhabitants was legally required to play host to metal outfits called WARRIOR, LEGEND, RAW DEAL, ROUGH JUSTICE and, if at all possible, PROWLER. Fortunately for the sanity of modern-day collectors, relatively few of these no-hopers ever made it out of their local pub, but serious NWOBHM aficionados will already be familiar with three or four British versions of WARRIOR (vide infra) who either contrived to get their own vinyl product into the shops or appeared on compilation albums (there was one on )>New Electric Warriors«, for example) at around the turn of the decade. Just to confuse matters even further, though, along comes yet another variant (probably not the last, either), this time from the general Hampshire/West Sussex area. Unlike their contemporaries from elsewhere in the land, however, this particular WARRIOR managed to release a full-length effort (on the tiny Goodwood label), which was quite an achievement in the heady days of 1980. Mind you, we're certainly not talking prime-era NWOBHM here, in spite of the observation that many dealers attempt to pass it off as such.
In fact, the majority of tracks comprising the outfit's “Troublemaker” LP are fairly unremarkable, boogie-type workouts and occasional SLEDGEHAMMER/VARDIS hybrids, although there's also a rather embarrassing tendency to drift into a sub-EAGLES brand of MOR at times, notably on the depressing (in more ways than one) "Isn't Life Lonely", "Can't Stop Crying" and "Through For You" (hey, get over it man, she probably wasn't worth it). The highlights, such as they are, come in the shape of "Stay Away", "Give Me Your Love" and the title track itself, where the guys rock out a bit more, although the sky-high asking price for this (admittedly very scarce) piece of vinyl is extremely difficult to justify on the basis of musical merit alone. It would appear that the record sold in fairly limited quantities (it wasn't a particularly extensive pressing in the first instance) upon its release, and the WARRIOR quest for global domination seems to have come to a grinding halt shortly thereafter. Their album's cover is certainly worthy of mention, however, where five of the participants (their occasional keyboard player, Sev Lewkowicz, who also contributed to the first ANGEL WITCH long-player, isn't pictured) are portrayed as 'rough boys from the wrong side of town; posing in an insalubrious doorway clutching a variety of makeshift 'weapons' including a pitifully small pen-knife and a broken bottle. Laughable.
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