Kill City Dragons

I wanna say I read somewhere that Billy died of a heroin-overdose. Punch me if I'm wrong...haha.

A very little known fact here, Yours truly was approached about fronting Shooting Gallery prior to BGB. McCoy and Co came to see RR play at the Hippodrome in London and it went from there. It was quite an intimidating expereince as Andi and the rest of the band were stood on the balcony to the left of the stage as you looked off it.
I could feel him boring into me all the way through the set.
It was quite afunny night as The Black Crowes were in Town and Mark Ford came up on stage at the end to do, what he expected was to be, a blues jam or something. We then went into Summer Nights from Grease. He was horrified.

Whether I would have lasted five minutes in S/G is another matter but I decided to stay were I was.It was the right thing to do I think as they were all very intimidating and I was as green as it got.

<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ May 18, 2005 03:47 AM: Message edited by: IH Rich Rags ]</font>

Interesting stuff Ian.

The absolute and and utter irony of this was that, once Billy left KCD to join Shooting Gallery, our Agent , Adam Parsons, kept trying to get me to join Kill City Dragons. Fuck me! Both KCD and RR where booked by Big Rock Talent.
Apart from the fact I didnt like the people or the band, I was not gonna pass over Andy McCoy for Dave Treguna and Steev von Bleeding Saint. Do me a favour! I was green not stupid.

They finally got some guy called Johnny fron Doncaster. However, he shot through and replaced Howard Johnson in Dawn After Dark. Another blinding career move.

<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ May 18, 2005 04:37 AM: Message edited by: IH Rich Rags ]</font>

can anyone send me the kill city dragons stuff?

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Originally posted by Andii Vamp:
Wasn't there a Dogs D'amour member in Shooting Gallery before the album? If memory serves me correct it was Jo and he was also in the vid they did for `House Of Ecstacy`. I could be wrong though... my memory these days is like a fish.

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<font size="4" face="Arial">Andy, Jo joined the shooting gallery in the tour that followed the album!

has anyone got the stuff on mp3?

i was supposed to go try out for them back in the day and never made it to the rehearsals....

Probably someone has stuff but normally we like ya to chat a bit and join in.

Here's a teaser, it a Shooting Gallery video I put up a few months back.

YouTube - Shooting Gallery

I liked the song I Don't Want Anything From You but I thought they were way too hyped & wound up dissapointed when the LTEC EP came out or the 12" (I forget which was first).

Not massively into Shooting Gallery but I think there was one decent track on the album - can't recall the name so perhaps it wasn't that good. There was also a pretty dire take on Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl which was unwise. Considering Andy McCoy wrote so many brilliant songs for Hanoi & a fair few top quality tunes solo, I think he can be forgiven

The 4 track EP came first - September 1990. The 7 song self-titled came around March 1991 & was just the same EP re-packaged with 3 live songs. The live songs sucked on the whole & so the EP is the better bet - even the intial packaging is far superior.

I was in the fanclub at the time & caught them live a couple of times. 2 or 3 good songs but really just a whole lot of marketing hype. Billy's cowboy boots were about the best thing in the band.