Brent Muscat (born April 23, 1967) is an American musician best known as the guitarist of
glam metal
Glam metal (also known as hair metal or pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, upbeat rock anthems, and slow power ballads. It borrows heavily from the fashion and image of 1970s glam r ...
band
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock/glam metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985 by vocalist Taime Downe, guitarists Brent Muscat and Greg Steele and bassist Kelly Nickels. The group has since gone through numerous lineup changes lea ...
.
Faster PussyCat, etc.
Faster Pussycat was formed in the 1980s Hollywood glam metal boom. The original line up consisted of Brent, along with
Taime Downe
Taime Downe (; born Gustave Molvik on September 29, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the 1980s hard rock/glam metal band Faster Pussycat.
Life and career
In high school, Downe formed a band named The Bondage Boy ...
and Greg Steele. The band's most successful album ''
Wake Me When It's Over
''Wake Me When It's Over'' is the second album by Faster Pussycat, released in 1989. The band moved away from the glam metal of their first album to a more blues-influenced sound.
Music videos were produced for "Poison Ivy" and "House of Pain". ...
'' earned "
Gold
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" status from the
RIAA
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.
The name of the band is derived from the
Russ Meyer
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film ''
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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The fil ...
''. Brent left the band in 1993.
On April 21, 2007, Muscat circulated via MySpace an open invitation to
Taime Downe
Taime Downe (; born Gustave Molvik on September 29, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the 1980s hard rock/glam metal band Faster Pussycat.
Life and career
In high school, Downe formed a band named The Bondage Boy ...
and Greg Steele to reunite the classic Faster Pussycat lineup with him (Downe had been touring in a new incarnation of the group, featuring only himself from the original lineup).
Brent's version of Faster Pussycat toured Europe in Spring 2007 with Kurt Frohlich replacing Taime on vocals along with Todd Kerns on guitar.
After a short name dispute with
Taime Downe
Taime Downe (; born Gustave Molvik on September 29, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the 1980s hard rock/glam metal band Faster Pussycat.
Life and career
In high school, Downe formed a band named The Bondage Boy ...
, Brent dropped his claim and dissolved his incarnation of the band.
Deluxe
Brent formed Deluxe back in 1994 with Marc Anthony vocals, Tommy T-bone Caradonna (ex-White Lion, Alice Cooper, Lita Ford) on bass and Gary Kaluza (ex-Glory Chain) on guitar.
Sin City Sinners
Muscat currently lives in
Las Vegas
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and co-owns the band
Sin City Sinners
Sin City Sinners is a group of musicians who perform self-penned originals and rock and roll covers at key venues throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is composed of a tight-knit group of core members: Brent Muscat (ex-Faster Pussycat), guita ...
.
with
Todd Kerns
Todd "Dammit" Kerns is a Canadian musician who has worked with several Canadian bands, most notably The Age of Electric. Kerns is currently the bass guitarist and back up vocalist for Slash in the band Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Co ...
(
Age of Electric
The Age of Electric is a Canadian rock band founded in 1989 with members from Lanigan and Regina, Saskatchewan. The members are Todd Kerns (vocals/guitar), Ryan Dahle (guitar/backing vocals), John Kerns (bass), and Kurt Dahle (drums/backing vo ...
, Static in Stereo,
Slash
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* Harry Slash & The Slashtones, an American rock band
* Nash ...
featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Kulick). The band is rounded out with Rob Cournoyer (ex-
Raging Slab
Raging Slab is an American band that plays a blend of southern rock and boogie with influences from metal and punk. They released six albums between 1987 and 2002.
History
The group formed in 1983[RaTT
Ratt is an American glam metal band formed in San Diego, California, in the 1970s, that had significant commercial success in the 1980s, with their albums having been certified as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum by the RIAA. The group is bes ...]
). (With guest appearance from musician/actor Zachary Throne.) Sin City Sinners has been called the hardest working band in Las Vegas.
ALLEY CATS LV, The Saints of Las Vegas, Original Sin LV, etc.
Muscat is one of the characters in the book
Sex Tips from Rock Stars
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by Paul Miles, published by
Omnibus Press
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History
Omnibus Press was launched in 1972 as a general non-fiction publisher to complem ...
in July 2010.
ALLEY CATS LV
Muscat, Executive Producer Shion Francois, and
Takashi O'hashi who is a Japanese guitarist (Cats In Boots, SEIKIMAII II, The Outsiders) formed ALLEY CATS LV from 2016. Also the member of this band are Zachary Throne on vocal and bass and drummer Stephen Mills.
In early 2017 they released their first self titled Ep, which was followed up by a tour in Japan. After the tour the band returned to the studio to record its second EP with the single ''Speed Racing Superstar.''
In December 2017 Brent took a "hiatus" from Alley Cats.
The Saints of Las Vegas
Brent also formed the band Saints of Las Vegas, with Anthony Serrano as the lead singer. On February 7, 2018, the Saints released the single “TOMEKA”. They followed that up on March 15, 2018 with the single and lyric music video for "Panic Room".
Original Sin LV
In 2017 Brent joined Todd Kerns along with the most well known line up of the Sin City Sinners in a limited number of shows. They followed up this limited engagement with an August 31, 2018, gig at the world-famous
Count's Vamp'd RockBar & Grill.
Radio Show
Brent Muscat hosted his own radio show "Mondays with Muscat" on lvrockradio that featured local music and musicians.
He also co-hosted "Sinful Sundays" with Dirk Vermin on radiovegas.rocks
Discography
;Faster Pussycat
* ''
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock/glam metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985 by vocalist Taime Downe, guitarists Brent Muscat and Greg Steele and bassist Kelly Nickels. The group has since gone through numerous lineup changes lea ...
'' (1987)
* ''
Wake Me When It's Over
''Wake Me When It's Over'' is the second album by Faster Pussycat, released in 1989. The band moved away from the glam metal of their first album to a more blues-influenced sound.
Music videos were produced for "Poison Ivy" and "House of Pain". ...
'' (1989)
* ''
Live and Rare'' (1990)
* ''
Whipped!'' (1992)
;Phil Lewis
* ''
More Purple Than Black
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* MORE protocol, a routing protocol
* Missouri Research and Education Network
Music Albums
* ''More!'' (album), by Booka ...
'' (1999)
;Liberators
* ''Access Denied'' (2000)
;Bubble
* ''How Bout This'' (2000)
*Various Artists - ''11th Street Tales: A Tribute to Hanoi Rocks'' (2000)
;L.A. Guns
* ''
Rips the Covers Off
''Rips the Covers Off'', some copies of which are titled ''Rips Off the Covers'', is an album by Phil Lewis's version of L.A. Guns, their first with guitarist Stacey Blades.
The studio portion of the album (songs 1-11) consists of cover son ...
'' (2004)
;Underground Rebels
* ''Insult to Injury'' (2007)
;Sin City Sinners
* ''Exile on Fremont Street'' (2010)
* ''Broken Record'' (2010)
* ''A Sinners Christmas'' (2011)
;ALLEY CATS LV
* ''ALLEY CATS LV'' (2016)
* ''Speed Racing Superstar'' (2017)
;The Saints Of Las Vegas
* ''Tomeka'', Single (Jan. 2018)
* ''Panic Room'', Single (Feb. 2018)
* ''Rock n Roll Groupie'', Single (March. 2018)
Charity work
On February 19, 2012, Brent announced live on Las Vegas Radio station Komp 92.3 that on March 16 he will have his head shaved in front of a live audience to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures through the St Baldrick's charity.
On March 16, 2012 Brent shaved his head on stage in front of a sold out crowd and beat his goal raising thousands of dollars for the St. Baldrick's foundation.
Awards
In 1989, Brent received a
gold record
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award for Faster Pussycat's second album ''
Wake Me When It's Over
''Wake Me When It's Over'' is the second album by Faster Pussycat, released in 1989. The band moved away from the glam metal of their first album to a more blues-influenced sound.
Music videos were produced for "Poison Ivy" and "House of Pain". ...
''. Years later, in 2004, he would earn his second gold record with the band's self-titled debut album, ''
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock/glam metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985 by vocalist Taime Downe, guitarists Brent Muscat and Greg Steele and bassist Kelly Nickels. The group has since gone through numerous lineup changes lea ...
''.
Sin City Sinners
Sin City Sinners is a group of musicians who perform self-penned originals and rock and roll covers at key venues throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. The band is composed of a tight-knit group of core members: Brent Muscat (ex-Faster Pussycat), guita ...
won "Best of Vegas" two years in a row (2009 and 2010) in the Las Vegas Review Journal reader's poll, and their music video 'Going to Vegas' received the 32nd annual Telly award.
Brent and the Sin City Sinners as well as being the house band, won the Publisher's Pick award at the 2010 VRMA Awards.
References
External links
Blogs N' Roses (blogsnroses.com) interview with Brent(archived)
*
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Brent Muscat official page
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1967 births
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
Adler's Appetite members
American heavy metal guitarists
American male guitarists
Faster Pussycat members
L.A. Guns members
Liberators (American band) members
Living people
People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
Sin City Sinners members