''Wazbones'' is a 1995 album by

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. Originally recorded in 1992, with line-up consisting in Kim Hooker (vocals), Pepsi Tate (bass), Jay Pepper (guitar) and Andy Skinner (drums), replacing Ace Finchum. They were signed to Amuse America, but the company dropped them. Pepper left, being replaced by Cy Dahnar. The band continued but they changed their name to Wazbones, and re-recorded the original album. The sound is a drastic change to their previous work, dealing with some kind of mid-tempo

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, but in the vein of their previous work with power ballads, and for moments emulating

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Track listing

# "Tyfho" # "Dirty Needles" # "Belly of the Beast" # "Pigface" # "Love Junkie" # "Make Me Bleed" # "Perish" # "Let Your Flesh Instruct Your Mind" # "Love Can Kill" # "In the Name of the Gun" # "Wazbones" # "I Believe" # "Show Me" # "Tyfho (version #1)" # "The Final Solution"

Personnel

*Kim Hooker -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Cy Dahnar -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s *

Pepsi Tate Pepsi Tate (10 March 1965 – 18 September 2007) was the bass guitarist of Welsh people, Welsh glam metal band Tigertailz, who made the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart in the early 1990s. Pepsi's nickname was "Boy" or "The Boy". Born as Huw Just ...

- bass *Andy Skinner -

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