Bang Tango
Although Bang Tango was often lumped in with the whole '80s glam metal movement, the hard-rockin' quintet was one of the few L.A. glam groups to incorporate funk into its sound -- around the same time as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More made it acceptable to do so. Their lineup consisted of Joe Lesté (vocals), Kyle Stevens (guitar), Mark Knight (guitar), Kyle Kyle (bass), and Tigg Ketler (drums), and gained the interest of Mechanic/MCA shortly after the quintet issued the in-concert recording Live Injection in 1987. Their major-label debut, Psycho Cafe, was issued in 1989, and despite MTV's Headbanger's Ball program giving some air time to their single/video "Someone Like You," the album failed to break the band into the big time.
The group continued to issue albums during the early part of the '90s -- 1991's Dancin' on Coals, 1992's Ain't No Jive...Live!, and 1994's Love After Death -- but with the emergence of the Seattle movement, bands like Bang Tango became passé with most of the metal community. The band broke up shortly thereafter, with bassist Kyle joining former Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe's industrial project, the Newlydeads, while Lesté did some time as a stand-in for L.A. Guns (Ketler and Knight also resurfaced in the group the Worry Beads). In 1998, Kyle and Lesté resurrected the Bang Tango name for the 1998 release Live (on the Cleopatra label). A best-of compilation, Greatest Tricks, saw the light of day in 1999, as did United and Live the same year. In 2001, Lesté formed a more modern-sounding alt-metal outfit, Beautiful Creatures, issuing a self-titled debut the same year on Warner Bros., and toured as part of Ozzfest. Mark Knight also formed a new band, Gravy.
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Discography
7 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Pistol Whipped in the Bible Belt
Rock - Released by 78 Productions on 1 Nov 2011
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Ready to Go
Metal - Released by Shrapnel Records, Inc. on 14 Sep 2004
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The Ultimate Bang Tango - Rockers & Thieves
Hard Rock - Released by Deadline Records on 16 May 2006
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United & Live
Hard Rock - Released by Cleopatra Records on 3 Aug 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Greatest Tricks
Hard Rock - Released by Deadline Records on 16 May 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo