Love/Hate: the story of the 80s hard rock band

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Love/Hate: the story of the 80s hard rock band


Love/Hate emerged from the late 80s Sunset Strip scene in a whirlwind of noise and hype with killer debut album Blackout In The Red Room. But the public never embraced them, their record company didn’t get them and they couldn’t match the success of many of their peers. In 2008, singer Jizzy Pearl, bassist Skid Rose and drummer Joey Gold looked back on how their band snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.

Left eating the dust of many of their inferior rivals at the turn of the 1990s, Love/Hate were the group that the entire Sunset Strip hair-metal community liked to believe would never sign a record deal. Considered dumb, ugly, weird and plain untalented, in private, the California-based four-piece struggled to manage internal schism, and as resentment and insecurity welled up to boiling point they numbed the pain of rejection by partying to the max. Ultimately Love/Hate did overcome their ‘least likely’ tag, but it took guts, patience and a small mountain of drugs to do so.

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