
Both
titles were inspired by the bad times that we experienced. We wanted a world
-
a "reich" of our own - with good 'ol rock 'n' roll but we were destined
to be heroes
for sale. For sale to anyone that would have us. But none did. So down on
luck and
inspiration the band made the final split in the end of 1995. The last album
was
never to be released (at the time) and the only video for the album - the
Dead
Kennys cover "Too Drunk To Fuck" was never to be shown.
..
1995 I formed a new band called Machinegun Kelly. We released one album called
"White Line Offside". Peter Espinoza released a soloalbum and later
formed a band
called Majestic, that had sucess in Japan.
1998 Nasty Idols played a re-uionen gig and talked about getting together
again.
Instead I recorded and released a soloalbum called "No Place For Late
Regrets".
In the year of 2000 Nasty Idols gathered their forces again and recorded the
promotion single "Something New". But later it was clear that it
was not a "real"
re-union.
2002 the American label Perris Records re-released all the Nasty Idols albums
including a "Best Of" and the 1995 "Heroes For Sale" album.
2004 I released a fourth track EP with my new band - United Enemies.
2005
I was dedicated to my new band United Enemies. We started to record our
debut album "All The Sick Things We Do". In the end of the year
our Nasty Idols
contract with Perris Records ran out. We got in contact with the Swedish label
Swedmetal Records. We were intrested in releasing one more "Best of"
album with
Nasty Idols for the Scandinavian market. Swedmetal Records even wanted to
re-release all our albums one more time.
.
By the time of the release of the collection" The Swedish Sleaze Collection"
2006
we were approached by Sweden Rock Festival. They wanted us to re-unite as
a band
for the 2006 festival. After getting in contact with the original members
from the
"Vicious" era we decided to give it a try. However insted of Stanley
on the drums
we decided on Ricci Dahl from my band United Enemies.
...yeah
pretty much like that. There was nothing else
we wanted to do really. When I met Dick Qwarfort,
the bassplayer I knew that I had found just the right
brother to pull it off with. He looked like a deadringer
for Vince Neil from Mötley Crues "Live Wire" video
and had the same appetite as me to form a band that
could kick the shit out of the totally boring musicscene
in Sweden at the time. With influences like Mötley
Crue, Kiss, Sweet and Alice Cooper.
The
first Nasty Idols line up 1987
From right:
Andy Pierce, George Swanson
Dick Qwarfort,Chris Vance
We
started the band around 1987. A friend of mine from school - Chris Vance was
the first guitarplayer. Dick knew this totally crazy dude called George Swanson
that
could play the drums. We decided to call the band Nasty Idols. A name I came
up
with in my boyroom when I was 17 and staring at album cover of New York Dolls..
Our
first gig was in August of 1987 at
a festival in our home town. We played
mostly our own material and ended the
show with the Kiss song "Detroit Rock
City". Shortly after the first gig we went
in to a studio and recorded our first
demo. The two songs "Don't Walk From
Love" and "Easy Come Easy Go" was
our
first claim to fame. We paid ourselves for the printing of 1000 vinyl singles.
I remember that we were very picky with the coverphoto. We wanted to look as
we were the biggest fucking rockstars on the planet.
In 1988 we got signed to the small independent label HSM Records after being
dumped by a porno producer that wanted to get into the musicindustry. He was
"playing for the other team" and we thought he wanted more out of
us than just
selling our music. By the end of 1989 we released our first album called
"Gigolos On Parole". By the time of the release we were so sick and
tired of
the songs that we almost didn't wanna play them live. But we did and people
started to come to our shows and liked what they saw and heard.
.
We did some TV shows including a Swedish Chart show called "Listan".
I made
an interview on the show sitting next to a life size inflatable doll. I thought
that
the idea sucked from the beginning. But the others in the band insisted that
I
should appear with the dumb looking doll. I was very relived when they later
decided to drop the interview for the national broadcasting.
.
In the year of 1990 we got a new guitarplayer. Peter Espinoza replaced Johnnie
Wee and proved to be the injection that we needed. He was a brilliant guitarplayer
with long black hair. We couldn't wait to write more songs. The first two songs
to
be recorded was "Alive 'N Kickin'" and "B.I.T.C.H." Our
recordlabel thought it
was so great that they released a single in the spring of 1990, even before
we
had ny songs for a full album we
got great reviews and suddenly other
countries

began to show interest in our
upcoming rock 'n roll machine.
In February of 1991 we released "Cruel Intention" - probably the
best album we've
done. The video
for the song "Cool Way Of Living"
was shown on the
MTV show
"Headbangers Ball",
SuperChannel and lots of other TV channels around in Europe.
The Swedish and International press also tock notice and wrote alot of pieces
about us. In the first two days we had sold over 10 000 copies in Sweden alone.
The second video "Can't Get Ya' Off My Mind" and the third "Trashed
'n' Dirty"
made us established in the genre. That year we did a lot of touring between
the
promotion for the album. By the end of the year the album was also released
in
both Germany and Japan.
.
In the summer of 1992 our original drummer was replaced by a guy called Stanley.
We started to work on new material for our third album. In October of 1993 we
released "Vicious". The first video was for the opening track "Heads
Down In
Tinseltown", a fast rocker that was all the Nasty Idols was about at that
time;
Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. The second video "Ain't Got Nothin'"
showed a
more darker side of us.

The
Nasty Idols line up 1993
From right:
Peter Espinoza, Dick Qwarfort
Andy Pierce, Stanley
.
By the time of 1994 the goodtimes of
our type of rock was about to vanish
out the door when the Seattle era came
along. It wasn't hard to see were
it was going - but there was nothing
we could do about it. We started to
record our fourth album after
our precious guitarplayer Peter Espinoza
had left us for other projects. With a new
guy called Mikkie Nielsen we managed
to record a bunch of songs before our
record label went bankruppt.
We called the album "The Fourth Riech"
but later changed it to "Heroes For Sale".
Andy
Pierce - Voice of Nasty Idols
15 May 2007
The
Nasty Idols line up 2006
From right:
Peter Espinoza, Andy Pierce,
Stanley and Ricci Dahl
After
a succesfull gig at the
Sweden Rock Festival we wanted
to follow up with a tour.
The
Rejects On The Road Tour
started out in September.
Throughout
2006 we played in
Sweden
and in 2007 we're still playing gigs and has been touring in Italy and U.K.
A full two hour DVD including a live concert from last year and a "Behind-The-
Scene "documantary are set for release the 25th of May.
My band United Enemies are a bit on hold but the album "All The Sick Things
We Do" has been released on Swedmetal Records. (April 25th)
By the Autumn 2007 the plans are to record a new Nasty Idols album.
The
Nasty Idols line up 1990
From right:
George Swanson,
Roger White Peter Espinoza
Andy Pierce, Dick Qwarfort