Nasty Idols

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.
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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.
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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.
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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 were 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.
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In 2008 we've been recorded our fifth album.
A 12 -track album we call "Boys Town" is set for release in March 2009.

...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.
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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 a album cover of New York Dolls.
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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 into a studio and recorded our first demo.
the two songs "Don't Walk From Love" and "Easy Come Easy Go".
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.
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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.
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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.
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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

"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.
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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
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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".