Garbage Days Revisited #31: Life, Sex & Death - "The Silent Majority" (1992)
"'Cos we all need to raise a little hell before we get to heaven..." - Life, Sex & Death - Raise A Little Hell We looked at Antiproduct on Sounds From The Junkshop a couple of days ago but if you thought Alex Kane's reign of lunacy started there - oh no no no. About 5-10 years prior to dousing himself in Gene Simmons meets Krusty the Clown facepaint and regularly setting himself on fire onstage, Kane was the guitarist with one of the most utterly out there bands to emerge from the tail end of the LA hair metal scene, namely Life, Sex & Death. Formed in the dying days of Sunset Strip's reign as the Aquanet Babylon, they were one of those bands who were so uniquely insane that you could almost see their "plenty of press plaudits and a rabid die-hard following but album sales? Forget it" status coming from miles away. The legend has it that after leaving Enuff Z'Nuff in the late '80s, Alex Kane would relocate from Chicago to LA and link...