Garbage Days Revisited #46: The Four Horsemen - "Nobody Said It Was Easy" (1991)
"Rockin' is my business and business is good (and if it's so good why am I still fuckin' broke?)" - The Four Horsemen - Rockin' Is My Business There are a lot of great forgotten bands from the Sunset Strip era who offered a much harder leaner and meaner take on the sleaze rock formula than the chart-friendly fluff of yer Poisons and Warrants yet still got undeservedly swept away by grunge but the Four Horsemen really were one of the most desperately unlucky out there. Their harder-edged but supremely tuneful take on the formula, similar to other bands like Junkyard or Circus of Power (or if you're looking for a British equivalent, the Almighty 's first two albums), should have seen them up there among the big-hitters but a combination of bad luck, bad timing and about a million other things pretty much sunk them without a trace. The group were formed by guitarist Stephen "Haggis" Harris in 1989. Haggis had started his career a few years ea...