Rock Child (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
Broken White (Aday, Wilson, Blake, Colt, Ian)
Nutbush City Limits (Turner)
Check Out Charlie (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
Mama (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
My Heart Isn't In It (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
Nobody (Aday, Wilson, Blake, Ian)
Worth Defending (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
Lovepyre (Aday, Wilson, Blake)
Whore (Mother Superior)
Anything (Colt, Aday)
Pearl Aday - vocals
Scott Ian - guitar, backing vocals
Nalle Colt - guitar
Marcus Blake - bass, backing vocals
Dominique Davalos - bass, backing vocals
Matt Tecu - drums
Eric Leiderman - drums
Ted Nugent - guest on 'Check Out Charlie'
Jerry Cantrell - guitar on 'Anything'
Produced by Joe Barresi
Label: Megarforce Records
The first time I heard of Pearl, the band featuring Meat Loaf's daughter Pearl Aday, Anthrax's Scott Ian and members of a band called Mother Superior was when I had the pleasure of seeing them play on Velvet Revolver's last UK tour. That was the tour in which I learned three things... firstly, if you want a badass rock show, sometimes chemistry is no match for the entire band being so pissed off with each other that they're taking it out on their instruments. Let's take a moment to thank Scott Weiland and co for a truly memorable show.
Secondly, I learned that the Dharma Initiative responsible for a lot of the shit that went down in Lost (and most of the characters supplies) also apparently makes guitars. (Just imagine that this statement was followed up by a picture of Scott Ian's custom guitar that I used to have, and seem to have lost, damnit!)
And thirdly I learnt that Scott Ian is married to Meat Loaf's adopted daughter, who has lungs that seems to call into question everything we know about genetics. Can it still be hereditary even though they don't share any actual DNA? Apparently so!
The debut album 'Little Immaculate White Fox' is one of the best pure hard rock albums in recent memory, with fantastic tracks like 'Whore', and a note perfect cover of Ike and Tina Turner's 'Nutbush City Limits'. It's the kind of fist-in-the-air stuff that is hardly ever made any more. Coincidentally, when it comes to music like this, I don't think there's been anything that's been this fun without just being shallow and ultimately disposable since Velvet Revolver's 'Contraband'. And if that isn't recommendation enough, I don't know what you need to hear. Give it a listen! If you don't like it, you probably don't like rock 'n' roll... that's all.
Listen Here: Pearl – Little Immaculate White Fox
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