"Infact, it was too
heavy for me"
Judas Priest - Painkiller
I bought this after school one day from HMV. This was a masterclass in the ageing Judas Priest, showing all these younger angry speed metal thrashers exactly how it should be done. In fact, it was too heavy for me. I returned it to store next day and bought something else. However, a year later I was ready and this time Painkiller stuck. It’s up there as one of the finest examples of British Metal ever.
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Yas Out
The best live album ever, the Stones at their early ‘70s peak with Mick Taylor on guitar. My Dad let me play it on the turntable over and over when I was about six years old. It gets no better than this, loosely played sloppy Stones making the best sound five cats can ever make. It’s 100% the influence for me on The Outlaw Orchestra.
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
My first taste of heavy metal. I couldn’t believe that guitars could sound so huge, so awesome, so heavy as if it was the devil’s voice. My brother played it to me when I was just in from school, I was hooked. I was a metalhead forever from that moment. Jake E Lee on guitar just did something so special that it fried my young brain. Everything was Ozzy Osbourne from then on. Art class was chance to design Ozzy album covers.
"I couldn't believe that
guitars could sound so large"
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
WASP changing from fun rock/metal to black dark metal. Super heavy drums, brilliantly crafted song after song with a stunning cover of The Who’s Real Me. This album is very influenced by the style of a Who rock opera. It’s as if Pete Townsend turned his hand to metal. Blackie Lawless’s vocals are epic throughout.
"I'm gonna listen
to it now."
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
A Christmas present from my Mum. Following Back In Black, this album is altogether heavier and harder, way more grit than what was to follow. I recall holding the tennis racket and jamming along until the track Inject The Venom came on. Angus hits a lead riff mid song that literally had my jaw hit the floor. To this day it never fails to get the same response, I seek that savage tone all the time. I’m gonna listen to it now.
Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
C’mon, you’re fifteen years old, what are you interested in? Guitars, girls, cool songs, girls, girls and more girls. This album was leagues ahead of the rivals; Bob Rock turning the Crue into a hard pop/rock band. It was a massive production and it oozed class in every second of the grooves on the record. When I found out that The Body Shop strip joint on Sunset Strip plays Girls Girls Girls every hour in the evening, it made my Bucket List to go there one day (that’s been ticked off). Most of all I loved the track Sticky Sweet. It just embodies the hedonistic Sodom & Gomorrah that defines Hollywood. What’s not to love?
Van Halen - Women And Children First
This is the game changer, Eddie Van Halen doing things to his guitar that are illegal in some countries. The songs are humour tinged, its sexy, it’s a dirty album, 100% six string abuse. I figured it didn’t get better than this (1984 hadn’t been written yet and Van Hagar was years away). The track And The Cradle will Rock, hearing Diamond Dave shout “Have you seen Junior’s grades?” At this point with the above album in my growing collection I was quickly learning that rock guitar was the way forward and school was for losers. The young attitude was growing and heading down the wrong (right) road. Then seeing some ‘80s movie with the Van Halen song Everybody Wants Some as the school teacher swings her hips walking across the classroom ....”whoa down boy, back in your basket”.
Skid Row - Skid Row
Thanks guys, I was 17 and my girlfriend bought me this album after I’d seen them a year previous. Sebastian Bach’s tirades of anti-establishment abuse from the stage was the seal of approval on my teenage asshole badge of honour, screw school and I’ll go to college to rock out and date totally bitchin cool rock chicks, that’s the career for me. This album slam dunked on every track, heavy, ripping guitar solos, awesome vocals and all testosterone a young rocker needs. Hey guess what, all these years later we, The Outlaw Orchestra are supporting Skid Row in a few weeks YEEEEAH! I showed you all, those losers who have nine to five jobs and the entire Sears catalogue package deal lifestyle... I am gonna get Skid Row to sign my album and write “Hey Dave its 1987, be sure to make something of yourself...Skid Row”. This is so damn sweet , so sticky sweet that I could cry!
Bio
Dave Roux has played guitar for as long as he can remember. He never wanted anything else in life than to be in a band having fun. Several bands later from Southern Rock to Speed Metal to The Outlaw Orchestra gave him the ingredients to figure a winning formula, give folk what they want on a Saturday night…a damn good time. Aside from the weekend warrior stuff he is a goldsmith, “What’s that?” folk say. “It’s like being a blacksmith but on smaller stuff and you don’t hit it so hard….and its more expensive.” Dave’s been a goldsmith for twenty years now: engagement rings, wedding rings etc thru to rock’n’roll jewellery. He loves his guitars, his dog and his woman…… not necessarily in that order.
