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MONA LISA, PRAYING MANTIS, AMERICAN CHAOS, BILLY MORRISON, FM, TOMMY GUN, JOLLY ROX, DIRE WOLF, FEUERSHWANZ, PANAMA, THE BLACK CROWES, THE TREATMENT, CACTUS, 69 EYES, SABASTIAN BACH

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MONA LISA, PRAYING MANTIS, AMERICAN CHAOS, BILLY MORRISON, FM, TOMMY GUN, JOLLY ROX, DIRE WOLF, FEUERSHWANZ, PANAMA, THE BLACK CROWES, THE TREATMENT, CACTUS, 69 EYES, SABASTIAN BACH

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ROCKSTORY

"(MONA LISA)"

"“ MONA LISA was put together during 1987 by drummer L.A. Roberts and bass-player Ray St. Michael, in the Maryland area. With the addition of vocalist Rick Thomas and guitar-wizard Don De Olivera, the band was complete and ready to Rock. Their first homemade demos of ’87 had a raw, naïve charm that displayed the kind of potential that should have seen the major label record companies lining up, but it’s with their very first professional demo called “Grounded For Life” that the band showed their commercial appeal, taking on a new, overtly polished direction. Local radio and media support led the band to appear on the 1987 compilation called ’97 Underground Beast From The East Vol. 1′, with the song “Nightmares”. Compared to bands like White Lion, Danger Danger and Trixter, MONA LISA delivers some cool ’80s American melodic hard rock on these recordings. After a successful start to their career with the 1988 EP “Grounded for Life”, the band got a publishing agent, and played the club circuit, both as opening-act and as headliner. Then in 1990 MONA LISA recorded their debut album, “The Art Of Seduction”, self-released the next year only on cassette format. The album featured songs that have a Melodic Rock feel with a Metal sheen, recalling the style that bands like White Lion, Van Halen and Danger Danger was carrying around, in a time when acts like Metallica and Skid Row were all-rage. Tracks like ‘Name Of Rock’, ‘Dirty Girl’ and ‘Angry Child’ are pure candies for the Melodic Rock / Hair Metal lovers, a sound that bands like Skid Row were pushing forward in the late Eighties. Unfortunately this had been the last effort from this fine band, as they disbanded in 1992. After this, drummer L. A. Roberts and guitarist Don DeOliveira put together a new band called TATTOO TAXI, and they released another great cassette-EP ‘Pedal To The Metal’ during 1993. "