Contraband - Contraband (1991)

Line-up:

Michael Schenker (from Scorpions, UFO and Michael Schenker Group) - guitars
Tracii Guns (from Guns N' Roses and L.A. Guns) - guitars
Share Pedersen (from Vixen) - bass guitar
Richard Black (from Shark Island) - vocals
Bobby Blotzer (from Ratt) - drums

Some say there are no coincidences, and I will say what a coincidence they are! The members of the short-lived supergroup consisted of members of well-known and cool rock bands. Of course, one of the solo guitarists is Michael Schenker, whose period I knew nothing about. The music at the time was fashionable with hair-metallic, hot-pounding grooves and crazy guitar solos.

"Contraband" was a short-lived supergroup/side project that included members of several famous rock bands from the 1980s, such as Shark Island, McAuley Schenker Group, Ratt, L.A. Guns, and Vixen. "Contraband" came to be after a Vixen and Ratt unplugged session on MTV.

The band released only one self-titled album in 1991 which received lukewarm reviews. The album was a commercial failure and the band disbanded shortly after, while touring with Ratt. The song "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Livin'" was included in the movie If Looks Could Kill soundtrack. In the US, the album charted at number 187. Their cover version of "All the Way from Memphis" appeared on the UK record chart in July 1991.[3] "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Livin'" was later covered as "Loud Guitars, Fast Cars & Wild, Wild Women" by Blue Tears later in the early 1990s and released for the 2005 album Dancin' On the Back Streets.