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Village Voice Best of NYC 2003
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The Crue-bating out-rock bad-boy band PINK STEEL sounds better than you might imagine, once told tha...The Crue-bating out-rock bad-boy band PINK STEEL sounds better than you might imagine, once told that the Steel are a three-man cabaret act. Their formula is simple: change any hair band's praise of rock to cock and poof! The heavy metal parking lot becomes homo a-go-go. In copious leather and pink spandex, Hanson Jobb and Udo Von D�Y� are two of the city's funniest fellas devoted to "fighting with metal and loving with wood."
http://villagevoice.com/bestof/2003/contents.php?subject=music
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Blender: Weird Band Alert!
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INTERVIEW: WGN-TV Chicago Morning News
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See PINK STEEL interviewed on the WGN-TV Chicago Morning News at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...See PINK STEEL interviewed on the WGN-TV Chicago Morning News at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsanJnWTu_I
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Pink Steel: Out At The Devil! (review)
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There is a wind blowing from Bremen, Germany; it has more umlauts than you can count and it wants to...There is a wind blowing from Bremen, Germany; it has more umlauts than you can count and it wants to suck your boyfriend's dick.
"Out at the Devil," the debut album from New York glammetal hairrockers Pink Steel is a balls-out assault on heteronormative spooge-rock, tearing into the mise-en-scene of Motley Crue and Poison with eight inches of love and a 33-and-a-half-inch guitar scale, both with your name on it, baby.
I have, as you might guess, been around the block. As a longtime music reviewer for Gothic.net, I reviewed hundreds of bands with names like Spaztic Pustule Eruption and Death is My Love, My Love, My Love. I've heard it all -- cryptohomo guitar-blowjob glamrock crossed with Swedish ambient-industrial, a Napalm Death-style all-midget Tom Jones cover band; an opera singer who gets fisted onstage while singing "The Magic Flute;" nothing can shock me and most of it doesn't even get a raised eyebrow let alone a "Dude, did he just say that?"
But the world of Pink Steel is the totally unexpected pileup of perhaps the three most obvious four-beer-queers who have spent the last forty years spoiling for a drunken threeway while pretending they're just taking a "wide stance": hair metal, fagrock and glam-drag burlesque.
"The Pink and Black Bareback Attack," as PS is fond of calling itself, has been described as the marriage of Ozzy Osbourne and Oscar Wilde, but it's unquestionably Rob Halford of Judas Priest who should be having a chuckle and a serious wank over this one: As an out gay man who fronted one of the most influential metal bands of all time, Halford paved the way for gay men sick of Abba and metalheads sick of being in the closet.
But back to Der Germans: Steel's principals are singer Hanson Jobb and guitarist Udo Von D�y�, bassist Klaus Schave and drummer Helmut Bang. They claim to hail from Bremen, Germany, which they of course are, every bit as much as John Wayne was Mongolian. The band's press has created a mythology around them that has Udo and Hanson, former high school mates on the swim team, meeting in a German bathhouse; Udo'd just lost his lover to a cantaloupe. Pointed questions to the band's publicist resulted in return emails asking "Don't you feel kind of hot in those cutoffs? Maybe you should take them off" and "Hey, let me get you a beer." Layering on the Germanic accents with a comic bluster worthy of Mel Brooks, they lay down hilarious gay-themed spoken-word routines between such songs as "Johnny, Are you Queer?" and "I'm Coming Out (All Over You)." Shortly after Devil's opening, there's a straight-boys-getting'-dirty porno routine that had me in stitches and signing up for the field hockey team. And what's not to love about a sonic assault entitled "We Fight for Cock?" These guys are the gay Id, flooding the world with hot gallons of steaming subversion.
But oh, it gets better: take "Frodonator," described as a Tolkien-meets-Stepford-Wives epic that sneaks up behind "The Battle of Evermore" and tickles its balls. Or "We Fight for Cock," which opens with the battlecry "Zis song is a song zat Charles Nelson Riley schtole from ze Beatles, und ve are going to schteal it back!" before launching into the line "Cock is our business, and business is good! We're buyin' with metal and we're lovin' with wood! I'm a full metal jacket and a son of a bitch! Suckin' on the metal of a trailer hitch!"
My favorite song on the disk, though, is "Sausage Party," which pretty much lays it on the line in the language of the testosterone-addled headbangin' horndog:
No girls! Just boys!
Gonna throw a sausage party that the men will enjoy!
The sausage man is hard to find
Put your parts on the table and get ready to grind
Put your hand on the crank
If you want a treat
We don't care what you put in it as long as it's meat
There's no question that the gay world needs more positive and upstanding role models; I'm sure Pink Steel will get right on that, just as soon as Tenacious D completes their Just Say No commercial.
You can buy Pink Steel's "Out at the Devil" at PinkSteel.com, at CDBaby.com or via iTunes.
http://eros-zine.com/articles/2007-10-30/pinksteel103007/
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HX Magazine June 2004
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MINCING METAL: Hanson Jobb and Udo Von DuYu rock out as Pink Steel
Text by Lawrence Ferber
Pho...MINCING METAL: Hanson Jobb and Udo Von DuYu rock out as Pink Steel
Text by Lawrence Ferber
Photography by Jay Muhlin
http://64.78.33.181/features/index.cfm?id=1903&cat=1&page=features&sub_page=weekly
Rob Halford watch out! When New York comedians/ musicians Alex Brewer and Ken Grobe morph into their German alter egos Hanson Jobb and Udo Von DuYu, they rock heavy and homo as the band Pink Steel. Their hysterical and catchy songs meld Ozzy Osbourne with Oscar Wilde: "We Fight 4 Cock" (I�m a full metal jacket and a son of a bitch/ sucking all the chrome off a trailer hitch), "Sausage Party," "Two Men Enter, One Man Loves" and "Converter" (You think you're straight?/ Just you wait!).
Speaking of which, straights are also bobbing their heads to Pink Steel: The Village Voice bestowed a "Best of 2003" honors on the duo, while Bust Magazine highlighted the randy rockers in their "Gay Men We Love" issue. "Heavy metal is for everyone," Jobb insists through a thick Teutonic accent. "The beauty, leather, phallic worship of a Fender Stratocaster guitar... Waitaminute. It's so the gayness. It's gayer than young Nathan Lane at choir camp." The band, which recently added drummer Helmut Bang (aka Sean Clancy), is touring, recording and writing. Their act, Open Wide for Pride, arrives June 23 at Joe's Pub; T-shirts and the CD Enter the Pink are available on their web site. To discuss their gay gigs, we shared some time with Jobb and Von DuYu.
How did you two meet?
Udo Von DuYu:
High-school swim team in Bremen, Germany. I needed someone to shave my back, und he was in the next stall.
Hanson Jobb:
I broke three Bics on his back. After that, we didn't talk much, and then one night I was in a bathhouse in Rotterdam and I heard weeping. I made my way through the beaded curtain and I found Udo crying for his lover, who left him for a cantaloupe with a hole cut in it. It's bad enough when it's a living, breathing person, but when it's a melon�
UVD:
Not even so fresh!
What was the first Pink Steel song?
UVD:
"I'm Coming Out (All Over You Tonight)." It's a bit about being predatory. The chorus goes "Cock your guns and lock up your sons because we�re here to stay." It's a bit of a public service announce-ment.
Do you have lovers, or are you out for as many men as you can get?
UVD:
As many as you can get. We fight for cock.
HJ:
Sometimes it fights over us! There is no reason to get into rock 'n' roll if you are going to have a significant other because there is a significantly large amount of others to be had.
What are the advantages of being gay and into heavy metal? And any benefits from the head bobbing?
HJ:
Every time we are having the head banging in the audience I can barely concentrate on the song - all I'm thinking about is [makes gagging sounds]!
UVD:
Not everyone realizes the parallels between hard heavy metal and gay campiness. A lot of times we are allowed to show the similarities between the two. When you find a 22-year-old boy in the Midwest who finds himself attracted to the long hair, the spray, und the Spandex, but he doesn't quite know quite why, we are there to take him into the other direction.
HJ:
Another benefit of being gay and metal is there's a lot of boys Vince Neil won't sleep with, and that's where we come in. And I mean, come in.
UVD:
We get the Vince Neil runoff!
Your types?
HJ:
We like all types, but it depends on the mood. Personally, not so much hair for me, and I mean everywhere - even the top of the head. But being a rock star of measure, of girth, I enjoy another chubby boy every now and then! I'm a chubby chaser. We have a song about that, for the bears - "More to Love."
What should straights know about Pink Steel?
UVD:
Enjoy the apple martinis and the special attention.
HJ:
Not to fear us, but to embrace us. Have a couple of drinks, just pretend you�re sleeping. Let Pink Steel spoon you!
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Open Wide for Pride, 9:30pm, June 23, at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street), 212-539-8778. Visit pinksteel.com for more information.
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NY Daily News: Duo Mixes Metal & Bathhouse Brio, Ja!
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Rock U Like a Gay
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Blurring the lines between Motley Crue and Mary Poppins it's PINK STEEL. Gay metal! Well, gayer meta...Blurring the lines between Motley Crue and Mary Poppins it's PINK STEEL. Gay metal! Well, gayer metal. You know how the average Metal is "Grr, we're fucking Metal! Lookit all the leather!" Then they put out that one ballad to "move units" and you see the lead guy with his Ovation acoustic in the video, crying, surrounded by candles and torn-up pictures of that hot model girlfriend any sane man would have clung to like a life raft in shark infested waters, and he's got a ring in each nipple and he's crying even harder by this time and you think to yourself "Hey! What the fuck! My metal is fucking queer!"
No friend, your metal is merely lame. This metal is Queer! Cut to the chase! Mosh into the PIT OF GAY.
http://www.screenhead.com/funny/music/rock-u-like-a-gay-116794.php
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Metalreviews.com: PINK STEEL - Out At The Devil
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Surprise of the month--Very Gay Parody Hair Metal
PINK STEEL - Out At The Devil
Fistful of Love...Surprise of the month--Very Gay Parody Hair Metal
PINK STEEL - Out At The Devil
Fistful of Love
12 songs
Release year: 2007
What's gayer than a birthday party at Rob Halford's house? Why it's Pink Steel, of course!
If anyone thinks these guys really practice what they preach, then you just don't get the joke and need to read between the lines! Pink Steel are a gay parody hair metal outfit who pretend to be from Germany but really reside in Brooklyn, NY. The band members are comprised of Udo Von DüYü (guitar, vocals), Hanson Jobb (vocals), Klaus Schave (bass) and Helmut Bang (drums). The music is 80's styled hair metal with tongue 'n cheek lyrics (no pun intended!) that deal with themes of everything and anything that is associated with being gay! These guys speak with fake German accents, sounding like Siegfried & Roy, and dress in leather and pink feather boas. When you take the visual aspect of what these guys look like and match it with the audio portion as far as the music and lyrics, you can't help but burst into laughter.
Out At The Devil is twelve tracks of very gay, parody hair metal. The music is actually quite good! It's full of catchy choruses and guitar riffs and some very funny lyrics. It's very reminiscent of 80's hair metal bands like Poison, Judas Priest and Guns 'N Roses with the comical approach of bands like Beatallica, The Rutles, Tenacious D and Spinal Tap. The vocals sound like a mix between Axel Rose from Guns 'N Roses and Jason McMaster from Dangerous Toys as well as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap. The "German" accents are used during spoken introductions on some of the songs but are quickly lost when the singing starts. Check out songs like Sausage Party (the guitar riff on this song reminds of one similar to that of Motorhead's Love For Sale..."No girls, just boys. Gonna throw a sausage party that the men will enjoy".), Converter ( "You've got a boring life with some boring wife but I know deep inside your a liar....cause you go to the gym for the workout and watch Siegfried & Roy for the tigers".), I'm Coming Out (All Over You) ("I like to like it, I like to lick it, I love to love it all night. I like to get it, where I can stick it and if I'm tempted I might"), the progressed out GWAR influenced Frodonator (starts of as an acoustic ballad then kicks in with some up tempo metal riffing...."I've got a strange obsession with men and holes" and "these boots are made for Tolkein all over you"), Johnny, Are You Queer (an acoustical love ballad, sounds a little David Bowie-ish), Cock Fight (complete with some sounds of cocks fighting "in a ring late at night, a crowd of men see the sight, of two men going head to head"), More To Love ("Big boys need loving to. If you're a chubby one, I'll give it to you") and the hard cocking anthem, We Fight For Cock ("Cock is our business and business is good. Pack your sac cause we're going to war").
All in all, Out At The Devil, (a title that probably spoofs Motley Crue's Shout At The Devil), is a fun party album with a sense of humor. If you like parody bands like Beatallica, The Rutles, Tenacious D, Spinal Tap or even GWAR, then Pink Steel should be an easy choice! Prepare to rock with your cock out!
Killing Songs :
Sausage Party, We Fight For Cock, Frodonator
78 / 100
Average: [Average value of user votes is 100]
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INTERVIEW: Kittenpants.com
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I first saw Pink Steel perform at Cathy Cervenka's "Love Bites" Valentines Day show. For me it was l...I first saw Pink Steel perform at Cathy Cervenka's "Love Bites" Valentines Day show. For me it was love at first bite, as soon as they took the stage. I mean, how can you not fall for the self-proclaimed "Pink and Black Bareback Attack"? Especially when they perform their tribute to Lord of the Rings (about a giant gay metal robot called "the Frodonator")? Seriously? It's impossible not to adore them.
They graciously agreed to be part of this year's kittenpants birthday celebration, opening for Corn Mo and Double Dong + Wyld Lixx. After meeting them, I had to know more.
According to their bio, "In 1983, Udo Von D�Y� met PINK STEEL vocalist Hanson Jobb in a smoky Bremen bathhouse/nightclub, where Udo was recovering after his lover left him for a cantaloupe with a hole cut in it. Hanson, who had just finished "chatting" in the back room with several Nigerian wrestlers, recognized the forlorn Von DuYu from their high school swim team."
kp: What were your thoughts upon first meeting? Did you know you were gay metal soulmates?
Udo von DuYuUV: I think we realized we were gay metal soulmates the minute we discovered we both liked cock. That was good for bonding.
Hanson Jobb: Lets just say that had I not awoken from my Amyl nitrate popper induced blackout at that exact moment there would be no Pink Steel. K?
UV: But do not understand us wrongly! We have never "gotten together". We have been playing together so long...it would just be weird. It would be like having sex with my brother. Which I have NOT done!
HJ: I have had sex with his brother and it was weird, trust me.
kp: Is "A sausage man" really that hard to find?
HJ: Not as hard as a pickle man, or worse yet a "gherkin man".
UV: You are misunderstand our English. We mean to say that a "sausage man" is always hard when you do find him! It is true!
kp: What's Halford like in the sack?
UV: Difficult to say, unless you do have one of those medical filament-cameras.
HJ: Halford struggled a lot when first placed in the sack. After he burned up all of his oxygen he calmed down.
kp: Have you heard the ATOM + HIS PACKAGE song, "Hats off to Halford"?
UV: No, but have they heard our song, "Jeans off for Gene Simmons"?
HJ: Halford should always wear a hat cuz he is the bald.
kp: If you were able to keep a bass player, any famous ones you'd be interested in touring with? Nikki Sixx is kinda hot, no?
UV: Ah, but did you know that he is also GAY? It is true! Darling Nikki only dates the strippers for the fashion tips!
HJ: As Nikki Sixx is to hot, Geddy Lee is to Scorcho!
kp: Udo, I understand your crush on Brian from QUEER AS FOLK, but seriously, CC Deville?
UV: What will I say? I am love the bad boys!
kp: Hanson, same question with regard to Weird Al. Please explain?
HJ: Two Words: A & CCORDION. Despite the irony, nothing gets me hotter than a squeeze box.
kp: Describe your feelings on these other rock duos: Ween?
UV: Tasty, but not hard enough.
HJ: I pushed the lil daisy's and I made tem come up!
Barnes and Barnes?
UV: Poseurs!
HJ: I buy all my Jackie Collins Paper backs there! And ze coffe!
They Might Be Giants?
HJ: Believe me.. They ARE GIANTS, in ze Pants!
UV: The closest thing your country has to gay polka!
Sparks?
HJ: They never call back no matter how many times you kidnap their pets
UV: They give me angst--in my pants!
Tenacious D?
HJ: Brilliant. I keep having this dream where I am crushed between their beefy torsos and loving every minute of it. Then David Cross walks in with Zsa Zsa Gabor and we talk about shoes.
The Smothers Brothers?
HJ: Too old to screw....
UV: LOVE their cough drops.
Double Dong?
UV: Massive.
HJ: Brilliant performers and a hell of a bouncy front man. I love them, frankly, and would open up for them any times�in more ways than one would I open up for them I tell you, buddy boy!
Starsky and Hutch?
UV: A delicious denim sandwich.
HJ: Udo is the Starsky to my Hutch
kp: How pink is your steel?
UV: Bubblegum pink and just as sweet!
HJ: Oh you mean my cock! My steel is actually dark brown when turgid.
kp: I heard Klaus Meine likes the fist up his ass. Have you mastered his puppet?
HJ: We went antiquing for vintage fern spritzers. That is all I have to say on the matter.
UV: Let us just say that Klausch�n's whistle solo on "Winds of Change" was NOT voluntary.
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