SLUG-heavy metal from Hawaii

I posted a blog awhile back about a band called Open Fire that I used to follow around in Hawaii. The band's still not together (and probably will not get back together at this time) but I did find out where the lead singer went some years after their break up.

 Erich Wida, Open Fire's lead singer, joined two other fairly known local bands before finally settling with a band called Slug. The band SLUG was formed by some members of Black Dawg who brought in Erich Wida to do their vocals.

Here's a video I found on YouTube of one of their performances:


Slug performs mostly heavy metal song covers. You can listen to and download some of their song clips and videos on the band's website: www.slugrocks.com. (Update Jan 2016 - Sorry the site is not up anymore).

A little history about my rock and rollin' days...

When I lived in Hawaii in the early 1990s, there was a heavy metal band called Open Fire that I used to love to see. I followed them to their local shows as often as I could.  They're no longer playing together but they were really fun to see. Since then I have moved to other states, gotten married, started a family, and just never had the time to see other bands play live.

Before I left Hawaii, I did get the exciting opportunity to have a picture taken with their bass player, Jack Azevedo. Here's that picture:

I even had that picture put on a shirt and had him sign it.  I wonder where that shirt went.  Anyway, about two years ago, I started going out to see live local bands play again and found a really awesome metal band out of Williamsburg, Virginia. They call themselves Vanquish.  I didn't think I'd ever find another talented local metal band after Open Fire.

I've seen a lot of other really talented local bands here in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia but I'll have to share pictures about them later. This blog post is getting to be longer than I wanted it to be. I will probably end up boring my readers.