“Accepted me for what I was”?…….Marq’s vocals were raw incredible and his….he sounded the exact same live as he did on his recordings. Even better. This man is one of a kind platinum liquid gold vocals and personality…. Not to mention an amazing showman. He’s so humble
Doesn’t seem like the bad guy most make him out to be! All I know is I dig the first 3 bulletboys albums! The first one in my opinion is a top 20 metal album of the 80s!
Also….Marq please write a book man! I could’ve listened to you for hours brother. I know you were taken a back by meeting Van Halen kiss Crue etc wow what an amazing life. You’ve lived it…
Marc seems like a nice guy I never knew what happened to them I also never thought of him as an ethnic rock singer just an absolutely incredible singer
Super cool interview. The fact that he remembers so much is awesome. For those of us who lived vicariously through the Holywood music scene its really cool hearing the background stories. Thanks Marq!
I stumbled onto this and unfortunately always thought from what I read Marq thinks of himself above the rest. Love the honesty of this interview. Made me realize be careful of what you read. Another thing, I know him only as a singer. I didn't realize he was such an accomplished guitarist. Yes, I see he plays guitar on TH-cam but I'm from the 80s he was the Axl Rose of Van Halen. Meaning he was an incredible singer in a 4-piece band with Mick who is more in line of Slash then Eddie...same with Lonnie and Jimmy (Note: Lonnie and Jimmy- great rhythm section...I'm a drummer and Jimmy is in my top 10 of drummers). Great piece! I'm excited reading that Marq and Mick recently shared the stage. Great fucking band! Bury the hatch boys! We only have one life and you have a ton of fans wanting the original members. That being said- your first show needs to be in Jacksonville, FL
I agree 100%!!! For an example, in a very recent interview, an ex band mate referred to Mark as lazy, arrogant and irresponsible. He could not be further from the truth. Marq is a great guitarist as well!
Dude, I live just a little north of Jax - used to be Jax had ALL THE GREAT BANDS AND TOURS COME THRU TOWN. Unfortunately , I think the lack of good shows over the last 30 yrs is mostly due to the era of popular music has shifted....... "popular music" nowadays is pretty much just shit. Even some of teh worst bands in the 80's blows most bands of toay out the water. Love Jax - it'll always be an awesome place to me !
Wow! Very nicely articulated about the Slash level guitarist in an Eddie Van Halen kind of four piece! It's so true! Back then there were no bands that had only one guitarist, the formula was always a rhythm and a lead - UNLESS - they had THE guitarist. Dokken only needed George Lynch, Ozzy only needed Jake E Lee, Van Halen only needed Eddie, Living Colour only needed Vernon Reid, but you're right. The Bulletboys either needed a second guitarist (which was a different way of writing songs and would have led to a different animal with a very different sound!) or a virtuoso without all the "my name in lights and the rest of the band behind me" kinda ego trip which would have taken them some other direction and then all we would have known them for would have been that virtuoso's side project. No what attracted me to them immediately was Marq's stage presence. He was a sexy, slithery, more secretive about his sleazy, who sounded like he had been smoking since birth that cool raspy voice but it still had power and range that was crazy but had this weird "Don't phuck with me because I'm seriously on the edge and could blow at any moment psycho persona" and now I can see where the stripped down, punk rock, three piece kind of simplicity in catchy songs comes into the writing! That's what made Nirvana good songwriters yes, but boring to watch. Imagine if Kurt Cobain had his hands-free like Mark what he would have Tarzaned through instead of just staring at his shoes the whole show until maybe we would get lucky and he might throw himself into the drum set at the end or something? I'm surprised Bulletboys didn't get a bit bigger. Maybe like Skid Row and Steelheart they just came into the game a minute too late. That second wave of Glam Rock was ending slowly around the time they got there and turning into grunge. Alice in Chains was at the tail end of that too. Back then they were called "Sweet Alice" but they adjusted both their look and sound just enough without compromising their ability or artistic integrity or losing that harnessed flair and charisma. I wouldn't want Bulletboys to change. The only thing I would change is that I wish that we all could have got there a little sooner so that I could have seen that Sunset Strip Scene and lived some of it for myself instead of being just a smidge too young to get in anywhere. I was just getting in FINALLY to some of the clubs right when they were on the scene debuting their first album. I saw them at the old One Step Beyond up in the Bay Area, more like Silicon Valley but they blew the roof off that place! The energy was insanely phucking phun and they sounded thick and full! You could feel the kick drum in your torso! Lots of interaction with the crowd, no glass wall from any of them. I'm not going to lie I think they sounded better than they did on the album and that's pretty rare. The closest you get to that is a muddier sound and maybe the band is tight and rehearsed or the other way around or the sounds decent but you can tell they're not practicing daily. Or worse yet, keep in mind this is usually a more pop mainstream kinda sin where it's a pre-recorded track like they do on TV at the Grammy's or when they lip sing on Top of the Pops. but that's hardly the same! And Marq, we don't care about race up in the Bay Area. When I was a little kid I just thought you were really tan. My friend used to call you the "Filipino David Lee Roth' just to piss me off because I thought you were cute and I think he was jealous. We're all a bunch of mutts anyways. The San Francisco Bay Area is a HUGE melting pot full of multi-cultural, multi-racial, multiple personalities who are so mixed we don't even know our own races no less which ones were supposed to hate! We just check "other" on applications. What does any of that matter when the real issue is we are LONG overdue for an exciting, fresh but familiar feeling, sparkling new genre to come like a wild right hook out of nowhere and knock us on our asses! I want an excuse to dress up again in a new way that works. I want it to have meaning like when the first wave of punk rock came out in the 70s but have the shocking flair of the first wave of the Glam and the mysterious depth of all the Post-Punk, Death-Rock, New Wave Modern Rock or whatever you want to call it. I wonder what city it's going to boom out of? We'll see I guess but hurry!! It's so bland and blasé right now! We're bored! This time I can contribute. This time I'm old enough to get in to the clubs I know how to run now. I don't just have to hear the stories of all the stuff I missed I can tell a few of my own. Change is scary but so is living in a horrible void that's like purgatory between life and this Covidiocracy Coronapocalypse!
Very cool interview and history. Marq seems like a totally down to earth, kind soul. My good friend Johnny G played drums for BulletBoys before he passed away and he always told me how great Marq was.
June 4th 1989, I was at the Tower Theater for Ozzy, and the BulletBoys opened .. They were booed unmercifully, but handled it like total pros , and Mick Sweda was/is a great guitar player .. Marq seems like a great guy
LOL omg, I saw them open for Cheap Trick in December of 1988 and yes, they were Booed off the stage! At one point, Torien took the mic, and he yells, 'I got one thing ta say ta you Motherfu--ers; Smooooth Up in ya!!!' .... then they did that song and left the stage to a chorus of boos .... lol fun times ....
Again, cool humble and nice guy right here, and well-spoken. OK, I see the Stephen Pearcy resemblance, then out of nowhere 21:17, I see Paul Stanley from KISS Kinda..... Ha Ha
Saw the BulletBoys somewhere in Hollywood. Good show. I even bought their first two CDs. Marq’s got a great rock n roll voice! Seems like a genuine nice guy.
Marq's band Torien played my high school years ago. A three pc with marq playing guitar and singing Van Halen and Journey covers. I'd like to add he nailed them. All the people in attendance couldn't believe how good marq was. He was nailing Eddie Van Halen solos way back. Marq's an Incredible guitarist well Evicenced by his auditioning for Ozzy back in the day. If you read this marq (Mark Keppel hs 1978 or so) I was there. Always loved you're work bro,. Peace.
This might be one of the best interviews I’ve ever heard! Didn’t really think much of Marq as a rock singer but now I have so much more respect for him and him being a Mexican American is even better !! Thank you Marq!
This guy is a historian OMG. Mr. Torien, you need to write a book. Chronicle the stories of these people who aren't going to be here forever. What an amazing journey
Original band touring in 2020. Check out the Dec. 30 2019 show, they sound better than 90% of the other 80's type bands out there touring now. I wouldn't pay to see many if any of these acts, I will check this out of near me.
No denying it. This guy could definitely sing. The whole bb band, were all very talented. And as a female, the same age as them. They were quite a pleasure, to watch on stage🥰😁.
Wow! Very nicely articulated about the Slash level guitarist in an Eddie Van Halen kind of four piece! It's so true! Back then there were no bands that had only one guitarist, the formula was always a rhythm and a lead - UNLESS - they had THE guitarist. Dokken only needed George Lynch, Ozzy only needed Jake E Lee, Van Halen only needed Eddie, Living Colour only needed Vernon Reid, but you're right. The Bulletboys either needed a second guitarist (which was a different way of writing songs and would have led to a different animal with a very different sound!) or a virtuoso without all the "my name in lights and the rest of the band behind me" kinda ego trip which would have taken them some other direction and then all we would have known them for would have been that virtuoso's side project. No what attracted me to them immediately was Marq's stage presence. He was a sexy, slithery, more secretive about his sleazy, who sounded like he had been smoking since birth that cool raspy voice but it still had power and range that was crazy but had this weird "Don't phuck with me because I'm seriously on the edge and could blow at any moment psycho persona" and now I can see where the stripped down, punk rock, three piece kind of simplicity in catchy songs comes into the writing! That's what made Nirvana good songwriters yes, but boring to watch. Imagine if Kurt Cobain had his hands-free like Mark what he would have Tarzaned through instead of just staring at his shoes the whole show until maybe we would get lucky and he might throw himself into the drum set at the end or something? I'm surprised Bulletboys didn't get a bit bigger. Maybe like Skid Row and Steelheart they just came into the game a minute too late. That second wave of Glam Rock was ending slowly around the time they got there and turning into grunge. Alice in Chains was at the tail end of that too. Back then they were called "Sweet Alice" but they adjusted both their look and sound just enough without compromising their ability or artistic integrity or losing that harnessed flair and charisma. I wouldn't want Bulletboys to change. The only thing I would change is that I wish that we all could have got there a little sooner so that I could have seen that Sunset Strip Scene and lived some of it for myself instead of being just a smidge too young to get in anywhere. I was just getting in FINALLY to some of the clubs right when they were on the scene debuting their first album. I saw them at the old One Step Beyond up in the Bay Area, more like Silicon Valley but they blew the roof off that place! The energy was insanely phucking phun and they sounded thick and full! You could feel the kick drum in your torso! Lots of interaction with the crowd, no glass wall from any of them. I'm not going to lie I think they sounded better than they did on the album and that's pretty rare. The closest you get to that is a muddier sound and maybe the band is tight and rehearsed or the other way around or the sounds decent but you can tell they're not practicing daily. Or worse yet, keep in mind this is usually a more pop mainstream kinda sin where it's a pre-recorded track like they do on TV at the Grammy's or when they lip sing on Top of the Pops. but that's hardly the same! And Marq, we don't care about race up in the Bay Area. When I was a little kid I just thought you were really tan. My friend used to call you the "Filipino David Lee Roth' just to piss me off because I thought you were cute and I think he was jealous. We're all a bunch of mutts anyways. The San Francisco Bay Area is a HUGE melting pot full of multi-cultural, multi-racial, multiple personalities who are so mixed we don't even know our own races no less which ones were supposed to hate! We just check "other" on applications. What does any of that matter when the real issue is we are LONG overdue for an exciting, fresh but familiar feeling, sparkling new genre to come like a wild right hook out of nowhere and knock us on our asses! I want an excuse to dress up again in a new way that works. I want it to have meaning like when the first wave of punk rock came out in the 70s but have the shocking flair of the first wave of the Glam and the mysterious depth of all the Post-Punk, Death-Rock, New Wave Modern Rock or whatever you want to call it. I wonder what city it's going to boom out of? We'll see I guess but hurry!! It's so bland and blasé right now! We're bored! This time I can contribute. This time I'm old enough to get in to the clubs I know how to run now. I don't just have to hear the stories of all the stuff I missed I can tell a few of my own. Change is scary but so is living in a horrible void that's like purgatory between life and this Covidiocracy Coronapocalypse!
Why should color of skin matter at all,after all we are all only human. He seems like an incredibly humble human being and a great vocalist, Rock on Marq!!!
They had a lot of potential, just happened to debut at the tail end of Cock Rock era. I will say, 'Smooth Up In Ya' is the token 80's hair band tune!! The title s(c)ums it all up !!! LMAO!
Bernie Torme played with Ozzy very briefly before Brad Gillis, not after. It's odd that he claims to have been so close to Ozzy and Sharon yet has no clue about the history of his band at the same time he was supposedly involved. But hey, he loves them with all his heart!
I had to google your hit song cuz I couldn't remember it. Smooth up in Ya. That's a very classy title. Is it about collecting smooth rocks to skip across a pond?
The most amazing and shocking part is that Tommy Lee was the REASONABLE one!!! LOL! :) Love that story - Marq seems like such a gentle and sweet soul... such an incredibly talented front man. Bulletboys were BADASS!!!
I'm not sure if you guys know what the word legend means. However the bullet boys are great or at least they were great and he is a great performer but legend that's a pretty strong word for this guy not sure about that
My husband did sound for them in San Antonio & a guy walking in the door accidently bumped into Marq & he yelled at this guy 'Watch it MF! Don't you know who I am'. My husband said Marq was a real asshole to work for.
I heard each some towns the bullet boys tour bus was in, the cops would follow the bus, put on lights and pull em over, and take ole MarQ off the bus in handcuffs, for overlooking to pay his child support to whatever random groupie he'd had sex with in whatever small town, and this episode repeated itsself over and over. Marq has the ability to make you like him, he's i get it, like-able. But he's not responsible for children the assh#le makes, hello!?? He is. Sorry, met him. Dick thinks his stuff 💩fails to stink. Shane Tassart is however, a class act. A terrific family man. Mick is much better suited to Shane, a great guy AND has ALWAYS BEEN a terrific, outright talented frontman. See him live. He is terrific, Marq is just Marq. Ewwwww!!
great stories Marq ... LOL I would NEVER have put you in the same rooms with Angel and Missing Persons ....both of which I have been die hard fans of and Obviously BulletBoys from DAY ONE !!!!
Roth could not hold a candle to Marq' vocal work .... The only singer I could really compare to Marqs amazing talent level is Mark Storace from Krokus ..I play both bands as loud as my system will take it .....
So wait, what nationality is he?? I'm guessing Indian, Mexican? Great of him to give Robbin Crosby props, and the whole rock scene back then. What a nice guy, good heart.
What is he hinting at with Motley? "We dont like blankety blanks here... go back where you came from..." "Accepted me for what I was"... is Marq gay? Dont care if he was or is, just wondering what hes hinting at cause its not making sense to me.
He is and I think this story has a few holes in it. Maybe it was related to a punk mentality or look rather than a hispanic. Vince didn't exactly grow up in the best of neighborhoods so I don't see him being divisive about race. They couldn't stand Metallica either.
I went to a club called Bananas somewhere in Orange County to see Badlands, they killed it. Anyway, I saw Paul Gilbert there and then this fool Marq comes in and he's so fucked up he couldn't even talk. Saw him in the bathroom and he was just gone. It was weird
His voice was One of the Best I've heard in my life.
“Accepted me for what I was”?…….Marq’s vocals were raw incredible and his….he sounded the exact same live as he did on his recordings. Even better. This man is one of a kind platinum liquid gold vocals and personality…. Not to mention an amazing showman. He’s so humble
I remember Marq from Montebello High back in 1980.
He was great in his prime. Loved the soulful delivery. Natural born frontman. Having watched this interview he is also a wonderful human being.
The guy is super chill
And a phenomenal Guitar player!!!
Great interview! Talk about being in the right place at the right time a million times. What a life.
A great vocalist with superb delivery and what seems like a great personality.
Doesn’t seem like the bad guy most make him out to be! All I know is I dig the first 3 bulletboys albums! The first one in my opinion is a top 20 metal album of the 80s!
This guy is a nice dude.
Actually I do.
Yeah, freak show and Za Za, both are epic, i take them to My secret búnker in zombie crisis
@@gabrielangeles583 ikr lol!
Good stuff on both the debut and freakshow, Zaza has a couple decent songs
Sounded just like he did on the albums live..I still play those first 2 albums regularly
Also….Marq please write a book man! I could’ve listened to you for hours brother. I know you were taken a back by meeting Van Halen kiss Crue etc wow what an amazing life. You’ve lived it…
Loved the interview. Much love and thanks to marq and the boys for bringing a badass style of music to the awesome 1980's.
He has such a sick voice!
😅😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of my favorite bands in the late 80’s and early 90’s. There sound would raise the hairs on your arms back in the day. There 1st album was sick.
THC Groove is one of my favorite songs ❤️
Old age finally humbled this guy...
What great stories. So many cool meetings. Very cool...
RIP Robin Crosby.
Marc seems like a nice guy I never knew what happened to them I also never thought of him as an ethnic rock singer just an absolutely incredible singer
Super cool interview. The fact that he remembers so much is awesome. For those of us who lived vicariously through the Holywood music scene its really cool hearing the background stories. Thanks Marq!
Brilliant!! Marq has such great history in music! ✌
Sweetest dude ever =)
One of the best voices in rock!
Saw The Bullet Boys at Rockin' Roll Heaven in Toronto back in the day!! INCREDIBLE!! A LOT OF WOW MOMENTS IN THIS INTERVIEW!!
I stumbled onto this and unfortunately always thought from what I read Marq thinks of himself above the rest. Love the honesty of this interview. Made me realize be careful of what you read. Another thing, I know him only as a singer. I didn't realize he was such an accomplished guitarist. Yes, I see he plays guitar on TH-cam but I'm from the 80s he was the Axl Rose of Van Halen. Meaning he was an incredible singer in a 4-piece band with Mick who is more in line of Slash then Eddie...same with Lonnie and Jimmy (Note: Lonnie and Jimmy- great rhythm section...I'm a drummer and Jimmy is in my top 10 of drummers). Great piece! I'm excited reading that Marq and Mick recently shared the stage. Great fucking band! Bury the hatch boys! We only have one life and you have a ton of fans wanting the original members. That being said- your first show needs to be in Jacksonville, FL
I agree 100%!!! For an example, in a very recent interview, an ex band mate referred to Mark as lazy, arrogant and irresponsible. He could not be further from the truth. Marq is a great guitarist as well!
Dude, I live just a little north of Jax - used to be Jax had ALL THE GREAT BANDS AND TOURS COME THRU TOWN. Unfortunately , I think the lack of good shows over the last 30 yrs is mostly due to the era of popular music has shifted....... "popular music" nowadays is pretty much just shit. Even some of teh worst bands in the 80's blows most bands of toay out the water. Love Jax - it'll always be an awesome place to me !
Wow! Very nicely articulated about the Slash level guitarist in an Eddie Van Halen kind of four piece! It's so true! Back then there were no bands that had only one guitarist, the formula was always a rhythm and a lead - UNLESS - they had THE guitarist. Dokken only needed George Lynch, Ozzy only needed Jake E Lee, Van Halen only needed Eddie, Living Colour only needed Vernon Reid, but you're right. The Bulletboys either needed a second guitarist (which was a different way of writing songs and would have led to a different animal with a very different sound!) or a virtuoso without all the "my name in lights and the rest of the band behind me" kinda ego trip which would have taken them some other direction and then all we would have known them for would have been that virtuoso's side project. No what attracted me to them immediately was Marq's stage presence. He was a sexy, slithery, more secretive about his sleazy, who sounded like he had been smoking since birth that cool raspy voice but it still had power and range that was crazy but had this weird "Don't phuck with me because I'm seriously on the edge and could blow at any moment psycho persona" and now I can see where the stripped down, punk rock, three piece kind of simplicity in catchy songs comes into the writing! That's what made Nirvana good songwriters yes, but boring to watch. Imagine if Kurt Cobain had his hands-free like Mark what he would have Tarzaned through instead of just staring at his shoes the whole show until maybe we would get lucky and he might throw himself into the drum set at the end or something? I'm surprised Bulletboys didn't get a bit bigger. Maybe like Skid Row and Steelheart they just came into the game a minute too late. That second wave of Glam Rock was ending slowly around the time they got there and turning into grunge. Alice in Chains was at the tail end of that too. Back then they were called "Sweet Alice" but they adjusted both their look and sound just enough without compromising their ability or artistic integrity or losing that harnessed flair and charisma. I wouldn't want Bulletboys to change. The only thing I would change is that I wish that we all could have got there a little sooner so that I could have seen that Sunset Strip Scene and lived some of it for myself instead of being just a smidge too young to get in anywhere. I was just getting in FINALLY to some of the clubs right when they were on the scene debuting their first album. I saw them at the old One Step Beyond up in the Bay Area, more like Silicon Valley but they blew the roof off that place! The energy was insanely phucking phun and they sounded thick and full! You could feel the kick drum in your torso! Lots of interaction with the crowd, no glass wall from any of them. I'm not going to lie I think they sounded better than they did on the album and that's pretty rare. The closest you get to that is a muddier sound and maybe the band is tight and rehearsed or the other way around or the sounds decent but you can tell they're not practicing daily. Or worse yet, keep in mind this is usually a more pop mainstream kinda sin where it's a pre-recorded track like they do on TV at the Grammy's or when they lip sing on Top of the Pops. but that's hardly the same! And Marq, we don't care about race up in the Bay Area. When I was a little kid I just thought you were really tan. My friend used to call you the "Filipino David Lee Roth' just to piss me off because I thought you were cute and I think he was jealous. We're all a bunch of mutts anyways. The San Francisco Bay Area is a HUGE melting pot full of multi-cultural, multi-racial, multiple personalities who are so mixed we don't even know our own races no less which ones were supposed to hate! We just check "other" on applications. What does any of that matter when the real issue is we are LONG overdue for an exciting, fresh but familiar feeling, sparkling new genre to come like a wild right hook out of nowhere and knock us on our asses! I want an excuse to dress up again in a new way that works. I want it to have meaning like when the first wave of punk rock came out in the 70s but have the shocking flair of the first wave of the Glam and the mysterious depth of all the Post-Punk, Death-Rock, New Wave Modern Rock or whatever you want to call it. I wonder what city it's going to boom out of? We'll see I guess but hurry!! It's so bland and blasé right now! We're bored! This time I can contribute. This time I'm old enough to get in to the clubs I know how to run now. I don't just have to hear the stories of all the stuff I missed I can tell a few of my own. Change is scary but so is living in a horrible void that's like purgatory between life and this Covidiocracy Coronapocalypse!
Saw them in the Midwest back in the day, they were great with the original line up. Still sings great at monsters of rock
Very cool interview and history. Marq seems like a totally down to earth, kind soul. My good friend Johnny G played drums for BulletBoys before he passed away and he always told me how great Marq was.
I remember Johnny. I played with him for a spell. We had some great times. RIP
This interview was wonderfully, I really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing your story.❤️ We want the original bullet lineup please.
I've met Marq...He's awesome!....Love from the UK.
This man is a Metal God
June 4th 1989, I was at the Tower Theater for Ozzy, and the BulletBoys opened .. They were booed unmercifully, but handled it like total pros , and Mick Sweda was/is a great guitar player .. Marq seems like a great guy
Why were they booded
LOL omg, I saw them open for Cheap Trick in December of 1988 and yes, they were Booed off the stage! At one point, Torien took the mic, and he yells, 'I got one thing ta say ta you Motherfu--ers; Smooooth Up in ya!!!' .... then they did that song and left the stage to a chorus of boos .... lol fun times ....
Welcome to Philly!
One of the best live performers! So much energy
Never saw David lee roth?
I know its ain't competition,
but best?
lot of bests out there!
This guy is a beast on stage!! No singer from the 80's has his energy in 2019....he is just now in his PRIME! He is a LEGEND also.
He would eat Vince Neil alive.
could not agree more. He commands the stage and gets the lazy asses in the crowd to start moving. LOVE watching him on stage.
Your comment...NAILED IT!!
We need music like Bullet Boyz,Van Halen, Judias Priest to keep rocking.
Great guy! Great songs!
Again, cool humble and nice guy right here, and well-spoken. OK, I see the Stephen Pearcy resemblance, then out of nowhere 21:17, I see Paul Stanley from KISS Kinda..... Ha Ha
I can see the Paul Stanley, but not Stephen Pearcy! Gary Cherone of Extreme reminds me of Pearcy.
Saw the BulletBoys somewhere in Hollywood. Good show. I even bought their first two CDs. Marq’s got a great rock n roll voice! Seems like a genuine nice guy.
Marq's band Torien played my high school years ago. A three pc with marq playing guitar and singing Van Halen and Journey covers. I'd like to add he nailed them. All the people in attendance couldn't believe how good marq was. He was nailing Eddie Van Halen solos way back. Marq's an Incredible guitarist well Evicenced by his auditioning for Ozzy back in the day. If you read this marq (Mark Keppel hs 1978 or so) I was there. Always loved you're work bro,. Peace.
Saw him in RATT, great guitarist
LOVE THE BULLET BOYS!!!! GREAT IN CONCERT !!!
Nice Dude! Never knew much about them, except Smooth and what was on MTV back in the day.
This might be one of the best interviews I’ve ever heard! Didn’t really think much of Marq as a rock singer but now I have so much more respect for him and him being a Mexican American is even better !! Thank you Marq!
Under rated band ...bulletboys should of been a super group..thank you for your contributions to Rocknroll sir!
"should have"
love hearing Marq's stories...Bulletboys rock!!
Excellent interview. Still Love him!!
It's great to see him he is a awesome singer
This guy is a historian OMG. Mr. Torien, you need to write a book. Chronicle the stories of these people who aren't going to be here forever. What an amazing journey
Smooth up in ya is the ultimate bad ass vocalist song i have ever heard.You sounded awesome.You had the look and still do.
great singer.
Nice Marq!Saw you guys at Bogarts in Cincinnati in the 80's.I loved it!
Great interview. So cool.
Original band touring in 2020. Check out the Dec. 30 2019 show, they sound better than 90% of the other 80's type bands out there touring now. I wouldn't pay to see many if any of these acts, I will check this out of near me.
Just started listening to bulletboys and heard some negative feedback from other bulletboys, but very impressive interview. Could listen for hours!
This man never gets old, and he has charisma
are you blind?!
lol
@@Strimbles indeed he is
🤘 you rock brother
No denying it. This guy could definitely sing. The whole bb band, were all very talented. And as a female, the same age as them. They were quite a pleasure, to watch on stage🥰😁.
Something tells me there’s more to this story 😉
Looks like he's aged very well too.
@@Carriesaglock lol 😊
Wow! Very nicely articulated about the Slash level guitarist in an Eddie Van Halen kind of four piece! It's so true! Back then there were no bands that had only one guitarist, the formula was always a rhythm and a lead - UNLESS - they had THE guitarist. Dokken only needed George Lynch, Ozzy only needed Jake E Lee, Van Halen only needed Eddie, Living Colour only needed Vernon Reid, but you're right. The Bulletboys either needed a second guitarist (which was a different way of writing songs and would have led to a different animal with a very different sound!) or a virtuoso without all the "my name in lights and the rest of the band behind me" kinda ego trip which would have taken them some other direction and then all we would have known them for would have been that virtuoso's side project. No what attracted me to them immediately was Marq's stage presence. He was a sexy, slithery, more secretive about his sleazy, who sounded like he had been smoking since birth that cool raspy voice but it still had power and range that was crazy but had this weird "Don't phuck with me because I'm seriously on the edge and could blow at any moment psycho persona" and now I can see where the stripped down, punk rock, three piece kind of simplicity in catchy songs comes into the writing! That's what made Nirvana good songwriters yes, but boring to watch. Imagine if Kurt Cobain had his hands-free like Mark what he would have Tarzaned through instead of just staring at his shoes the whole show until maybe we would get lucky and he might throw himself into the drum set at the end or something? I'm surprised Bulletboys didn't get a bit bigger. Maybe like Skid Row and Steelheart they just came into the game a minute too late. That second wave of Glam Rock was ending slowly around the time they got there and turning into grunge. Alice in Chains was at the tail end of that too. Back then they were called "Sweet Alice" but they adjusted both their look and sound just enough without compromising their ability or artistic integrity or losing that harnessed flair and charisma. I wouldn't want Bulletboys to change. The only thing I would change is that I wish that we all could have got there a little sooner so that I could have seen that Sunset Strip Scene and lived some of it for myself instead of being just a smidge too young to get in anywhere. I was just getting in FINALLY to some of the clubs right when they were on the scene debuting their first album. I saw them at the old One Step Beyond up in the Bay Area, more like Silicon Valley but they blew the roof off that place! The energy was insanely phucking phun and they sounded thick and full! You could feel the kick drum in your torso! Lots of interaction with the crowd, no glass wall from any of them. I'm not going to lie I think they sounded better than they did on the album and that's pretty rare. The closest you get to that is a muddier sound and maybe the band is tight and rehearsed or the other way around or the sounds decent but you can tell they're not practicing daily. Or worse yet, keep in mind this is usually a more pop mainstream kinda sin where it's a pre-recorded track like they do on TV at the Grammy's or when they lip sing on Top of the Pops. but that's hardly the same! And Marq, we don't care about race up in the Bay Area. When I was a little kid I just thought you were really tan. My friend used to call you the "Filipino David Lee Roth' just to piss me off because I thought you were cute and I think he was jealous. We're all a bunch of mutts anyways. The San Francisco Bay Area is a HUGE melting pot full of multi-cultural, multi-racial, multiple personalities who are so mixed we don't even know our own races no less which ones were supposed to hate! We just check "other" on applications. What does any of that matter when the real issue is we are LONG overdue for an exciting, fresh but familiar feeling, sparkling new genre to come like a wild right hook out of nowhere and knock us on our asses! I want an excuse to dress up again in a new way that works. I want it to have meaning like when the first wave of punk rock came out in the 70s but have the shocking flair of the first wave of the Glam and the mysterious depth of all the Post-Punk, Death-Rock, New Wave Modern Rock or whatever you want to call it. I wonder what city it's going to boom out of? We'll see I guess but hurry!! It's so bland and blasé right now! We're bored! This time I can contribute. This time I'm old enough to get in to the clubs I know how to run now. I don't just have to hear the stories of all the stuff I missed I can tell a few of my own. Change is scary but so is living in a horrible void that's like purgatory between life and this Covidiocracy Coronapocalypse!
There's always 2 sides of a story ! This Cat seems like a good Dude . Music is awesome and ugly at same the time ! Love it ! Thanks
I love this Dude..! Such a cool cat 🐱
Why should color of skin matter at all,after all we are all only human. He seems like an incredibly humble human being and a great vocalist, Rock on Marq!!!
Best vocalist in the world! And they are no 80s hair band they are keeping up with the times all of them are incredible musicains.
I met marq after killer show with bang tango pretty boy floyd enuff snuff super nice guy
They had a lot of potential, just happened to debut at the tail end of Cock Rock era.
I will say, 'Smooth Up In Ya' is the token 80's hair band tune!! The title s(c)ums it all up !!! LMAO!
And he can still sing 🤘
I met Motley Crüe once and Vince was a stuck up ass, but Tommy was the nicest, kindest guy!
Bernie Torme played with Ozzy very briefly before Brad Gillis, not after. It's odd that he claims to have been so close to Ozzy and Sharon yet has no clue about the history of his band at the same time he was supposedly involved. But hey, he loves them with all his heart!
You have to remember that was a LONG time ago too...Give him a break
Live in Sandusky Ohio for summer just hung out
That was a very cool story,I had no idea you where a guitar player
My friends used to give me $hit about listening to the Bulletboys, F them I played it louder
I had to google your hit song cuz I couldn't remember it. Smooth up in Ya. That's a very classy title. Is it about collecting smooth rocks to skip across a pond?
I believe it's a love song about 80s new age artist, Enya.
Lol... I kept thinking there was a smudge on my screen. Left of center. Fucked me up.
Yup just noticed it
Motley Crue story is great
❤❤❤love it.. These guys rocked it!! Still do!! Says alot about this fucked up generation!!😂😂😂
80's ROCK FOREVER!!!🇺🇸❤
This guy loves everyone lol
05:15 the Vince story...
The most amazing and shocking part is that Tommy Lee was the REASONABLE one!!! LOL! :) Love that story - Marq seems like such a gentle and sweet soul... such an incredibly talented front man. Bulletboys were BADASS!!!
I'm not sure if you guys know what the word legend means. However the bullet boys are great or at least they were great and he is a great performer but legend that's a pretty strong word for this guy not sure about that
Great interview. Always thought he was a little weird . . . but not here.
I'm assuming Vince blabbed about your ethnicity. That's F'd up! Love your music man!
Funny thing is that Vince mother is of Mexican descendance.
@@The69rayrod and according to "The Dirt" he's from Compton
Tommy Lee to the rescue.
Was "Smooth up in ya" Mark's Stairway to Heaven equivalent?
My husband did sound for them in San Antonio & a guy walking in the door accidently bumped into Marq & he yelled at this guy 'Watch it MF! Don't you know who I am'. My husband said Marq was a real asshole to work for.
I heard each some towns the bullet boys tour bus was in, the cops would follow the bus, put on lights and pull em over, and take ole MarQ off the bus in handcuffs, for overlooking to pay his child support to whatever random groupie he'd had sex with in whatever small town, and this episode repeated itsself over and over. Marq has the ability to make you like him, he's i get it, like-able. But he's not responsible for children the assh#le makes, hello!?? He is. Sorry, met him. Dick thinks his stuff 💩fails to stink. Shane Tassart is however, a class act. A terrific family man. Mick is much better suited to Shane, a great guy AND has ALWAYS BEEN a terrific, outright talented frontman. See him live. He is terrific, Marq is just Marq. Ewwwww!!
Ask about his role in bullet boys
Well Done.
Oompa Loompa time!
Vince Neil was slagging Marq for being Latino? Both of Vince's parents are half Mexican. Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I missed something.
THANK YOU!!!!
NOT WEIRD LIKE DAVID LEE ROTH.
SEEMS LIKE A COOL GUY..
GOTTA START SOMEWHERE I GUESS.
ITS LONG WAY TO THE TOP IF YOU WANNA ROCK N ROLL
9:02 wow what became of "Bogart Appice Van Halen" band recordings?
if you listen to the wording, I thought the same thing at first, but I think he meant Ed, Alex, Michael, who used to be a three piece.
Wait, he comes from a Hispanic background?
He does look indigenous, so it's not surprising. He used to dye his hair blonde in the 80s though.
great stories Marq ... LOL I would NEVER have put you in the same rooms with Angel and Missing Persons ....both of which I have been die hard fans of and Obviously BulletBoys from DAY ONE !!!!
Roth could not hold a candle to Marq' vocal work .... The only singer I could really compare to Marqs amazing talent level is Mark Storace from Krokus ..I play both bands as loud as my system will take it .....
He looks like Kevin Dubrow and Stephen Pearcy had a kid.
So wait, what nationality is he??
I'm guessing Indian, Mexican?
Great of him to give Robbin Crosby props, and the whole rock scene back then. What a nice guy, good heart.
Around 4:55 he talks about coming into the Hollywood scene as a Hispanic.
Not Bogart and The
7 Joints But
Cagney and The Dirty
Rats
What is he hinting at with Motley? "We dont like blankety blanks here... go back where you came from..." "Accepted me for what I was"... is Marq gay? Dont care if he was or is, just wondering what hes hinting at cause its not making sense to me.
Funny he mentions nothing about King Kobra, which Mick was in at the time.
Jimmy Bang yes he does. Right around 19:50
@@johninman5453 , you're right..i missed that half a second lol. I was working for Carmine when Marq was in KK.
Damn he looks rough nowadays.
@@donaldkoller216 he said he graduated in 81 82 so he's more like 57 or 58 in this interview
HE A FUNNY LOOKING GUY
I heard Vince was a quarter Mexican too. 🤦🏽♀️. Mark is wayyyyy more talented!
He is and I think this story has a few holes in it. Maybe it was related to a punk mentality or look rather than a hispanic. Vince didn't exactly grow up in the best of neighborhoods so I don't see him being divisive about race. They couldn't stand Metallica either.
Rail, lol
I went to a club called Bananas somewhere in Orange County to see Badlands, they killed it. Anyway, I saw Paul Gilbert there and then this fool Marq comes in and he's so fucked up he couldn't even talk. Saw him in the bathroom and he was just gone. It was weird
La who zu her
He has a great voice but his personality screwed up a promising career.
@Craig Willis no
@Craig Willis that sounds about right. I know he verbally went after Pearcy after he was fired.
@Craig Willis for a short time in the early 80s.
...sound check hog.
Boring......
way gay
Sadly he aged horribly....what happened?