And I thought that I was the only one that thought this. Here's a little known fact --- In the late 70's all my friends called me "Mr. Cool". I had sewed that name into my Black Sock Cap using SHOCKING PINK Yarn. I made this right after I moved from San Diego ca. to Henderson Ky. with the family when I was 17. This was right before the school year had started and I knew NOBODY. On a calculated move I made this thing using a name I plagiarized from the Cheech and Chong bit "Pedro and the Man at the drive in" off the Los Cochinas Album. EVERYBODY started calling me that and it STUCK. Usually when I acquired a nick name it usually was NOT flattering OR NICE. So in retrospect, I decided to make this thing and hope for the best. The year this happened was the summer of 1976. And to my happiness the gamble paid off. ALL of my closest friends just called me -- "COOL". And thus the legend was born. And I loved it.
I play Bass and my 3 MAIN INFLUENCES are: 1. Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper original band). 2. Gene Simmons (Kiss). 3 Blackie Lawless (WASP --- when he played Bass with them).
@@damonwade9582 You're not really comparing Blackie Lawless with Gene Simmons, are ya? Cause that's fucking' hilarious :D Vocal ability and songwriting skills' wise I mean
@@Nayama69 as someone in voice school alot of the techniques used is the same as genes. Actually identical. This type of singing was around out of new york at that time. Kiss had a hand in helping wasp also. Just because you don't like kiss Doesn't mean they aren't as talented Lucky for you! There is decades of kiss !! So many tunes you have never heard before that you may enjoy! If you like this Look up Kiss not for the innocent Thank me later
loooove it. Blackie...this voice is one of a kind, it’s to me so familiar now after all these years growing up with it...that it’s almost like I hear someone of my family
Ahh the infamous headshaking and windmill headbanging! How piercing are his eyes? Beautiful :) Lol am I the only one who thinks this outfit would've been well suited to Inside The Electric Circus? Hmmm....Circus Circus, Inside The Electric Circus a link maybe? Blackie does look like a ringmaster!
Should have seen his old band SISTER! Very Cooper!! My old band The Mechanics open for them back in '78 at The Troubadour in L.A. ..They were awesome!! Blackie came to see us a few times back in the day! He is a "cool " guy!👍
Mr. Cool came-out as a single in 1976 by the band Killer Kane. It was Arthur Kane’s band (bass player for the New York Dolls) and Blackie sang on it, and probably co-wrote. It is indeed very Alice Cooper-esque. The 1979 version is better (Circus Circus), and the 1985 version (WASP) is probably the best.
Oh man wouldn't that be killer? I seen The Last Command showing was spiritual. Holmes was at his best and the sound and...anyway I wish they could reunite.Yes sir..
C'mon. Cries In The Night is better. Who is in that band? They were great to! Blackie is the man. How does someone sing like that? I think he was the first to scream with melody that way. W.A.S.P. forever.
Perty sure it did M.TV just came out at that time aswell I don't remember if it was on there or another old school Chanel I got yelled at for watching it ...ok then it never happened
This audio is from Sister with Chris Holmes on All Guitars! That's why it sounds good, go listen to Circus Circus Love Machine to seer how these guys really sounded!
Wasp early demos are leaning speed and thrashy stuff , with even proto black metal screams . Wasp before the First album , was very dark ( see the troubadour footage ) and was pretty much a more professional version of Sister ( before Circus Circus , In 1976 -1978). Mr cool already existed in the song played in that band too . But more darker . Sister had pretty much all the black metal image before everyone , and was the first bajd to put a pentagram on a logo ..
That’s not Don Costa that’s Joey Palermo on bass he was a fantastic bass player and he got shot in the back in a drug deal gone wrong and couldn’t play anymore
I fucking love wasp and have done since about the age of 12 (43 now in 2019) Sister and Circus Circus were before my time, and to be honest I had heard of Sister, courtesy of the Wasp.... Videos in the raw Documentary. And now thanks to the Internet I am able to also enjoy the pre wasp stuff, its very cool, thank you for uploading this 👍👍👍
@traktoristi80 There's this band called the Who. Ever heard of them? Keith Moon used to intentionally demolish his drum kit after every show, while Pete Townshend smashed his guitar. I don't think the cymbal fell on accident. These guys were pros.
Despite how ridiculous they look, there‘s an unmistakable authenticity to this song and I totally get it, what they mean by Mr. Cool, a young person’s life is an out of control hell at home so they adopt the persona of Mr. Cool. God, I was Mr. Cool for so many years.
Alot of Blackie's songs are being played to-day.His fans celebrating his birthday 4th september.Hope you see this Blackie,your fan base is strong.Hope you are having a great day-sunshine!:)
Both versions are great, really. I used to favor "Cries in the Night," but after getting "Mr. Cool" on CD, I think I prefer it now. Lyrically I like it better, and the chorus breathes more.
I remember kur e kena ba muhabet in ur house kyt kange qe per mu asht kolone zanore (varianti tjeter i 85')! Ti ke te ngulitun pjesen qe bjen pjata e baterise n'toke edhe reagimin e Blackie!
You can certainly see the nucleus of what would become WASP developing here. Blackie is putting the pieces together but it still hasn't quite come together.
Circus circus was kind in the middle , it still the integrity in the music but was more accessible ...the circus stuff ... Sister was more representative to what became W.A.S.P. They kept that edge , but Wasp was very dark , and extreme in the begining . Before the first album . The demos are quite thrashy ( show no mercy , The torture never stops ) , and like Sister , in ambiances , and the raw stuff and Screams , blackie used to do vocals that was Scary to have chills with dark heaviness vibe in the riffs ( Demo Version of Sex drive back in 1977 , the opening , the post fuckin mind blowing solo , master of disaster "mayhem before mayhem" 2min 37 section the chorus hypnotic at the end ... ) and very very agressive , vicious , almost suffering and hatefull... its the premices Of Black metal high screech we knew later . And the image ... Sister had all the fuckin decorum that Black metal had since etc... Considering the dark aspect , the turning headbanging ( Abbath ?) , and even all the pionnering aspect with Sister (1976-1978) , it was really influential in the underground and ahead of his time . No many people credit Blackie for that at wider scale , popular scale , but in more initiated circles , Thats a FACT .. And as Package Sister are more similar to W.ASP than Circus circus even the 3 are in fact the same core . The drummer you see and the bass player were in Sister . I think Randy played too , Chris played somwhere with...as well. Circus Circus was transitional , because with Sister it was too soon ... people were scared , especially in the west coast ... they did crazy shit on stage , Blackie eating live worms , the famous fire , the meat grinder ... Well Sister it was the Lilith of Wasp if you know what i am saying . They were paint in a corner . Circus Circus did have to do more gigs in the year than Sister . Once Blackie learned some things of the experience , He bring a more professional version of what he really was and wanted to do , so back on more agressive side , and the dark side . But with that primitive /futurist concept and when the time passes , Horrific , minus the Occult thing Sister had . But even Back in the day Blackie said that SISTER was the version of Wasp they couldnt show to the public ... In that stuff KFD era was veru very much like a rebirh of that late 70s , 1982/83 era ... The attitude , the agression , the dark feel , the disturbing feel , the outrageous beyond outrageous thing and the Look . People were saying he was taking the train of the times ... but he was like that even in 1975 ...
Nikki Sixx is right....this version is cool as hell! It was also perfect for the time. Though “Cries in the Night” may have been a more mature route to take for that time. Good song either way.
I have the whole concert taken from an old VHS. I was going to upload the whole thing if this video hit 100.000 views but it's been 10 years already and still not there lol.
This song became Cries in the night
And I thought that I was the only one that thought this.
Here's a little known fact --- In the late 70's all my friends called me "Mr. Cool".
I had sewed that name into my Black Sock Cap using SHOCKING PINK Yarn.
I made this right after I moved from San Diego ca. to Henderson Ky. with
the family when I was 17.
This was right before the school year had started and I knew NOBODY.
On a calculated move I made this thing using a name I plagiarized from the
Cheech and Chong bit "Pedro and the Man at the drive in" off the Los Cochinas Album.
EVERYBODY started calling me that and it STUCK.
Usually when I acquired a nick name it usually was NOT flattering OR NICE.
So in retrospect, I decided to make this thing and hope for the best.
The year this happened was the summer of 1976.
And to my happiness the gamble paid off.
ALL of my closest friends just called me -- "COOL".
And thus the legend was born.
And I loved it.
That is so awesome! I'm glad he changed the chorus! Randy piper wow old school
Indeed.
I think Blackie sang on the original version in 1976, but forgotten to credit Arthur Kane when he did his version in ‘85.
I thought this sounded familiar
Cries in the Night is one of my faves so this is awesome to hear. BLACKIE RULES!!
Blackie Badass Lawless. This guy has a true metal voice and love how he lets his anger out when he sings. Was one my idols growing up as a kid also.
Momma loves this man so..
Thank you for re-uploading it to youtube!
Blackie fucking Flawless is more like it.
I play Bass and my 3 MAIN INFLUENCES are:
1. Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper original band).
2. Gene Simmons (Kiss).
3 Blackie Lawless (WASP --- when he played Bass with them).
@@rayjingloryproductions3770 Don't forget Lemmy. Great Basplayer
@@hellchild6668 Read this again.
I said MY main influences.
Not YOURs.
Lemmy was a good Bass Player, but he's NOT one of MY influences.
Sorry.
There's no other singer like Blackie. His voice is unique!
like lemmy/dio unique
'
Everyone says that about their own favorites! There IS a bassist thats a LOT like him and that's Gene Simmons😮
@@damonwade9582 You're not really comparing Blackie Lawless with Gene Simmons, are ya? Cause that's fucking' hilarious :D Vocal ability and songwriting skills' wise I mean
@@damonwade9582 fitting then that Blackie calls bass a tool of ignorance. Gene is pretty fucking ignorant.
@@Nayama69 as someone in voice school alot of the techniques used is the same as genes. Actually identical. This type of singing was around out of new york at that time. Kiss had a hand in helping wasp also.
Just because you don't like kiss
Doesn't mean they aren't as talented
Lucky for you!
There is decades of kiss !! So many tunes you have never heard before that you may enjoy!
If you like this
Look up
Kiss not for the innocent
Thank me later
Badass song Blackie Lawless has a killer metal voice. Sick and Evil. Thanks for this video.
One of my two favorite American Metal singers and idols growing up as a kid.
Yeah! Maiden y WASP forlife!... and helloween too jeje
Blackie Lawless must be concidered as a forefather and God of the 80's LA metal scene... I don't think it would have been existed without him.
Best comment EVER
w.a.s.p. aka killer kane aka circus circus aka killer kane and quiet riot started it all
That would be Van Halen
God? No, I’d say a pioneer
This guy is so underated.
@@kaihunlu2345 WASP is again in the front row
He got a bad reputation.He is not cool.But he is a great composer.
I used to be in the band… sometime between Jimmy Image and Tony Richards.
Underrated is the most cliche word on the internet
@Eric Gisclon from what I've seen and heard so far, there was no mention of a "bad rep" would you be so kind too enlighten me?.
Video reminds me of a very good high school metal band.
No doubt about it, Blackie was definitely destined for fame.
Woah...it's an early version of Cries in the Night, one of my favorite W.A.S.P songs. Very cool.
Tappa periodica obbligatoria ad ascoltare questo brano: indimenticabile, meraviglioso!
loooove it. Blackie...this voice is one of a kind, it’s to me so familiar now after all these years growing up with it...that it’s almost like I hear someone of my family
I like this more than Cries In The Night (:
he always had it.,,,you can see the greatness
I love this video and this song , thank you matt lord.
+Pennie lawless you're welcome
A pleasure!
the head twitches every .5 seconds kills me
I went thru the 80s having no idea how talented this guy was
Blackie and Cliff Burton are my favorite headbangers
happy birthday my beautiful Blakie!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥
Superb....Sheer brilliance.....Terrific performance and a great song.
Ahh the infamous headshaking and windmill headbanging! How piercing are his eyes? Beautiful :)
Lol am I the only one who thinks this outfit would've been well suited to Inside The Electric Circus? Hmmm....Circus Circus, Inside The Electric Circus a link maybe? Blackie does look like a ringmaster!
I like the.two string open E and then open G on the back beat. Aesthetically pleasing. I didn't know this stuff existed in Middle School in 1980.
It has a "I'm 18" by Alice Cooper vibe to it. You can definitely tell who influenced these young guys. ❤💜🤘W.A.S.P. forever!!!
Should have seen his old band SISTER! Very Cooper!! My old band The Mechanics open for them back in '78 at The Troubadour in L.A. ..They were awesome!! Blackie came to see us a few times back in the day! He is a "cool " guy!👍
@@sandyhancock5521 so cool!
Mr. Cool came-out as a single in 1976 by the band Killer Kane. It was Arthur Kane’s band (bass player for the New York Dolls) and Blackie sang on it, and probably co-wrote. It is indeed very Alice Cooper-esque.
The 1979 version is better (Circus Circus), and the 1985 version (WASP) is probably the best.
Main influnce here is obviously Alice Cooper - I'm 18 and Kiss - Black Diamond. They also wore like Kiss here!
@@anga7292 The guitarist's moves are so much like Ace Frehley's. Love it.
Wow.. i hear cries in the night..
Such a rare material 😮😮😮
the voice i've be missing today 🙂
Huge Kiss influence! Very apparent!
Blackie was also in New York Dolls and London! I think EVERYONE was in London at some point😮
Blackie is one of the most amazing musicians; it'd be sweet if Blackie, Chris Holmes, and Randy Piper reunited.
Oh man wouldn't that be killer? I seen The Last Command showing was spiritual. Holmes was at his best and the sound and...anyway I wish they could reunite.Yes sir..
Get rid of Holmes and put Fox and I'm with you
the best voice in the world ♡
Wasp is incredible e o blackie mais aindaaa
blackie lawless agrees. he wrote that i regretted doing cries in the night instead of mr cool.
C'mon. Cries In The Night is better. Who is in that band? They were great to! Blackie is the man. How does someone sing like that? I think he was the first to scream with melody that way. W.A.S.P. forever.
Blackie was a great bassist.I miss THOSE days.
He plays rhythm guitar here. Ive only seen him play bass
My favorite song when I was a kid...
Bravo!!!
9/5/2020, still rocking it !
They and Chris is rocking it well
Love it!
I honestly remember watching this on late night tv when it aired..
It never aired.
Perty sure it did M.TV just came out at that time aswell I don't remember if it was on there or another old school Chanel I got yelled at for watching it ...ok then it never happened
This audio is from Sister with Chris Holmes on All Guitars! That's why it sounds good, go listen to Circus Circus Love Machine to seer how these guys really sounded!
The drummer and bass player on Circus circus and Sister are identical.
Look carefully the pics
The audio IS Sister, but Chris wasn't EVER in Sister.. the guitarist was Randy Schatz. There was only ONE Sister lineup.
Wow. This is much, much heavier than WASP. I love it. It sort of reminds me of Judas Priest or the Scorpions stuff around that era.
Wasp early demos are leaning speed and thrashy stuff , with even proto black metal screams .
Wasp before the First album , was very dark ( see the troubadour footage ) and was pretty much a more professional version of Sister ( before Circus Circus , In 1976 -1978).
Mr cool already existed in the song played in that band too .
But more darker .
Sister had pretty much all the black metal image before everyone , and was the first bajd to put a pentagram on a logo ..
Don Costa on bass? Circus Circus, Sister, and London were the breeding ground for so many bands out of LA in the 80s
Is that the dude ruining this video by photo bombing behind Blackie?
What a clueless douche.
That’s not Don Costa that’s Joey Palermo on bass he was a fantastic bass player and he got shot in the back in a drug deal gone wrong and couldn’t play anymore
@@tyorbs6277 man blackie has a lot of weird shit. Happen around his music
The song that became Cries in the Night five years later. All bands have 'em! "Reshuffled" songs.
Love It
I fucking love wasp and have done since about the age of 12 (43 now in 2019)
Sister and Circus Circus were before my time, and to be honest I had heard of Sister, courtesy of the Wasp.... Videos in the raw Documentary. And now thanks to the Internet I am able to also enjoy the pre wasp stuff, its very cool, thank you for uploading this 👍👍👍
You are very welcome! I am glad you enjoyed it.
@traktoristi80 There's this band called the Who. Ever heard of them? Keith Moon used to intentionally demolish his drum kit after every show, while Pete Townshend smashed his guitar. I don't think the cymbal fell on accident. These guys were pros.
Blackie is a LEGEND
I heard it was a record producer who made him change the lyrics.I really do prefer this to CRIES IN THE NIGHT.
im really glad what they changed the chorus
Clevor Trever it was the advice of someone from the record label Blackie said that in the sleeve of the re release of the Last Command
IT IS !
Despite how ridiculous they look, there‘s an unmistakable authenticity to this song and I totally get it, what they mean by Mr. Cool, a young person’s life is an out of control hell at home so they adopt the persona of Mr. Cool. God, I was Mr. Cool for so many years.
Alot of Blackie's songs are being played to-day.His fans celebrating his birthday 4th september.Hope you see this Blackie,your fan base is strong.Hope you are having a great day-sunshine!:)
Those song needs to be re done. Wish I had the talent
Blackie lawless is a God
This turned into cries in the night
absolutely epic af, hail Blackey🤟🤟🤟
holly shit! nice video
Fucking love this
How cool is this blacks before wasp?awesome 👍
The look was a cross between Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. The sound was Alice Cooper.
@TheOnebigmick you're an idiot sandwich
Johnny Thunders
2:36 classic
🤘
Blackie just changed the lyrics and made Cries in the Night for his new band WASP...LOL
actually the producer made him do it and he regretted it as he liked the this version better
I think you and I can agree...The producer was right...EVOLUTION BABY...LOL
Both versions are great, really. I used to favor "Cries in the Night," but after getting "Mr. Cool" on CD, I think I prefer it now. Lyrically I like it better, and the chorus breathes more.
@@creepshowcrate more raw too .
Nearly) Changed only chorus)
Chris Holmes just said this is him on guitars from a Sister demo they are mimicking playing to the Sister demo .
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Man, I was only 4 when this song came out.
You must be like 60 years old now
@@BryanX64 ah no, not even close.
I think I like this better than Cries in the Night.
Nikki Sixx sent me here to check the song out. Blackie definitely made highschool way more satanic for me. First album was sick.
blackie is a fucking beast!
@infuryify Yes, the original version :)
Did they release any music (and more important, is it re-released on CD)? Very modern for the early 80's!
I remember kur e kena ba muhabet in ur house kyt kange qe per mu asht kolone zanore (varianti tjeter i 85')! Ti ke te ngulitun pjesen qe bjen pjata e baterise n'toke edhe reagimin e Blackie!
22-23 I think. Consider Blackie was born 1956 and this was recorded 1980.
23 or 24.
There re many versions of that .
In 1975, in 1977 and Here .
Then 1985 .
my name is cool im mr cool.. lets go!!
🖤
You can certainly see the nucleus of what would become WASP developing here. Blackie is putting the pieces together but it still hasn't quite come together.
Circus circus was kind in the middle , it still the integrity in the music but was more accessible ...the circus stuff ...
Sister was more representative to what became W.A.S.P.
They kept that edge , but Wasp was very dark , and extreme in the begining .
Before the first album .
The demos are quite thrashy ( show no mercy , The torture never stops ) , and like Sister , in ambiances , and the raw stuff and Screams , blackie used to do vocals that was Scary to have chills with dark heaviness vibe in the riffs ( Demo Version of Sex drive back in 1977 , the opening , the post fuckin mind blowing solo , master of disaster "mayhem before mayhem" 2min 37 section the chorus hypnotic at the end ... ) and very very agressive , vicious , almost suffering and hatefull... its the premices Of Black metal high screech we knew later . And the image ... Sister had all the fuckin decorum that Black metal had since etc...
Considering the dark aspect , the turning headbanging ( Abbath ?) , and even all the pionnering aspect with Sister (1976-1978) , it was really influential in the underground and ahead of his time . No many people credit Blackie for that at wider scale , popular scale , but in more initiated circles , Thats a FACT ..
And as Package Sister are more similar to W.ASP than Circus circus even the 3 are in fact the same core .
The drummer you see and the bass player were in Sister . I think Randy played too , Chris played somwhere with...as well.
Circus Circus was transitional , because with Sister it was too soon ... people were scared , especially in the west coast ... they did crazy shit on stage , Blackie eating live worms , the famous fire , the meat grinder ...
Well Sister it was the Lilith of Wasp if you know what i am saying . They were paint in a corner .
Circus Circus did have to do more gigs in the year than Sister .
Once Blackie learned some things of the experience , He bring a more professional version of what he really was and wanted to do , so back on more agressive side , and the dark side .
But with that primitive /futurist concept and when the time passes , Horrific , minus the Occult thing Sister had .
But even Back in the day Blackie said that SISTER was the version of Wasp they couldnt show to the public ...
In that stuff KFD era was veru very much like a rebirh of that late 70s , 1982/83 era ...
The attitude , the agression , the dark feel , the disturbing feel , the outrageous beyond outrageous thing and the Look .
People were saying he was taking the train of the times ... but he was like that even in 1975 ...
blackie's eyes at 3:34 look wicked as hell
Wow! Never heard this before!!! Thanks for posting! Who's on bass & drums?
don't ever take down this video..its proof that everyone copied wasp
And he copied Alice Cooper.
especially Mötley crüe
w.a.s.p for ever
Isn't this an older version of "Cries In The Night" ?
infuryify It sure is....
2:36
04.09.2015 with all my love , pennie lawless
So much better than cries in the night
SSupeeer
This is cries in the night with different lyrics.
Danke für das Video hier!!! Lebst Du überhaupt noch Storm Lord???
Nikki Sixx is right....this version is cool as hell! It was also perfect for the time. Though “Cries in the Night” may have been a more mature route to take for that time. Good song either way.
Blackie rulez.
So this is Noel Feilding's band from the it crowd?
the most beautiful man in the world ♥♥♥blakie♥♥
Please someone, did Kiss play no influence on this?
Wow!Where you find the video????
I have the whole concert taken from an old VHS. I was going to upload the whole thing if this video hit 100.000 views but it's been 10 years already and still not there lol.
@@traktoristi80 am gonna do my best for those views man,i even have Chris Holmes on Instagram and that gonna help allot!
Is that randy piper on lead guitar?
So we’ve determined this is Blackie, Randy Piper and some guy named Joey Palermo. Who’s the drummer?
Jimmy Image
It's interesting Blackie waited until the 2nd WASP album before he decided to use this song.
Inside the Electric Circus Circus 🎪 🎪
Randy: hey guys i took some guitar lessons, which song are we playing,
This is unhealthy.
thanks.
What??
Fan-headbanger
hmm paul stanley played bass in circus circus? lol
I said the same thing! haha
So did I.
He actually is pretty funny in interviews
Why did they stand so close together when performing?
No Covid-19 back then 🤣
@@traktoristi80 good one.
The backdrop is really small