It has been written that Silent Rage rented a chord progression riff from the KISS song Prisoner of Love, that's untrue! I wrote and recorded the chorus guitar riff to Rebel With A Cause in 1986 for our debut album Shattered Hearts released in 1987. Gene contacted us in September 1987 Due to hearing our debut album and was interested in working with us. The KISS song Prisoner of Love did not come out until 1989 on Hot in the Shade. Silent Rage re-recorded a new version of Rebel With A Cause for our 2nd album Don't Touch Me There on Simmons/RCA released in 1989. The riff is similar and a coincidence at best. My Rebel With A Cause chord progression is E, B, Fs, A. Prisoner Of Love chord progression is Fs, A, E, B, and both vocal chorus melody lines are worlds apart!
Jesse, Gene only contacted you to rip off your riffs most likely. You are talking about the same guy who had the shittiest vault or whatever that was released and used Vinnie Vincent blatantly to sell it and then tears him four new assholes on ever interview since. Fuck Gene Simmons and I am the biggest kiss fan . That's saying something. Gene is the most embarrassing part of Kiss history.
Such a flashback. Thanks for always creating such a visually appealing "environment" back in the old "Raintree" days in Torrance during summer of '87. It remains some of my best all time memories. You guys were all really genuine people to talk to. Take care Jesse.
i saw this video like 1 month ago....then like 2 days ago i found a vhs tape that my dad recorded in 89/90 and this video came out and i was like...wow...when mTV played all sorts of videos and well ACTUALLY played them. :)
Excellent tune!!!! I still rock out to the cassette from '89!! Singer Jesse Damon still makes music, was just listening to his songs "Black Widow" and "Save Me" from his 2013 release "Temptation in the Garden of Eve". Some great music, with that traditional melodic rock vibe that I like!!!!
Love the "Don´t touch me there"-album. Hard to believe, Mr. `Money-is-all-I-need` discovered them and even produced some of the songs. But it seems Gene had a good had at that time. House of Lords, Silent Rage ...
damn guys. I still love that song and you all look great. I believe it was just after you filmed this video that I interviewed you and broke you in Vegas and Nevada. Good Time sirs, Good times! Please never stop.
This kind of music makes me feel young again anybody that listens to it will be transported back to that Great era everything is a rip-off but it's also a form of flattery whatever it takes these guys need to do it again too loud you're too old
dude steel panther are like the saviours of metal, they keep it alive and kicking ass in a fashion i cant even describe xD then after taylor its miley cyrus and anyone who has won the x-factor.....metal will rise again
Class! Original composer ! On Whitesnake = not in one ear! Hm..Everybody in Hard n heavy little little on Whitesnake and etc on world-rock n roll bands!! Not pladiats!! Not piratsva!! Very nice rock n roll band!! Good luck metal -talants brothers!! In person hard n heavy and => Thank-you for the music,video!!! Rock n roll!! Everybody!!
Never heard of these guys -no idea how they never made it big (same goes for Tyketto and Baton Rouge to name a couple). Thanks for giving me my 80s fix - yet more proof of how metal 89-93 was the best: catchy as any pop song but heavy as well. I know we all like different stuff but seriously, I ask you, how can anyone not like this? Great image, bands that can actually play, melody *and* attitude, heaviness but also foot-tapping catchy. I just don't get it. It's just further proof of why I wish it was permanently 1992. I'm going to listen to this then watch a bunch of late 80s films - all with kickass heavy metal songs over the closing credits.
+Kathryn Love i've said this before. there were bands that came in 89-93 (like Warrant) that were the most talented ones the genre had seen, but they were overshadowed by the grunge movement
Banda: SILENT RAGE Origem: LOS ANGELES (Califórnia/Estados Unidos) Álbum: DON'T TOUCH ME THERE (NÃO ME TOQUE AQUI) Lançamento: 21/08/1989 Produção: PAUL SABU/GENE SIMMONS Composição: JESSE DAMON/MARK HAWKINS/E.J. CURSE Gravadora: RCA Vocal/guitarra base/violão: JESSE DAMON Guitarra solo: MARK HAWKINS Baixo: E.J. CURSE Bateria: BRIAN JAMES REBELDE COM UMA CAUSA É a chance de uma vida Para alcançar meus sonhos mais loucos Quando o coração governa a mente Só os fortes sobrevivem Sem promessas, ninguém para culpar Não há garantia Sozinho, eu estou indo até o fim Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda Desgosto total versus vitória Vou desafiar a ser livre Uma viagem pela América Foi uma batalha de rivalidade A voz ouvida em todo o mundo Viveu para contar minha história Os heróis desconhecidos vivem Lutando por você Não me esqueça quando eu me for Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda Desgosto total versus vitória Vou desafiar a ser livre Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda Desgosto total versus vitória Vou desafiar a ser livre Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa E eu vou desafiar a ser livre
I'm with you,never heard of these guys and finding a few others I never heard of which dont make sense cause I used to watch headbangers ball religously
I remeber this song! I used to really love it when I was like 15, Still very catchy. There is just something too over produced about though now that I listen to it. This would have been a great song for some chessy 80's sports movie staring someone from the brat pack. I know this sounds like I don't like it but, I actually really do. Just don't tell anyone!
i was speaking to gene simmons the other day and he was talking about this band and how they pretty much owe everything to him. he says that this is the best band he has ever signed music wise and it dissapoints him deeply that they never made it as big as he thought. that's actually what the topic was, regrets. i had never heard of these guys prior to me and gene's conversation, and i'm just not that impressed. this is the first song i've listened to by them, so i can't really judge them just yet. but they aren't bad but the way he talked about this band made it seem like a zeppelin that never took off.
+Dude Thanks for the story, Gene did give the band a lot of opportunities, including asking me to write with him for KISS, as well as record with them and sing on a KISS albums and Demos... Hope you took the time to listen to some more of our music! Thanks... JD
Man, I've searched high and low for this video!!!!!! I've tried looking here several times - and then this dull tuesday evening, there it is!!! How perfect is that?!! I love this song - I also heard it the first time on Hard&Heavy and couldn't find it anywhere. Yeah too bad they didn't get further - however I believe they've made a couple of albums and a have a new album about to be released. Silent Rage ROCKS!!!
Hair Metal was starting to die when that scene was coming around. Everyone looked and sounded the same. I still listen to Silent Rage today, but like all great bands, the cream rose to the top and the others faded away.
I dont care if ppl think this is cheesy, its still awesome rock. There might be a lot of bands who used this formula..but DAMN this shit is way better then 99% of the crap pop the masses listen to today. At least this was trued music made by human being not some damn computer BS.
Back then I always thought in 90' I almost thought that the singer for nelson Was there singer Because they kind of look similar And Looks like David Coverdale And sounds like David Coverdale on 87 and 89! 👍
I actually seriously don't get how this wasn't a huge hit. Dudes with a good look, excellent stage presence, and the song itself is a perfect balance of catchiness and heaviness. And these guys had Gene Simmons backing them for Christ's sakes! I wonder how it all fell down the drain.
GrantH I hear no heaviness at all. Sickly sweet chorus and just too formulatic and poppy sounding with no edge. This was 3rd string band at best with a formulatic sound. One word....BORING. Maybe Gene Simmons was the reason they failed. He was involved with Black n" Blue and Keel and they both went nowhere. At least KeeL kicked some serious ass 75% of the time.
Heaviness isn't just about guitar tone. It's the overall attitudee. Slayer is heavy. Crowbar is heavy. Behemoth is heavy. This is third rate cheesy pop rock intended to sell more Aqua Net and attract the girls.
Maybe this never went anywhere because the Label, RCA, never promoted it. It appears to me that all the other elements were in place, but what do I know, I'm just a drummer! ;-)
It has been written that Silent Rage rented a chord progression riff from the KISS song Prisoner of Love, that's untrue! I wrote and recorded the chorus guitar riff to Rebel With A Cause in 1986 for our debut album Shattered Hearts released in 1987. Gene contacted us in September 1987 Due to hearing our debut album and was interested in working with us. The KISS song Prisoner of Love did not come out until 1989 on Hot in the Shade. Silent Rage re-recorded a new version of Rebel With A Cause for our 2nd album Don't Touch Me There on Simmons/RCA released in 1989. The riff is similar and a coincidence at best. My Rebel With A Cause chord progression is E, B, Fs, A. Prisoner Of Love chord progression is Fs, A, E, B, and both vocal chorus melody lines are worlds apart!
Jesse Damon what bands did silent rage tour with??
This was better than anything KISS had written in years.
@@Clarence2Worley Silent Rage in the 80's was better than Kiss 80's.
Jesse, Gene only contacted you to rip off your riffs most likely. You are talking about the same guy who had the shittiest vault or whatever that was released and used Vinnie Vincent blatantly to sell it and then tears him four new assholes on ever interview since. Fuck Gene Simmons and I am the biggest kiss fan . That's saying something. Gene is the most embarrassing part of Kiss history.
Such a flashback. Thanks for always creating such a visually appealing "environment" back in the old "Raintree" days in Torrance during summer of '87. It remains some of my best all time memories. You guys were all really genuine people to talk to. Take care Jesse.
Yea , I did have a geat time in the 80s, Best years of my rocker days. Do miss them.
living in the 80s listening to all of this kind of music was heaven love it thanks
Choruses are golden here. Just magic.
Holy shit I haven't heard this tune in 20yrs..remembered every word like I heard it yest...oh how i miss the 80's...
Headbanger's Ball!!! I remember staying up every Saturday night just to watch this with Adam Curry then Riki Rachtman.
They were the best times ever
I forgot about this song and it popped into my head while sitting at my desk at work.
Still have the cassette. 😄
i saw this video like 1 month ago....then like 2 days ago i found a vhs tape that my dad recorded in 89/90 and this video came out and i was like...wow...when mTV played all sorts of videos and well ACTUALLY played them. :)
Hello 14 years later. 😁
great great GREAT!! One of my all-time favorite inspirational & rockin' tunes....this is truly a hidden gem!!
Look at all that glorious hair! Oh the 80s🖤
Only 144 000 views?! This song is underestimated, it deserves a million views, at least!
Sounds like 80's kickass tunes to me ... energy !!!!
This band absolutely ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Need more music like this!!!
80´s Hard N´ Heavy rules all over!
another band that should've had more recognition. fucking awesome
You're totally right about that
Maybe be it will be included in Awesome Mix 3. We'll know soon)🦝
Excellent tune!!!! I still rock out to the cassette from '89!! Singer Jesse Damon still makes music, was just listening to his songs "Black Widow" and "Save Me" from his 2013 release "Temptation in the Garden of Eve". Some great music, with that traditional melodic rock vibe that I like!!!!
80s were the best inm the world .... but now continued ringin .... grettings from colombia my bro...
this LP was truely fantastic, it really was...
It really was it can be again they must come back please come back wherever you are we need you on stage
This is 110% cool and I got this album and what ever happened to this band.😀👍🤘🎸
I don't know but I hope they see this and they get off their asses and do some more music
@@daveeastman7218 I agree with you. 😀👍🤘🎸
Great song Amazing band! Plus they looked hot!
I love everything about this song forever legends 🤘🎸❤💯❣😎
Let's make this glory days come back
Whole world!!! Start playing some sweet ass glam rock!!!
To all out their in the usa may god bless us all and keep on rockin stay safe .
Extremely underrated, such a good song
REALLY miss the 80's Metal Bands...
Wish I had a time machine...
Hell yeah! Headbangers ball and this song! 🎸🎸🎸
great feel good song! i loved these guys.
Love the "Don´t touch me there"-album. Hard to believe, Mr. `Money-is-all-I-need` discovered them and even produced some of the songs. But it seems Gene had a good had at that time. House of Lords, Silent Rage ...
Use to have this cassette great album
Weird i was a total Hair Metal fan back in the day but never Heard of these guys are the time.I like this
Miss those days sucks to growup but still rockin hard forever
Un trago por eso
damn guys. I still love that song and you all look great. I believe it was just after you filmed this video that I interviewed you and broke you in Vegas and Nevada. Good Time sirs, Good times! Please never stop.
That piece of guitar solo in the middle is adrenalizing
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Girls, motorcycles, big hair, a lot of fun....How I miss the 80's
I loved this song the first time I heard it on Headbangers Ball lol...
when they had that program. now its all about stupid ass rap.......
That is why I stopped watching MTV towards the end of 1992... I blocked out all music from then with the exception of a few bands
Cuz' I'm a rebel with a cause....Ahhhh the good old days!
This kind of music makes me feel young again anybody that listens to it will be transported back to that Great era everything is a rip-off but it's also a form of flattery whatever it takes these guys need to do it again too loud you're too old
dude steel panther are like the saviours of metal, they keep it alive and kicking ass in a fashion i cant even describe xD
then after taylor its miley cyrus and anyone who has won the x-factor.....metal will rise again
Rebel With A Cause......Awesome song & Silent Rage Awesome band.....Great 80's!!!!!!
Always loved this song and band!
I love the song rebel with a cause
Awesome!!! I miss the good ol' days
BRILLIANT! 1 000 000 plus!
This was indeed the Golden Age Of Heavy Metal.
Awesome song. Great chorus 😈
great tune
This is a great Track!!!
great band!!!! I like this guys
Really underrated band. First heard them on the hard n heavy video magazine in the U.K. Awesome album
awesome 80s hair metal,
Class! Original composer ! On Whitesnake = not in one ear! Hm..Everybody in Hard n heavy little little on Whitesnake and etc on world-rock n roll bands!! Not pladiats!! Not piratsva!! Very nice rock n roll band!! Good luck metal -talants brothers!! In person hard n heavy and => Thank-you for the music,video!!! Rock n roll!! Everybody!!
A masterpiece, & such a perfect, well-made video.
Awesome !
Great music love your choices
Its like there was an error in the space and time calendar and all the music geniuses emerged in the magical era of THE 80'S!!!!
Silent Rage, Rebel With A Cause; these guys sure liked their movie titles.
AWESOME BAND !!!
Never heard of these guys -no idea how they never made it big (same goes for Tyketto and Baton Rouge to name a couple). Thanks for giving me my 80s fix - yet more proof of how metal 89-93 was the best: catchy as any pop song but heavy as well.
I know we all like different stuff but seriously, I ask you, how can anyone not like this? Great image, bands that can actually play, melody *and* attitude, heaviness but also foot-tapping catchy. I just don't get it.
It's just further proof of why I wish it was permanently 1992. I'm going to listen to this then watch a bunch of late 80s films - all with kickass heavy metal songs over the closing credits.
I love you dream woman.
+Kathryn Love I wish more people thought like you. It may not be as heavy as some like, but it's still a cool song.
+Kathryn Love i've said this before. there were bands that came in 89-93 (like Warrant) that were the most talented ones the genre had seen, but they were overshadowed by the grunge movement
+Kathryn Love 1980-1989
Boyd Schernbeck
1980-1992 to be exact.
this band is amazing
\m/ SILENT RAGE \m/
Awesome video, God Bless Hair Metal!!!!!!!!!
Banda: SILENT RAGE
Origem: LOS ANGELES (Califórnia/Estados Unidos)
Álbum: DON'T TOUCH ME THERE (NÃO ME TOQUE AQUI)
Lançamento: 21/08/1989
Produção: PAUL SABU/GENE SIMMONS
Composição: JESSE DAMON/MARK HAWKINS/E.J. CURSE
Gravadora: RCA
Vocal/guitarra base/violão: JESSE DAMON
Guitarra solo: MARK HAWKINS
Baixo: E.J. CURSE
Bateria: BRIAN JAMES
REBELDE COM UMA CAUSA
É a chance de uma vida
Para alcançar meus sonhos mais loucos
Quando o coração governa a mente
Só os fortes sobrevivem
Sem promessas, ninguém para culpar
Não há garantia
Sozinho, eu estou indo até o fim
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda
Desgosto total versus vitória
Vou desafiar a ser livre
Uma viagem pela América
Foi uma batalha de rivalidade
A voz ouvida em todo o mundo
Viveu para contar minha história
Os heróis desconhecidos vivem
Lutando por você
Não me esqueça quando eu me for
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda
Desgosto total versus vitória
Vou desafiar a ser livre
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
Se eu não ganhar, sentirei a perda
Desgosto total versus vitória
Vou desafiar a ser livre
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
Eu sou um rebelde com uma causa
E eu vou desafiar a ser livre
There is nothing more metal than the drummer doing a stick twirl in the video...\m/
Great Rock n' roll this is true rock n' roll metal, now almost all sucks!
"Only the strong survive" 💪😉😂🍻
Year when music is fun.
How have I never heard these guys??!! they fukin rock!!
You're right guys!! These guys rock!! I had no idea that FABIO
im building a time machine to go back to the 80s
Pretty good CD. I got it in 2014 as I happened upon them. Rare hair metal band without a high voice as lead singer.
I'm with you,never heard of these guys and finding a few others I never heard of which dont make sense cause I used to watch headbangers ball religously
First time hearing them. Id read about them in Metal Edge way back when. Had I seen this video I wouldve bought the tape. Sounds good.
I remeber this song! I used to really love it when I was like 15, Still very catchy. There is just something too over produced about though now that I listen to it. This would have been a great song for some chessy 80's sports movie staring someone from the brat pack. I know this sounds like I don't like it but, I actually really do. Just don't tell anyone!
this is what my wife has been preaching to me for 17 years
Gene Simons was only lookin after money.. these guys rocked
VIXEN!!
awes0me!!!"
i was speaking to gene simmons the other day and he was talking about this band and how they pretty much owe everything to him. he says that this is the best band he has ever signed music wise and it dissapoints him deeply that they never made it as big as he thought. that's actually what the topic was, regrets. i had never heard of these guys prior to me and gene's conversation, and i'm just not that impressed. this is the first song i've listened to by them, so i can't really judge them just yet. but they aren't bad but the way he talked about this band made it seem like a zeppelin that never took off.
+Dude Thanks for the story, Gene did give the band a lot of opportunities, including asking me to write with him for KISS, as well as record with them and sing on a KISS albums and Demos... Hope you took the time to listen to some more of our music! Thanks... JD
Jesse Damon how come you guys never blew up? bad contacts? lacking gigs? lack of sales? bad manager? band falling out?
You're right.....these guys rock!! I had no idea that FABIO could play bass like that!!
never heard of this band before but they rock!
My favorite song ever
fun song
MTV Bring back the original Head Bangers Ball.......
Just got their "Shattered Hearts" cd from Ebay. It rocks!
Man, I've searched high and low for this video!!!!!! I've tried looking here several times - and then this dull tuesday evening, there it is!!! How perfect is that?!!
I love this song - I also heard it the first time on Hard&Heavy and couldn't find it anywhere.
Yeah too bad they didn't get further - however I believe they've made a couple of albums and a have a new album about to be released.
Silent Rage ROCKS!!!
Fucking Nirvana n alternative music killed Heavy Metal musics.. this music rocks!! 👍
Hair Metal was starting to die when that scene was coming around. Everyone looked and sounded the same. I still listen to Silent Rage today, but like all great bands, the cream rose to the top and the others faded away.
I dont care if ppl think this is cheesy, its still awesome rock. There might be a lot of bands who used this formula..but DAMN this shit is way better then 99% of the crap pop the masses listen to today. At least this was trued music made by human being not some damn computer BS.
y&t had a brother? still dig it use to have the tape
I saw the original band at Rocklahoma in 09, pretty good.
now, that use to be music
This song is almost 30 years old and still better than the garbage they play on the radio on every station.
Hair metal doesn't get any better than this.
Back then I always thought in 90' I almost thought that the singer for nelson Was there singer Because they kind of look similar And Looks like David Coverdale And sounds like David Coverdale on 87 and 89! 👍
I actually seriously don't get how this wasn't a huge hit. Dudes with a good look, excellent stage presence, and the song itself is a perfect balance of catchiness and heaviness. And these guys had Gene Simmons backing them for Christ's sakes! I wonder how it all fell down the drain.
Good question, man. Sometimes it doesn't make sense...to often, I guess.
GrantH I hear no heaviness at all. Sickly sweet chorus and just too formulatic and poppy sounding with no edge. This was 3rd string band at best with a formulatic sound. One word....BORING. Maybe Gene Simmons was the reason they failed. He was involved with Black n" Blue and Keel and they both went nowhere. At least KeeL kicked some serious ass 75% of the time.
Joe Rico You think there's no heaviness? I'm actually seriously digging the guitar tone on this song.
Heaviness isn't just about guitar tone. It's the overall attitudee. Slayer is heavy. Crowbar is heavy. Behemoth is heavy. This is third rate cheesy pop rock intended to sell more Aqua Net and attract the girls.
+Joe Rico
All you want.Just say IN MY OPINION. Thank you very much.
cause im a rebel with a cause
Yep I agree.
thats it im ordering a delorian time machine and going back to the 80s
Maybe this never went anywhere because the Label, RCA, never promoted it. It appears to me that all the other elements were in place, but what do I know, I'm just a drummer! ;-)
I'm sure they had no trouble with the ladies back then? Wonder how the hair looks today?Great song and album. Thanx for the vid!!
Glam metal seemed like the shit back then, they just seemed to have fun and probably got all the ladies to!