Music Style Melodic Guitar Rock

Musical Influences KISS, Van Halen, White Snake

Similar Artists KISS, Thin Lizzy

Group Members Chuck Williams -- Lead and rhythm guitar, bass, lead and backup vocals (all bass tracks on album); Erich von Colberg -- rhythm guitar, lead and backup vocals; Rich Redmond -- Drums, percussion; Mike Prather -- Bass

Instruments Guitar (Electric and Classical), Bass, Drums, Tambourine, Percussion

Albums Wing And A Prayer

Press Reviews The Dallas Morning News | The Music Page (5C) | Local Music | 12/28/1995 BANDS PLOW HARD GROUND (By Teresa Gubbins, Staff Writer) Big record labels write off the end of the year as a bad time to release new records. But these mostly local musicians with new discs aren't intimidated: In Need Of A Prayer Tragic Hero is neither courageous nor stupid, says singer-guitarist Erich von Colberg. "We are what we are, and I think it's stupid to go ahead and try to be what everybody else is being," he says. This kind of music is usually known as "big-hair rock." The band's new disc, Wing and a Prayer, may not be a Bon Jovi song, but it sure sounds like one. The songs are a combination of rip-roaring rockers and soft ballads. The guitar can be achingly simple, and vocalist Chuck Williams sounds like Kiss' Paul Stanley. But these are four seasoned musicians who are trying to break out of the cover-band routine in the only way they know: by writing and recording their own songs. Mr. von Colberg knows that the audience for this kind of music is shrinking every day, but who couldn't appreciate the humorous, hacking-cough close of the song Cigarettes and Rock & Roll? "We're not trying to please an '80s rock crowd," he says. "We could do the trendy thing, and that could be good for now, but then it goes away. We're playing what we like to play and hopefully some other people will like it, too."

Location Irving, Texas - USA

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