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2 unusual facts about Sweet Savage


Sweet Savage

The album features Vivian Campbell making a guest appearance on a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey In The Jar".

2009 also sees the release of their newest studio effort entitled Warbird, on SPV Records.


A Dirty Western

Along with Russ Meyer's nudie-cutie Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) and the hardcore Sweet Savage (1979), the film is one of the few porn films in the American Western movie genre.

A II Z

Immediately signed by major label Polydor, the group, whose style bore resemblances to Motörhead, Sweet Savage and Weapon, recorded their 1980 debut album named The Witch of Berkeley, live at a hometown gig (actually the hall of Hazel Grove High School), then were sent out on the road in support of Girlschool and Black Sabbath.

Wild Gals of the Naked West

Along with the hardcore pornographic movies A Dirty Western (1975) and Sweet Savage, the film is one of the few porn flicks in the American Western movie genre.


see also

Headbangers Open Air

July 24–26, 2008: Abandoned, At War, Axehammer, Beehler, Benedictum, Black Hawk, Blaze Bayley, Deadly Blessing, Death SS, Destructor, Détente, Exodus, Impaler, Lethal, Messenger, Mortal Sin, New Eden, Picture, Praying Mantis, Rebellion, Roxxcalibur, Sodom, Stone Cold Black, Sweet Savage, Wild Dogs