SONNY VINCENT PRESS CLIPS …this guy is still kicking out quality music. Furious It's punk, it's rock, and it's good so go get it. What punk and roll that will more than likely knock your are you waiting for, your man? socks off. Faster paced, lots of guitar and just delivered Joe Domino like he's going for the knockout punch. Blank Generation E-Zine, 2002 Maximumrocknroll Fanzine #209 USA October 2000 "Let it be known, the man is rocking! ...[The album "Put the needle down…JESUS COCKSUCKER "Pure Filth"] is a high energy, high octane, kick CHRIST! This thing is fucking INCREDIBLE!" ass, unpolished, loud as hell, rock'n'roll album, Todd Trickknee with its roots firmly planted in the Stooges/MC5 Blank Generation E-Zine, 2002 mould." Henrik Neat Damned Noise Fanzine, Houston, Texas 1998, USA "Only good things deserve the trademark "Songs that get to the point fast and without "Vincent". Classic, undestroyable rock'n'roll with compromise plus melodic ones with good a cool swing. Buy this one now." hooklines. Music to listen to all the time." Tom Tonk Daily Grind Fanzine Hullaballoo Fanzine, Germany 1996 Germany 1995 "One of the most sparkling figures in American "Especially the two very fast songs "You Don't punk'n'roll... what kind of muse has kissed this Break My Heart" and "Primitive" give me the goose man." bumps." Piste Magazine Advisor Magazine Germany 1997 Germany 1995 "Sonny Vincent as composer, producer and on lead "The new album has all the intensity of a Sonny vocals; Scott Asheton behind the drums; Captain Vincent work, which is even topped on stage by the Sensible on bass, Cheetah Chrome on guitar, man." Michael Frohoff assisted by Scott Morgan on three titles...To find F & K Fanzine, Germany 1995 something better, you'd have to gather John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Jim "Damn hard, fast, 15 Songs in not much more than Morrison." 30 minutes. As usual, the lyrics are made for people Patrick Tad Foulhoux, whose ears are connected to their brains." Rock Sound Magazine, France 1998 Lutz Hauck Goar Fanzine, Germany 1995 "High class New York punkrock'n'roll. Sonny's vocals and guitar are as unique as usual." "The extraordinary songs with their powerful The Flying Revolverblatt Fanzine interpretation inspire one to pay attention to a Germany 1995 maniac like Sonny Vincent" D. Jerkovic "Very New York, very punk. Go, Sonny, go!" Heroina Nova Fanzine, Croatia 1995 Maximum Rock'nRoll Fanzine USA 1997 "A cool record that doesn't need all this "hard" "Call it New York punk rock, call it high voltage attitude, because the music and lyrics hit you like a R'n'R, call it what you want Sonny plays it with hammer anyway. integrity." Supercockassbuttdickschweincool!" Kike Turmix Tom Tonk Hullaballoo Fanzine, Germany 1995 Running News Fanzine, Spain 1997 "If he was Batman, Wayne Kramer, Captain "His songs are still radiating an indestructible Sensible and Scott Asheton etc. would be his freshness, that saves them from getting frozen in a Robins... BUY THIS SHIT! IT'S HOT, DAMMIT!" genre." Alexander Schuth Frank Schütze Superstar Magazine, Germany 1998 ZAP Fanzine, Germany 1996 "...more energy than a nuclear power plant..." "Brooding and bruised rock power punched across Henning Richter unremitting edginess. Prime headcheese." Hammer Magazine, Germany 1999 Juke Magazine Australia "This record kicks ass, ladies and gentlemen." Sandra Hart "This music bristles with the power and the live Lärmkessel Fanzine, Germany 1996 show is a 'must see'." Entertainment Guide "I listened to this one in a quiet moment headphones Montreal, Canada on - and what shall I say? It's a hit from A to Z... songs like "Don't Tell Me" or "I See" are without a "Nerve-wrecking tension like a roller coaster ride doubt two of the best punk smashers that ever where you have to pull yourself together and have reached my deafened ears... get this immediately. some courage...Sonny has all you expect from a Buy or die, bastards!" hard boiled rock'n'roll desperado. There's Plastic Bomb Fanzine desperation and hope in his voice, pain and Germany 1995 euphoria. The songs have everything you also find in classical Alex Harvey, Johnny Thunders, and "Stand up, raw snotty sound, those who don't get Henry Rollins songs. "Roller Coaster" is one of the themselves these recordings must be either best rock albums ever since." imbeciles, ignorant or deaf - or most likely all three Money Mix at once." Bierfront Fanzine, Germany 1993 Wahrschauer Fanzine Germany 1996 This is s-o-o-o-o-o rocking! I'll put in an extra '!' 'Beyond Rebellion' is a real smasher. The songs just for effect! In case you haven't worked it out have such a "still-not-corrupted-after-all-these- yet! years" attitude and directness, that it makes me From the nightmare car accident that is "Knifeman" euphoric, Sonny makes it rattle. And squeak. Slam. - a sonic warning to fasten the seat belt - that's Flow. Rock. Splash. A pure, powerful and bitter- followed, in quick succession, by the aural sweet release." hammering of "Dedication" (with a killer riff and Wolfgang hook to match) and the insistent battering ram that it Sunset Fanzine, Germany 1992 is "Good Ideas"....it's the most defiant, ballsy "I prefer records by punk idol Sonny Vincent. This opening to a disc that these ears have heard for man has been a guarantee for high class quality some time. Savage, take-no-prisoners stuff, with all punk rock for years...And where it says VINCENT the impact of a well-placed heart punch. on the cover, VINCENT is what you get, and that Review of "Parallax In Wonderland" by The Barman at I-94 Bar Website, Australia 2000 means on the new cd...you get what you expect." Drunk On The Moon Fanzine Germany 1995 Guitar-overdrive-mayhem garage-rock... It's very grease-stained, but also carrying something fuzzed "Buy or die!" Jeff Dahl and swirled through the noise. It's full-blown Your Flesh Magazine, USA revolution Detroit distorted style and it drives, drives… drives. Marcel Feldmar Ink 19 Magazine, USA 2000 SONNY VINCENT VOCALIST, GUITARIST, SONGWRITER A PERSONAL HISTORY This is a brief outline of Sonny Vincent's history, to some it may read like the perfect script for a movie about a Rock'n'Roll desperado on his way to becoming an icon. But this story is not from any movie folks or about any media hype, it's about the real thing… A real rock'n'roll hero with the passion, the energy and the feeling. The integrity of his music is obvious in the opening notes of each and every song. The audience reaction at his live performances can only be described with words like 'possessed' 'uninhibited', 'intense'‚ 'wild'. Born in New York City and raised on its streets and in its clubs. At age 13 he illegally lived in a girls' dorm on the campus of N.Y.U. with three female students. At 14 he played his first show in the Village. At 15 he spent some time in reform school. But all through everything always writing and performing with his 1969 Gibson Les Paul. There is a lot of history to tell such as a two year jail term for possesion of one joint, but it is all right there in the music and that's where it screams out loud and where you can find it ...all the pain as well as the excitement from someone who has lived wild and hard. As you find out more and more of the bits and pieces of his life you really feel someone could make a movie about him… but like I said its all in the music. Listen to it, you‘ll know, too. Alain Courtre 1976 Sonny Vincent forms the group TESTORS. The original TESTORS was a three piece group: with lots of yelling and screaming, lots of dissonance, two loud guitars, primal drums (with no hi-hat) and they did not use a bass player. The line up: Sonny Vincent, vocals and guitar; Gene Sinigalliano, guitar; and Gregory R., drums. 1977 Testors constantly performs shows in N.Y.C. mostly at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City with groups such as Mink DeVille, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, The Cramps, Dead Boys and many others. Later in the year they begin headlining. This year Sonny also spends six months in a jail. A special "reform school" for underage criminals. Labeled by the court as a 'PINS case' (person in need of supervision), his infractions include trespassing, destruction of city property and drug possession. 1977-78 TESTORS tours the East Coast of the U.S. 1978 TESTORS goes through some changes. Gregory the drummer gets in some violent situations and leaves town. Testors bring Jeff Couganhaur (West) from Cleveland in on drums and finally add a bass player to the band. The bass player's name is Ron Pieniak a surrealistic painter/artist, as well as a good friend of Sonny and Gene who lived together with Gene in the Testors loft. Ron's stint with Testors although short-lived was the first version of Testors with a furious pounding bass. As well as playing bass for Testors Ron designed many of the flyers used to promote their shows in New York City. 1979 TESTORS adds a new bass player Kenneth Brighton and Sonny experiments with writing songs with more than two parts and somewhat of a melody. They go on a major groundbreaking tour across the U.S.A with the Dead Boys.