Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:24 pm
I found a scant piece of information on Playn Crazy on NWoBHM/Metal author John Tuckers website.
Apparently he managed the band for their whole career, and as he was based in the UK at the time it seems reasonable to assume that the band were British too.
Unless we're talking about a different band who just happened to share the same name of course:
http://www.johntuckeronline.com/about_me
"Who is John Tucker?
I began writing about music in 1981, at the height of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I was about 19 at the time. I was buying a lot of Neat Records’ and Heavy Metal Records’ releases and thought they needed to be brought to a wider audience. So I wrote an irregular metal music column for the in-house magazine at Swansea University, and then began to submit articles to an American fanzine ‘Metal Rendez-Vous’.
Moving to London in 1983, I began contributing (both as writer and photographer) to a number of fanzines such as ‘Forearm Smash’ and ‘Marshall Stack’ in the UK, ‘Rock Brigade’ (Brazil), ‘Sagritura Escritura’ (Portugal), as well as being the main UK contributor to the re-launched and expanded ‘Metal Rendez-Vous’. I convinced Neat Records that they needed a promotional magazine and thereby created and wrote ‘Lead Weight’ for them. I signed up to ‘Marshall Stack’ full-time and when it folded created and published ‘Stack Attack’ from its ashes. Around this time I became a regular contributor to the Deep Purple Appreciation Society magazine ‘Darker Than Blue’ which I’ve continued to this day. I founded and ran the Queensryche UK, Blitzkrieg, and Hellion Fan Clubs, and also managed metal band Playn Crazy for the duration of their lifespan."
I also found this post by someone calling himself "Yngwie's Cat" on a West Ham FC football forum, in a thread concerning music.
"Saw loads of bands down there and were regulars at Nic londons Saturday Rock nights. My broths band Playn Crazy (plain dull) used to play down there a bit. Other notable names Fugitive and Jokers Wild!!"
This is a reply to a post reminiscing about old London Rock venues, so this seems to lend further credence to the idea that they were a UK band.
The full thread is here:
http://www.westhamonline.net/forum_flat ... 0_a1_a0_a0
Hope this helps.
Apparently he managed the band for their whole career, and as he was based in the UK at the time it seems reasonable to assume that the band were British too.
Unless we're talking about a different band who just happened to share the same name of course:
http://www.johntuckeronline.com/about_me
"Who is John Tucker?
I began writing about music in 1981, at the height of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I was about 19 at the time. I was buying a lot of Neat Records’ and Heavy Metal Records’ releases and thought they needed to be brought to a wider audience. So I wrote an irregular metal music column for the in-house magazine at Swansea University, and then began to submit articles to an American fanzine ‘Metal Rendez-Vous’.
Moving to London in 1983, I began contributing (both as writer and photographer) to a number of fanzines such as ‘Forearm Smash’ and ‘Marshall Stack’ in the UK, ‘Rock Brigade’ (Brazil), ‘Sagritura Escritura’ (Portugal), as well as being the main UK contributor to the re-launched and expanded ‘Metal Rendez-Vous’. I convinced Neat Records that they needed a promotional magazine and thereby created and wrote ‘Lead Weight’ for them. I signed up to ‘Marshall Stack’ full-time and when it folded created and published ‘Stack Attack’ from its ashes. Around this time I became a regular contributor to the Deep Purple Appreciation Society magazine ‘Darker Than Blue’ which I’ve continued to this day. I founded and ran the Queensryche UK, Blitzkrieg, and Hellion Fan Clubs, and also managed metal band Playn Crazy for the duration of their lifespan."
I also found this post by someone calling himself "Yngwie's Cat" on a West Ham FC football forum, in a thread concerning music.
"Saw loads of bands down there and were regulars at Nic londons Saturday Rock nights. My broths band Playn Crazy (plain dull) used to play down there a bit. Other notable names Fugitive and Jokers Wild!!"
This is a reply to a post reminiscing about old London Rock venues, so this seems to lend further credence to the idea that they were a UK band.
The full thread is here:
http://www.westhamonline.net/forum_flat ... 0_a1_a0_a0
Hope this helps.
