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Spiders & Snakes
12+ albums
hair metalhard rockGlam Metal80sglam
about
Sunset Strip legend Lizzie Grey started London with Nikki Sixx in 1979, but Sixx immediately left to form the Crue (taking the duo's "Public Enemy No. 1" along with him). Though never reached the heights of Crue or followers Poison, Grey and crew enjoyed a healthy share of good times (as evidenced in The Decline of Western Civilization 2: the Metal Years). At the close of the decade, drummer Tim Jay joined Grey for a project called Ultra Pop, but the duo decided that moniker was too timid and devised a new band called Spiders & Snakes (lineage to the standard undetermined). With a strong regional following as always, Spiders & Snakes spit in the face of the emerging grunge movement and released five documents of life on the wild side. When the dark label Cleopatra exploited the connection between glam and goth, the Spiders & Snakes version of "Public Enemy No. 1" ironically landed on the tribute Shout at the Remix. The label also backed the fifth Spiders & Snakes record, London Daze, a précis of Grey's storied history. However, momentum slowed considerably when bassist Leigh Lawson died, forcing the band to cancel its vital London Daze tour When Lizzie Grey left London in 1988, he made a conscious decision to return to his roots in 1970s British glam rock. Grey began a project under the name Ultra Pop to pursue this end, recording the first album, Ultra Pop (1988), largely as a solo effort. Grey hired ex-London drummer Tim Yasui (stage name Timothy Jay) in late 1990 to
