Bang Tango is tagged as: hard rock, hair metal, glam metal, 80s, glam rock
Although Bang Tango was often lumped in with the whole ’80s glam metal movement (perhaps due to their pretty boy looks and the fact that they hailed from Los Angeles, CA), the hard rockin’ quintet was one of the few L.A. glam groups to incorporate funk into its sound — some time before the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More made it acceptable to do so. Their lineup consisted of Joe Lesté (vocals), Kyle Stevens (guitar), Mark Knight (guitar), Kyle Kyle (bass), and Tigg Ketler (drums), and gained the interest of Mechanic/MCA shortly after the quintet issued the in-concert recording Live Injection in 1987. Their major-label debut, Psycho Café, was issued in 1989, and despite MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball program giving some air time to their single/video “Someone Like You,” the album failed to break the band into the big time.
The group continued to issue albums during the early part of the ’90s — 1991’s Dancin’ on Coals, 1992’s Ain’t No Jive…Live, and 1994’s Love After Death — but with the emergence of the Seattle movement, bands like Bang Tango became passé with most of the metal community. The band broke up shortly thereafter, with bassist Kyle joining former Faster Pussycat fron...
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