What a great debut album, love hearing the details, F#9, the best song on the album!

I'm getting ready to show my age...I was at the Cinderella, Winger, and BulletBoys show in Knoxville, TN

Love these interviews. Keep them coming, please.

I attended a Bullet Boys, Winger, Cinderella concert in my hometown. The entire show was great. Loved all 3 bands.

Bullet Boys JAM!!! I was into these guys WAY before anyone I knew. All great bands have 3 album stretches where they were at their greatest. Bullet Boys first 3 are as formidable as any band from that era.

The B.B.’s are cooler in 2020 than they ever were back in the day these dudes are great now man

Smooth up in ya is a epic track. Always loved this band. Thx brother.

I am lucky enough to know their current drummer Shawn Duncan and he is an awesome person and very talented guy. Encouraged me to play drums again and encourage me when my playing was frustrating after a long hiatus from playing with a great story. I am indebted to him and will never forget the story he taught me.

Great band,and a Great guitarist.

Saw them last Dec.29th.Every bit as tight as 89.They had a big 2020 lined up,until the pandemic.

I saw these guys at Nassau Coliseum with Winger and Cinderella. Bullet Boys blew those guys away. Mick was bad ass. Great guitar player.

Every interview you do is super cool man great stuff love it

I saw them in Atlanta in a small club with about 50-75 people in the early 1990's. Grunge had hit and was killing everything Rock & Roll...and all these 80's bands were coming around to small local clubs. Firehouse, Winger, Dokken, Warrant, and many more.

ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS AROUND, MARQ TORIEN

Bullet Boys debut was my favorite album for the longest time. I saw them in Santa Monica civic during this time frame and they were fantastic : young, hungry and energetic. Went to see them in Long Beach with Poison, stuck in traffic, missed them and walked out on Poison. 2nd and 3rd recordings had some great moments. I think the band were so much better than the majority of their peers.

Great interview. I loved their debut and I loved the debut he did with King Kobra.

That album was a masterpiece

Mike sounds like a great guy

Cinderella / Winger / Bulletboys was my first concert as a kid. Mick is literally the first rock guitar player I ever saw live!!

Amazing record great live band !

Great live band. Seen them in 1988.

One of my fav albums. Saw them and it was so good.

GREAT BAND, GREAT ALBUM

Awesome From what I Remember A&M to Atlantic passed!! WOW?

Im still hearing Smooth up in Ya here in Detroit. That song Kicks Ass. Being a Guitarist myself, that solo rips.

Smooth up in yah. Couldn't get away with that now

Mick - BulletBoys has been one of my favorite bands since the first album came out. I always loved the sound and groove that you guys had and still probably have. To me, it sounded like sex and I always wanted to get my band to get the same kind of sound and feel. Hopefully I will get to see you guys and maybe meet up.

It's funny, back in the spring of 1991 I had tickets to see poison Winger and BulletBoys at my local Amphitheater and the show got canceled. I was so pissed.

I was at my buddy's apartment a couple of weeks after this came out. He was a dj in a titty bar and dancers were always hanging out there. I rode with one of them to the record store so she could buy the cassette for him. This was in Texas. It was right about the same time Dirty Looks got big here and not too long after the Cult-Electric had taken off here.

Marq's hair in that King Kobra pic, holy crap!

The first band I saw live at the Bon Jovi show in Akron Ohio

Ted Templeman called these guys the new Van Halen, only problem with that is these guys were no Van Halen.

After Kiss... Winger and BulletBoys were my introduction to hard rock in 1988.

Good stuff. Thanks

Doctor Eddie Ganja here this was one bad ass debut album Had a Van Halen feel and attitude to it David Lee Roth Van Halen Hard as a Rock Smooth up in ya Kissing Kitty Great cover For the love of Money great party down Rock album

in that intro, this guy's voice always makes me think there's a thunderstorm warning.

Still que this album once in awhile \m/

I was in LA in November of '88 and KNAC 105.5 where playing the hell out of these guys, they where even in the studio getting interviewed great album, it was actually a Pity That Ted was the Producer as they were pushed too much like a Early Van Halen style Band...

1313 Club in Charlotte (headline), Some other club in Hickory , NC (headline) and then Poison, Slaughter Bullet Boys at outdoor auditorium at Carowinds Paladium Charlotte, NC.

I had that Debut album I lent it out to my friend and never got it BACK! That was 35 yrs ago 😮

Bullet Boys was one of those bands that wrote really great songs but, were lumped in with the hair bands that the record labels were mass producing in the late 80s. The fact that they were tragically mixed in with the butt rock bands really discredits just how good these guys were. Their songs were cleverly written, had really cool riffs and, kickass drum beats. These guys were in a league of their own and shouldn't have been mixed up with the cheesey bands coming out out that time.

Always hate to hear that bands I loved were infighting and couldn't get along. Makes that long time from 1993 to just recently (when the original band got back together with Marq to play some live shows) make more sense though, I guess.

This guy is all over the place

"I think Cher was going out with the guitar player for that band." Weird hearing Richie Sambora described as "the guitar player for that band."

Funny, they've got back together with Torien several times since way back then. Probably gets them better gigs vs Bullet Boys featuring one original member.

fantastic debut album, i loved the follow up Freakshow too. BB are criminally underrated .. everyone just knows Smooth Up in Ya.. good song however they have so manny great songs (F9, Hard as Rock, Owed to Joe, Hell on my Heels, Do Me Raw, Freakshow, Mine)

Cool

Real stuff!!!

Btw, did not know you were from Dallas. Lived there for several years in the early 90s and hung out at the Basement and DCL quite a bit.

Awesome Channel full in bloom! BulletBoys were a good band but yet another one that came probably about 2 years too late to the party.... by 1988 this type of hair metal took a backseat to the more Street hair metal sounds of guns and roses and Skid Row etc.....

I seen the tour with Cinderella, Winger, And Bullet Boys, i believe it was where the Detroit Pistons Played, i cant remember the name of the place, driving me nutts that i cant remember the venue. Lol!!!

It's funny when you see certifications. They haven't been updated since the 90's.

Nice job

met him at the GASWORKS.

I still don't understand why Ted Templeman missed so many sessions with the group. Also, the Bulletboys and Van Halen did so many covers under Templeman. We're both of the bands having writer's block from time to time?

this guy...

Great interview , I don't get the knock on the tone of the first album though..sounds huge. I think Templeman was going for that ACDC gain. Cleaner sounds bigger sometimes.

MUCH MUSIC played the shit outta those videos.

Did you keep the '65 Mustang?!?

Wish Mic would been in more bands, really liked his playing especially the solo on smooth up in ya, wasn't ever really knocked out by the songs lyrics, but the music itself was pretty good to bad they couldn't have found a new singer and direction cause Sweda could definitely play some cool riffs an solos, that's really the only reason I liked the band too bad the band couldn't have hooked up with some vocalist from DP or Rainbow cause the music was so much better then the generic cock rock crap of the lyrics, the music behind the lyrics was so much heavier then the genaric LA hair band style they seemed to be going for seems like the band would have done better leaving the singer and finding a vocalist more interested in album making seemed like they had the talent to become a successful album oriented band, instead of just being part of a popular fad

I would've started recording ourselves and told old "Producer Ted" to kick rocks. If you tell your look label your sitting around in a $2000 a day studio and Ted is M.I.A. for weeks at a time??? The label won't put up with that sh_t. I was signed on an indie label called Dwell Records who was a subsidiary label to Metal Blade . Or manager John Bookshire would had a coronary. He wouldn't have cared if it was Scott Burns in the control room. There is more to that story than he is affording us. I bet Producer Ted has a much different account.

What exactly made them "bullet" boys..?

Doesn't seem right to have to pay $2000 a day for studio time when the producer isnt showing up for weeks at a time. Crazy! Did Ted have something against you guys?

Unfortunately I bought that record wasn't my thing

Love BB, too bad Marq from what the bandmates say is very difficult to work with. They cudda been bigger wayyy bigger

Maybe you wouldn't have to give up a point to Marqs parents if you didn't decide that none of you would work. They were obviously mooching off of others for quite some time

The whole conversation regarding whether or not the record went platinum makes absolutely no sense from mick's standpoint. Soundscan was developed as a more accurate means to actually track sales data starting in 1991. Before that, sales , chart spots and certifications was based on record store reporting.... It was definitely not an accurate or quantitative measure of true sales. if anything, the album has actually sold LESS than 800 thousand copies.... once it breaks the 1 million threshold, the RIaa certifies it......now, I'm not sure how it works with streams and things like that and downloads, so if that's taken into account since the nineties perhaps they might have gone Platinum but I wouldn't bet my money on it.

Did he say Marqs parents loaned them 100k?

Mick is a banger. I just didnt like the shredded shirt. lol

A Nissan.. Smh..

Decent band. Tried too much to be Van Halen and every band that ever did/does that will fail.

His voice certainly hasn't gotten better, I've heard some recent live songs and man is it terrible. Marq is a good guitar player but his voice is shot.

the guitarist is pure cringe in the smooth up inya video