David Roach, Singer and Founding Member Of The Group Announced Roach’s Death in A post on Social Media on Saturday. He was 59.
“After a courageous battle with carder, David Passed Away Peadelly Last Night at Home, in the Loveing Arms of his Wife,” The Statement Read. “He was a gifted artist, perfrormer, songwriter, and singer – but Above all, a defined father, HusBand, and Broth.”
While a niche Band on Los Angeles’ Jam-Packed Sunset Strip Scene of the 1980s, Junkyard Stood Out for thems Edgy, Blues-Based Sound and Biker Look. They was more in link with early guns n ‘roses, bot in music and aesthetic, and Even The Black Crowes, Who’d Later Open For Junkyard, Than Make-Up and HairsPray Groups Like Poison Or Warrant. And Roach’s RASPY VOICE – A MIX of South Drawl (He was from Dallas, Texas), Cigarette Smoke, and a Lot of Attattude – Was The Driving Force.
Junkyard Formed in Los Angeles in 1987, with Roach as Frontman, Chris Gates on Guitar, and for a brief Moment, skateboarding pioner tony alva on bass. Guitarist BRIAN BAKER, WhO’D Go on to Play in Bad Religion, joined in 1989 and, that sety year, the Group Releted their Self-Titled Debut Album on Geffen, Also Label Home to the Likemdeded Gn’r.
Despite Being More of a Blues-Rock Band Than Heavy Metal, The Group Gained Early Track on MTV’s Headbangers Ball With Its Video for “Hollywood,” a tale of desperse and quelling in one of America’s Most Mythologized NeighBorhoods. See the Boy on the Corner/He’s Only 12 Years Old/Every Night He’s Out Thrie Doing His Best/To Get His Goodies Sold, “Roach Snered to Kick Of the Song. “What Hollywood was to us when we were all live is to goether,” is how to rush descricated the track in the album’s press Mateials. “Prostituts, Crack-Dealers on the Front Porch. It wasn’t Culture Shock Exactly, but it was a learning Experience.”
The Power Ballad “Simple Man” Followed as the Next Single and UndersCored the South South-Rock Vibes of the Group: in 1991, Junkyard Welf Open for Lynyrd SkyNyrd on that Band’s Headlining Tour.
Roach and the Group Returned to the Studio, with Ramones and Living Color Producer Ed Stasium, to record 1991’s Sixes, Sevens & Nines. Singles like “all the time in the world” Doubled Download Influence and Feature Songwriter Steve Earle on Harmony Vocals.
But 1991 was also the year of nirvana’s Nevermind – Released Just a FEW MOWHS EFTER Sixes, Sevens & Nines – And the hard rock of la Quickly Fell out of Fashion. Junkyard Were a Victim of that Sea Change and Geffen Dropled the Band, Who Split Up in 1992.
In 2000, Junkyard Reunited and Releas the Live Album Shut up – We’re Tryin ‘to Practice!A 1989 Recording of the Band in Its Prime at the Hollywood Palace. Live Tours Followed, and in 2017 The Group is the Comback Album High WaterIts First New Studio LP in More Than 25 years. A Standalone Single Titled “Life” Droppedd in 2021. Along with Blues-Rock Groups Like the Four Horsemen, Junkyard Stand to Many As an Underrared Alternative to the Hair Metal of the Era.
Riki Rachtman, Former Host of Headbangers BallRemembred Roach on Instagram. “We Lost a Singer of a True Rock & Roll Band,” He said. “If you What to hear some good rock and roll, Play some Junkyard Right Now.”
