BEFORE THERE WAS BLACK TIDE, THERE WAS BAD 4 GOOD
Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 4:58pm by Axl Rosenberg
In the early 90s, Steve Vai assembled, wrote all the music for, and produced a band called Bad 4 Good, consisting of members no older than 17 and often as young as 12 or 13 (which makes the semi-nude photo of the band, above, that much creepier). The most notable member, I suppose, was lead singer Danny Cooksey, a child actor best known for playing Arnold and Willis’ precocious little white brother on Diff’rent Strokes, Eddie Furlong’s GN’R lovin’ buddy in Terminator 2, and, of course, the bad ass rebel on the cult classic shitcom Salute Your Shorts.
Even with Vai’s involvement, this band sucked hard, and the irony of a bunch of kids under the age of 18 releasing a single called “Nineteen” should be lost on no one (were they dreaming of what they might do when they eventually turned 19?). By the time the band broke away from Vai and changed their name to Mother’s Milk, no one gave a shit about them anymore, if anyone gave a shit in the first place. After the jump, check out a Bad 4 Good EPK and the video for “Nineteen.”
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My point is this: someone has tried this whole Black Tide bull pockey before, and it would seem that we are now destined to watch history repeat itself.
-AR
Yeah, all true, but I bet that little kid guitarist could play better than most people twice his age.
Ha ha I never knew that kid was in a band.
They should have called the band “not bad but isn’t good”. So who are these “black tide” people? Nevermind, like the Jonas Bros. I don’t care enough to click on a wikipedia link.
Someone else remembers salute your shorts? Wasn’t his character called Bobby Budnick? Good times…
my thoughts exactly! :-D
kid in the picture and singer of black tide look the same.
“i had beans for breakfast.”
The drummer in Bad 4 Good is now the drummer in Bad Religion
Back in my younger/stupider days, I actually owned this album. Why? Because I bought anything and everything that had Steve Vai’s name on it or anywhere near it.
And yes, it was as bad (even then) as you might think. Grossly overproduced and slick. It was quite obvious they hadn’t written most of the material.
The guitar kid was pretty good though. Better than me, and I’ve been playing guitar for 17 years.
Also, is it just me, or do you feel like a child molester for just looking at that picture? Creepy!
Dude! “Salute your shorts” was a childhood favorite!
I have seen this here, in Romania, they tried to put up a band of kids that even had about 2 videos and tours nationwide, then they disappeared…
Menudo metal. Bitchin’.
You said it, Hibernum! The photo has kid toucher written all over it. Creeps me out just looking at it.
I dont know you, but this band BLAK TIDE Rocks, just listen to Shockwave, Warrior of time or Light from Above.
Just Try to listen once these super songs, then reply.
And i am sure, it is not like this trash band you put on this article.
Really they are Creepy!
AHHH!! hey they may have sucked..but Black Tide is DAMN good. grrrr.
[...] This isn’t the first time Steve Vai has gone sniffing around young children – in the early 90s he was the mastermind behind Bad 4 Good, a not-very-memorable band that was really all just an excuse for Vai to take naked pictures of little boys. [...]
I knew Bobby Budnick was in a band. lol. Salute Your fucking Shorts