Flirtin' With Disaster!

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Named after a legendary Southern prostitute who allegedly beheaded and mutilated her clients, Jacksonville's Molly Hatchet melded loud hard-rock boogie with guitar jam-oriented Southern rock. Formed in 1975, the group's lineup featured three guitarists: Dave Hlubek, Steve Holland, and Duane Roland, plus vocalist Danny Joe Brown, bassist Banner Thomas, and drummer Bruce Crump. The group recorded a self-titled debut album in 1978, which quickly went platinum; the follow-up, Flirtin' With Disaster, was even more successful, selling over two million copies. Brown left the group in 1980 after the constant touring became too tiresome; he was replaced by Jimmy Farrar for Beatin' the Odds and Take No Prisoners, but Farrar left for a solo career soon afterwards. Brown rejoined the band in 1982 for the ensuing album, No Guts...No Glory. After their next release, The Deed is Done, a straightforward pop/rock album, the group took some time off in 1985 while its Double Trouble Live album, a collection of some of its best-known songs, was released. Molly Hatchet returned in 1989 without Hlubek for an album of straight, polished AOR, Lightning Strikes Twice before going on a recording hiatus. Molly Hatchet reunited in the mid-'90s as an active touring outfit, releasing Devil's Canyon, their first record since Lightning Strikes Twice, in 1996.

This site is dedicated to my favorite band of all time, original Molly Hatchet.

I want to note that I love the current lineup as well, as I saw them this year in 2004 and they were unreal!!

This is in no way to put down what the current lineup is doing, as I support them 100%, there just so happens to be many sites already up and running dedicated to the cause, and a great one it is... It's just that, since 1979, when I was 13 years old, these guys have been my musical icons, and continue to be to this very day...

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