MINT Unplayed LP BEAU NASTY Dirty But Well Dressed RADIO PROMO Vintage 1989 RARE

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 BEAU NASTY Nasty But Well Dressed LP MINT & UNPLAYED Radio Promotional Copy 1989 Original Vintage Vinyl CBS FP-45045
Description:
I received this promotional copy of Beau Nasty's -  Nasty But Well Dressed when I worked in radio. Never played it and as with many of my extra albums it has been stored away for over 30 years in a closet standing upright with hundreds of other unplayed LPs, so the record itself is mint, unplayed in its original paper sleeve, having never been removed from it except to partially remove it to take a picture for this listing.
Personnel: Lead Vocals – Mark Anthony Fretz Guitar – George Bernhardt Bass – Doug Baker Drums – Mike Terrana
Track listing
Side A 1 Shake It         4:38 2 Goodbye Rosie 3:58 3 Gimme Lovin' 3:34 4 Paradise In The Sand 4:11 5 Dirty, But Well Dressed 3:02

Side B 1 Love To The Bone 4:51 2 Gemini                 3:48 3 Piece Of The Action 3:49 4 Make A Wish         4:38 5 Love Potion #9 3:25
About Beau Nasty from Spinditty
The year was 1989, and the Hair Metal craze was rapidly approaching critical mass. As multi-million selling success stories like Poison, Warrant, and Cinderella continued to take their bombastic blend of Aqua-Net and Marshall amplification to the bank, A&R scouts at record labels large and small pounded their fists on their desks and cried out in unison, "Dammit, we need one of those bands, too!"
This gave rise to The Great L.A. Hair Metal Signing Binge - when it seemed like a new set of big haired second-stringers was plucked from Sunset Strip obscurity and signed to a major record label every other day. The Binge was, of course, immediately followed about a year later by the Great L.A. Hair Metal Glut, when the debut albums by all of those dozens of newly inked bands flooded the marketplace at the same time. These saturation bombing tactics meant that only a few of these bands connected with an audience that was getting burned out on the whole hair-metal fad anyway. Therefore, a ton of bands got caught in the crossfire when the next big "wave" (hell-ooooooo, Nirvana!) came along and the majors all dumped their stock in hair metal. From the 1990s onward, used-CD stores (and later, auction sites like eBay) became cemeteries littered with the carcasses of such non-success stories as Salty Dog, JetBoy, Keel, Babylon A.D., Southgang, Pretty Boy Floyd, Hericane Alice, Bang Tango, Tora Tora, Spread Eagle, Sweet F.A., and many more...
...which brings us to today's Forgotten Hard Rock album: Dirty, But Well Dressed, the first (and last) disc by the ultra obscurity known as Beau Nasty. Though it was utterly ignored upon its original release, this album has slowly been attaining a rep as a minor classic among hair metal aficionados over the years.
Finding info on Beau Nasty's back story was a frustrating task. They were supposedly L.A.-based, but since they featured a couple of upstate New Yorkers and a Canadian in their ranks, I suspect that they were a "manufactured" act put together by a manager or a label rather than an actual "band." Formed in 1988, Beau Nasty was immediately snapped up by CBS Records imprint WTG, where they were label mates with the likes of Motorhead and Bonham. Beau Nasty's drummer Mike Terrana and guitarist George Bernhardt had previously worked together in the Canadian hard rock act Hanover Fist, whilst vocalist Mark Anthony Fretz had prior associations with a band called Zillion.
WTG put the quintet into the studio with then-hot melodic rock uber-producer Beau Hill (fresh off of his multi-platinum work with Ratt and Warrant) and Paul Winger (big brother of Kip Winger) to create an album's worth of catchy, radio-ready tunes with air-guitar-worthy riffing and an ultra-polished production job so slick and cheesy it should've come topped with pepperoni and mushrooms. Dirty, But Well Dressed was released the following year...and by all accounts, it made absolutely no impact whatsoever on MTV, on the Billboard charts, or in the hearts and minds of rock audiences. After a couple of low profile tours opening for lower-rung acts like Loverboy and Love/Hate, Beau Nasty quietly dissolved as the 1990s dawned.
Given the musical climate at the time, multi platinum status should've been a given for Beau Nasty...but obviously, it never happened. So what went wrong?
I'm reasonably sure that the ridiculous album cover to Dirty, But Well Dressed did Beau Nasty no favors with record buyers. Perhaps they were trying to out-do the "waist-coats and frilly cuffs" look that fellow hair metallers Britny Fox were sportin' at the time, but DBWD's unintentionally hilarious Renaissance-inspired illustration of the band in a throne room, decked out in full-on Henry VIII style gear - complete with capes and feathered caps! - looks like the band is about to break into the theme from "Robin Hood, Men In Tights." The band photo on the back cover shows the boys wearing more traditional "street level" rocker-dude outfits, so I guess that the Ren-Faire duds were NOT part of their actual onstage attire. Too bad, because that might've actually helped them stand out from the pack. (haha)
After Beau Nasty split, Guitarist Brian Young worked with melodic rockers Talisman and later resurfaced briefly as a member of Van Halen front man David Lee Roth's solo band. George Bernhardt played with the likes of Jeff Scott Soto and Rick Springfield, while drummer Mike Terrana relocated to Germany, where he became one of the most in-demand session players in that country's hard rock/metal scene. Terrana's probably best known for his multi-album stint with German power metallers Rage (who freakin' rule), and he has also appeared on releases by Masterplan, Axel Rudi Pell, Metalium, Savage Circus, Tarja Turunen, and Yngwie Malmsteen, to name just a few.

Condition:
Vinyl: Mint & unplayed in original paper cover.  Album cover: Excellent. Promotional hole in upper right corner & has small crease in one corner, as shown in photos from 30 + years of storage in my home. 
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