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HEAVEN METAL

Heaven’s Mitch Perry and Alan Fryer are hanging out at the Hard Rock Cafe giving the waitress April (as in six months ago or so from now) a hard time...or maybe she’s giving them a hard time. “I’ll have a BLT,” says Perry, former guitarist for Talas, now lead guitarist for Heaven, “with melted swiss cheese and no L and T.”

March 2, 1986
Anne Leighton

HEAVEN METAL

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Anne Leighton

Heaven’s Mitch Perry and Alan Fryer are hanging out at the Hard Rock Cafe giving the waitress April (as in six months ago or so from now) a hard time...or maybe she’s giving them a hard time.

“I’ll have a BLT,” says Perry, former guitarist for Talas, now lead guitarist for Heaven, “with melted swiss cheese and no L and T.”

“You want a grilled cheese sandwich,” she says.

“No, I want a grilled bacon sandwich with cheese.”

“They don’t do that.”

“How ’bout putting extra bacon on it?”

Resistance has always been commonplace for this band. Four years ago they landed on American soil, giving us the first taste of Heaven. Columbia released their first two records—and they promptly did nothing. Two years ago they toured Australia, and four of the five members decided to stay down under to get married or raise koala bears. This left lead vocalist Alan Fryer without a band. “I suppose everyone achieved what they were happy with,” says he. “I still have to break. I wasn’t going to sit on my ass there.

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