Steve lips kudlow biography sampler

A bridge between the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and emergent speed metal, Canada’s Anvil, led by the singer/guitarist/songwriter Steve “Lips” Kudlow, was – for a brief bit of the early 1980s – a hot commodity.

But a long absence, spurred on by legal troubles, left the band in commercial limbo: they spent years slogging along the minor-league metal circuit.

Since former Anvil roadie, early Bush drummer and Ginger-Spice-impregnator Sacha Gervasi, released his love letter of a documentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2008), the band is finally getting its due, as evidenced by a gig at C-Club on July 2 (with Girlschool opening!) and a DJ set at White Trash Fast Food on July 1.

What caused the legal conflict that hampered your career?

Pointless to answer this: shoulda woulda coulda. I live with no regrets.

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Everything ended up the way it was meant to. Unfortunately, we stopped recording between the years of 1983 to 1987 – brutal reality. We had no management, no possibilitie