BLACK SHEEP - USA

Trouble In The Streets - 1985 - Enigma

Black Sheep image
  
 
Members
Vocals
Texas Boys Choir, Ozz, Solo, The Gypsy Experience, Snew>>WILLIE BASSE [WILBER CORNELIUS RICE JR.]>>Solo, The Gypsy Experience, Snew

Guitar
Walth Anthony – Scotland, Racer X>>Paul Gilbert>>Racer X, Mr. Big, Solo, PintSize, Yellow Matter Custard, G3, Hammer Of The Gods, Cygnus And The Sea Monsters, Amazing Journey - BRIAN CONROY - MARSHALL HARRISON

Bass
Scott Michaels - Ozz, Solo, The Gypsy Experience, Snew>>WILLIE BASSE [WILBER CORNELIUS RICE JR.]>>Solo, The Gypsy Experience, Snew

Drums
Lonnie Silrm - Montrose, Buster Brown, Kingdom Come, Krunk, Wild Horses, Warrant, McAuley Schenker Group, Dio>JAMES KOTTAK>>Scorpions, Krunk, The Foundry, Kingdom Come, Wild Horses, Solo, Blaze Bayley, A New Revenge




History & Biography
Black Sheep was conceived in LA and released one album in the 1980s with the listed line-up. However, the band featured many graduates during its years like Slash and Randy Castillo. 1999 saw the release of an EP on Basse's Rocks Cool Records entitled Sacrifice. Basse was a LA businessman who had also worked with classical and hip hop acts. He formed a new record company with producer Bill Metoyer and former Poison/Stryper, etc. manager Vicky Hamilton in 2004. Willie Basse died of cancer in 2018. The singer was also cutting a new studio album. James Kottak, who was an alcoholic, died in Louisville, Kentucky on January 9th 2024. He was 61. Newer incarnations of Black Sheep kept popping up overtime.


Reviews

Interviews







Black Sheep