There are tribute bands for a wide variety of '80s hair metal bands, but it appears that a Texas tribute group named Pyromania have taken the cake recently. The group, which takes its name from a Def Leppard album, is obviously a Def Leppard tribute act. But they have decided to one-up (or one-arm) their competition but placing an ad looking for a drummer.
Now an advert for a drummer isn't out of the ordinary, but the latest ad Pyromania put out requires the drummer to be one-armed. This is of course to ape Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen (pictured above) who lost his left arm in a car accident some time ago but has since revamped his drum kit to make his legs do the work that his arm once did. There's no word on whether Pyromania require the same limb to be gone or will hack the appendage off themselves with a literal axe.
Earlier today, metal website Blabbermouth.net announced that they indeed found a one-arm bandit for the group, putting a voice message on their phone number, adding that "the position has been filled."
But the story hasn't ended there. It seems a California tribute act, which also calls itself Pyromania, has posted on their website bad-mouthing and distancing themselves from the Texas-based Pyromania, stating it was in bad taste that such an audition was posted in the first place.
It's still unknown why a band decided that NOW was the time to find a one-armed drummer a la Rick Allen. The accident took place in 1984. I'm not sure if the members of Texas-based Pyromania have a computer or access to the internet, but they might have realized that this was not a news event nearly 27 years after the fact.
What could possibly be next? A Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute act which requests that two or three members are killed in a plane crash? A Great White tribute act which requests that hundreds of fans die in a horrific fire as a means of paying tribute?
Who's with me here? Raise your....oh, nevermind....
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