Slash Puppet (Official)

SLASH PUPPET is an award winning and internationally renowned Canadian hard rock and glam heavy metal band that made some great music before the advent of the grunge invasion. Formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Mif (vocals), Franklin Wyles (drums), Frank Bartoletti (guitar), Lou Garscadden (guitar) and Pete Dove (bass), Slash Puppet would play their debut show on Thursday, October 19, 1989 at the now legendary Rock 'N' Roll Heaven in Toronto. In one short year they managed to win the award for Best Club Act at the 1990 Toronto Music Awards and are quickly picked up by Rush management company SRO and signed to a production deal with Sony/Anthem. The band released their first video for the song Slow Down to Much Music in mid-1991 which helped sell over 2500 copies of their independent cassette release entitled The Demo. A year later they were in the studio recording a 6-song EP. During recording of the EP, Slash Puppet went through some changes by being released of their management and label contracts and bringing in new bassist Dave Carreiro. With a second video for When The Whip Comes Down on TV rotation to promote the new self-titled album in 1993, the band would win the award for Best Independent Video at the Los Angeles Area Music Awards. They also had a couple of songs included on the soundtrack of the Cannon Film movie Chain Of Command that same year. In late 1994 the band replaced Garscadden with former Smashed Gladys axe slinger Marcel Lafleur and embarked on a short Canadian tour. In early 1995 the band returned home from another successful tour to finish out their final 5 shows in Toronto and southern Ontario with a bitter sweet taste as lead vocalist Mif sensing a musical climate change announces that he is leaving the band to pursue other interests including an acting career, due primarily to the grunge invasion and the subsequent decline of hard rock and heavy metal. A perennial fan favorite over the years, Slash Puppet's legacy would not only live on locally and nationally, but it would prove to endure internationally as well. In 2007 a re-issue of the band's critically acclaimed 1989 independent cassette only release (The Demo), entitled No Strings Attached was released through Sun City Records (Australia) and received accolades on several hard rock and heavy metal fanzines worldwide, making it to #7 on the Sleaze Roxx Webzine Top 10 Best releases of 2007. Currently, Slash Puppet is enjoying a resurgence of popularity as the re-emergence of hard rock and heavy metal has garnered them a cult like status among fans the world over. Their CD's sell for hundreds of dollars and have become highly sought after items as avid music collectors and fans alike continue to seek out the band and their music. So highly respected are their songs, they have become the standard by which other releases in there genre are measured in many online musical circles. On October 19, 2021, on the 32ND ANNIVERSARY of their inaugural show MIF Entertainment announced that "after many months of unfortunate setbacks and delays" the band's long awaited compilation CD entitled Studs & Gems was being released. A LIMITED EDITION CD it features a compilation of the band's very best songs including a never before released extended live version of the bombastic song Stranger Danger.

Toronto, ON