Bob Mayo

Bob Mayo is not the Bob Mayo who played with Peter Frampton. But he was in Boston heavy metal band Wargasm from 1985 to 1995. They released three albums and one EP (all of which are now sadly out-of-print), had a video on MTV, toured Europe three times and select parts of the US twice, and had a great time doing it. He also recorded two albums under the fictitious band name Robot Monster Army.

Articles by: Bob Mayo

Peter Green in 1968

Peter Green, Judas Priest, and the acid-induced nightmare of the Green Manalishi

By Bob Mayo published

How Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green wrote The the Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) and accidentally created one of heavy metal's building blocks

Hawkwind in December 1972

A tale of domestic terrorism, a BBC ban, and the end of Hawkwind's pop career

By Bob Mayo published

Hawkwind's single Urban Guerrilla was meant to propel them into the charts. Then the Angry Brigade showed up

Ian Gillan in 1982

Was Gillan's Magic a hidden concept album about the end of the band?

By Bob Mayo published

Gillan's final album was their most musically daring... and it may have contained a series of veiled messages about the band's future

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath: a listener's guide to their secret songs

By Bob Mayo published

Revealed: the secret Black Sabbath songs hidden within other Black Sabbath songs