Hawk was a glam metal

Glam metal

Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band which formed in 1984.

Hawk once featured lead vocalist Charlie Wayne Morrill, guitarist Doug Marks, bassist Lonnie Miller (a.k.a. Lonnie Vencent), and drummer Glenn Burtis. This line-up recorded a demo in 1985 that was released as Let The Metal Live in 2009. Reportedly, this line-up also performed a few concerts.

Glenn Burtis was soon replaced by Scott Travis

Scott Travis

Scott Travis is a Grammy Award winning American rock musician, best known as the drummer for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest and the American heavy metal band Racer X.-Biography:...

. This line-up performed the Anywhere There's Electricity Tour around Southern California.

Reportedly, after this, Doug Marks quit and was replaced by Marq Torien

Marq Torien

Marq Torien is the lead singer of the hard rock act BulletBoys. He is the only member to have remained with the group since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1988....

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Marq Torien and Lonnie Miller later played in the bands King Kobra

King Kobra

King Kobra is a glam metal group founded by drummer Carmine Appice after his tenure with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984. The band during the time of their first two albums included four relatively unknown musicians: vocalist Mark Free, guitarist David Michael-Philips, guitarist Mick Sweda, and bassist...

 and BulletBoys

BulletBoys

BulletBoys is an American hard rock group formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1987. The group's original lineup was composed of former Ratt guitarist/King Kobra lead vocalist Marq Torien , former King Kobra guitarist Mick Sweda, Lonnie Vencent and Jimmy D'Anda...

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Scott Travis later played in the bands Racer X

Racer X

Racer X is an American heavy metal band formed in 1985 in Los Angeles, California. The group has gone through numerous lineup changes, including a hiatus, with founders guitarist Paul Gilbert and bassist Juan Alderete being the sole constant members.- 1980s :...

, Saints Or Sinners/The Scream

The Scream (band)

The Scream was a Los Angeles-based hard rock band formed in 1989 as Saints Or Sinners. The band originally featured former Angora singer John Corabi and former Racer X members guitarist Bruce Bouillet, bassist Juan Alderete, and drummer Scott Travis. However, Scott Travis quickly left to join Judas...

, Judas Priest

Judas Priest

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...

, Fight

Fight (band)

Fight was an American heavy metal band assembled by Judas Priest frontman, Rob Halford, after his departure from that band in 1992. He took with him from Judas Priest and Racer X drummer Scott Travis, though Travis also continued to drum for Judas Priest...

, Plastic Eddie, and Butter.

A later line-up of the band featured lead vocalist David Fefolt, guitarist and bassist Doug Marks, keyboardists Dave Tolley and Steve Ayola, and drummer Matt Sorum

Matt Sorum

Matthew William Sorum is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses and supergroup Velvet Revolver , which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash .-Early career :Matt Sorum was born Matthew William...

. Matt Sorum is now famous for playing in Guns'N'Roses and Velvet Revolver

Velvet Revolver

Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...

, and has played in a few other bands, including Johnny Crash

Johnny Crash

Johnny Crash was a heavy metal band, formed in 1987. Members originally included former Tokyo Blade singer Vicki James Wright, former Champagne guitarists Christopher Stewart and August Worchell, bassist Andy Rogers, and former Rock City Angels drummer "Punkee" Stephen Adamo.Their sound was likened...

, The Cult

The Cult

The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love...

, and Slash's Snakepit

Slash's Snakepit

Slash's Snakepit were an American rock supergroup from Los Angeles, California, formed by then-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash in 1993. Though often described as a solo or side project, Slash stated that Snakepit was a band, with equal contributions by all members...

. This line-up released a self-titled album on Metal Method Productions in 1986.

Doug Marks is now a somewhat famous guitar instructor and has a series of guitar instructional videos titled Metal Method.

External links

• http://www.metalmethod.com/11-12-news_pg_3.htm Doug Marks' description of these events