Love Fist
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Love Fist is a fictitious spoof hair metal band who exist in the world of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Their inclusion in the game could quite easily be considered a tribute to Spinal Tap, another famous fictitious spoof rock band of the 1980s.
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Band history
Love Fist hails from Scotland. No other details are given regarding the band's origins.
1986
As of 1986, the year Vice City is set in, Love Fist is managed by Kent Paul. The band's lineup is:
At this point, they are quite famous, and have released a number of albums. They are considered "the monsters of rock'n roll excess". Their songs feature wacky, absurd, and mostly dirty lyrics. For example, the lyrics to the chorus of "Fist Fury" are:
- Love Fist fury, we're all gettin' pussy
- With our love rockets shootin' around
- The girls are goin' crazy as we are getting layed
- Shootin' Love Fist goo all around
The band also has a mascot, called Love Beast.
1991
As of 1991, the year San Andreas is set in, Love Fist have all but disappeared. However, their breakup might be recent, as some signs of them still remain. A poster of the band can be seen during a cut-scene, and DJ Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith mentions the band in passing when he asks "hey, whatever happened to Love Fist?" Finally, Jezz Torrent himself can be heard in an advertisement for the Epsilon Cult, crediting the cult for helping him get over his drug problems.
Songs
A number of songs from Love Fist named in the game, notably during a radio interview of Jezz Torrent on KCHAT and in a commercial of Love Fist's tour on V-Rock. The titles are:
- A Broken Heart Can't Be Mended (Just Broken Again)
- Beast Fist
- Burry Me Deep Inside
- Dangerous Bastard
- Dangerous Man, Dead Family
- Down, Down, Down
- Dragon Eyes
- Chin Twister
- Fallen Stars On Shattered Dreams In The Rain
- Fist Till Morning
- Fist Fury
- Four Boys Against Your Face
- Liver Buster
- Stone Cold Prostate
- Take It On The Chin
- The Four Scottish Horsemen Of The Apocalyse
- Zinc Defficiency
Of all the songs, only "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" can be heard on V-Rock.
Albums
Some of Love Fist's albums are mentionned during the interview on KCHAT. They are:
- Dogs On Heat
- Fat Chicks All Day All Night
- Devil's Own Band
- The Number Of The Breasts
Tour
In 1986, Love Fist is on a world tour "that has been banned throughout the world", called the Steel Heart Stone-Cold Prostate Tour. Vice City is the only stop of this tour mentioned on the radio commercial. During the game, Tommy Vercetti has to help organize the group's appearance in Vice City, notably by providing the band members with drugs, protecting them from a deranged stalker, and hiring a biker gang to work as security for the show (a reference to The Rolling Stones' show at Altamont, where the Hells Angels were hired as security, with disastrous results). After the completion of these missions, Tommy is backstage with the band at the show, and one band member reveals they don't actually play during the show – they use a recording of their performance and lip sync.
Credit
In reality, the songs were done by the following people:
Musicians:
Writers:
The speaking voices of the characters were done by:
- Kevin McKidd (Jezz Torrent)
- Paul Mackie (Percy)
- John Ritchie (Dick)
- Mark Hanlon (Willy)
