SYBIL – Every Parent’s Dream ’86 (The James Ray Remaster 2025) HQ *0dayrox Exclusive*

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It’s not often that we get incoming to promote a record that is 40 years old, but… there’s always room for a first! With that, we recently received an email from a band called SYBIL from the Bay Area, and they were interested in pushing their project… the only catch is, they recorded it 1986!
Maybe they were waiting for Grunge to pass… which is not a bad idea… as the 90s were ugly… especially if you were a glam rock band… and SYBIL definitely falls into the Poison meets Cheap Trick category. Or… if you were part of the underground scene 3-4 decades ago… these guys would have made for a perfect tour package with The Toilet Boys, Queeny Blast Pop, The Zeros and Peppermint Creeps.
Speaking of the old skool… there appears to be a distant Guns N’ Roses / L.A. Guns connection as well.
Retrospect Records released “Every Parent’s Dream” some time ago, but SYBIL was looking for a proper, definitive release of the album and now are presenting “Every Parent’s Dream (The James Ray Remaster 2025)“, featured in exclusive at 0dayrox.
If you are not too freaked out by seeing guys in drag playing dirty punky hard rock with a toilet on the drum riser and blow-up dolls littering the stage… well… you might have found your new favorite band.
Word is, in 1985 they were banned from playing various Bay Area venues for alleged “wardrobe malfunctions“, most likely defined as, they took their clothes off on stage. They were also known for throwing dog food at the audience but we cannot confirm or deny if the dog food was wet or dry!
If you haven’t stopped reading yet… we encourage you to check out SYBIL and the related below.

Some people say that the power-pop genre began with The Raspberries “Go All The Way” back in 1972. It had slammin’ guitars and drums, married to some pretty powerful radio-friendly hooks. It was pop music that didn’t screw around and looked like the bastard child of Led Zep and the New York Dolls.
This vibrant new sub-genre included groups like Grand Funk Railroad, The Sweet, and although some would vehemently (and wrongly) deny it, KISS. Hell, if you actually pick apart songs like “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Department Of Youth,” even Alice Cooper was a member of this arcane club.

Fast forward to San Francisco, 1979.
In the City by the Bay, the ‘60s flower power scene eventually evolved into a virulent ’70 punk movement, which in turn spawned its polar opposite – a post-modern glam resurgence.Except that in this new incarnation, glam borrowed liberally from its punk brethren.
Newbies like Mötley Crüe and Ratt would soon make their own indie debut records, and so did San Francisco’s Head On, which created just one commercial release – a flexi-disc, the kind you find on the back of a cereal box, of their set-opener, “Ready Go!”.

Head On was one of those rare bands that everyone in all the other bands on the scene admired. They had it all. A great look, killer songs, and each guy had that indefinable star quality. Head On’s members would go on to greater glory working with bands like the Sea Hags, Ruby Slippers, Arcade and Guns n’ Roses.
Even Head On’s teenaged guitar roadie, Fernie Rod, would eventually found Jetboy. Head On rightfully scored opening slots on bills with national acts such as Y&T, Cheap Trick and Ted Nugent, and we all knew that if ANYBODY from the L.A. scene was gonna make it, it was gonna be them.

Then one day, at the peak of their prowess and on the brink of getting that elusive record deal… they disappeared.
The reason for their demise: their lead guitarist Frank Wilsey being cherry-picked by a local impresario. But no matter what the reason – a lot of people were crushed, because some fixer snuck onto the track in the dead of night and shot OUR goddamn horse.
But, as in all great rock and roll fables, this was not to be the end.

The creative core of Head On was their sinister rhythm guitarist James Ray, and after Head On he quietly assembled a new group of merry men. But these guys were much meaner, nastier, sexier and greasier than Head On ever was, they mixed junkie-chic and dead-whore make-up with Rocky Horror lingerie. So with a batch of kickass power-pop songs to die for, they tossed their glam-goth hats into the ring.
James called his new band SYBIL.

Sybil quickly landed opening gigs for bands like Lords of the New Church and Specimen, spreading their unholy gospel of mad excess and dirty love throughout the Bay Area. The combination of Ray (Cookie Chunks) on guitar, Roxy on vocals, Pat Pend on drums, Willie Orwonee on guitar, and Syd Tybil on bass proved to be the perfect beast.
This fine collection of miscreants even recorded a stellar indie LP, ‘Every Parent’s Dream’, in 1986, which delivered on every promise that Head On showed us back in ’79 and so much more. However, the album never was released back in the day…

Jump ahead to 2025.
Originally recorded in 1986, Sybil’s sought-after debut album has a new look and sound. ‘Every Parent’s Dream: The James Ray Remaster’ is being issued on Fervor Records in time for Christmas.
As the most outrageously fun band in the mid-1980s San Francisco glammmy hard rock / punk / pop scene, that’s what Sybil delivered at every show. It was a colorful spectacle starring five gorgeous boys wearing trashy ladies’ lingerie and more make-up than their girlfriends. They stumbled over each other, occasionally fell off the stage and threw dog food at the audience.

They also insisted on using aliases like Willie Orwonee, Syd Tybil and Pat Pend. Often overlooked amidst all the chaos, there was actually an engaging power pop sensibility in Sybil’s music — like a sleazy Cheap Trick.
Their self-penned songs like “Too Much Punch for Judy,” “She Said,” “I’ve Been Dreamin’” and “Murder on my Mind” were packed with big hooks and clever wordplay. It’s hardly surprising, as rhythm guitarist James (Cookie Chunks) Ray was previously in Head On, and rumor has it one of the guys left a promising career with pre- Guns N’ Roses Hollywood Rose to join Sybil.
Although there was talk of a highly anticipated Sybil LP (“Watch for the debut album,” announced one advert in 1986), nothing was issued during the group’s lifetime, just a three-song promotional demo tape.

But there was a master tape. Titled ‘Every Parent’s Dream‘, they’d been working on it for ages at Avid Studios in San Mateo.
In 1987 Sybil broke up, and the master tape sat on a shelf collecting dust for two decades before it received a low-key release in 2007 by Retrospect Records. But like all great monsters, it’s back! And a revealing subtitle — ‘Every Parent’s Dream: The James Ray Remaster‘ — highlights a vastly improved sonic wallop!
Now signed to Arizona-based Fervor Records (specialists in new music and rare back catalog reissues), Sybil’s album is being finally released on December 19, 2025.

The original master tape has been trimmed down from nine tracks to eight — their snotty cover of the Stiv Bators / Frank Secich classic “I Wanna Forget You (Just the Way You Are)” was issued previously as a download — however, it’s the improved sound quality that James is really excited about. “The band and the songs always stood out,” he states.
As 0dayrox extra, we added “I Wanna Forget You (Just the Way You Are)” to the track list.

I’m really into sound and how to get it from my guitar to what I listen to music with. For the last ten-plus years, I’ve been developing a process to improve the sound files you purchase from iTunes and other services. I’ve worked literally every day remastering my music library of 1500 songs. I remastered the Sybil album three or four times, but it never sounded right until I tried my latest process on it, and it sounded amazing!” I finally discovered the sound I’d been looking for.” added James.
You’ll just have to imagine the dog food.

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01 – Murder On My Mind (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
02 – She Said (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
03 – I’ve Been Dreamin’ (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
04 – I Need a Gun (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
05 – Too Late (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
06 – She’s A Machine (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
07 – Stop The Show (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
08 – Too Much Punch For Judy (The James Ray Remaster 2025)
0dayrox extra:
06 – I Wanna Forget You (Just the Way You Are)

Michael (Roxy) Marquesen – vocals
James Ray – guitar
Pat Pend – drums
Willie Orwonee – guitar
Syd Tybil – bass

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