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I liked them much better with the singer after Davidson, forget his name, but the third album “Bite Down Hard” was my favorite.
Yeah I actually had made a note for myself to watch that documentary. Have to keep collecting that useful knowledge
I listen to Psycho Cafe every 5 years or so still, and still like it. I never even listened to any of their other albums.
Always loved this song. Never heard a single other note from the band and don't know a darn thing about them.
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You read my mind. When thinking of my American provincialism vs. Germanic continentalism, I thought of Udo in all his glory. He's still putting out songs, believe it or not. Under U.D.O.
Another 80s band that I still listen to often. Love the guitar sound and the guitar work. There are some epic guitar solos in a few Accept tunes.
Vain was a perfect hair band. Unfortunately, they showed up to the scene about 3 years late. No Respect is a killer album that blows away most, if not all albums, by bigger bands such as Crue and Warrant.
Crüe's Too Fast For Love might dwarf Vain's debut, but other than that, there really weren't any albums better than No Respect by the Crüe. You're also right, but I'd add that Warrant doesn't even compare to Vain. They're living in two separate universes, those two.
Oh man, you just hit a sweet spot. Love this man, love his guitar work, his writing, arrangements, everything.Speaking of Sammy hey what do you know
74. Joe Satriani
Anything I say here now about the Satch, I would just be regurgitating from the innerwebs, then again I guess that's mostly what I'm doing anyway... ALL I KNOW... Surfing With The Alien ruled so here
https://youtu.be/sm0j33oxav4
Tony Franklin, still out there and getting after it. Was a big Led Zep fan so big time fan of the Firm and eventually Blue Murder. Not a fan per se but bought the cassette just by association.
Really liked this band, and I'll just file this as a song probably only I liked, but this album and tune were in heavy personal airplay for me for at least a year after Dancing On Coals came out.
I figured from the Sykes reference earlier that Blue Murder was coming. What a terrific album by an uber-talented band.
Favorite Britny Fox tune. I was a Circus, Hit Parader and Metal Edge reader. My parents would bring me to the grocery store, I would head to the magazine rack and read those magazines while they shopped. Can't remember how it happened, but when I bought this cassette based on reviews in one of those mags, I thought the band was a chick named Britney.
In retrospect, Balls to the Wall is probably the most overtly gay thing I ever listened to as a kid, and of course I was clueless. Pretty sure I thought this was about a serial killer offing people in a park as opposed to, you know, what it was REALLY about.
Pretty sure Head Over Heels was about coming across one of those "get togethers" in a public park, where you could hook up with randos. "Spurting in the dark" only has so many meanings...
OK, I guess so.. there has been plenty more hammy crap..
I saw Mr Big open for Rush back in the day and even though I remember thinking at that time "really, Rush doesn't have enough material to play for 3 hours on their own" at the time. Having said that, I thought Mr. Big was pretty damned good. Paul Gilbert and Billy Sheehan crushed it. The bass work on a lot of their songs (I only recall their first album) was really, really good.
Wow, a band I not only know but have seen live twice - both times opening for Rush. I appreciated the technical wizardry if not the songs, then Too Be With You happened a few years later and I couldn't believe it was the same band. For songs in that vein, I actually preferred Extreme.
Huge fan. I was the glam rock aficionado at the house in college. I lived in the bargain bin at the music store and always bringing home new music. Found these guys by accident and they became a regular in the rotation. Grew up in Akron, OH and we had probably 4 really solid, new music radio stations that crushed in the 80's. Back when WMMS was still decent to listen to. On top of that everybody in the house worked concert security so we were always at shows and saw pretty much all these retreads at one point or another.
Nice pull! Wasn’t a huge fan, but definitely had some hits.
I can confirm that they were not ever featured in Hit Parader.
