Hello Friends,
Last Glen Campbell post for this week, friends!
Once again, we're repeatedly amazed at what a great guitarist this guy was!
Play it, Glen!
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Glen Campbell - "Gentle on My Mind"
Still mourning the loss of Mr. Glen Campbell this week friends.
In addition to that buttery baritone, people often overlook the fact that Campbell could absolutely shred on the guitar.
Check out the solo on this live performance of "Gentle on My Mind"... wowsa!
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
RIP Glen Campbell!
Aww man! Even though we pretty much saw this one coming, it doesn't make us feel any better about it!
Lost one of the greats today!
Here's a great tribute courtesy of RollingStone.com.
Glen Campbell, the
indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including "Rhinestone Cowboy,"
"Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," died
Tuesday. He was 81. A rep for Universal Music Group, Campbell's record label,
confirmed the singer's death to Rolling Stone. During a career
that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45 million records. In 1968, one
of his biggest years, he outsold the Beatles.
"It is with the
heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father,
grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, at the
age of 81, following his long and courageous battle with Alzheimer's
disease," the singer's family said in a statement.
Campbell was a rare
breed in the music business, with various careers as a top-level studio
guitarist, chart-topping singer and hit television host. His late-career battle
with Alzheimer's - he allowed a documentary crew to film on his final tour for
the 2014 award-winning I'll Be Me - made him a public face for
the disease, a role President Bill Clinton suggested would one day be
remembered even more than his music.
"He had that
beautiful tenor with a crystal-clear guitar sound, playing lines that were so
inventive," Tom Petty told Rolling Stone during
a 2011 profile of Campbell. "It moved me."
Campbell was born in
1936 in Billstown, Arkansas, the seventh son in a sharecropping family of 12
kids. "We used to watch TV by candlelight," Campbell told Rolling Stone in 2011.
In his youth, Campbell
started playing guitar and became obsessed with jazz guitarist Django
Reinhardt. He dropped out of school when he was 14 and moved to Wyoming with an
uncle who was a musician, playing gigs together at rural bars. He soon moved to
Los Angeles and by 1962 had solidified a spot in the Wrecking Crew, a group of
session pros. In 1963 alone, he appeared on 586 cuts and countless more
throughout the decade, including the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man,"
Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas,” Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried"
and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling."
"I’d have to pick
cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.," he said.
"I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat ... It
makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not."
Fellow Wrecking Crew member Leon Russell called Campbell "the best guitar
player I'd heard before or since. Occasionally we'd play with 50- or 60-piece
orchestras. His deal was he didn't read [music], so they would play it one time
for him, and he had it."
In late 1964, Brian
Wilson had a nervous breakdown on tour with the Beach Boys, and the band called
on Campbell to replace him on bass and high harmonies. "I took Brian's
place and that was just ... I was in heaven then – hog heaven!" Campbell
remarked.
"He fit right
in," said Wilson. "His main forte is he's a great guitar player, but
he's even a better singer than all the rest. He could sing higher than I
could!" Wilson even wrote an early song, "I Guess I'm Dumb," for
Campbell. His first hit was a cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's antiwar song
"Universal Soldier." But Campbell's own political views tended to be
conservative. "The people who are advocating burning draft cards should be
hung," he said in 1965.
Campbell had his first
major hit in 1967, with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by
Jimmy Webb, an L.A. kid with a knack for intricate ballads. "Glen's vocal
power and technique was the perfect vehicle for these, in a way, very
sentimental and romantic songs. And I think that you know we made some records
that were very nearly perfect. 'Wichita Lineman' is a very near perfect pop
record," Webb said. "I think in the process that Glen was a prime
mover in the whole creation of the country crossover phenomenon that made the
careers of Kenny Rogers and some other... many other artists possible."
The tune kicked off a
working relationship that included the haunting Vietnam War ballad "Galveston," the
tender "Gentle on My Mind" and
"Wichita Lineman," Campbell's first Top 10 hit. With swelling
orchestral arrangements and slick production, the songs weren't exactly
considered hip in the Sixties. "They felt packaged for a
middle-of-the-road, older crowd," said Tom Petty. "At first, you go,
'Oh, I don't know about that.' But it was such pure, good stuff that you had to
put off your prejudices and learn to love it. It taught me not to have those prejudices."
In 1968, Campbell won Grammys in both the country and pop categories,
including Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male, Best
Country & Western Song and Best Vocal Performance, Male.
In the summer of 1968,
Campbell guest hosted the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The successful appearance led to his own
variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which he hosted from 1969 until 1972. Artists like Ray Charles,
Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt performed on the show, which also gave a national
platform to rising country stars like Willie Nelson.
"He exposed us to a big part of the world that would have never had the
chance to see us," said Nelson. "He's always been a big help to
me."
A young Steve Martin was
a writer on the show. “He just went along with it," Martin said in I'll
Be Me. "He was completely game, and completely fun, and had kind of a
down-home sense of humor. It was just an incredible treat for us young writers
to be introduced to talent at that level at such a young age.”
Campbell's boyish
charisma led John Wayne to cast him in a co-starring role in 1969's True Grit. He later said that his acting was so
amateurish that he "gave John Wayne that push to win the Academy
Award." But the good times didn't last: His show was canceled; his first
feature film, 1970's Norwood, flopped; and the hits
dried up for a few years. Then, Campbell scored a smash with 1975's
"Rhinestone Cowboy." It began a comeback that included hits
"Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.") and "Southern
Nights." The hits slowed down again in the Eighties; in the Nineties he
opened up the Glen Campbell Goodtime Theatre in Branson, Missouri.
Campbell was married
four times, and has five sons and three daughters. In the early 1980s, while
battling alcoholism and cocaine addiction, Campbell made tabloid headlines with
a 15-month, high-profile relationship with country singer Tanya Tucker,
who was 22 years his junior. In 1981, he became a born-again Christian and in
1982 he married Kimberly Woollen, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, who
helped Campbell clean up his life.
In 2003, he was arrested
for a hit-and-run, an incident that ended with him allegedly kneeing a police
officer in the thigh right before he was released. Campbell pleaded guilty to
extreme drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, and spent 10 days
in jail.
In 2011, Campbell, then
75, revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In June of that
year, he announced he was retiring from music due to the disease. He released
his final album of original music Ghost on the Canvas(with guests Billy Corgan, Paul
Westerberg and Jakob Dylan) and embarked on a farewell tour with three of his
children backing him.
He played 151 shows on
his final tour. "The audience being there somehow triggers his ability to
access that other part of his brain," U2's The Edge said. "It's
incredible."
"This tour of his
just says, 'Here I am, here’s what’s happening to me,'" Clinton said.
"'I'm going out with a smile on my face and a song in my heart so you will
know,' - and that may be more of his enduring legacy than all the music he
made."
He spent his final years
in an assisted living facility. His friends and children would often spend days
with him playing him his old songs. "Music utilizes all of the brain, not just
one little section of it," Woollen noted. "Everything's firing all at
once. It's really stimulating and probably helped him plateau and not progress
as quickly as he might have. I could tell from his spirits that it was good for
him. It made him really happy. It was good for the whole family to continue
touring and to just keep living our lives. And we hope it encourages other
people to do the same."
Earlier this year, Campbell
released Adiós, his final studio album, a collection of mainly
cover songs by Bob Dylan, Harry Nilsson and others, recorded after his Goodbye
Tour. "Almost every time he sat down with a guitar, these were his go-to
songs," daughter Ashley Campbell told Rolling Stone Country.
"They were very much engrained in his memory – like, so far back that they
were one of the last things he started losing."
"He had a beautiful
singing voice," Bruce Springsteen said in 2014. "Pure tone. And it
was never fancy. Wasn't singing all over the place. It was simple on the
surface but there was a world of emotion underneath."
Monday, July 31, 2017
Genesis - "Fly on a Windshield / The Carpet Crawlers" Live (1976)
Hello Friends,
Here's a live clip of a Gabriel-less Genesis performing a couple of songs from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
By 1976, Phil Collins took over lead vocal duties for the band while still playing drums.
On this tour, they recruited none other than Bill Bruford as a second drummer to back up Collins when he stepped out from behind the set.
They're definitely NOT the same band without Gabriel, but (a) they were still REALLY good, (b) there's not a lot of good quality footage of the band with Gabriel on TLLDOB tour and (c) Peter Gabriel really never did that many Genesis songs on any of his solo tours!
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Prog Rock Saturday: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" (1974) - Atco
Hello Friends,
We've got a true prog-rock classic on the turntable tonight.
Genesis's 1974 double LP of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway arguably captures one of the great bands of the seventies at their absolute apex.
The process of writing, recording and touring for the record would nearly break the band and, in fact, would cause frontman Peter Gabriel to depart once the "Lamb" tour commenced. Out, Angel, Out.
This is a crazed, bombastic, overly-ambitious affair that on paper probably shouldn't work at all. However, it was an important album of the era and holds up today as a classic. Actually, we think this album even gets better listening to it over the years. Revisiting it from time-to-time is like checking in on an old friend: familiar, yet distant.
Every time we listen to this record, we hear something we've never realized was there before!
There's a storyline going through the album, which to be honest, we don't really understand or care too much about. Something about a Puerto Rican hoodlum, Rael, who while spray painting graffiti on some building in downtown New York stops and witnesses a literal lamb lying down in the middle of Broadway. Some sort of portal opens up and Rael ends up in some underground/alternate world trying to save his brother, John. Most of the songs vaguely describe the events, creatures and characters witnesses during Rael's "descent" and all winds up good(?) when Rael finally saves his brother from drowning and realizes that, the whole time, he and his brother were the same person. Upon this sudden realization, Rael/John's spirit/consciousness melts away and he becomes part of his surroundings.
Definitely weird. Whitman-esque. Lynchian to boot. And there's more than a few hints that it might be Gabriel trying to work out some of his one schizophrenic tendencies.
We try not to get too bogged down in the specifics of the concept. The star of the record is without a doubt Gabriel's vocals.
As with most of Gabriel-era Genesis, he can simultaneously emote whimsy, confidence, intelligence, slyness, cleverness, while all the time sounding somehow extremely vulnerable, human and unsure. Like Ziggy Stardust (or a Replicant), he's like an alien to this world that appears to be more human than human. Its like he's in on some mastermind "in joke" that we're all struggling to understand, but the twist is that he's as clueless and ignorant as the rest of us!
He's a Messiah & Everyman. A prophet & popstar. A headbanger and a folk singer.
The music is nothing to sneer at either. Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett provide Gabriel with an equally as weird, bombastic and ambitious canvas to work with musically. (Even Brian Eno makes an appearance with some vocal treatments!) Throughout the 22 songs, the band achieves a near perfect balance between the soft & sublime and the over-the-top, hard-edged cacophony.
For all its overt weirdness and avant-garde concepts, there's actually a good number of songs that you can really pound your fists to. The opening title track, "Cuckoo Cocoon", "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" & "Carpet Crawlers" could all have been songs on Cheap Trick, Wire or Guided by Voices records. "Counting Out Time" is one of the power poppiest songs of the mid-70's.
The album's momentous closing track, "It", teeters very closely to a dance-disco track but actually wouldn't sound entirely out of place on a later period Flaming Lips record.
Like any great, important piece of music (or work of art) those who create it do so and leave it up to us, the audience, the fans, to make heads or tails of things. They provide an outline, a road map, but the themes and lessons are up for personal interpretation. Is this a parable of a man trying to navigate his way through the music industry? Is it about a struggle with drug-addiction? A religious experience? An ode to America, more specifically, New York City in the 1970's? Is it ultimately a tale about sexual frustration? Schizophrenia? Madness? Is it a lot of stream-of-consciousness nonsense? A combination of all of these things?
(Personally, I always sort of pictured this punk kid doing some graffiti art when he's literally distracted by a small lamb crossing busy Broadway. Mesmerized, and thinking he's imagining it, he goes to approach the lying lamb street and BOOM he's run over by a passing taxi! The rest of the album is the character's spiritual journey through Hades, Heaven or wherever.)
Whatever the consensus, at the end of the day, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is a rock & roll record. Sure, it appears to be something that's much bigger than the sum of its parts, but its the dozens of amazing hooks throughout the record that keep us coming back for more and more!
'Cos its only knock & knowall, but I like it...
RATING: 5 carpet crawlers heed their callers out of 5
We've got a true prog-rock classic on the turntable tonight.
Genesis's 1974 double LP of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway arguably captures one of the great bands of the seventies at their absolute apex.
The process of writing, recording and touring for the record would nearly break the band and, in fact, would cause frontman Peter Gabriel to depart once the "Lamb" tour commenced. Out, Angel, Out.
This is a crazed, bombastic, overly-ambitious affair that on paper probably shouldn't work at all. However, it was an important album of the era and holds up today as a classic. Actually, we think this album even gets better listening to it over the years. Revisiting it from time-to-time is like checking in on an old friend: familiar, yet distant.
Every time we listen to this record, we hear something we've never realized was there before!
There's a storyline going through the album, which to be honest, we don't really understand or care too much about. Something about a Puerto Rican hoodlum, Rael, who while spray painting graffiti on some building in downtown New York stops and witnesses a literal lamb lying down in the middle of Broadway. Some sort of portal opens up and Rael ends up in some underground/alternate world trying to save his brother, John. Most of the songs vaguely describe the events, creatures and characters witnesses during Rael's "descent" and all winds up good(?) when Rael finally saves his brother from drowning and realizes that, the whole time, he and his brother were the same person. Upon this sudden realization, Rael/John's spirit/consciousness melts away and he becomes part of his surroundings.
Definitely weird. Whitman-esque. Lynchian to boot. And there's more than a few hints that it might be Gabriel trying to work out some of his one schizophrenic tendencies.
We try not to get too bogged down in the specifics of the concept. The star of the record is without a doubt Gabriel's vocals.
As with most of Gabriel-era Genesis, he can simultaneously emote whimsy, confidence, intelligence, slyness, cleverness, while all the time sounding somehow extremely vulnerable, human and unsure. Like Ziggy Stardust (or a Replicant), he's like an alien to this world that appears to be more human than human. Its like he's in on some mastermind "in joke" that we're all struggling to understand, but the twist is that he's as clueless and ignorant as the rest of us!
He's a Messiah & Everyman. A prophet & popstar. A headbanger and a folk singer.
The music is nothing to sneer at either. Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett provide Gabriel with an equally as weird, bombastic and ambitious canvas to work with musically. (Even Brian Eno makes an appearance with some vocal treatments!) Throughout the 22 songs, the band achieves a near perfect balance between the soft & sublime and the over-the-top, hard-edged cacophony.
For all its overt weirdness and avant-garde concepts, there's actually a good number of songs that you can really pound your fists to. The opening title track, "Cuckoo Cocoon", "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" & "Carpet Crawlers" could all have been songs on Cheap Trick, Wire or Guided by Voices records. "Counting Out Time" is one of the power poppiest songs of the mid-70's.
The album's momentous closing track, "It", teeters very closely to a dance-disco track but actually wouldn't sound entirely out of place on a later period Flaming Lips record.
Like any great, important piece of music (or work of art) those who create it do so and leave it up to us, the audience, the fans, to make heads or tails of things. They provide an outline, a road map, but the themes and lessons are up for personal interpretation. Is this a parable of a man trying to navigate his way through the music industry? Is it about a struggle with drug-addiction? A religious experience? An ode to America, more specifically, New York City in the 1970's? Is it ultimately a tale about sexual frustration? Schizophrenia? Madness? Is it a lot of stream-of-consciousness nonsense? A combination of all of these things?
(Personally, I always sort of pictured this punk kid doing some graffiti art when he's literally distracted by a small lamb crossing busy Broadway. Mesmerized, and thinking he's imagining it, he goes to approach the lying lamb street and BOOM he's run over by a passing taxi! The rest of the album is the character's spiritual journey through Hades, Heaven or wherever.)
Whatever the consensus, at the end of the day, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is a rock & roll record. Sure, it appears to be something that's much bigger than the sum of its parts, but its the dozens of amazing hooks throughout the record that keep us coming back for more and more!
'Cos its only knock & knowall, but I like it...
RATING: 5 carpet crawlers heed their callers out of 5
Monday, July 24, 2017
Three Dog Night - "Liar" (1970)
Still holds up.
Pretty amazing song featuring Danny Hutton on lead vocals.
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Naturally...
Three Dog Night - "Naturally" (1970) - Dunhill
Hello Friends,
Naturally is Three Dog Night's fifth record. Not a great record, but certainly not terrible.
For the most part definitely sounds dated and, at its worst, sounds like a bunch of white guys trying to sound soulful.
Except for the side one instrumental, "Fire Eater" the album is comprised completely of cover songs. (Actually, we believe all of this band's hits were either cover songs or written by non-band members. The band became a sort of proving grounds for lots of burgeoning songwriters of the era-- including Bernie Taupin, Leo Sayer, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams, Laura Nyro, etc.)
The Hoyt Axton-penned, "Joy to the World" was obviously the big hit from this record, but our album winner is without a doubt their take on the Russ Ballard song, "Liar"-- a rollicking, bad ass, sort of sleazy early 70's anthem.
This song is amazing and heads-and-shoulders beyond anything else on the LP. (With covers of Spooky Tooth's "I've Got Enough Heartache" and Free's creepy "I'll Be Creeping" a distant second and third.)
This song is amazing and heads-and-shoulders beyond anything else on the LP. (With covers of Spooky Tooth's "I've Got Enough Heartache" and Free's creepy "I'll Be Creeping" a distant second and third.)
And yes, friends, that's the same Russ Ballard who wrote the songs "New York Groove" & "God Gave Rock & Roll To You"!
Fun Fact: Hey kids, a three-dog night is an expression that originated in the Australian outback referring the to the temperature at night. A one dog night is cool. A two dog night is cold. A three dog night is fucking freezing and you will therefore need three dogs to sleep in the tent with you. Crikey!
RATING: 3.5 fishes in the deep blue see out of 5
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Roger Waters - "Wait for Her" (2017)
Hello Friends,
Sure ol' Rog still seems like a huge prick, but his newest record, "Is This The Life We Really Want" seems to be pretty darned good!
Spoiler Alert: He doesn't seem to be a fan of Donald Trump. Yeesh!
Enjoy!
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Roger Miller - "Oo-De-Lally" (1973)
Feeling nostalgic on this Summer afternoon.
Listen to this song enough times, friends, and its bound to drive you nuts.
Kind of like Mairzy Doats.
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Linda Ronstadt - "Willin" (1977)
Happy Friday Friends,
Here's Linda Ronstadt covering one of our favorite Lowell George/Little Feat tunes, "Willin'"
Enjoy!
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Simple Dreams
Linda Ronstadt - "Simple Dreams" (1977) - Asylum Records
Hello Friends,
Simple Dreams is a pretty good name for this, Linda Ronstadt's eighth record, because we fell asleep three times while listening to it!
Actually, we're being kind of hard on the record, as it was probably the bottle of bourbon we just polished off that made us so tired, but its definitely a mellow 70's affair falling somewhere between saccharine soft rock and very middle-of-the-road country rock.
This is music for white folks, friends.
Things get started with her take on Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy", which along with her Roy Orbison-cover of "Blue Bayou" were two huge hits for her. There's also a hot white girl take on the Rolling Stones' classic, "Tumbling Dice", and a really nice rootsy country song "I Never Will Marry" which features Dolly Parton on background vocals.
By far the album's highlights are the two Warren Zevon covers, "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and the junkie love song, "Carmelita". The latter is no G.G. Allin, but she does a solid version.
Its worth mentioning that this album was the top-selling album of Ronstadt's career. It also has the unique distinction of being the record that unseated Fleetwood Mac's massive success, "Rumours" from the top of the charts.
RATING: 3.5 strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town out of 5
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Night Ranger - "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" (Live) (1983)
Because sometimes you're just in a Night Ranger sort of mood.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Prog Rock Saturday: Szintetizátor-Varázs
Mihaly Tamas - "Szintetizátor-Varázs" (1983) - Start
Hello barátok,
Hungarian synth wizard, Mihaly Tamas, goes full Clockwork Orange on this Import LP from 1983. (Thanks Zsolti!)
Side One is a selection of pieces by Liszt and Side Two is dedicated to pieces by Wagner.
Like a cross between Wendy Carlos & Giorgio Moroder, its proggy and weird with hints of pop and disco. A very fun listen though probably not the best record to put on if you're trying to impress the ladies on a dark & stormy Saturday night. (my bad!)
Not much is known about Mihaly here in the States (we do know he was in an early 80's Hungarian new wave band called "Omega"), but we'd definitely be down to hear some more of his stuff especially if he's done any soundtrack work.
RATING: 4 disappointing sets of blue balls on a Saturday night out of 5
Side One is a selection of pieces by Liszt and Side Two is dedicated to pieces by Wagner.
Like a cross between Wendy Carlos & Giorgio Moroder, its proggy and weird with hints of pop and disco. A very fun listen though probably not the best record to put on if you're trying to impress the ladies on a dark & stormy Saturday night. (my bad!)
Not much is known about Mihaly here in the States (we do know he was in an early 80's Hungarian new wave band called "Omega"), but we'd definitely be down to hear some more of his stuff especially if he's done any soundtrack work.
RATING: 4 disappointing sets of blue balls on a Saturday night out of 5
Friday, July 7, 2017
Marmalade - "Reflections of my Life" (1969)
Happy Friday Friends!
Rainy & mucky today! Here's a pretty depressing song to end your work week on!
From Glasgow's psychedelic-pop masters, The Marmalade.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Right in the Nuts
Aerosmith - "Night in the Ruts" (1979) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
An oft-overlooked Aerosmith record from '79 when the band was strung out on pretty much anything and everything. Definitely not as coked-out sounding as their 1977 album, Draw the Line, but definitely not capturing a band at the height of their rock & roll powers. The band basically fell apart in the middle of recording Night in the Ruts with their next LP, A Rock and A Hard Place, missing both Joe Perry and Brad Whitford.
That being said, Ruts isn't all that bad. In fact, it has a handful gems that could have been Aerosmith greatest hits, including the hard-rocking opening track, the autobiographical "No Surprize", and the closing track, "Mia"-- a haunting ballad not too far removed from the great "Seasons of Wither" from 1974's Get Your Wings. "Three Mile Smile" and "Chiquita" are pretty great rockers too. Not big fans of the album's lone single, "Remember (Walking In the Sand)" or even their cover of an obscure Yardbyrds' tune, "Think About It".
Musically, the album holds up pretty well, its just that for the most part a lot of the songs sound as if they're being mailed in. (This is also the first album since their debut record without longtime producer, Jack Douglas, so there's that to consider as well.)
We like this record because it does a good job of capturing one of the great acts of the sleazy 70's coming apart at the seams and who doesn't love a good trainwreck? Still I'd take average-sounding late 70's Aerosmith over anything they've done in the decades to follow. And you can quote me on that*!
RATING: 3.5 Coney Island Whitefish out of 5
(* Please don't quote me on that!)
An oft-overlooked Aerosmith record from '79 when the band was strung out on pretty much anything and everything. Definitely not as coked-out sounding as their 1977 album, Draw the Line, but definitely not capturing a band at the height of their rock & roll powers. The band basically fell apart in the middle of recording Night in the Ruts with their next LP, A Rock and A Hard Place, missing both Joe Perry and Brad Whitford.
That being said, Ruts isn't all that bad. In fact, it has a handful gems that could have been Aerosmith greatest hits, including the hard-rocking opening track, the autobiographical "No Surprize", and the closing track, "Mia"-- a haunting ballad not too far removed from the great "Seasons of Wither" from 1974's Get Your Wings. "Three Mile Smile" and "Chiquita" are pretty great rockers too. Not big fans of the album's lone single, "Remember (Walking In the Sand)" or even their cover of an obscure Yardbyrds' tune, "Think About It".
Musically, the album holds up pretty well, its just that for the most part a lot of the songs sound as if they're being mailed in. (This is also the first album since their debut record without longtime producer, Jack Douglas, so there's that to consider as well.)
We like this record because it does a good job of capturing one of the great acts of the sleazy 70's coming apart at the seams and who doesn't love a good trainwreck? Still I'd take average-sounding late 70's Aerosmith over anything they've done in the decades to follow. And you can quote me on that*!
RATING: 3.5 Coney Island Whitefish out of 5
(* Please don't quote me on that!)
Friday, June 30, 2017
Old 97's - “Good With God” (2017)
Happy Friday!
We're kicking off this July 4th (long) weekend with some cool new music by a criminally underrated band, The Old 97's.
Jeez... this is what we wish Wilco still sounded like!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Tony Carey - "The First Day Of Summer" (1984)
Holy shit friends!
If this is any indication, its gonna be a great summer!
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Erroll Garner Trio - "Just One of Those Things" (1964)
Hello Friends,
Here's everyone's favorite groaning pianist ripping through a version of Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things" like nobody's business.
Not bad for a guy who never took a lesson or could read a lick of music.
Fun Fact: Garner was The Tonight Show's Johnny Carson's favorite musician!
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Concert by the Sea
Erroll Garner - "Concert by the Sea" (1956) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
All-time classic Jazz LP on the turntable tonight.
Erroll Garner's famous live concert performance at the Sunset Arts Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, featuring Garner on piano (and groans) with Eddie Calhoun on bass & Denzil Best on drums.
Opening with a rollicking version of "I'll Remember April", the album also contains great versions of standards like "Teach Me Tonight", "Autumn Leaves", "It's All Right With Me", "April in Paris", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Where or When" and lesser known pieces like Lionel Hampton's "Red Top" and Tyree Glenn's "How Can You Do A Thing Like That To Me?"
There's also two Garner originals, "Mambo Carmel" and the 50 second "Erroll's Theme" to end the record.
Its a rainy Saturday night tonight and this hopped up Vince Guaraldi music is the perfect mood setter for the tiki bar.
RATING: 5 how can you do a thing like that to me out of 5
All-time classic Jazz LP on the turntable tonight.
Erroll Garner's famous live concert performance at the Sunset Arts Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, featuring Garner on piano (and groans) with Eddie Calhoun on bass & Denzil Best on drums.
Opening with a rollicking version of "I'll Remember April", the album also contains great versions of standards like "Teach Me Tonight", "Autumn Leaves", "It's All Right With Me", "April in Paris", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Where or When" and lesser known pieces like Lionel Hampton's "Red Top" and Tyree Glenn's "How Can You Do A Thing Like That To Me?"
There's also two Garner originals, "Mambo Carmel" and the 50 second "Erroll's Theme" to end the record.
Its a rainy Saturday night tonight and this hopped up Vince Guaraldi music is the perfect mood setter for the tiki bar.
RATING: 5 how can you do a thing like that to me out of 5
Friday, June 16, 2017
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Roger Waters - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (live 2016)
Hello Friends,
On the heels of listening to Pink Floyd's 1977 masterpiece, Animals, we found this professionally-shot video of Roger Waters performing the classic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" live in concert.
This was filmed in Mexico in October 2016, a month before the 2016 U.S. elections.
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Prog Rock Saturdays: Animals
Pink Floyd - "Animals" (1977) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
Warm weather is here and it seems like Summer 2017 has finally arrived!
Which means its time for some late night patio pounders and some 70's prog rock classics on the turntable.
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
RATING: 5 pigs on the wing out of 5
Friday, June 9, 2017
Alice Cooper - "School's Out" (1972)
Happy Friday Friends!
Summer is just around the corner and the kids are getting ready for their Summer vacations.
Hopefully there's some good adventures in store featuring cars & girls, beer cans & bottle rockets, parking lots & basement parties!
Enjoy!
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Gale Boetticher - "Major Tom" (2011)
Oh boy friends!
We've seemed to have come full circle.
We're done with Major Tom for a while!
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Peter Schilling - "Major Tom" (1983)
Hello again Friends,
No, you're not seeing double! (Although we may be pretty soon!)
Here's another post of Peter Schilling's 1983 hit, "Major Tom", this time performed in his native German tongue!
Of course, everything sounds so much scarier in German anyways so a song about an astronaut getting lost and abandoned in space sounds especially nightmare-inducing!
genießen!
Friday, June 2, 2017
Peter Schilling - "Major Tom" (1983)
Hiya Friends,
We're kicking off June in a sort of 80's mood.
Maybe its the cold war era political hysterics.
Or maybe its feeling of the other shoe starting to drop.
Or maybe its because its fun to dance to in our midnight tiki bar.
That's probably it.
Anyways, here's pretty much a one-hit wonder by Peter Schilling re-visiting David Bowie's Major Tom in 1983!
Enjoy!
Monday, May 29, 2017
Enlightened Rogues
The Allman Brothers Band - "Enlightened Rogues" (1979) - Capricorn Records
Hello Friends,
Listening to the one Allman Brothers Band album in our collection tonight.
A staple of 70's FM rock, we probably should have more than this one record, obviously, but we never really got around to it I guess.
That being said, this probably isn't the one Allman Brothers record you want in your collection. Its alright. Nothing really jumps out at you. The southern rock roots are definitely there, but it teeter-totters a little too close to a polished "jam band" sound.
The lead-off track, "Crazy Love" is pretty great and features background vocals by singer and Roseanne star, Miss Bonnie Bramlett.
Also, Gregg Allman's ballad on side two, "Just Ain't Easy" is a killer.
Of course, there's some fine Dickey Betts guitar work throughout, if you're into that sort of thing.
Definitely not as bluesy, or as big-sounding or as shit-kickin' swampy as their earlier stuff.
This record is the sound of one of the great 70's bands losing a little off their fastball.
RATING: 3.0 Enlightened Rogues and Religious Fools out of 5
Sunday, May 28, 2017
The Allman Brothers Band - "Dreams" (Live 9/23/1970) & RIP Gregg Allman
Southern rocker, Gregg Allman, passed away this weekend.
Here's a clip of The Allman Brothers Band playing "Dreams" at the Fillmore East in 1970.
Shit-kickin' & Swampy!
RIP Gregg Allman!
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Waylon Jennings - "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit Done Got Out Of Hand" (1979)
Howdy Friends,
Here's a clip of Waylon Jennings performing his hit song "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit Done Got Out of Hand" on Cheryl Ladd's Television Special from 1979-- back from an era where just about anyone who was anyone on t.v. had some sort of variety show special!
"The Cheryl Ladd TV Special" is notable for a couple of reasons. First, in 1979, Cheryl Ladd was at the peak of her Charlie's Angels' hotness. And a close second, of course, is because the hour long special features three fantastic Waylon Jennings' tunes, who was also at the peak of his powers in 1979.
Here's a link to the entire specials if you're innerested.
"The Cheryl Ladd TV Special" is notable for a couple of reasons. First, in 1979, Cheryl Ladd was at the peak of her Charlie's Angels' hotness. And a close second, of course, is because the hour long special features three fantastic Waylon Jennings' tunes, who was also at the peak of his powers in 1979.
Here's a link to the entire specials if you're innerested.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
I've Always Been Crazy
Waylon Jennings - "I've Always Been Crazy" (1978) - RCA Victor
Hello Friends,
There's two great bits of trivia in regards to the life and career of Waylon Jennings. The first is, did you know that Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on Buddy Holly's plane the night of the infamous crash which killed Holly, Richie Valens, the Big Bopper, etc.?
The other is that he sang the Dukes of Hazzard theme song!
This is a great, late 70's outlaw country record by the world-weary and coked-addled Jennings.
It kicks off with the great title track, "I've Always Been Crazy" where Jennings confesses:
I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done
But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone
Awesome!
Also on the record is a cover of a Tony Joe White song ("Billy"), a Shel Silverstein-penned tune ("Whistlers & Jugglers"), a medley of Buddy Holly hits, a Merle Haggard cover ("Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and a cover of Johnny Cash's early hit, "I Walk The Line" (which in Jennings's hands takes on a whole new, more somber tone!)
A must listen if you're into the boozy & druggie outlaw country movement of the late 70's.
RATING: 4.5 close watches on this heart of mine out of 5
This is a great, late 70's outlaw country record by the world-weary and coked-addled Jennings.
It kicks off with the great title track, "I've Always Been Crazy" where Jennings confesses:
I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done
But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone
Awesome!
Also on the record is a cover of a Tony Joe White song ("Billy"), a Shel Silverstein-penned tune ("Whistlers & Jugglers"), a medley of Buddy Holly hits, a Merle Haggard cover ("Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and a cover of Johnny Cash's early hit, "I Walk The Line" (which in Jennings's hands takes on a whole new, more somber tone!)
A must listen if you're into the boozy & druggie outlaw country movement of the late 70's.
Extra points for Jennings's coked out stare on the album's cover!
RATING: 4.5 close watches on this heart of mine out of 5
Friday, May 19, 2017
Serena - "I'll Blow You A Kiss In The Wind" (1970)
Happy Friday Friends!
Here's Samantha Stephen's much hotter cousin, Serena, serenading with her twin cousin with a wonderfully suggestive Boyce & Hart song.
Blow away!!!
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Soundgarden - "Rusty Cage" (1992)
Hello Friends,
Another one bites the dust. Soundgarden/Audioslave/James Bond Theme Singer Chris Cornell died in his hotel room last night after a Soundgarden reunion show in Detroit.
Apparently its being investigated as a suicide by strangulation. You know what that means, friends...
RIP Chris Cornell.
We never really liked you. But we never really hated you either.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Nightmares... and other tales from the vinyl jungle... also, RIP Mr. J Geils
J. Geils Band - "Nightmares... and other tales from the vinyl jungle" (1974) - Atlantic Records
Hello Friends,
Jamming out to the J. Geils Band sixth record (in four years), 1974's "Nightmares... (and other tales from the vinyl jungle)".
We're also lamenting the death of band's founder, namesake & lead guitarist, Mr. J. Geils, who passed away in his Groton, Mass home last month at the ripe old age of 71. RIP J!
The big hit here on this record is the FM radio staple, "Must of Got Lost", but the rest of the record is pretty okay as well.
"Detroit Breakdown" is a solid opener and became a decent live staple. "Givin' It All Up" is our favorite album track. Outstanding. The trippy "Nightmares" and the super-funky "Funky Judge" are just meh.
Also, we wonder if the song "Stoop Down # 39" is a dig or a tribute to The James Gang's "Funk # 49"? hmm?
"Detroit Breakdown" is a solid opener and became a decent live staple. "Givin' It All Up" is our favorite album track. Outstanding. The trippy "Nightmares" and the super-funky "Funky Judge" are just meh.
Also, we wonder if the song "Stoop Down # 39" is a dig or a tribute to The James Gang's "Funk # 49"? hmm?
RATING: 3.5 lots of kisses but not like yours honey out of 5
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Chicago Transit Authority - "I'm A Man" (1969)
These guys could really rock.
I know, I know... no one was as surprised as we were!
The maniac on guitar with the guttural vocals is the amazing Terry Kath-- supposedly one of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitarists!
I know, I know... no one was as surprised as we were!
The maniac on guitar with the guttural vocals is the amazing Terry Kath-- supposedly one of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitarists!
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago Transit Authority - "Chicago Transit Authority" (1969) - Columbia
Hello Friends,
Chicago Transit Authority is the very first album by the band Chicago Transit Authority (after its initial release the band was threatened by legal action by the actual Chicago Transit Authority which lead to them shortening their name to just plain, old "Chicago").
Our reaction to this record could be best described by the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, "surprise, surprise, surprise!"
First off, its a double album which is completely nuts for a debut record! What's even nuttier is how there's really not a stinker among the bunch.
First off, its a double album which is completely nuts for a debut record! What's even nuttier is how there's really not a stinker among the bunch.
As one might expect from a Chicago record, there's lots of horns & jazzy-stuff going on, but at this early stage in the game, the music is both heavy-sounding and incredibly soulful. It's very bass and guitar heavy with some nice psychedelic touches thrown in for good measure. There's definitely stuff on here to please the stoners in the audience (check out the guitar solo at the beginning of "Poem 58", it sounds like Blue Cheer!)
Of course, there's the head-bobbing hits that helped propel Chicago into one of the 70's most successful bands (songs like "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "Questions 67 and 68" and their cover of The Spencer Davis Group's "I'm A Man"), but there's some mind-meltingly good guitar work courtesy of guitarist and occasional singer, Terry Kath. There's even a feedbacky, experimental guitar noise track ("Free Form Guitar") that, according to legend, features no overdubbing or electronic gimmicks. This sounds a heck of a lot more like the music on "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" than it does "Saturday in the Park".
This is a Chicago record for people (like us) who don't even like Chicago.
Its very 60's in its sound and approach. Its all over the place sonically and we mean that in the best way possible!
In the spirit of the times, there's even an element of social awareness to be found on the record. On Side Four's "Prologue (August 29, 1968)" & "Someday (August 29, 1968)", the band samples the "The Whole World Is Watching" chant from the protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (in Chicago) who were about to get their skulls knocked in by the local coppers. Goddamned Hipsters!
The album's opener, "Introduction" pretty much sets the stage for the entire album. Heavy and funky with a throbbing organ, a killer guitar solo and a driving (though economical) horn section. There's great drumming, some great bass-playing, and throughout the song several shifts in both time-signatures and mood. Its complex without being complicated. A theme that continues pretty much throughout the record. Who woulda thunk it?
RATING: 4.5 men come up to me and ask me what the time was on my watch out of 5
Of course, there's the head-bobbing hits that helped propel Chicago into one of the 70's most successful bands (songs like "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "Questions 67 and 68" and their cover of The Spencer Davis Group's "I'm A Man"), but there's some mind-meltingly good guitar work courtesy of guitarist and occasional singer, Terry Kath. There's even a feedbacky, experimental guitar noise track ("Free Form Guitar") that, according to legend, features no overdubbing or electronic gimmicks. This sounds a heck of a lot more like the music on "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" than it does "Saturday in the Park".
This is a Chicago record for people (like us) who don't even like Chicago.
Its very 60's in its sound and approach. Its all over the place sonically and we mean that in the best way possible!
In the spirit of the times, there's even an element of social awareness to be found on the record. On Side Four's "Prologue (August 29, 1968)" & "Someday (August 29, 1968)", the band samples the "The Whole World Is Watching" chant from the protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention (in Chicago) who were about to get their skulls knocked in by the local coppers. Goddamned Hipsters!
The album's opener, "Introduction" pretty much sets the stage for the entire album. Heavy and funky with a throbbing organ, a killer guitar solo and a driving (though economical) horn section. There's great drumming, some great bass-playing, and throughout the song several shifts in both time-signatures and mood. Its complex without being complicated. A theme that continues pretty much throughout the record. Who woulda thunk it?
RATING: 4.5 men come up to me and ask me what the time was on my watch out of 5
Friday, May 5, 2017
Pretenders - "Don't Get Me Wrong" (1986)
Here's a fun little throwback to help pass the time on this shitty, shitty Friday!
Enjoy!
Monday, May 1, 2017
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires - "Changes" (2016) (Live on KEXP)
Hello Friends,
We've posted the video for this song last year, but we felt the need to post this as well for its pure emotional power punch.
Wow... is it getting dusty in here?
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Changes
Charles Bradley - "Changes" (2016) - Daptone Records
Hello Friends,
Dim the lights and break out the malt liquor, things are about to get sweaty & soulful!
The last thing we thought we needed in our lives was another James Brown/Al Green/Otis Redding-sounding soul singer with a backing band vaguely reminiscent of Booker T. & the MGs. Boy were we WRONG! This record was one of our favorites from 2016!
Charles Bradley (who, incidentally, once made a living as a James Brown impersonator named "Black Velvet") holds the pain of the world in the lines on his face, the sweat from his brow and in the quiver of his voice.
Backed by a bunch of white Brooklyn hipsters (pretty much the Daptone Records' house bands), Changes, is an instant classic! His third full length record, its as authentic and heart-breaking as they come!
The heartbreak starts right away with Bradley declaring that life's treated him pretty hard... "America, you've been real honest, hurt, and sweet to me"... before breaking into a refrain of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
Throughout the album Bradley documents his struggles; his longing to go home again and to be a good and "righteous" man. No matter how many times the world may shit on him, Charles Bradley bounces back. His faith and talent and super-human resilience will help carry him though.
Undoubtedly, the album's highlight is Bradley's take on the Black Sabbath classic, "Changes" which becomes a tearjerking ode to his recently departed mother, whom Bradley only re-connected with (and took care of) as an adult.
Man, he takes this heavy metal ballad to a Whole New Level. If the tiny hairs on your arms don't move just a little while listening to this, you may have to check your pulse!
RATING: 5 all my days are filled with tears wish I could go back and change these years out of 5
The last thing we thought we needed in our lives was another James Brown/Al Green/Otis Redding-sounding soul singer with a backing band vaguely reminiscent of Booker T. & the MGs. Boy were we WRONG! This record was one of our favorites from 2016!
Charles Bradley (who, incidentally, once made a living as a James Brown impersonator named "Black Velvet") holds the pain of the world in the lines on his face, the sweat from his brow and in the quiver of his voice.
Backed by a bunch of white Brooklyn hipsters (pretty much the Daptone Records' house bands), Changes, is an instant classic! His third full length record, its as authentic and heart-breaking as they come!
The heartbreak starts right away with Bradley declaring that life's treated him pretty hard... "America, you've been real honest, hurt, and sweet to me"... before breaking into a refrain of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
Throughout the album Bradley documents his struggles; his longing to go home again and to be a good and "righteous" man. No matter how many times the world may shit on him, Charles Bradley bounces back. His faith and talent and super-human resilience will help carry him though.
Undoubtedly, the album's highlight is Bradley's take on the Black Sabbath classic, "Changes" which becomes a tearjerking ode to his recently departed mother, whom Bradley only re-connected with (and took care of) as an adult.
Man, he takes this heavy metal ballad to a Whole New Level. If the tiny hairs on your arms don't move just a little while listening to this, you may have to check your pulse!
RATING: 5 all my days are filled with tears wish I could go back and change these years out of 5
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