Posts

Remembering Eddie

Image
I never got to see Eddie and his band of merry men during the original David Lee Roth era. I really wish that I had gotten that chance. But, I did get to see him and the band during the Sammy era. An experience I will never forget. It was July 31st, 1993, on the "Right Here, Right Now" tour, at Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin. Vince Neil, who had just recently departed his band, Motley Crue, had just released his first solo album and was opening for VH on most of the tour. I knew that tickets for this show would be hard to come by, and I was right. But, me and the person I was going with, managed to get tickets anyway, albeit, lawn tickets, but hey, we were going none the less! Vince opened the show with his own incredible energy. I have to admit, it was a little strange not seeing him with Nikki, Tommy and Mick, but he was great none the less. He had his own great guitarist with him in the form of Billy Idol axe-man, Steve Stevens. And, the rest of his ba...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Firm

Image
The Firm Released: 1985 Rating: 👍👍👍👍 For most in the Rock world, this was an interesting pairing, to say the least, but ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page is not above strange pairings, eg; David Coverdale on the Coverdale/Page collaboration. But for all intents and purposes, his pairing with Paul Rogers on The Firm albums seems like more of a good fit. After all, the two were pretty much cut from the same musical background cloth. Really a shame that after only two albums, the pair called it quits. The first of these two masterpiece albums kicks of with a pretty rockin' tune called "Closer". Really a great pick-me-up kind of tune, complete with bits of a brass section filling in any gaps in parts of the song. Although it is a rather short song by comparison to what was available on the radio in '85, coming in at just under three minutes, it's still enough to get you moving and wondering what the rest of the album holds.  Next is "Make or Break" a...
Post a Comment
Read more