gener8tr

On 6/24/2021 at 12:15 PM, AlphaMale said:

I like it. But can't help but wonder how much better it would be vocally with Steve Perry.

The telephone book would sound great with Perry singing it.

That said, the best singer (currently) in Journey is Deen.  I'd love nothing more than for Cain and Schon to write an 80's album with Castronovo on lead vocals (all tracks).  Unfortunately, that, much like Perry's return, just isn't happening.

I hope the title doesn't hold any real meaning.

Really looking forward to this one.  I ordered the (2) CD set.  I already have the original TFAWIUTB.

Easily one of my favorite bands of all-time.  

On 8/29/2021 at 5:33 AM, heavyharmonies said:

On it... Def Leppard has been removed from the main site.

That's not enough!  Please use all of your outside contacts to find the schools where their children (grandchildren) attend so we can shame them there as well.

I tell just about everyone I know that Steve Lukather is easily one of the greatest guitar players walking the earth and has been dating all the way back to the late 1970's.

Had he been in Van Halen rather than Toto, he would be immortalized the like of Eddie.

Kind of a DaVinci / Bad Habit 80's vibe.

RECLAIM YOUR LIFE sounds awesome... right up and until the vocals kick in. 

Father time is undefeated and it seems he's won again here.  This track would have been AWESOME in 1988.

On 8/11/2021 at 5:11 AM, Glen said:

ha ha not much to show for it, except hard cash of course and actually making money from music

Foreigner have a full 2022 touring schedule of the US and UK with whitesnake including dates like London O2,  which is 20,000 seater arena.

I would probably guess he has no interest in Hurricane who are basically unknown 

he must be raking it in 

They've pretty gone on tour annually for the past 16 years now.

This carnation of Foreigner is AWESOME live... I mean as good as it gets.  I suppose you could call them a cover band at this point... but if so, they're the best cover band in the history of rock.  If you haven't seen Foreigner with Hansen on vocals, you've missed out.  I bet I've seen them at least a dozen times the past 16 years.  I'll certainly see them again.

Has anyone received a hard-copy of this yet?

Oh man, this one really tugs at the heartstrings and makes me feel my age.

I remember Night Songs dropping the day I graduated from high school in June 1986.  It was a mainstay in my car's cassette deck all that summer and through 1987.  I saw them open for Bon Jovi in 1987 and I was a huge fan.

LaBar and Brittingham had such swag, and made the "guitar-flip" something all of us wanted to learn to do.  I dropped my Ibanez Roadstar on the sidewalk trying (unsuccessfully)  to replicate their trick.

Gosh... this news ruined my day. 

I actually like this one quite a bit.  I will be purchasing this CD!

LOVE IT!

One of my favorite bands of all-time, and easily my favorite live band of the past decade. 

Looks like Mt. Hood just an hour outside of Portland, Oregon.

What a run Dave had from late 1983 through mid 1988 (VH and solo).

Sounds like something from a Creed or Thee Doors Down album to me.  I don't like the music one bit, but I give Wolfie all the credit for re-assembling VH with Dave.  Something I NEVER thought would happen. 

Had Eddie been healthy, I think a reunion with Sammy and Mike could have happened as well.  I'd have paid nearly any amount to see that lineup do a 5150 reunion tour.  That album front-to-back and then the standard Greatest Hits would have been awesome.

14 hours ago, Darkstone said:

Very, very cool.

They were on top of the world. Little did they know how soon the end would come, for all of us.

You got that right!  I remember seeing WARRANT, TRIXTER and FIREHOUSE in the fall of 1991, and the music of the 80's was still standing tall at that point.  Just a few short months later and it all came crashing down.

Any new information on this one?  Sound samples anywhere?

I've been a regular customer of NEH Records dating back to the very beginning (like 1999 or 2000).  Mike is a great guy and he and NEH will be missed.

Best wishes my old friend.

32 minutes ago, Geoff said:

On 'Slippery' I never really thought much of 'Social disease,' 'Wild in the streets,' 'Let it rock' and 'Wanted dead or alive.' 'Social disease' probably the only actual filler...

Oddly enough, for at least 20 years after Slippery was released I'd use the term "Nothing A Shot Can't Cure" several times per week.

Anyone know why JSS seems to have no love for EYES?

8 minutes ago, Geoff said:

I just find it to be such a bland song. I don't actually think it's a bad song. I don't hate it... but it bores the shit out of me. 

For me, it's akin to "Sugar" from Leppard.  Meaning quite possibly considered the band's magnum opus... when neither Wanted nor Sugar should be considered as such in my opinion.  I loved Sugar when first released... then after hearing it for the 10,479th during the summer of 1987 alone, it started grinding on me a bit.

I could actually go without ever hearing Wanted again and not lose any sleep... but 35 years later and I still never turn the dial should Bad Name come on.

On 3/1/2021 at 8:13 AM, Captain Howdy said:

Yup. Some good songs on, but fairly patchy. But  Sippery and NJ are both so much better, with not single duff song on either.

Hell, Keep the faith is better than the first two, but just a step below Slippery & NJ.

The first time I've defended BON JOVI in years (maybe decades).

Two MONSTERS of the genre.  

SLIPPERY and NEW JERSEY are both so damn good, and were released at the PERFECT times.  Late 1986 for Slippery, that extended into the summer of 1987 for the massive tour, and fall of 1988 for the release of NJ and a spring / summer tour in 1989 that included Skid Row on the ticket (at least here in Portland, Oregon).

Maybe it was just the "perfect time" in my life... at least for Slippery... that added to the "ambiance" of the whole thing?  I don't know, but I look back with such adoration of those two that I'm willing to forgive what a shitty band Bongiovi has become.

Near perfection for those two.  My only question is why they nixed "Edge Of A Broken Heart."  I'd have preferred they'd left-off "Wanted."

1 minute ago, gener8tr said:

I saw them open for MR. BIG in Salem, Oregon September 1992.

Electric Boys were also there... can't remember who went on first.

20 hours ago, Glen said:

Saw Hardline with Schon live supporting extreme

I saw them open for MR. BIG in Salem, Oregon September 1992.