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I discovered him through targeted advertising on Instagram! Sounds pretty good!

I picked this one up a few weeks back, and still haven't got round to playing it. I've only heard good thing's.

You're excused. Please tell me, where did I call him a name? I don't like ADV OR these crap covers, and "Captain Howdy" has to crawl up MY arse about it. I don't care how long he's been on here, I don't need to be told what to like because other people do. I have no issue with anyone here, you're all just strangers on the Internet. He's the one that has to take an issue whenever I comment. There's plenty of post's where I do enjoy stuff, but that's conveniently ignored, because I don't agree with your friend, who constantly attacks me...

Shit is shit. Just like all the shit that Italian Keyboard Dwarf writes and just like these shit covers. And your shit taste obviously.

A far cry from the days of Oh What A Crying Shame and Dance The Night Away 😅

I don't need to, it's absolute shit. If I got my ears cleaned I would hear it even clearer, and I don't need that.

This sounds so promising! Really very good.

I haven't heard one of his covers that I can say I've enjoyed. He just shouts. There's zero nuance to any of them. Really, really not good. Loved his solo album, loved that first HEAT album he did, love him in Skid Row, but I can totally do without these soul-less metalized covers he churns out.

The intro gave me false hope they'd done something different. But it quickly turned into Frontiers production-line, by-the-numbers AOR.

It just sounds like 38 Special, but if they were aiming for the 80's country market rather than the rock market. I don't mind this. And a bonus is you can't hear Jim's vocals.

His name usually only appears next to another... One thing that's almost guaranteed is that it won't be written by the "band".

Be interesting to know who wrote them 🙄

He did start off as a solo artist, and his debut solo album was better than anything he's done since, in spite of the fact that his time with Danger Danger and The Defiants was superb.

Hope he mixes the sound between his debut and The Defiants debut. And hopefully the keyboard midget is nowhere near it... ahh who am I kidding! Tentatively this might be one to look forward to.

Yeah... sure... but for balance he's talentless and everything he does is pure shit 😜

Shame they didn't manage to keep Dino.

With good reason though 🤣

Oh so I should buy the shit stuff to support the artist just because keyboard dwarf didn't write it? Gotcha. 90% of it is project's that I don't support, written by the in-house team with hired names, 10% of it is written by the artist but is dogshit. Either way, you're not convincing me to buy it.

Apart from Black Swan, I didn't buy any of them because they were shit. I think I may have bought the first Black Swan, and the first Sweet Lynch (was that the one with Dying Rose on it, because that was a good song?) It doesn't *just* have to be because the keyboard midget of doom has his chubby little fingers in the pie. Some of it is just not good in spite of him. Besides he wrote all of the last Sweet Lynch album, was all over the Dirty Shirley album, and as you said he was all over Sunbomb... thankfully he only mastered Black Swan.

Not saying that is what I do (although yeah I definitely download some stuff, there's just too much out there now not to), but in the case of these shit project's, the artist has no input, they are hired to come in and record someone else's work. So the artist is already paid and won't be harmed by the fact people don't buy the album when it's out. It effects the label and the songwriters by not buying it, and that's the point. Because I don't want to support Frontiers or Del Vecchio. I buy pretty much everything Escape or AOR Blvd put out, direct, for that exact reason too. I can see the difference those purchases make.

Before Del Vecchio I'd already got bored shitless with Erik Martensson, so I give Eclipse and W.E.T a wide berth too. And I didn't say I don't have or have heard some of those album's, I'm saying Frontiers didn't get a penny of my money, and won't.

That's my point, they weren't shit. Although Desmond is still responsible for Ricky Martin, so his slate is not 100% clean. My point is neither have the criminal record of Stock, Aitken and Waterman or Frontiers and their Del Vecchio production line, which is why they fit together better.

We're all bitter Andrew, we should appreciate being fucked over by a poor label constantly using artists we love to pedal sub-standard shit or just generally ripping us off. We should appreciate the bad music and bad business practice.

Good question! It might have been LRS in 2014 actually... not a bad album, but all Del Vecchio and that was me done.

Ish, but they weren't quite so shit overall 😅