The March 2015 Issue

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CD Reviews
Review by JROCK Houston
Artist: Various Album: Immortal Randy Rhoads (Tribute CD) Label: UDR Release Year: 2015
Track Listing:
1. Crazy Train
2. Over The Mountain
3. MR. Crowley
4. Believer
5. Back To The Coast
6. I Don't Know
7. S.A.T.O.
8. Killer Girls
9. Goodbye To Romance
10. Suicide Silence
11. Flying High Again
There's no doubt that Bob Kulick is the King of tribute albums. Bob Kulick is a legendary Guitar Player
who has played with the likes of MeatLoaf, Alice Cooper, Kiss, and Diana Ross to name just a few
throughout his legendary career but over the last few years Bob has become more known as a Producer
who has put together some great tribute CDs and his latest Project: Immortal Randy Rhoads is no
exception.
It amazes me that there hasn't been a Randy Rhoads tribute CD of this magnitude release until now when
you consider what a Guitar God: Randy Rhoads was and how loved he really was. When you consider
the fact that Randy Rhoads has no been dead more years than he was alive I'd say it's high time a tribute
CD like this was UNLEASHED to his many fans around the world! Immortal Randy Rhoads is a very
fitting title for this Cd when you consider that not only was Randy loved by his millions of fans around
the world but by many of his peers and fellow Musicians to this very day still talk about the huge Talent
tas was and still is RANDY RHOADS. Randy inspired many of the Musicians who play on this very
CD and it's very interesting to hear them perform on his songs.
While the bulk of the material covere on this CD is from his hey day with Ozzy Osbourne I'm so happy
to see that two QUIET RIOT songs were also included on this collection because all too often people
forget that Randy Rhoads was the original guitar Player in QUIET RIOT and he also played a huge role
in that legendary band's rise on the Hollywood, Sunset Strip back in the late seventies. Tim Ripper
Owens, Rudy Sarzo, Vinny Appice, and Randy's own Brother: kelle Rhoads are just a few of the many
talented Musicians who play on this Immortal, Raise your fist in the name of Randy Rhoads Rockin
tribute CD and ROCK in the name of Randy!
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Artist: White Lion
Label: Deadline/Cleopatra Records
Release Year: 2015
CD2 Track Listing
1.
2.
Album: White Lion - Anthology 83-89 3.
4.
CD1 Track Listing
5.
6.
1. Hungry
7.
2. Lady of The Valley
8.
3. Wait
9.
4. All Join Our Hands
10.
5. Tell Me
11.
6. Say Goodbye
12.
7. When The Children Cry
13.
8. Little Fighter
14.
9. If My Mind Is Evil
15.
10. Living On The Edge
11. Cherokee
12. Cry For Freedom
13. How Does It Feel?
14. The Road To Valhald
16. Early Warning
Lights And Thunder
Back On The Streets
Love Don't Come Easy
Out With The Boys
It's Over
You're All I Need
Broken Heart
Til Death Do Us Part
Farewll To You
Deep In Love With You
Two People
Rock You Tonight
Evil Angels
Ride Through The Storm
We Rock All Night
Review by JROCK Houston
When I saw this CD advertised on an on-line music store I just had to get my hands on it because I was such a huge
White Lion back in the day and thought it would be nice to have a White Lion Greatest Hits collection to play in my
car well let me tell you all if you're looking for a White Lion Greatest Hits Collection don't be fooled by the album
title: Anthology because that's not exactly what you're getting here! Keep in mind that this Cd was released by
Deadline/Cleopatra Records which in the past has been known to re-release CDS they've released in the past with
new art work and then people don't realize they're purchasing a CD that's probably already in their collection.
With that being said I also have to say that Deadline/Cleopatra Records is also a label that has made a real effort to
keep Hard Rock/80's style Metal alive and well. It was this very label that released the last LA Guns studio album:
Hollywood Forever as well as the recent Enuff Znuff Covers album: Covered In Gold so for that alone I think the
label deserves some respect!
Getting back to White Lion - Anthology - 1983-1989 was this release what I initially thought it was? Not really but
with that being said I'm not sorry I purchased it either. What you have with this CD is a collection of previously
unreleased demos/work tapes if you will where you can hear many of these songs in their real earliest stages and for
anyone who is a White Lion fan like me it's kind of a cool thing to have a collection like this because while I've
heard songs like "Wait" , When The Children Cry" , and "tell Me" countless times on the radio over the years with
this CD I got a chance to hear these songs in a way I've never heard them before, cool to be able to hear a different
version of these songs and see what these songs started out as to what they finally became. The other thing that I
think makes this Cd a must listen to is the fact that you're getting a 2 CD set and I think when all is said and done
that this CD accomplishes what it was probably meant to do which is to give White Lion fans something a little
different and to remind the rest of the world of what a really great, remarkable, just amazing band that White Lion
was!
White Lion was and still is one of those bands that often gets forgotten but in their 80's hey day they were a force to
be wreckoned with! All too often White Lion is also one of those bands that is thought of a one hit wonder band
because most people think of "When The Children Cry" which was a major MTV Power Ballad back in the 80's!
Put this CD on and you will be reminded there's so much more to the legend that was and is White lion! Put this CD
on and you will see that White Lion was a Real ROCK BAND!
These days Singer: mike Tramp is a solo artist, Guitarist: vito Bratta who was an 80's Guitar hero when the band
was active no longer plays and Bassist: james Lomenzo has played with everyone from Megadeth, Peter Frampton,
and David Lee Roth since the demise of White Lion.
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