Guns & Roses are supposed to be touring sometime this year and it is still in doubt whether Izzy will team up with his former band mates or not alongside slash. This is his second album outside of guns & Roses and is full of the kind of thing that will please most Guns & Roses fans.
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Advantages: Good Fun Disadvantages: Loads Of Covers
Guns & Roses are supposed to be touring sometime this year and it is still in doubt whether Izzy will team up with his former band mates or not alongside slash. This is his second album outside of guns & Roses and is full of the kind of thing that will please most Guns & Roses fans.
If it's a no-nonsense brand of tearaway hard rock that you want then Izzy and his mates including Gunners bassist Duff McKagen are dab hands.
The album highlights include ... ...and the Rolling Stones 'Ain't It A Bitch' (with Izzy even managing to sing like Keith Richards). 'Here Before You' is a excellent country rock romp with hints of John Mellencamp and Ronnie Dawson 'Up Jumped The Devil' just an example of some rocking bluegrass rockabilly that's on offer.
Even when Izzy hits the surf on the aptly titled 'Surf Roach' a sense of relaxed fun pervades. Although this is not cutting edge, it makes good listening. ...
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Advantages: a straight deep rocker Disadvantages: not a revolution in rock (, but then again: Who cares?)
Ex-Guns'N'Roses rhythm guitar player Izzy has delivered a solid piece of dusty rock. A bastard of Traditional Hard Rock, American Folk, Punk & Surf, it covers a wide range of velocity as well as mood. Nevertheless it has all been molten down and cast in one piece of amalgam, without any major smudges in style. Oh yes, he's straddlin' - but very much at ease. If you like loud and simple guitar music than you are prone to like this. It's straight Rock, ... ...& "Good Enough" have enough pressure behind them to make you feel good. The album's cover tells you quite well what to expect: a desert, some cracks, a guitar, an amp, no shade but dire heat! Izzy is not the one to reinvent rock, but he definitely added some new flavour. On the bass you can hear his old mate Duff McKagan and in his version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" Stradlin's Band Ju-Ju Hounds has a go as well. It's good clean fun. ...
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Advantages: Great Rock Disadvantages: Not as heavy or flashy as Guns N' Roses
...a look at "Slash's Snakepit" - The albums Slash recorded after his GnR career finished. Other albums to look out for by IzzyStradlin are "117 Degrees" - upbeat and blues orientated, and his latest "Ride On" - A calm and rhythmic selection of tracks.
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Album Notes: Personnel: Izzy Stradlin (vocals, guitar, bass); Rick Richards (vocals, guitar); Eddie Ashworth (mandolin); Duff McKagen (bass); Taz Bentley (drums, percussion); Steve Winstead (background vocals); Ju Ju Hounds.
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (3/19/98, p.68) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - \"...shuffles and jangles and slides through an impressive assortment of trad-rock forms: EXILE ON MAIN STREET bitch blues, alterna-country cow tears, red-devil rockabilly drawls, Link Wray drag-race riffing--even Chuck Berry covers...\"
Titles on disc 1
1.: Ain't It A Bitch
2.: Gotta Say
3.: Memphis
4.: Old Hat
5.: Bleedin
6.: Parasite
7.: Good Enough
8.: 117 Degrees
9.: Here Before You
10.: Up Jumped The Devil
11.: Grunt
12.: Freight Train
13.: Methanol
14.: Surf Roach
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