Bob Wills meets Glenn Miller meets Esquivel's space-age bachelor-pad music as steel ... more
guitarist Jon Rauhouse blurs the distinction between hipster retro and postmodern cool. Though many of the cuts are instrumental, including a cartoon romp through "Holi...
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Bob Wills meets Glenn Miller meets Esquivel's space-age bachelor-pad music as steel ... more
guitarist Jon Rauhouse blurs the distinction between hipster retro and postmodern cool. Though many of the cuts are instrumental, including a cartoon romp through "Holi...
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Advantages: Fast, melodic, fantastic! Disadvantages: A couple of fillers
SteelAttack have always been part of that large pack of power metal bands that appear to float around in the background of the metal scene, producing album after album. You can go for years without ever checking a band like these out. I implore you to buy one or two of their albums, particularly their earlier ones, because it really is excellent power metal.
This album is a fine example of what they can do. The overall sound is a lot cleaner and more professional than on their first album "Where Mankind Fails" which, although it was a fantastic album, lacked the clean, crisp finish of this one.
There are a few stand-out tracks. The best on the album has to be "Judgement Day", a track which starts out with a typical SteelAttack riff. It's a mid to high tempo song with a wonderfully epic chorus and a well executed solo section ...
Advantages: Queen's first really great album of their career Disadvantages: Not long enough!
Not many bands release 2 albums in 1 year in their entire career, but Queen did it in 1974. The year saw them build on their eponymous debut release in '73 with Queen II in which their rock-opera genes started to show. Later in the year, this album Sheer HeartAttack developed further on that theme, and what a great album.
The album opens with the sounds of a funfair and then launches into Brighton Rock - a 5 minute rock epic which tells of a holiday romance. The track features an instrumental solo from Brian May which was later to be featured in every live show for the rest of the band's career.
Next we have Killer Queen. Probably the best known track from the album and featured on Greatest Hits I. A song about a stylish French prostitute complete with finger clicking and swanky guitar.
Tenement Funster is a Roger Taylor penned ...
Advantages: Good, solid intro to the band, heavy rock at its finest. Disadvantages: Bit of a 'quiet' production.
This band don't just 'rock,' they ''wrowkk!''
I still have vivid memories of waking one Christmas morn to see that the big white bearded guy in the red outfit had left me this album in my Christmas stocking, along with another ''Rush'' album, 'All the world's a Stage.' I must admit that at the time I was more impressed with the latter of the two. I found 'Caress of Steel' a big fat disappointment. I had heard the opening track before and loved it, but the rest just seemed a bit lame.
Before I continue, I will just say a few words about Rush because there are always going to be people out there who wonder, ''Rush''? Who the heck are they then?' They were formed in Toronto in 1969 by Geddy Lee on Bass, Alex Lifeson on Guitars and John Rutsey on Drums. They started life as Led Zeppelin wannabes but soon developed their own sound ...
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Product details
Title
Steel Guitar Heart Attack
Performer
Jon Rauhouse
Genre
Country
Release Date
22/10/2008
Original Release Year
2007
Label / Distributor
Bloodshot / Shellshock/SRD
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
744302013329
Additional notes
Album Notes
Composer: Various Artists. Personnel: Jon Rauhouse (banjo); Kelly Hogan, Neko Case, Sally Timms, Rachel Flotard (vocals); Paul Rigby (guitar); Jacob Valenzuela (trumpet); Jeff 'Fruit Pie' Marchant (trombone); Jeff Livingston (piano); Johnny Marston, Joey Burns, Bill Herzog, Will Lovell (bass instrument); Bill Harzog, John Convertino, Kevin O'Donnell (drums); Nick Luka (unknown instrument); Idaho Choir, The New Big Iron Singers (background vocals). Additional personnel: Tommy Connell (guitars).
Album Reviews
No Depression (p.80) - "Rauhouse tossed a little bit of everything he knows into the mix here....The instrumental skills of Rauhouse on steel and Tommy Connell on guitar shine throughout the record."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Idaho
2.
Bongo Ride
3.
I'll Be Seeing You
4.
5 After 5
5.
Drinkin' & Smokin'
6.
Harbor Lights
7.
Mannix
8.
Grief
9.
Everybody Loves The Sun
10.
Ballad Of The Black Chihuahua
11.
East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
12.
Begin The Beguine
13.
Holiday For Strings
14.
Hood Canal
15.
Girls Of Pajama Hill
16.
Big Iron
17.
Red Pollard
18.
Fishin' Hole
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