![]() This line up of the band is extremely tight. I’ve seen these guys in concert twice in the last two years and they are fantastic! The playing on “Wrong about you” is just jaw dropping! Drums swing and crash while the riffs groove hard and incendiary leads cut right through it all, This song would be amazing live. “You betray” storms right out of the gate with a heavier Led Zeppelin influence that balances heavy riffs with grooving rhythms, Phil Lewis showing that the years haven’t diminished his powerful voice in the least. There’s a major 60s and 70’s rock influence on this record, which was always a part of this bands DNA but is more front and center on this album than on any album they’ve recorded prior to this one. The last three post reunion albums (The Missing Peace, The Devil You Know, and Checkered Past) have all managed to be musically diverse records that individually stand on their own while still retaining the bands trademark swagger and attitude, Black Diamonds is no different. Years ago singer Phil Lewis and Guitarist Tracii Guns, the core of what makes this band great, reunited and they’ve been putting on incredible live shows and releasing some of the best material of their career.īlack Diamonds is their fourth studio album released since their reunion and they’ve raised the bar even higher with this record. Despite their many line up changes I would argue that their catalog outshines most of their peers, These guys have a wealth of great material to the point that I wonder how they choose their setlist. Neither of those statements apply to L.A. When you look at the long game of the 80s bands there’s many who don’t have a lot of great records in the decades since, or they stopped making new albums altogether and chose instead to just tour the hits year after year, which in my opinion is tragic. ![]() Guns are influential legends of that scene, but instead of being one of the many bands trying to rip off of Van Halen and Motley Crue these guys alongside bands like Faster Pussycat and Guns N’ Roses came from a more blues and punk influence. It was just about everything you could ever want out of rock n roll. That scene in my opinion just had it all: Great musicianship, great production in a lot of cases, a larger than life image, hooks for days, great singers, the right instrument tone, but more than anything it was great songs! Songs to get your adrenaline going, songs to party to, Songs full of attitude, songs to dedicate to the person you love, and songs for a broken heart. The bands of that era, with few exceptions, are often not given the credit they deserve for the great music they wrote. ![]() A LOT of great rock n roll came out of the 80’s.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |