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This is fairly standard heavy rock. It's not bad, but there's also nothing here of a lot of interest. There are some good hooks here and there, but there is something about this album that leaves it sitting a bit flat. I have to admit I had no idea who Duff McKagan was until I looked him up. He was the bassist for Guns N' Roses and since leaving them has floated around doing different stuff.
Like I said it's not a bad album and if you want some new rock to listen to this wouldn't be the worst choice.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.
I didn't know that Duff McKagan did solo records. I'll bet he and Dave Grohl could have a long, interesting, I-know-your-path-and-you-know-mine conversations.
ReplyDeleteListening to this, too, and thinking back to the recent Van Halen review, it occurs to me just how crazy well that band did in switching lead singers at pretty much the height of its fame. They not only identified a guy who was just similar enough and just different enough from David Lee Roth; they also found somebody who was big enough in Sammy Hagar that their true-believer fans didn't feel like they were getting ripped off. That's a heck of a trick. Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens have been trying to engineer this same shift for 10 years and only now appear to have gotten it right (maybe a hair too late?); Eddie Van Halen and Van Halen got it on first try.
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