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(More customer reviews)I was talking to my younger brother recently who is a huge Styx fan like myself, and I mentioned that this cd was due to come out shortly, which excited him, but when I told him it was cover tunes, be became less excited. He asked what was it with everybody putting out cover albums lately, including Styx, Def Leppard etc., and now this release. Here is my theory for what it's worth. First-They have nothing left to prove, they KNOW the current state of the music business, which is you have to be pretty and wear skimpy clothing or use sequencers and drum machines and "talk" your way through a song or it will never get on the radio, and second, the only way to get on rock radio, which is primarily classic rock radio, is to record again a classic rock song e.g. Styx's cover of I am A Walrus, which actually charted, and was the first Styx song since the Kilroy album to get any commercial airplay. Having said all of that, this cd is excellent. It has a wide variety of covers, done in the very organic sounding Shaw/Blades fashion, covering everything from mainstream pop to nods of progressive rock. Very impressive. And the vocals are absolutely perfect. I would love to see these guys guest host on American Idol, or a least show some of those contestants how to really sing. If you enjoyed the Hallucination cd then you will love this one. It has all of the qualities of that work with timeless classic songs to boot. Highly recommended.
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Legendary STYX guitarist Tommy Shaw and former NIGHT RANGER and DAMN YANKEE frontman Jack Blades team up again for their second venture on INFLUENCE.INFLUENCE is also the first CD release coming out on the new created VH1 Classic Records label. From Tommy Shaw, on the making of INFLUENCE: 'This album has been years in the making. The recording process didn't take years, but the concept had been looming in our conversations for years. From the day Jack Blades showed up on my doorstep, we discovered our chemistry as writers almost immediately. We became best friends as a result of the music and the experiences we had because of it.' ' After two albums and two world tours with Damn Yankees, we decided to do our first Shaw Blades album, Hallucination. The album was a departure from Damn Yankees that it was more acoustic in nature, not nearly as heavy and more organically produced.' 'On INFLUENCE, we went song by song; some we held very close tothe original version, while on others we departed from the familiar arrangements and made them our own.'
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