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Jacqueline 03:09 am UTC 01/29/16 |
| http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/lipstick-performs-jim-steinmans-bad-for-good/Event?oid=6319545 Lipstick performs Jim Steinman's Bad for Good When: Fri., Jan. 29, 8 p.m. Price: $5 To celebrate 26 years on the planet, Greg Troyan, frontman for Nashville glam-rock trio Lipstick, is throwing himself “Greg’s Self-Indulgent Birthday Show,” featuring openers Tall Dark Stranger (playing Kiss’ Hotter Than Hell LP) and Neon Black. But what caught our eye was the familiar image left on our front desk: a studly, bare-chested angel holding a scantily clad babe and an electric guitar. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the world of Jim Steinman, who absorbed Springsteen, Spector, a fakebook of Broadway show tunes and every maudlin teen weeper and biker-death tune ever recorded and converted them into the marvel that is his 1981 solo album Bad for Good. This was to be Renegade Angel, the follow-up to Meat Loaf’s kajillion-selling Bat Out of Hell, for which Steinman composed all those glorious bubblegummy teen-sex-and-death anthems. But when Mr. Loaf’s voice gave out, Steinman forged ahead, hired almost all the same personnel (including producer Todd Rundgren, the E Street Band’s Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, even cover artist Richard Corben), and cast himself in the lead. Opinions vary whether he nailed the gig — its song-to-song similarity to Bat makes it a curious experience, like a scene-for-scene simulation of a classic movie with an oddly inexact leading man — but not mine: The record is such an auteur piece, so shameless in its tumescent grandstanding and fist-pumping bombast, that it revs up my perpetually adolescent heart. Why are you hearing this? Because on Friday, Lipstick will be playing this LP maudit in all its splendor. Rock ’n’ roll dreams come through, indeed. JIM RIDLEY | |
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