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rockfenris2005 03:24 am UTC 01/29/16 |
| In reply to: | another Steinman tribute show - Jacqueline 03:09 am UTC 01/29/16 |
So great to see them talking so POSITIVELY about the album. I don't know. I had gotten sick of the negative things I'd read about it lately. There were a few things I read. It's a great album to me. I think it goes further than BOOH like Jim said. I wish I could have seen this show, just to experience another version of "Stark raving love". > > 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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