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Vin 04:15 pm UTC 02/02/16 |
| In reply to: | re: another Steinman tribute show - Jacqueline 03:46 am UTC 01/29/16 |
| I think, in 25 years of fandom, my sense is that BfG is generally not well-regarded by mainstream music press. Pretty much the same for all of Jim's (and Meat's) work, though. The fans who love it, really fucking love it. Most of the general public is blasé - people like a song here or there - you know the ones. And the critics are almost always too cool for it, or so they'd have you believe. > Who was talking negative about BFG? > > > > > 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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