I just saw that he said he was going to re-record them because Priest has pretty much erased him from their history or at least he feels they have.
Well damn Yankees is a supergroup and I’m willing to bet most called jack blades that guy from night ranger and tommy Shaw that guy from Styx and that’s if they knew who they even were. Here we have that guy from billy idol and that guy from the cult ,guns n roses and velvet revolver
I'm not a Styx fan but I think Tommy Shaw is just a bit more of a 'name' than either Sorum or Stevens. Velvet Revolver was mentioned earlier. Wasn't that Slash, Scott Weiland and Duff Mckagan? Three well known names, and Sorum. I think we're beating a dead horse at this point, we're clearly not on the same page.
From Allmusic: Hard rock supergroup featuring three former Guns N' Roses bandmates and vocalist Scott Weiland, formerly of Stone Temple Pilots. Albums Sorum has played on have sold over 50 million copies.
TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Says His Time With JUDAS PRIEST Has Been 'Erased' From Band's Past, Vows To Re-Record Both Albums
Billy idol comes across in his book that he is sometimes upset Stevens doesn’t always cut loose and downplays his talent sometimes
I'm with you. As much as I've tried I just don't like their early catalog much at all. They don't start to click for me until they got more prog-metalish, with Ray Adler on vocals, and didn't REALLY click with me until 1997's A Pleasant Shade of Gray which I kinda look on as their "Hemispheres" (Rush) album. Producer Terry Brown really sprinkled his Rush-sound fairy dust on that one. I love the next album Disconnected (2000) as well (kinda like their Permanent Waves or Moving Pictures if I had to draw another comparison). I thought next album FWX (2004) was "meh" but they rebounded strongly with the two newest ones Darkness in a Different Light (2013) and Theories of Flight (2016). If you like Rush circa Hemispheres to Moving Pictures type of music I'd recommend you start your FW explorations with APSoG then move forward in the catalog (again beware of FWX, that one doesn't work for me for some reason), then if you dig all that newer stuff try working backwards. Which is against how I recommend people explore most bands - I like experiencing albums through a catalog in order to experience the evolution, good or bad but in this case I make an exception. Of course now that I think about there are a lot of exceptions to my own rule which I break all the time - like I'd never recommend Rush's first album to someone that has never heard them looking to decide if they like them or not.
Thanks for the tip. A better singer - and more "well known" one - that would be a (metal/hard rock) supergroup to me. As it is I think it is 3/4 supergroup with a marginal singer and "meh" material (I'll get the album anyway to see if the rest is any better than that song though). Give them a singer like, I dunno, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Klaus Meine, Biff Byford, Axl, Ian Astbury, etc etc etc & I think the supergroup tag would fit better.
Slippers, when I'm nowadays discovering bands Ronnie Dio prevented me from sampling thirty years or so ago, I have also sometimes found m'sen working backwards which is not uncommonly considered something of a crime against the connoisseur's approach. Then again, this perhaps backs up my feeling that quite a few of the names who have prevailed for aeons are actively maturing, at least in terms of my pure Metal sensors and thus, later material arguably trumps (or at least matches) 'classic era' output. At the risk of invoking the wrath of a sacred flying V and by way of an example, I was discussing ancient UFO with an old mosher compadre which had inspired me to relaunch 'Rock Bottom.' Of course, this standard remains inviolate and still obliterates all comers but the rest of Phenomenon left me curiously unsated: I think it may have something to do with being 'Sneap-ed' which is to say, rather addled on that modern Accept-ish type production and yes, I do appreciate this leaves some folk a little jaded. Then again, I go back to some mid-late 70s Queen, Thin Lizzy or 'Priest and that period's soundbooth can always be relied on to resooth my fevered brow. DTFM.
Given that you're a fan of Lizzy, you might like this since it's a glorious amalgam of the NWOBHM and '70s rock with somewhat of a medieval vibe throughout due to sme interesting writing. A USPM classic.
I have both albums. They're more groove-oriented and less proggy, and they're okay. I probably need to give them another listen. Somewhat interestingly, the origin of the prog metal band Redemption is on the first Engine album—Ray's buddy Nick van Dyk co-wrote one of the songs, which led him to write some more music, which led him to start Redemption, which eventually would feature both Ray and Engine guitarist Bernie Versailles as members.
Okay guys, keep it cool, but since my download is finished, I think I can safely go ahead and point this out. The new Jorn box set, which features (almost) his entire solo catalog, is $10.49 (mp3)/$12.99 (FLAC) on 7digital. This seems like a mistake (albeit one that's been on the site for over a month), so if you're at all interested, you should get on it ASAP.