Great players but some of the most hackneyed cliche' Southern Rock guitar solos ever. I like them however but cringe at some of the solos. I have a greatest hits disc. And the whistling.......yikes. Hey man, I just got a country rock Tele. Now I can sound just like Clarence.....yeah I know keep on dreaming.
It's going through a rather wonderful renaissance at the moment. There's a whole host of great new (past decade or so) bands making excellent records!
No joke, at least a third of the audience left after Molly Hatchet, who'd secured the Lynyrd Skynyrd crowd with that hit album (their last), while The Outlaws were in a transitional phase of their career (one of many!) after releasing In The Eye of the Storm, which earned a collected meh from most (I, who liked a good portion of it, was in the minority). On the drive home, our car of four was split between those who thought that Molly Hatchet killed with DJB's front-man skillz and bulldozer approach vs. those (my brother and I) who thought that The Outlaws were a far more nuanced and varied live band. Of course, The Outlaws recovered with a hit album on their next outing, Ghost Riders, while DJB left Molly Hatchet and they never truly got back their big audience from Flirting With Disaster.
He's from my hometown and when they chose him to replace Harvey, we were very proud to have a Central New Yorker in the Florida Guitar Army. You can hear his tasty playing on the two albums but yeah, the clothes/hair/glasses were straight from the jazz-fusion world. Didn't look right in a live situation.
As mentioned above, many would contend that Playin' To Win and In The Eye of the Storm could use a remix. The two albums that I find magnificently produced were Hurry Sundown and Ghost Riders. Both sound completely different from the other but served the material really well.
