Half of this album has already been reviewed, since
Shyboy,
Yankee Rose,
Tobacco Road, Take Your Whiskey Home,
Ain't Talking bout Love and
Panama are repetition from "
Best of Both Worlds - a tribute to Van Halen" released in 2003
I still wonder how come they used David Lee Roth solo tracks for a
Van Halen tribute, but Enuff Z'Nuff's soaring version of
Yankee Rose and George Lynch´s brilliant playing on
Shy Boy fits better on this DLR tribute.
The above songs are also the highlights of this tribute along with
Just Like Paradise, which features the new
Lillian Axe singer.
The rest of the songs add nothing to the table. Most versions are played without any personal touch or inventive flavour - which is exemplified on
Hot for Teacher, which is played accurate note for note by a band called "Hot for Teacher", but that just underlines the lack of inventiveness
Overall I cannot find any enthusiasm for this CD. Several of the contributing bands and names are relative unknown in the music business and if they cannot come up with anything better they will remain unknown. Chris Heaven's try on
Dance the night away sounds like a demo version
Except for the tracks already featured on "Best of Both worlds" the only arrangement that delivers something extraordinary is
Going Crazy with great guitars by Blues Saraceno. However, vocalist Chris Catena sounds like he caught a cold with weak vocals on the otherwise different and inventive arrangement.
There is a great informative 14 page booklet with info on all bands and musicians. The original label Versailles certainly has good intentions, but they need to set higher standards and fine polish the details - for example the running order of the CD doesn't match what's printed on the cover and
Just a Gigalo is misspelled - the correct is Gigolo
Written by
Michael Monday, February 13, 2006
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