This album is a star strutted compilation - just check out the line up for the first song
Hey Bulldog; Alice Cooper,
Steve Vai, Duff McKagan and Mikkey Dee. WOW! It's also pretty cool that it's not only the massive hits that are covered exemplified by
Hey Bulldog, which wasn't
a hit single from "Yellow Submarine" and Cooper plus
Steve Vai definitely set their own mark on this version with a long extended guitar solo and Cooper making references to Detroit. A great opener.
Back in the USSR is sung by Lemmy and with all respect he certainly isn't any Paul McCartney. I am sure lots of Beatles fans will either laugh or cry when hearing his hoarse and sparse vocals on
Back in The USSR. Lemmy is Lemmy and therefore this version comes off faithful.
John 5 from from Rob Zombie and Eric Singer provides a rocking backing.
Michael Wilton and Geoff Tate from Queensryche team up with Dio's band for
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Geoff Tate does his best to give the song the original psychedelic sound.
Billy Idol covers another of the lesser known Beatles songs
Tomorrow Never Knows.
Steve Stevens plays guitar but his fiddling is put in the background...unfortunately.
Jeff Scott Soto once again teams up with
Yngwie Malmsteen for
Magical Mystery Tour. Like Yngwie or not, but he certainly sets his mark on this one. I am blown away by his shredding all over this tune making is a guitar tune. Other prominent players are Jeff Pilson and Frankie Banali, who provide a solid foundation for Yngwie to be Yngwie.
Billy Gibbons from
ZZ Top sings
Revolution and he provides the song with a blues touch Texas style. The song bounces in a lazy mid-tempo version, but it's a great no frills version.
Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw trade vocals for
Day Tripper just like on the good old Damn Yankees records. However, the always amazing Doug Aldrich steals the spotlight with his playing on this riff oriented song.
John Bush delivers one of the best vocal performances on
I Feel Fine. Along with John Corabi Bush delivers the best vocals performance.
Doug Pinnick from King's X sings
Taxman with help from
Steve Lukather and Tony Levin, who actually played with John Lennon
Along with
Hey Bulldog I Saw Her Standing There are the best tracks on "Butchering the Beatles". This time a band consisting of John Corabi, Phil Campbell, CC DeVille, Chris Chaney and Kenny Aronoff butcher
I Saw Her Standing There in the most rocking way ever possible. John Corabi has got one of the best rock vocals and he always sounds fantastic.
Hey Jude is the only low point on this compilation
. Tim "Ripper" Owens gets a chance to show his vocal range and somehow it doesn't work out. The song is supposed to peak at the end, but gets completely messy with screams from Ripper and squealing guitars from George Lynch. A minor disappointment.
Winger is back and Kip
Winger once again gets time in the spotlight. Kip sings
Drive My Car backed by Bruce Kulick, Tony Franklin and Aynsley Dunbar.
This release is aimed at fans of the participating musicians and not The Beatles. It's no wonder that the subtitle is "A Headbashing tribute". However, "Butchering the Beatles" is a smorgasbord in who's who in Hard Rock and when you match that with The Beatles' song catalogue it can't go wrong.
Written by
Michael Friday, November 10, 2006
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