Re: McClain/Shooting Star?
Date: January 06, 2013 11:45PM
I checked out 2-3 tunes with Chalfont on y-tube. Not bad at all. Stereotypical lyrically,but not real cheesey either. That Keith(?) guy seems to have a decent voice--like a cross between West and Brian Johnson? Or a gruff sounding West,perhaps. Watched a bit of a live dvd they did with him from somewhere in the midwest.Looked like a packed theater style show,so I guess it's true they were/are huge out that way. That singer wasn't much of a showman at all,tho. I did sorta like his 'half mic stand' approach,tho. I may use that on occasion as I never use a stand during our shows. I'm reminded now of a few SS tunes we did back when they were new. These were what we covered: Breakout,Straight Ahead,and one of the rockers from III Wishes (end of side A,I'm thinking?). Needless to say--they never got enough attention on radio here in WNY,so people looked at us sort of clueless,and we didn't keep their tunes on the playlist very long. Always dug the band but I think their essential albums were the debut (GREAT!!) and the last one with West-Silent Scream. need to dig those out soon for a re-listen as it's been quite a long time...T