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Originally Posted by SMASH I'm always interested in a major band's unreleased stuff. It can sometimes be quite surprising/good. Certainly their known work had some massive hooks and major hits in it. Their sound was a bit too glossy for me though. Any major surprises like some symphonic black metal or Mahavishnu jams?
To use a Bon Jovi peer as an example, Motley Crue has some still unreleased stuff - the best IMO being a song called "Running Wild In The Night" - that was fully recorded but never saw the light of day. That tune I cite was from the Shout sessions and was as good as any of their hits. Given the massive loads of filler they released, you'd think at some point they'd have put that tune out.
In the case of this particular song, it was kinda Van Halen-ish like "Unchained". Maybe too much so given Neil's fragile ego and the frequent accustaions at the time of him being a cheap DLR clone. Very cool hearing stuff like that. |
It's good to see another Crue fan on the board. I figured I was probably the only one who had heard that track. It's true, a lot of people in that era were trying to be like dlr since he kind of set the blueprint for the singer in that musical style. I always liked vince more than most people though, since his voice had such a unique and edgy timbre and he commanded the stage very well. It was all too apparent how important vince really was as soon as john corabi joined the band and it all went straight downhill. I really don't like the corabi stuff whatsoever.
As for bon jovi, I liked their stuff up until 92-93 or so. The last two albums, crush and bounce, I'll pass on though. Sambora needs to get back to his roots and start playing some solos again and really working that whammy bar. The level of guitar playing on their last two albums has not even been in the same neighborhood as the classic sambora stuff.
