Anyone else can tell me other artists that went on such a drastic career curve?
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Next time warn me when you're going to post links to Michael Bolton. Think it made my computer crash Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Sorry Sam, that's understandable, in no way am I a fan, just a bit flabergasted that he started his career in that way to what he ended up as. Anyway, I screwed the first link up, see it to believe it.
I love Michael Boltonīs first two albums. Those are classic hard rock/aor.
The 3rd one had some good songs but the rest of his career just sucks.
But hey, iīm sure he made lots of dollars with his ballads and got some women too Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
I didn't click on the links that Riptide provided. But since Sam Hain mentioned that it involves Michael Bolton, then it's a good thing that I didn't see them!
However, two good websites that I CAN recommend is this:
Donīt get me wrong, i love her. I love everything she does.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
quite a difference. But she's so cute in that second one.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I was once at a HMV instore with Lee Aaron where she was singing jazz, it really was an eye opener that the Metal Queen of my youth was doing bebop Pat Benetar kind of went the jazzy/blues direction late in her career.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Love that song - Metal Queen.
Very strange how some artists change like that.
Alex Skolnick(guitarist)from Testament plays quite a bit of jazz now.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Bolton may go back to metal (or perhaps explore the country genre) now that it appears he and his sweetheart spilt. Boy never saw that coming.......... Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
I've got that beat by a looooong mile... Look at this: Pat Boone sings Heavy Metal...
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: I've got that beat by a looooong mile... Look at this: Pat Boone sings Heavy Metal...
Now I've seen it all. NOT Crazy Train! What is this world coming to? Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I actually own that Pat Boone cd, found it for $2. I tried to get a refund, but they said no way. LOL.
I heard Bolton and Sheridan split up because she was seeing Kenny G on the side. LOL.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by Riptide:
I heard Bolton and Sheridan split up because she was seeing Kenny G on the side. LOL.
That would make her the anti-Locklear or the anti-Pamela Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
tori amos went from being a cheeseball hair metal broad to a kate bush ripoff artist.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I think early Pantera was glammed up hair metal, before and during Phil joined.
I remember seeing that Tori Amos single, i think it was called Y Kant Tori Read or something to that degree.
I also have the first record TFF's Roland orzabal and Curt Smith did called the Graduate. They wear suits and have a Mod/ska/Jam sound.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
So....that's what Michael Bolton started out like?
I was thinking it was going to be a current song by him.
The title to that song...Everybody's Crazy...I never heard it....but it's a song that I think should be sung today...because I look around at people all the time, and that's exactly what I say.
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I was thinking about Feargal Sharkey the other day, there's 80's fans who know only A Good Heart, it's like they never knew his pop/punk past. He sang with the Undertones, one of the best pop/punk bands of the late 70's. The Irish Ramones was a tag they had, and their song Teenage kicks was reportedly influential Brit DJ John Peel's favorite song of all time. No too shabby.
Not many people now Loverboy's Rob Dean's past, he was the bassist for X-Ray Spex, he even played on their 1995 reunion album. Just boggles the mind that he went from a great punk band to the commercial beast that was Loverboy.
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
I could never buy into ALANIS MORISETTES Angry Grrrrrrl Act cuz of that whole NICKELODEAN You Cant Do That On TV / Canadian "TIFFANY" thing.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Riptide: [snip]...Not many people now Loverboy's Rob Dean's past, he was the bassist for X-Ray Spex, he even played on their 1995 reunion album. Just boggles the mind that he went from a great punk band to the commercial beast that was Loverboy.
I'm not a fan of either one of those groups, but you are thinking of Paul (not Rob) Dean.
There is a Rob Dean, but Rob played in a British group called Japan from the mid-1970's to the early 80's.
Loverboy's Paul Dean was in a previous band from Canada, called Streetheart.
It would seem to strange that one guy goes from one completely different musically styled group to another, and across the Atlantic Ocean for that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you sure it's the same Paul Dean?
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Yep Stevie, my mistake, Rob Dean was the guitarist from Japan. It was indeed Paul Dean, who went from X-Ray to Streetheart, then bcame the svengali of Loverboy. I guess everyone's got to have their meal ticket.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Just listening through the Back To School soundtrack which I got mostly because I dig the Jude Cole title track plus Oingo Bongo's Dead Man's Party and then I came across this great track by Michael Bolton - https://youtu.be/Ga_reU5lasQ which surprised me as I think I have only ever heard his mostly soppy ballads that he seemed to do later on in his career!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Try to track down his first two albums, lots of other goodies on those.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Will do atomik,who'd have ever thought Michael Bolton a hard rocker!
OK that's a bit of an exaggeration!
[ 29. November 2016, 08:49: Message edited by: the young warrior ]
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I remember that Michael Bolton song, and surprisingly it got a fair amount of AirPlay here in Western PA. This area is known for the worst radio stations ever, with unending play of the same 20 songs by artists like Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: This area is known for the worst radio stations ever, with unending play of the same 20 songs by artists like Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
And I thought my local stations were bad!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Hey, i can listen to Fleetwood Mac and Lynyrd Skynyrd all day, every day ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I can vouch for PGHgirl's comment about bad radio. Things have changed so much since the mid-70s when I was a DJ. Back then, there were a lot of mom-and-pop stations--one that I worked at, a Top 40 AM station, was above a hardware store that the station owner also owned--with so much variety and actual live talent. Today in the Pittsburgh market, for example, I'm pretty sure that almost all of the stations are owned by some huge media conglomerate like Clear Channel Broadcasting. These mindless corporate drones program their stations across the country with the same formats, music, and prerecorded talent. It's all so robotic. I miss the good old days when something really weird like Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good," an instrumental with a flugelhorn solo, could become a top 10 hit. That will never happen again in the U.S.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I don't think anyone wants to hear the same 20 songs over and over, lol. Crash, I do believe that Clear Channel owns all of the radio stations in Pittsburgh, PA. It's sad, there is no variety anymore. Even WAMO is gone now, which was the urban/dance music station back in the day. My friends used to listen to that, and I used to listen to I think it was WYDD 104.7. They played solid rock, and had rock blocks every weekend, where the DJ would roll a die and that would be the number of songs by an artist that he would play. (For example, 3 Van Halen Songs, followed by 2 Motley Crue songs, followed by 4 Journey songs, etc.). There was a decent radio station out of Johnstown, PA, Rocky 99, that played a variety of rock from the 1970's to the present. Now they are starting to sound more like the Clear Channel stations. They are owned by Forever Broadcasting. My friend worked for their sister station, the country station Froggy. She quit about 6 months ago, and her friend who worked at Rocky quit too. I guess someday I will break down and get Sirius XM.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Nothing wrong with Mac and Skynyrd but i can understand the frustrations Pitts has. We also have a classic rock station here which has the same playlist all the time. Thousands of great tunes around and all they play is the same old song... But yeah, itīs basically same with all radio stations nowadays.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Coming straight from the - Should I Watch This Thread on first glance there Atomik I thought your post read "Nothing wrong with Mac and Me but i can understand the frustrations"
I think a lot of these stations just don't mix it up enough and you can more or less predict the days playlist before they've even got started!
[ 03. December 2016, 04:21: Message edited by: the young warrior ]
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I think the radio wasteland epidemic is pretty much everywhere sadly. Huge corporations playing the same crap 20 songs like they are spewing out some mind control! Only time I get surprises is when I visit home and these little small towns sometimes seem like they have their own playlists. Anyways, thankful that I built up my record collection where I don't need to depend on radio.
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