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Glen Bridger started playing guitar after hearing VAN HALEN, when he was in his teens. Though awarded a baseball scholarship he decided to go for a music career. Learning from magazines he found work with Kansas City\u00b4s top bands, e.g. HEAD EAST. This new venture features powerful singer Terry Ilous of XYZ, keyboard player Sam McCaslin of MICHAEL SCHENKER and CARMINE APPICE fame, plus fellow HEAD EAST bass player Greg Manahan, plus a certain Danzoid on drums. Additional musicians include JK Northrup, Larry Hart (MONTROSE, KING KOBRA), Eddy Jones of HEAD EAST and Pat Fontaine of XYZ has supplied lyrics. <\/p>\n
The MR BIG echo in \u201cTuesday Afternoon\u201d makes for a cozy opening. Perhaps not a roaring thunder but a softer and well played start. To my surprise the ensuing \u201cHow Long\u201d has more in common with THE SEX PISTOLS, and is a fusion of rock and punk. WHITESNAKE seems close in \u201cOn the Ledge\u201d, \u201cFree\u201d makes me remember how I miss THUNDER and their very own \u201cDon\u00b4t Push Me\u201d is simply a dazzling moment of arrangements, riffs, vocals, a refrain to die for and an enigmatic ending. The far too soft, on the verge of meaningless, \u201cLive for the Moment\u201d is the only letdown. The next ballad, \u201cOnce in a Lifetime\u201d would have earned them truckloads of dollars in the eighties, and I have still saved the best for last; \u201cHeaven and Hell\u201d. BRIDGER`S tribute to the late little man with the big voice is nothing like the rest. There may be more tributes than bands soon, but this has a different beat, a will to make it their own effort as far as possible, and above all it is contagious. It must be a record track surviving for months in my constantly evolving MP3. I think there will be more from this lot, to hold them back would be a sin\u2026 HIGHLY RECOMENDED.<\/p>\n
Track List
\nTuesday Afternoon
\nHow Long
\nOn the Ledge
\nDon\u00b4t Push Me
\nWithout a Sound
\nFree
\nLive for the Moment
\nGood to Be Home
\nGonna Get Better
\nOnce in a Lifetime
\nHeaven and Hell (Tribute to Ronnie James Dio)<\/p>\n