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Beau Hill sucked the life out of Steve Stevens

Dr. Bonkers | New York, NJ | 03/14/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Revisiting this album after listening to "Black Light Syndrome", "Situation Dangerous", and the single he did with Billy Idol for the movie "Speed", this album is almost a Flintstonian execution of a metal spoof album. With lyrics like "an SDI like a gun at his hip when he meets you" on the title track, you are not sure if this album is aiming towards a joke in Spinal Tap/Bad News territory or if the album is just going into the really awful album realm from where no comedy can be derived. The playing is top notch, the song writing varies from one or 2 good songs, to the bad, to the absolutely insipid. Beau Hill also produced Winger; it sounds like either he encouraged Steve and boys to go over the top in terms of camping it up or instead lead them off the cliff."