Memory Crash

Steve Stevens - Memory Crash

Memory Crash
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Artist: Steve Stevens
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Magna Carta
Soundtracks:
  1. Heavy Horizon
  2. Hellcats Take The Highway
  3. Memory Crash
  4. Water On Ares
  5. Day Of The Eagle
  6. Small Arms Fire
  7. Cherry Vanilla
  8. Joshua Light Show
  9. Prime Mover
  10. Josephine

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Free Music Review: Have you heard of this underated guitar player?
Hit: 5 Stars

It's great to see a fabulous guitar player come out on his own once again to do a solo album. Not to say he plays with only Billy Idol but check out his other cd's that he's played on. Steve is a very underated guitarist. On cd track no 5 he does a Robin Trower track Day of the Eagle , then on track 7 he follows with a Trower-esk Cherry Vanilla. Throuhgout some tracks he'll throw in Flamenco riffs showing off his virtuosity. Of the 10 tracks 2 are all instrumental. If you like guitar driven blues , metal and rock you'll enjoy this cd.

Memory Crash Poster

Billy Idol guitarist s new solo album
With help from King s X bass wizard / vocalist dUg Pinnick (performing Robin Trower s Day Of The Eagle )
Featuring drummer Brian Tichy (Billy Idol, Derek Sherinian)

Special Digipak Edition

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I think the time is right for me to make a record that is totally me my world, Stevens says of Memory Crash.

Boasting such tracks as Water on Ares , Hellcats Take the Highway , Small Arms Fire , an interpretation of Robin Trower s Day of the Eagle (featuring Dug Pinnick of King s X), and the rousing/psychedelic Cherry Vanilla , Memory Crash is a journey through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind , to steal a line from Rod Serling. It s virtually musical cinema. I have a lot of weird little segues going on with this record, Stevens says. I ve always loved that about the prog records, like Dark Side of the Moon. You enter this little theater of the mind. It s a true headphone experience.

Nothing encapsulates this more than the sizzling wah-wah- and flanger-inflected instrumental Cherry Vanilla. I just happened to have a recorder with me when I was on my way to an appointment, says Stevens. There were these women walking by, talking amongst themselves, so I caught them on tape. I just wanted to capture this moment of people s everyday lives and problems. On the track you also hear this other voice that says, Hey, man, can you dig what is going on in the world today , or something to that effect. He goes on to say, Man, you just gotta play a stone groove. Other words, when all else fails, just play a good guitar groove.

Indeed. A freaked-out, Hendrix-meets-Stevens vibe is prevalent in the interpretation of Robin Trower s Day of the Eagle , a tune Stevens says Dug Pinnick takes to church with a Sly Stone spin.

Jimi wasn t the only influence that crept up on Stevens. He revisited a cast of legendary characters, from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, and Yes, to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Bo Diddley, and Jeff Beck. Yet, despite the presence and interplay of diverse and distinct musical elements, Stevens never surrenders his own creative identity.

I spent a long time before making this record watching old archival footage and retrospectives on bands like Pink Floyd and Yes, just soaking up what made them tick, Stevens says. But this record is not a retro gimmick at all. It s still very much a Steve Stevens record.


Steve Stevens, the wizard of guitar effects and longtime musical partner of fist-pumpin , punk-pop bad boy Billy Idol, is one of the most refreshingly creative guitarists in all of rockdom.

Prepare to have your mind blown, again, when the atomic playboy drops his first solo record in nearly eight years, Memory Crash -- an electro-centric sonic tour de force that makes a serious musical impact. No gimmicks. No over-the-top production. No compromising. It s just Steve Stevens, his guitar, and his beloved effects all the ingredients that have made him a global star.

Stevens says. At the end of the day, this instrument, the guitar, has been with me since I was a kid, and it still fascinates me. I still have a love affair with the guitar.

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