Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns
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Artist: Tommy ShawEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: American Beat
Soundtracks:
- Girls With Guns
- Come in and Explain
- Lonely School
- Heads Up
- Kiss Me, Hello [Version]
- Fading Away
- Little Girl World
- Outside in the Rain [Version]
- Free to Love You
- The Race Is On
Free Music Notes for Girls With Guns
Free Music Review: Tommy Shaw's first, and still best, solo album 25 years on
Hit: 5 Stars
Styx guitarist/dinger/songwriter Tommy Shaw released his solo debut Girls With Guns in September of 1984.
By the time Styx were mixing their live album Caught in the Act, Tommy (whom was disgruntled with the band's pop direction and fighting a drug and alcohol addiction he developed at the time) left the band that he helped make superstars. As a result, Styx went on ice (Dennis DeYoung and James "JY" Young would all record solo albums until they felt Shaw was ready to return). Tommy got together with ex-Queen engineer and Journey producer Mike Stone plus ex-Paul McCartney and Wings drummer Steve Holley, bass player Brian Stanley and keyboard player Peter Wood (may he RIP and was known to Pink Floyd fans as the late Rick Wright doppelganger during The Wall concerts in 1980 and 1981) to record his first solo album which (when I first acquired for Christmas 1984 on cassette) was a brilliant album.
We open with the rock radio and MTV smash title cut which is a great rocker. We continue the rocking with "Come In and Explain" which rocks harder than what Tommy had written up to that point. We then have a ballad out of "Lonely School" which was a great song and got some MTV play. Next is the rocker "Heads Up" (which was co-written by Kenny Loggins). The first half ends with the epic "Kiss Me Hello" which was a great song.
The second side starts with the rocker "Fading Away" which is a killer track. We then have another ballad out of "Little Girl World" which was a nice ballad. Next is the number "Outside in the Rain" which is a mid-tempo rocker duet between Tommy and British soul singer Carol Kenyon (who recently had stints as backing singer for both David Gilmour and Roger Waters). "Free to Love You" is next and another great up-tempo rocker. The closing "The Race is On" is a great number and features ex-Billy Joel saxman Richie Cannata playing the blazing sax solos on this track.
Girls With Guns would prove to be a modest seller and to date is Tommy's most successful album outside of Styx (not counting his stint with Damn Yankees) and his most accessible album (What If was awful, Ambition I have yet to hear and Seven Deadly Zens have its moments).
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