What do you think? Are they seriously lame? Or do they RAWK???
He's old enough (to make you a woman)...
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 20 June 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)
no, and you can't make me.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 20 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
I can try!
The Albums: Trevor Rabin, Face to Face, Wolf
All originally released on Chrysalis Records, if memory serves
Selected Song Titles:
"I'm Old Enough (To Make You a Woman)"
"Candy's Bar"
"Do Ya Do Ya Want Me"
"Heard You Cry Wolf"
and...
"Looking for a Lady - (Wolfman)" [sic; maybe he was going for the Meatloaf market?]
Anyway, some random commentary (alas, as of yet I haven't heard the second album, Face to Face):
The first solo album is notable for "Red Desert", which sounds like Styx sped up on 78 after drinking too much Kool Aid, as well as the soothing lurv ballad "Finding Me a Way Back Home" (sample lyric: "I wanna dress her up in crimson...I love you/I love you/I loooove you").
The third solo album, Wolf, is notable for having Jack Bruce on bass and Manfred Mann on keys (ostensibly as session musicians?!) as well as Ray Davies listed as the "Associate Producer". As AOR as hell, nonetheless.
Still, I have to admit, the Trev still had a knack (no pun intended) for writing a tasty chorus hook now and again prior to joining Yes, as evidenced in such winsome fare as: "Getting to Know You Better", "Open Ended", the wobbily "Take Me to a Party", and the aforementioned "Do Ya Do Ya Want Me" and "Heard You Cry Wolf".
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)
one year passes...
I've been on a bit of a
90125 and
Big Generator kick for the past week or so and dug around on slsk for these albums last night.
Holy hell! Half the time I'm cringing only to be tapping my fingers and feet along seconds later. The guy knows his way around a guitar for sure and it's embarassingly obvious now how much Yes turned into the Trevor Rabin show after he joined. I always knew he was a component in the more pop-leaning shift, but I hadn't realized that 90125 and Big Generator were essentially just his 4th and 5th solo albums (albeit with far less cheese).
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 4 November 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)
I had an opportunity to meet the guy recently...but I didn't know it.
My wife's ex-bf is a Hollywood studio guy and invited us to the premiere of The Guardian which was here in DC as a fundraiser for the Coast Guard. All sorts of celebs were there and at the afterparty: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Demi, Clancy Brown.
And frankly, the only guy I wanted to meet was Brown (bad guy in Highlander, guard in Shawshank)...until I learned that Trevor Rabin had been in attendence, having done the score (and a song with Brian Adams at the end, ugh). You have no idea how upset it makes me that I didn't know this.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)
I have since obtained
Face to Face. "Candy's Bar", unfortunately is about a place named "Candy's Bar" (i.e., no 'Big Bottom'-type innuendos whatsoever).
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)
eleven months pass...
It's official:
"I'm Old Enough (To Make You a Woman)" is now my most favorite song in the whole universe ever.
Okay, maybe not. But people on ILM have *got* to hear this song! :)
― Joe, Sunday, 28 October 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)
Surely Trevor Rabin was an important musical force in mid 80s Yes, but do you mean there is stuff like "Changes" or "It Can Happen" on those albums are are they more geniune results of the other members' prog roots?
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 28 October 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)
What makes "Changes" proggy is the loppy-rhythm instrumental part, which was written by Alan White. "It Can Happen" is by and large a Squire song.
― Joe, Monday, 29 October 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)
Makes sense then. It's still the other members that did the more prog-related numbers.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 29 October 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)