#23/1180
January 1986
Tony MacAlpine
Edge of Insanity
Genre: Instrumental Finger Noodling Showcase
2.25 out of 5
Is it Yngwie Malmsteen?!? No! Just a secondary facsimile.
It’s noodletastic and pentatoniriffic! And if you wanna sit through 40 minutes of that, put the top down and stay as far away from me as you can cuz your air guitar antics are gonna cause an accident.
This vacillates between proficiency and garbage and hews too close to the garbage for much of the time. Toward the end, on “The taker”, Tony busts out his keyboard talents which come out of the blue in the middle of the song and then hits the ivories on Chopin’s Prelude 16 and, seriously, I’d rather he just do that all the time. Cuz it’s some big time Spinal Tap shit that it’s immediately followed by epic stadium instru-rock.
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