Saturday, December 7, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Frank Marino - Full Circle

Frank Marino - Full Circle



#160/1325
1986 Housekeeping
Frank Marino 
Full Circle
Genre: guitar god rock
4.25 out of 5

Highlights:
Breakin’ Away 
Hang On
Full Circle

Marino can play, that’s four damned sure. And you know what, he’s not pretentious or unctuous about it.  
Every track seems meticulously crafted for 80s Rock radio. Which means it’s listenable in that Def Leppard/ Mutt Lange way, but it’s empty confection. 
Is the title track an eleven minute odyssey of proto-prog rock? Yes. Do I love it. Probably because of what it is, I do. 
After all the BIG SOUND off Rawk, e we get treated to a very capable blues track as a coda. 
For much of the time, Full Circle got me right in the Rocks. 


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