#129
1980 Housekeeping
The Blazers
How to Rock
Genre: Roots Rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Top of My World
The Air Gets Colder
Requisite 80’s cover:
Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman”. Van Halen’s version is better. This is a respectful version but it doesn’t move the needle.
No info on this band exists. In this day and age that’s nearly impossible. Somehow this rock outfit managed to get a label deal and have their album produced by Don Dixon. And while the cover of this album on YouTube is How to Rock, Dixon’s wikipedia page says he produced a Blazers album called Ten Easy Lessons. Which is this record’s full title. How to Rock: Ten Easy Lessons.
I wonder what the story is here. Gotta be one, right?
Ok! After research, the lead singer here is Rick Scott before he became Parthenon Huxley and joined ELO.
And you can hear that ELO feeling in “Top of My World”.
Anyway, this record’s production sparkles as it rides the razor of Power Pop and Paisley Revival. In other words, there’s a market for this but without that shimmering big hit single, they are too early for college radio and too late to the genre’s party.
I feel like we need to ask Robbie or Dan for any info they have on this band.
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