Fandango - Cadillac
July 23 1980
Fandango
Cadillac
Genre: Rock
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Rock n’ Roll You
I’ve talked a bit about one of my favorite bands from the aughts: The Helicopters. It was a throwback hard rock outfit out of Sweden, a project by Entombed’s drummer, that sounded nothing like Entombed.
Nicke Andersson spun off a band from that called Imperial State Electric. ISE was a pop rock group. As he got older, Nicke seemed to get more and more melodic. And yet, he still pounded the skins ferociously for Entombed, and others.
This is not anything like that but I’m reminded of how bands and musicians go where the muse takes them.
Lead Singer Joe Lynn Turner took this project on tour and got noticed by the manager for Rainbow and that led him to becoming the latter’s lead singer until they broke up. Then he put out a decidedly boring and middling solo record that we covered in 1985.
But Fandango. It’s like the Imperial State Electric (a fun group) before he moved on to Rainbow (a harder outfit) and then solo (something like enjoyed about as much as I did Entombed. Which is not all that much)
Joe Lynn Turner is the Nicke Andersson in reverse! (I knew I was going somewhere.
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