Pablo Cruise - Reflector
#328
July 1981
Pablo Cruise
Reflector
Genre: Pop Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
This Time
Jenny
There is no “Pablo Cruise”. He’s the American version of Pink Floyd. Just a name. But, for me, that name always conjured up Hawaiian shirts and soft rock. I seem to recall Bill Murray insisting that they perform on SNL at some point. Is that story apocryphal? Was that a different band? Who knows?
This band isn’t a soft rock outfit. I mean, they aren’t a HARD rock outfit, either. They are a Toto kind of thing. A Molly Hatchett for the AOR crowd. They are the band I would have been forced to play on KMIX 101. Oh, I never told you I was a DJ for a MOR station in the desert? yeah. Only a couple times. I had a talk show on the AM sister station but they let me jump into the music booth a few times to cover the 3AM - 6AM slot. I slotted in a couple of Queen songs and got reported by a blind farmer who was angry that I played something off the list. The Program Director chewed me out. “Who told you you could play whatever you want?”
Dude. It was 3AM.
Whatever.
I was also one of the very last people in radio to interview Wolfman Jack. I accidentally hung up on him. When a caller said, “Wolfman Jack!?!? I thought he was dead!!!”
So did I.
He died 3 days later.
None of that has anything to do with this record but, that’s fine. Ultimately, I think these guys wanna be either The Doobie Brothers or Steely Dan and yet…umm…no.
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