The 1980 Listening Post - Gary Moore - G-Force

Gary Moore - G-Force

#191

May 30 1980

Gary Moore

G-Force

Genre: Guitar Hero

2.5 out of 5

I loved G Force the tv show. It was like Voltron. Actually, it was more like Power Rangers and I think one stole the idea from the other. Only G Force was a bunch of action pilots who dressed like birds and converge their vehicles to make giant…you get the picture. 

We used to watch it after school.

It was anime trash but we loved it. 

This G Force is more trash by the ego that is known as Gary Moore. 

It’s what Paul Stanley would sound like if he went pure Power Rock and Gene Simmons wasn’t around. 

Except that I believe Paul would sound better than this pap. 

Everything on this screams that it should be better than it is but it’s so bloated and self important that it’s impossible to enjoy.

The band can play. “Dancin’” proves that. But it’s a lot of no there there. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/g-force/1139213368

The 1985 Listening Post - Gary Moore - Run for Cover

Gary Moore - Run for Cover

#365/1001

September 1985

Gary Moore

Run for Cover

Genre: Rock

4 out of 5

Highlights:

Run for Cover

Once in a Lifetime

For the first time in a long time Gary doesn’t suck. 

When I was 17 I bought my cousin’s grandfather’s 1962 Chevy Bel Air. It cost me $75. Hey, I had a car. Sure it stalled out at every red light unless you kept the engine running. Did I mention that it cost $75? 

I had a boom box at the time. I would put that thing on the floor of the car and blast mix tapes. They were filled with radio rock hits of the day, stuff I recorded off WDHA and WFMU. If I had heard of this, I guarantee some of it would have ended up on one of those tapes. 

“Reach for the Sky” sounds like if The Tubes did metal. “Nothing to Lose” is a Kiss track, no? Sure sounds like it. But the guitar is even bigger and shreddier than Ace’s or Tommy’s. And “Once in a Lifetime” is a virtual interpolation of “Hold On Loosely”, but I kind of love it. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/run-for-cover/723387840

The 1983 Listening Post - Gary Moore - Victims of the Future

Gary Moore - Victims of the Future

#269

December 1983

Gary Moore

Victims of the Future

2.5 out of 5

Highlights:

Victims of the Future

Shapes of Things

It feels like ages since we heard some high-octave/high-octane soaring vocals to go along with gigantic guitars so, here we are, closing in on the end of this project and we have Gary Moore. It takes balls to have a sound like this that isn’t accompanied by a name like Excelsior or Gigantasaur or even The Gary Moore Project. It’s just him. Everyone else is along for the electric six string ride. 

What songs lack in, say, quality choruses (Teenage Idol) they make up for it with blistering guitar solos. Can we talk for a minute about how forceful and great Deep Purple’s drummer Ian Paice is? On the tracks he plays on, especially the Yardbirds cover “The Shape of Things”, he’s positively a force a nature. 

“Empty Rooms” was probably left lying around some Journey sessions and Moore needed a ballad so he grabbed it but I don’t care cuz, after all that synth-pop I’ve forgotten what guitars sound like. 

The second side starts out with less promise, as Moore unleashes his internal Malmsteen on a 7 minute masturbatory epic that is also every bit the worst Scorpions you’ve heard and from there it’s shitty Van Halen (“All I Want”) & crappy Ozzy “Law of the Jungle”.

This album should be called The Law of Diminishing Returns. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/victims-of-the-future/723400228