Its a little known fact (Slave To The Grind - Skid Row)

Member Name: Planescape

Product:	Slave To The Grind - Skid Row
Date:	06/12/02 (255 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Guitar, Excellent Singing

Disadvantages: We are missing the 13th track

The lead singer from Skid Row Sebastian Bach actually spent about 9 years of his life having 2 singing lessons a week. Now this accounts for why this guy has suck a damn good voice.
I know a lot of people look at Skid Row and think typical 80's heavy rock band, loud singer and heavy guitar. But no Scott Hill (Lead Guitarist) and Sebastian Bach brought nice edge to the rock scene just after Guns N' Roses had revolutioned and resurrected it.
If you listen to Bachs singing it's simply amazing, he can hold notes for a period that opera singers would be shocked, but at the same time if he goes for a quieter song he can sound so fragile in his own way. But saying that he can then burst out with a rocking scream or something to that affect that changes the way the song works. Two very good instances of this would be Quicksand Jesus and Wasted Time. Both songs start off reasonably quiet in their own way but build to a tremendous peak you wonder if it's the same singer.
But while you've got these quiet songs you've also got the guitar smashing, amp bursting renditions of Monkey Business (which i have to say is one of the album openers ever) and Slave to the Grind ( what a damn good second song). These are followed by Get the Fuck out, which is the kind of song you'd play when yo uwant to close a shop at night, or maybe The Threat which is a riff monster.
Scott Hill is an annoying underknown guitarist, his style is brilliant and he brings unusual techniques to his playing. So i've always wondered, why he hasn't been hyped like say Slash or Hammett and i don't have an answer for that.
But i'm sure one day people will remember who he is.

Anyone who has listened to Skid Row (the first album) will realise that the entire style of this album is different, it's heavier it's in a way nastier but still has the same overall thought and point behind it all. They are talking about life and choices,
maybe in Skid Row the songs were more about rebellion and young life, but although Slave to the Grind isn't quite the same it does still bring that across.
The album on a whole is great, it's one of those things that you listen to and even if you've been depressed as hell, you come off feeling better, if slightly angrier in a way.
But still it gives you energy you didn't realise was there, even with the opener Monkey Business it sets a pace for the audience and the band.
It's a shame that their 3rd and final album with Sebastian turned out to be a well crap, but they are releasing another album soon but with a new lead singer and Bach is releasing a solo album.
So it should be interesting hearing the two.

If your an old rock fan or just like some damn fine guitar work then this is a good album to get hold of, it's heavy it's loud and it does exactly what a REAL rock album should do.

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