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Line-up:
Gregg
Fulkerson
- Vocals
Mike Spears - Bass
Charlie Lauderdale
- Drums
Bryan Hill
- Guitar
Tracklist:
1. Rockin’ With
The Radio
2. Crush
3. Blue Tears
4. Take This Heart
5. Halfway To Heaven
6. Innocent Kiss
7. Racing With The Moon
8. Kiss Me Goodbye
9. True Romance
10. Thunder In The Night
Website:
www.bluetearsmusic.com |
Blue Tears is a unique
case when it comes to melodic hard rock music. They were from
America and they managed to release one and only album in 1990 and
they are considered as one of the best “unknown” bands of
melodic hard rock music. Many things have been said about this
band, how it begun, how it broke up, why it never released another
album and stuff like that but only the band’s members know what
really happened back then and we will never find out the whole
truth. Unfortunately some years ago 17 songs were appeared on the
internet, which were some demos songs of the band and had a very
bad sound but if they had a good production they would have become
huge. On the other hand some bands stolen parts of those demo
songs in order to release their own songs something which is
really a shame for a band to do. Fortunately some of those songs
were released a couple of years ago by Gregg Fulkerson and Mike
Spears’ new band Attraction 65. This band has a modern sound and
its material is closer to modern melodic rock music.
Back to Tears Blue again
and all I can say is that this album is just magnificent! The band
has taken the best elements of Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Winger and
Firehouse and it managed to release an outstanding album full of
great songs. Gregg’s vocals are wonderful, the guitars are
fantastic and the hooklines of the album are just superb! The
production is good enough but surely it could have been better but
I believe if their label had supported this album in a most
appropriate way then it would have been one of the best hard rock
albums ever just like Def Leppard’s Hysteria”. They had the
potentials to go further than some of the aforementioned bands but
it takes more than one in order to succeed. Fortunately they
offered us some eternal hard rock hymns like “Rockin’ With The
Radio”, “Crush”, “Take This Heart”, “Innocent Kiss”,
“Racing With The Moon”, “Kiss Me Goodbye” and “Thunder
In The Night” and some astonishing sensitive ballads such as
“Blue Tears”, “Halfway To Heaven”, and True Romance”.
This album was destined
to be a classic from the day it was released and the members of
this band if music industry was fair should have become the new
rock stars. Of course we cannot turn back time in order to correct
that injustice so, all that we can do is to seek for this
excellent album and to get it wherever we find it. All those who
like to seek for old and new hard rock gems that never get a big
promotion from labels and the press know that many bands have
release all those years albums that were far better than all those
shit stuff that big labels are releasing every day! Blue Tears
will never have the chance to gain what they deserve but we, the
fans, can give it to them ‘cause at the very end all that
matters is the love of the fans for someone to go big. Albums like
“Blue Tears” are not released every day... and when they do,
are not always becoming very popular!!!
by
Thanos “Casanova” Aggelakis | 