{"id":4036,"date":"1983-10-01T00:00:35","date_gmt":"1983-10-01T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2013-06-01T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:25:07","slug":"album-review-the-joe-perry-project-once-a-rocker-always-a-rocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-the-joe-perry-project-once-a-rocker-always-a-rocker\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JOE PERRY PROJECT – Once A Rocker, Always A Rocker (1983) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE JOE PERRY PROJECT
Once A Rocker, Always A Rocker<\/strong><\/span>
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Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Joe Perry is back! After nearly two years of waiting since his excellent I\u2019ve Got The Rock\u2019N\u2019Rolls Again<\/em>, he\u2019s produced another storming album. Out have gone all of his old backing band and in have come three fresh new faces. The singer, Cowboy Mach Bell, looks like a heavy metal Barbara Cartland, but he definitely delivers the goods.<\/p>\n

Side one kicks off with the title track; a nice guitar riff at the beginning, then it\u2019s heads down rock from there on. \u2018Black Velvet Pants\u2019 follows with some great saxophone playing from Jim Biggins. Next up is one of my favourite tracks on the LP, \u2018Women In Chains\u2019. It starts off with Mr. Perry plucking at his Strat, then it\u2019s straight into the no nonsense balls to the wall rock. Mach Bell does in places remind me of Steven Tyler.<\/p>\n

\u2018Four Guns West\u2019 and \u2018Crossfire\u2019 close this side. I think \u2018Crossfire\u2019 sounds the closest to Aerosmith since Joe Perry left them. The guitar work is very similar to \u2018Walk This Way\u2019 at the beginning, and there\u2019s some fine sax playing at the end.<\/p>\n

\u2018Adrianna\u2019 starts the flip side off, then it\u2019s straight into \u2018King Of The Kings\u2019, a song about a whore which has a real wicked bass solo in the middle. The next track, \u2018Bang A Gong\u2019, is the only disappointment on the album. It\u2019s a remake of the old T. Rex hit \u2018Get It On\u2019 (\u2018Bang A Gong\u2019 was the title for the US release), but as much as I like T. Rex, this version sucks a big one.<\/p>\n

Next, it\u2019s straight back to the rock\u2019n\u2019roll with \u2018Walk With Me Sally\u2019, sounding like \u2018Long Tall Sally\u2019 it also has some great honky-tonk piano playing and Joe really shines through with some shit-hot soloing. The LP finishes with \u2018Never Wanna Stop\u2019. As they say, all good things have to end, which is a shame, because this is a first class rock LP, not all out heavy metal.<\/p>\n

I urge every rock fan to check it out.<\/p>\n

Dave Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 2 (1983)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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