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Jetboy
- The Glam Years DVD
www.jetboy.com
Rating: B-
With
Jetboy’s reformation culminating in an appearance at this year’s
Rocklahoma festival, we may one day see the definitive DVD
release from these glam underground legends. Sadly, this is not
it.
This is a
DVD for complete-ists and those who live to own every piece of
memorabilia available from the glamtastic days of Hollywood in
the 80’s. This performance, shot with one camera at an
appearance at the Whiskey in 1986, was recorded as the band
prepared material for its third record, and it features many of
those songs and not a lot of band’s best stuff. Some of these
new songs are good, some are clearly not ready to be released,
and only a couple are familiar to the crowd. I’m sure that this
was a fun show if you had a playmate with a nose packed full of
coke on your arm while the band played. But 20 years later I’d
like to see the band’s best songs packaged together with modern
production values.
There’s no
“Stomp It (Down to the Bricks”) no “Moonlight,” no “Evil” an
especially no “Feel the Shake” featured on the DVD, and those
are the bands best songs. Some of these tunes do show up on a
bonus CD featured with this package, but if you’re a Jetboy fan
(and I am), then you already have the first two albums, and
that’s where your search for everything Jetboy should start. Buy
this once you get all of the other stuff, and then it might make
more sense to you. But I wouldn’t start here.
By the way,
Traci Guns has said these guys were the best sleaze rock band of
that era, and that’s something coming from the guy who formed
both GNR and L.A. Guns. The band deserves your attention if you
like this kind of music.
-- Dan
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