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| Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Trail By Fire Band: Bachman-Turner Overdrive Tracks: - House Of The Rising Sun - Roll On Down The Highway - Trial By Fire - Hold Back The Water - Blue Collar - Gimme Your Money Please - Let It Ride - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Not Fragile - Hey You - Take It Like A Man - Nothin' Comes Easy - Testify - Four Wheel Drive - A Sense Of Danger Excellent new tracks While the album is dominated by older tracks, the new ones are top-notch and deserve special mention - including possibly the best recording of "House of the Rising Sun." Fred Turner is in top form, while the "Randy Bachman replacement" doing his lines on the obligatory "you've only heard these recorded twelve times now" hits does pretty well. The old hits are just different enough to be interesting, but buy this album (a) for the new songs, (b) because it's cheap, and (c) so they'll do another! Too polished to be BTO The songs on this cd have been so slickly recorded that they retain none of the "live in the studio" gruffness of the original BTO. Most of the early BTO album songs were recorded, usually in one take, with the entire Band playing in the studio together, not with each member playing to the recorded tracks of the others.This gave them a "live" quality not to be found on Trial by Fire.<BR> The drum tracks on all but one song are way louder than the rest which makes me suspect Rob Bachman is still trying to compensate for his mediocrity. Also, the drumming is so slick as to have been done by a drum machine. No one makes any mistakes on the recordings and even Fred Turner's ad-libs sound rehearsed to death.<BR> This type of recording can also be seen on BTO's "Street Action" album, the first without Randy Bachman at the helm. It too is polished to oblivion. <BR> While most BTO-holics like myself will be purchase this album anyway, it will certainly not inspire a first timer to pursue the older BTO material. Fred Turner's voice is the only redeeming aspect of "Trial by Fire" and the only song on it with a glimmer of the old BTO is "Testify", which is crying out for Randy Bachman's guitar work. What took you guys so long? Made in EU in 1999, Serial# 5216112, Playing Time 67:43 I had to wait 14 years for this new album; their previous was called "Live!Live!Live!", released back in 1986, and re-issued in 1990 as "The All Time Greatest Hits Live". I'm a bit partial to BTO; I've seen hundreds of concerts (yes, I saw Led Zeppelin, so I'm that old!) but my first was by a Canadian Band called BTO on their 1975 "Four Wheel Drive" tour at the Montreal Forum. This new CD features 10 re-recorded tracks from the "old" BTO days, plus 5 new tracks. Are these guys great musicians? No. But their performance is un-pretentious, and that makes up for it: they know how to write catchy straight-ahead rock! The versions are different enough to make them interesting, and faithful enough to bring back great memories. The new stuff is good as well, and the sounds make you think they haven't taken a break. If you like their first 4 albums, you'll definitely like this; if you don't own them, get them and this CD too. It's a shame, but I feel this album will hit the "delete bin" in the not-so-distant future. Buy Bachman Turner Overdrive Trail By Fire at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
