Released as a tribute to the recently deceased guitarist Tim
\nKelly,
\nEternal Live<\/i> serves as the end of a chapter in what will
\nsurely be a long career. Hey, if they didn’t break up when their
\ncontemporary hair metal friends, like Winger and Faster Pussycat,
\nbought the bullet, there most likely is still a market niche for
\nthis style of metal.<\/p>\n
And Slaughter do it better than anyone. Kicking off with a
\npreviously unreleased track called “Rock The World.” What a groove!
\nFollowing that track is “Get Used To It,” another rocker. Mark
\nSlaughter’s voice has always been a love it or hate it style. In
\neither case, he is a charismatic front man and his voice cuts
\nthrough the guitar, drums and bass to be its own important
\nvoice.<\/p>\n
No matter how good the rockers are, Slaughter is surprisingly
\npotent when they rearrange a rocker from the
\nStick It To Ya<\/i> release, “Spend My Life.” They transformed
\nthis into a soft piano ballad that is more a tribute to the fans
\nthan to any one specific person. Smoothly, the song transitions
\ninto a haunting rendition of their mega-hit, “Fly To The Angels.”
\nTracks like “Wild Life” and their trademark radio hit “Up All
\nNight” are executed perfectly here. Blas Elias begins “Up All
\nNight” with an effects-thick drum solo.<\/p>\n
While all of that is fine and dandy, this doesn’t feel like a
\nlive album. It’s more of a collection of songs, recorded live and
\ntossed together. There are crowd fade ins and outs between almost
\nevery song so the continuity is lost. And really, unless they’ve
\nchanged
\nthat<\/i> much since I saw them tucked between Don Dokken and
\nPoison, this disc sounds very thin. And finally, if this really is
\na tribute to their deceased guitarist Tim Kelly (which I
\nwhole-heartedly believe is true), I find it curious they didn’t
\nfind a memorable guitar solo to include.<\/p>\n
And I’m not some anti-Slaughter fan. I have fond memories of Tim
\nKelly playing a guitar solo, running to the edge of the stage,
\nslipping into the bouncer pit, all the while not missing a note of
\nhis solo. He disappeared behind the stage and reappeared, moments
\nlater, on the stage, his smile lighting up the arena.<\/p>\n
That kind of experience does not translate onto a CD, and I’m
\nnot implying it should. But there really isn’t anything to define
\nwhat Tim Kelly was about. There’s no shining moment on this disc
\nthat I can point to and say, “Tim Kelly was a great guitarist.
\nHere, listen to this song.” All I can offer are some live versions
\nof songs Slaughter fans enjoy, but nothing more substantial, more
\nfulfilling for the casual listener.<\/p>\n
For you techies, this is an enhanced CD so there’s a “FREE
\nenhanced multimedia portion” to this disc, containing pictures and
\nthe guitar riff of “Rock the World” as a theme.<\/p>\n
All in all, though, this disc doesn’t do much to eulogize Tim
\nKelly. It’s sure to sound like gold to many Slaughter fans
\nworld-wide, but it’s closer to silver for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7429],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-39056","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-slaughter","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39056"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}