After the implosion of Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Vinnie blowing through money that the studio did not authorize, the record company transferred the remaining budget to Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum who were part of Vincent’s band anyway. This seemed quite underhanded to me at the time, but hindsight tells us that Vinnie was a bottle short of a six pack.
Anyhoo, the music is relatively of the age without an over the top guitar player, and there is more emphasis on the songs. There were 4 singles from this record, but Up All Night and Fly To The Angels were the big two that made the band an MTV favourite. Loaded Gun is my favourite track as I love the riff and groove. The term “party rock” could have been invented just for this record as that is exactly what it is, a good old Friday rock night special. A fun record no more no less.
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
