This is the third of the four albums that White Lion put out towards the end of the whole “Hair Metal” thing at the end of the eighties right into the grunge episode. In fact, White Lion were one of the bands whose career virtually ended overnight by the birth of grunge, which is a shame really as they are quite talented and great musicians unlike bands like Poison who deserved to be wiped out. And in Vito Bratta they had an incredible guitar player right out of the Eddie Van Halen school of histrionics. In fact the VH comparisons are a little to close on Let’s Get Crazy, which is a clear rip of Hot For Teacher.
This album, although not the strongest of the 4, still made Top 20 on Billboard and spawned 4 singles – the most successful was Little Fighter. Mike Tramps strained vocal style is not my thing but it does suit the music well. Though its Bratta’s six string wizardry that holds the attention as nearly all songs have his stamp all over them, and the excellent production by Michael Wagner bring it to the fore in the mix. One other notable member of this line up is James Lorenzo who has played with just about everyone, and I do believe is now playing with John Fogerty. Other than the cover of Radar Love, may favourite track is If My Mind Is Evil. All in all a quite enjoyable album.
7/10 from The Grooveman.
