Back Talk/Rocket Roll

Back Talk/Rocket Roll Artist: The Rockets
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 664140035126
EAN: 0664140035126
ASIN: B0007IO6RI


Release Date: 2005-02-15

Back Talk/Rocket Roll


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Tracks:

  1. Back Talk
  2. Jealous
  3. Lift You Up
  4. Shanghaied
  5. Love for Hire
  6. I Can't Get Satisfied
  7. Tired of Wearing Black
  8. I'll Be Your Lover
  9. American Dreams
  10. Lie to Me
  11. Rollin' By the Record Machine
  12. Rock & Roll Girl
  13. Gonna Crash
  14. (I Wanna) Testify
  15. Gimme Your Love
  16. Born in Detroit
  17. All Night Love
  18. Kid With the Heart
  19. Rollin' and Tumblin'
  20. Mean Streets

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars The Hollywood Record and the Last Gasp.......2005-03-01

What we have here is a (partial) testament to a band that came close to making it big, but never did. Unfortunately, the bands two best records, "The Rockets" (A.K.A. Turn Up The Radio), and "No Ballads", have never been issued on CD, perhaps because of the record label (RSO) failing. These two albums (Back Talk and Rocket Roll) were made for Elektra.

The band was on that second rung of the ladder, opening for top-name acts, and trying to push through to nation wide headliner status themselves. While they didn't succeed, it wasn't for lack of effort or reputation. They had top-drawer production, and were offered songs by Bruce Springsteen and the like.

When No Ballads failed to match the band's potential, radio hitmaker Jack Douglas was hired (to produce Back Talk). Douglas had produced the biggest Aerosmith and Cheap Trick albums up to that time. He was producing John Lennon's Double Fantasy when the ex-Beatle was murdered.

(Gutarist) Jimmy McCarty summed up the sessions and resulting record: "Back Talk was our Hollywood record. That was us trying to find a hit record. Douglas was a mess after the Lennon thing. When the record came out, we alienated all the old fans and didn't make any new ones."

"When we went into Back Talk, we were trying, by Rocket Roll (Their final studio album), the thing was over."

Thier final album was a live show recorded on New Years Eve, 1982. It has been issued on CD.

Hopefully, the rest of their catalog will be released on CD soon.

The MetroTimes (Detroit weekly newspaper) recently had a story on the late Dave Gilbert, who sang lead vocals. Amazon discourages website references, but you should be able to find the article with the info above.

Music Album:

  1. Break Up Songs ~ Various Artists
  2. Tracks on Wax 4 ~ Dave Edmunds
  3. Women in Prison ~ Evie Sands
  4. Beatles Tapes, Vol. 6: Rock and Religion 1966 ~ The Beatles
  5. I Love Music 1970-1974: Teenage Rampage ~ Various Artists
  6. The Cansecos ~ The Cansecos
  7. Ice Grillz ~ Cold World
  8. Dog in the Sand ~ Frank Black and the Catholics
  9. Major Fables ~ The Lot Six
  10. Supersonic ~ Hadden Sayers

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Slowly ~ Bobby Scott

Improvised Meditations & Excursions/Eastern Exposure ~ John Lewis, Fred Kaz

Apart ~ Paul Sch%C3%BCtze

20 of the Best ~ Duke Ellington

Think ~ Ronnie Smith

Art Farmer in Concert ~ Art Farmer

Bring It On ~ Ali Dee

A Nostra Accolta ~ Giramondu

Hato Ijou Yamabato Miman ~ Takayuki Ito

Gitanos ~ Los Rumberos