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Artist: Trapeze
Label: Big Eye Music Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 666496408425 EAN: 0666496408425 ASIN: B00005QDCI Release Date: 2002-02-05 |
Hold On
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Straight rock does not get much better than this.......2004-01-04
All the songs flows effortlessly, this album is very pleasant to listen. It has a hard edge. Dave Holland's drumming is also much more inspired and imaginative than it would become when he went to Judas Priest.
Very good farewell for TRAPEZE.......2003-03-06
HOLD ON is great, even with this uninspired title (there literally HUNDREDS of songs with the name "HOLD ON"....)
Very good farewell by TRAPEZE.......2003-03-06
Mel Galley's guitar is still great and sharp. Dave Holland's drumming is also very good, but he soon went on to play something totally different in Judas Priest.
HOLD ON is great, even with this uninspired title (there literally HUNDREDS of songs with the name "HOLD ON"....)
Funk is faded, not forgotten, on "Hold On".......1999-11-09
But the writing style on "Hold On" marks this album as separate from the rest of the Trapeze collection. The funk influence, most evident on '74's "Hot Wire" album, stays to the shadows here, peeking around corners in just a few tracks. Solid rock tunes and soulful ballads rule the song selection on this CD, where on earlier Trapeze records these styles were represented but were flavored heavily with funk, jazz and blues.
Goalby, who does the bulk of the lead vocals and some guitar work on "Hold On," probably wasn't at the root of the shift in sound. Of the album's nine songs, three are written by him, the most inventive being "Livin' On Love" where you'll hear some nimble vocal lines and harmonies with Galley. The six remaining tracks are Galley compositions, and even the more up-tempo songs among these have a melancholy tone.
"Running" may rank as the album's most driving rock song, dotted with creative harmonies and trading of vocal lines between Galley and Goalby. "You Are" shows that Goalby can sing with feeling and features more high range harmonies from Mel Galley. Fans of Galley's singing will be interested in "Time Will Heal," a pain-soaked, slow number that puts him at the lead microphone.
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