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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Alcatrazz-"No Parole From Rock ´n´ Roll" (1983)

The main attraction of Alcatrazz was the voice of its singer and founder Graham Bonnet, who some years ago had been the vocalist of Rainbow on their album "Down to Earth", however the rest of the band was made up of great musicians such as ex-Iron Butterfly drummer Jan Uvena, ex-New England members Gary Shea, bassist and keyboardist Jimmy Waldo, and massive Swedish guitarist and ex-Steeler member Yngwie Malmsteen.
His recording debut came from the album "No Parole From Rock ´n´ Roll" (1983), in which the prominence of the aforementioned Bonnet and Malmsteen stand out, the latter already here showing his enormous credentials as an extraordinary guitarist with his vertiginous solos and their refined melodies, accompanied by an inspiring Bonnet, showing his enormous voice with fabulous performances. A traditional Hard rock album with nods to the neoclassical style and great forcefulness, very close to classic heavy metal. Tracks like "Island In The sun", "Jet To Jet" or "Hiroshima Mon Amour" sound really fantastic with a simply overwhelming and superb Malmsteen on the six strings.
From here two more albums, both without the Swedish guitarist "Disturbing The Peace" and "Dangerous Games", for the first it would be replaced by the great Steve Vai, and Danny Johnson in the second, being the album with Frank's Zappa disciple, the more acceptable of the two.

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