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Midweek ear fodder:

Stryper: 7 (Best of)

Some of the best hard rock tunes are in the Stryper catalog. Generally, people are not interested due to the band's religious inclinations & it's very evident in the lyrics. I'm just re-living my 80s moments & Stryper is a must-listen for me. Sweet & Oz are a formidable guitar duo & it's plain to hear in this collection. I'm still keeping track of Sweet's side projects, his riff ideas song structures are just too good to ignore.

Beck, Bogert, Appice

This was Jeff Beck already plying his crazy guitar pyrotechnics with a generous serving of slide in a band which he said plays much heavier music (Hjort & Hinman, 2002). He was absolutely right. This was like a leftist take on what's hype back then. Also in this album - Carmine Appice's epic drumming. 

Warrant: The Best of

I'm still too distracted by Warrant's 'Best of...' release to be listening to Paul Gilbert & 1349. I grew up listening to them so as time goes by, even when I am occupied by other flavours of the moment, I still reach out for the above CD from time to time. In my opinion, they are much overlooked as other bands like Poison, Bon Jovi, Firehouse, Cinderella et al were in the limelight. Erik Turner & Joey Allen took time to focus on both riffs & solos so each song is enjoyable in whole; we don't just look forward to the flashy leads. Of course, they were the early Ibanez RG proponents which made me take notice.