Criss

Pic: Rock Bio online

I'm re-visiting the 80s because I am fully aware of how rotten music is in the mean time. Just tune in to any contemporary radio stations & listen to those plastic, cut-&-paste tunes... there's hardly any musical instruments involved. 

Anyway, one of the lesser known guitar icons back then was the late Criss Oliva (1963 - 1993). I only managed to listen to Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera (1991) which is not quite the reference album if you wish to hear what Criss Oliva is all about. You need to go way back to the debut release, Sirens (1983). This is a challenging endeavour because those albums were on cassette tape format. The only way to go is the re-press option (CD) which are rather obscure unless the record label did / is doing a catalogue revival.

To be continued...