Share the post "Album review: JOE LYNN TURNER – Street Of Dreams – Boston 1985"
A two-part special feature was broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio on Monday 28 March at 22:00 GMT with Joe Lynn Turner chatting about his career, including tracks from the 1985 live album and his solo and band work. Listen again – and Part 3 – at Mixcloud
In this exclusive interview edit, using some non-broadcast material, Joe chats about current live work and a changing approach to the setlist (16:11)
Joe Lynn Turner is a Featured Artist at Get Ready to ROCK! Radio.
Deadline Music/Cleopatra Records [Release date 18.03.16]
Joe Lynn Turner has an interesting early history; before he was hand picked by Ritchie Blackmore for Rainbow, following in the footsteps of Dio and Bonnet in 1980, he’d already clocked up four albums with the under-estimated Fandango. By 1984 Blackmore had finished Rainbow. JLT on the other hand was readying his first foray into solo work. This is celebrated on a rare, live – and contemporaneous – performance from Boston, December 1985.
Turner’s live band is essentially the one featured on ‘Rescue You’, with one-time Foreigner keys player Al Greenwood taking a major role in their shared songwriting duties and 8 out of 11 tracks featured. Recording wise it is very acceptable for this era and originates from an FM radio recording, although not without one or two editing blips.
Turner shows himself to be a generous performer, allowing guitarist Bobby Messano three minutes in the spotlight with his intro to ‘Good Girls Gone Bad’. But, be thankful, it could have been a drum solo.
Photo: Darren Griffiths/GRTR!
There’s also a nod to Turner’s former role: versions of ‘Stone Cold’ and ‘Street Of Dreams’ whilst the playout version of Buddy Miles ‘Them Changes’ gives the chance for the whole band to stretch out and call-and-response to an audience evidently made up of mostly females. Highlights include an extended version of ‘Get Tough’ and ‘Soul Searcher’.
It would be another 10 years before the next JLT solo album (the reassuringly titled ‘Nothing’s Changed’), in the meantime he busied himself with Yngwie and in the “super-band” Mother’s Army. This live gem will evoke all the trappings of mid-eighties melodic hard rock: an era characterised by MTV, poodle perms, guitar shredding, slap bass, and – in this example – great musicianship and memorable songs. Oh, and of course, wonderful vocals. ****
Review by David Randall
David Randall presents ‘Assume The Position’ on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio every Sunday at 22:00 GMT.
Gig review (Hard Rock Hell AOR, March 2016)
Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK
Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook.
Next session: Sunday 19 January
Check out videos here: https://www.facebook.com/getreadytorockradio
David Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at getreadytorock.com. First broadcast on 24 November 2024.
UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). This show was first broadcast 26 November 2024.
How to Listen Live?
Click the programming image at the top of the page (top right of page if using desktop)
Listen via Windows Media Player. Click or tap here and “open file”
Listen via other media player (eg. VLC) Click or tap here and “open file”
Get Ready to ROCK! Radio is also in iTunes under Internet Radio/Classic Rock
Listen in via the Tunein app and search for “Get Ready to ROCK!” and save as favourite.
More information and links at our radio website where you can listen again to shows via the presenter pages: getreadytorockradio.com
Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024
In this sequence we play ‘The Best of 2024′ GRTR! reviewer selections
Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024
09:00-12:00 The Best of 2024 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003-2024 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2024 (Singer Songwriter)
Popular (last 10 days)
Share the post "Album review: JOE LYNN TURNER – Street Of Dreams – Boston 1985"
PDF - you can delete unwanted sections
